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It’s no secret that we’re suckers for letterpress here at Dwell, and we're delighted to see the new stationery line from...

Whether you want to replace your drizzly dud or indulge in a decadent deluge, these showerheads will wash your ills away.

The first misconception about going solar is that it is expensive.

Most designers, be they graphic or interior, consult their Pantone fan guide when considering hues.

Most modernists find color as attractive as traditional Tudors.

Located in a hidden valley on the picturesque Izu Peninsula, a few hours west of Tokyo, the Watanabe Residence, designed by...

Six weeks after moving from a “gorgeous custom house with huge gardens” in a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand, into an apartment a...

Gerard Kitchener is fond of talking about the weather, especially as it pertains to Waratah Bay in southeastern Victoria,...

Although the University of Colorado Buffaloes football team fell short during bowl season, another dynasty is afoot at the...

After Nomita Joshi-Gupta’s home in New Orleans was damaged in Hurricane Katrina, she set out looking for eco-friendly products...

If not for the dawn appearance of the bear, which came loping toward Maem Slater-Enns and her then six-month-old daughter as they...

When Ulrich Fleischmann approached architect Maki Kuwayama, of Unit A Architecture in Stuttgart, Germany, to design a home and...

Giorgio Baravalle originally had a true home office—a space inside his house in Millbrook, New York, that was meant to be a...

“A strategy of extreme density was required,” says Michael Chen of Normal Projects, who along with partner Kari Anderson handled...

Telecommuting may let you answer email in your underwear, but is the home office all it’s cracked up to be?

When Greg Reitz was ten years old, he was already so worried about the state of the planet that, without prompting from his...

It’s impossible to ignore nature in Big Sur.

Manifesto: Bruce Sterling, “Viridian Design Speech” (1998)

Manifesto: Philip Johnson and Mark Wigley, “Deconstructivist Architecture” (1988)

Manifestos: Jane Jacobs, “The Death and Life of Great American Cities” (1961), Congress for the New Urbanism, “Charter of the New...

Manifesto: Robert Venturi, “Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture” (1966)

Manifestos: Le Corbusier, “Towards a New Architecture” (1923); Walter Gropius, “The Theory and Organization of the Bauhaus” (1923)

Manifesto: F.T. Marinetti, “The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism” (1909)

One day last April there was great excitement on Highland Avenue, a quiet, hilly street (on which this writer happens to live) of...

Manifesto: William Morris, “The Lesser Arts of Life” (1877)

Which comes first, the movement or the manifesto? From Arts and Crafts to eco-design, a seven-step guide to design movements.

Architect Robert Swatt, designer of the GreenCity Lofts condo complex on the border of Oakland and Emeryville, California, makes...

At the end of 2000, Tryggvi Thorsteinsson and Erla Dögg Ingjaldsdóttir, Icelandic natives and partners in the Santa Monica–based...

Caught in the grip of the worst drought in a century, Australians are showering together.

Architects Simon Beames and Simon Dickens are worried.

When most people think of locations for a holiday home, they have visions of beaches, golf courses, spas, and chalets.

Get your information from curators, professors of contemporary art, critics, and other collectors through your local arts...

“The act of collecting is about looking, studying, sorting, sifting, concentrating, weighing, and making decisions.

Lakes of ink have been spilled over a peculiarly American wanderlust, whether it’s our ancestors’ push westward or our current...

The iconic little black book gets big with the introduction of Moleskine’s new Folio collection.

The use of salvaged material in design has become such a strong sign of responsibility and sustainability that it sometimes...