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For Paul and Shoko Shozi, a pair of retiring Angelenos, the goal was to shut out the neighborhood but bring in the sunny skies.

Carlos Diniz’s astounding hand-done renderings, illustrations, and screen prints helped to push more than just a handful of...

Two San Francisco art and travel addicts overhauled a loft—and customized a pair of shipping containers—to accommodate their...

No, not those kind of adventures, Mr. Casual Encounters. We’re talking about house hunting.

The NewYorker is a savvy bit of furniture by Jen Turner that is at once a desk and a bar.

So you have a deadbeat tenant: Here’s how you get rid of ’em.

Your fiancé’s place is ten times nicer than yours and you’re planning on moving in. If only you could get out of your lease.

The American Dream, some say, is all about owning a home.

Though it's almost quittin' time here in the Dwell office, we wouldn't end the week without Friday Finds.

What’s the best way to warm a small studio? Ekaterina Voronova opted for a compact wood-burning stove to keep her space cozy.

On November 3rd, Ford & Ching and 722 Figueroa hosted an installment of Creative Mornings at Night, a lecture series geared...

To maximize every square inch in this Manhattan apartment, LOT-EK knocked down walls, added dozens of recycled doors, and built...

Another week has rolled on by—tempus fugit, as they say.

Budget supplies become modern design gold in this Omaha home.

It's Halloween weekend and we here at the Dwell office are excited for the next few days of revelry spent in costume.

Modern Farm Furniture out of Columbus, Ohio, was one of my favorite finds at the Solar Decathlon this year.

Nestled in the small village of Tadten, Austria, the Erich Sattler Winery takes advantage of the soil’s temperature and sun’s...

This week, the Dwell office was abuzz with saxophone playing KJs, Star Trek the Next Generation, vintage design finds, babies who...

With a modernist palette of concrete, glass, and steel, Ziger/Snead Architects constructed an ode to rowing in rural Virginia.

To convert a musty mid-century house with a nonsensical floor plan into a modern and space-efficient family home, three intrepid...

A once-plain floating home on Seattle’s Portage Bay receives a much-needed renovation ten years in the making.

This pair of handy Portlanders doesn’t crave any more of Oregon’s territory than what’s taken up by their 704-square-foot home,...

"Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990," on view at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum through January 15th 2012, is the...

Happy Friday to you all! Today we present a round-up of our favorite websites, photos, and videos.

One of the highlights of the London Design Festival was a show of small, up-and-coming designers and makers called TENT London.

Project Manager Brad Liljequist chronicles the building of the zHome, a ten-unit townhome in Issaquah, Washington—the first...

Persistence paid off for this California couple who worked overtime for two years to tackle their all-in-one loft renovation.

In our weekely round up of design finds, we present to you modern buildings recently named on the World Monuments Fund Watch...

Hats off to Taiwanese architect Hseih Ying-Chun for winning the Curry Stone Design Grand Prize and taking home the $100,000 grant.

In this series, trace the evolution of lamesadevenn, an international collaborative of architects, product designers and...

Today at Dwell, as we fire up our MacBooks and plug in the odd iPhone, we remember Steve Jobs, the 56 year-old former CEO of...

Brooklyn's Flavor Paper is hauling dowdy old wallpaper into the splashy 21st century, and you get to watch.

Love superclean design but fear the building inspector? Here's our guide to skirting those modernist missteps.

Can you spot the 11 infractions in this modern house?