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Most homeowners would avoid living within striking distance of an avalanche, but Marcell Strolz and Uli Alber embrace Alpine...

A baby's arrival is cause for celebration—and for many, it's also a time to confront limited living space.

In early November, Minnesota–based furniture and design company Blu Dot dropped 25 Real Good Chairs on the streets of Manhattan...

Forever replacing bulbs might fast become an act of the past as long-lasting, energy-efficient light-emitting diodes (LEDs) make...

From 1984 through 2005, Emigre magazine was to graphic designers what L'Espirit Nouveau was to architects in the early 1920s.

The holidays are a wonderful time for stopping what you're doing and catching up on all those tasks (and treats) you've put aside...

There's nothing like a good read to escape the blustery blows of winter.

In a world of hypothetical architecture contests and imagined landscapes, one does thrill at the possibility that all these deft...

Let the Dwell staff send you into the warm embrace of 2010 with the last installment of Friday Finds for this year.

Marcel Breuer’s Wassily chair, the Eames lounge chair, George Nelson’s Ball clock, and Giancarlo Mattioli’s Nesso lamp are just a...

Though this is the time of year when many people spend the weekends bustling around finishing their Christmas shopping, it's a...

When you visit the website for the newest major development in Las Vegas, you are taken on a stomach-dropping virtual sweep up,...

For almost a decade Dwell has printed countless examples of new furniture designs, but with a handful of exceptions, little has...

Though not strictly modern—well, not modern at all, really—the Wonders of the World series of books from Harvard Universtiy Press...

The United States Artists announced the USA Fellows on December 14. The goal of the fellowship program is to support the arts by...

Just before Thanksgiving I traveled to Cleveland to give a few lectures at the Cleveland Institute of Art and Case Western...

Experts predict the future of preserving modern, postmodern, and contemporary design.

The architects at Paris-based studio H20 Architects know how to maximize space--and in their latest design, the Grass Mirror,...

Dwellians have contributed en masse this week to shower you with goodly links, all garnered from the ether of the Interweb.

Though it’s quite popular to proclaim that design can change the world, even the best-laid plans aren’t enough to make a...

This weekend sees the closing of a number of exhibitions around the world.

I saw a lot of art and a lot of design amidst the Basel melee in Miami last week.

The stream of amazing projects that emerge from students at Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands is never-ending.

In 1955, photographer Elliott Erwitt snapped a photo of a bereted Frenchman riding his bicycle down a tree-lined road with a...

Design Miami wrapped up on Sunday, and all told I’d say the fair was a mixed bag.

Panel 2, Martin Beck's new exhibition at Columbia University's Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery, revisits the 1970 International...

Drawing on an inherited plot of land, his father’s steel company, and his brother-in-law’s architectural know-how, Motoshi...

Before the melee of Design Miami got underway I had a chance to chat with the show’s director, Ambra Medda, about the Designer of...

Stay toasty during these increasingly chilly days with a heaping helping of links, served hot off the Internet by a few members...

The wooden structure next to Laurie and Peter Stubbs' house outside Baltimore is made out of trees and is nestled in the woods...

I had the opportunity to view a riveting film last week on Edward Burtynsky's photography, entitled Manufactured Landscapes.

This weekend features a whole host of openings and closings across the United States, from the first days of Detour: Architcture...

Earlier this year, Dwell editor Aaron Britt traveled down to Dallas, Texas, for a design charrette with Re:Vision Dallas.

Last night was the Design Miami vernissage party, and my first look at the tent by architects Aranda\Lasch, and the dozens of...

When Carlo Petrini spoke out against the opening of a McDonald’s restaurant in his native Rome, he couldn’t have guessed that...

It might seem that the Post Carbon Institute casts too wide a net.