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To be copied, it seems, is the ultimate compliment.

At Tokyo Design week, a tent designed by Tomoko Azumi as a personal hideaway from "speedy consumerism" is an answer to the...

Anyone who names his or her company after backyard wildlife has got to be a good egg.

For many this holiday season will be more about spending quality time with loved ones than about spending loads of money.

A sign of the times? French designer Paul Coudamy's offices for the advertising firm Beast are made entirely from corrugated...

Streetwear blogs have been keeping tabs on developments with the new sustainably sourced and delightfully wooden Stussy shop in...

Maybe call it a 401(k) in furniture: but two of Soho's most spectacular odes to modern design, Moss and Moroso, are gathering all...

With the holidays coming up and children in the house, I'm looking for any alternative to having actual fire inside.

In Season 5 of Bravo’s Project Runway, fashion designer Leanne Marshall earned the winning nod from the judges for her...

Fine china dinnerware is not exactly a common medium for photography, and it's less often a bedfellow of all things cowboys and...

Last week I traveled to Monterrey, Mexico, to speak at DesignWeek Monterrey, an annual conference hosted by CEDIM (Cento de...

In addition to being an excellent example of necessity as the mother of invention, Polish designer Martin Žampach's TOAST ONE...

The Shade Store just launched a new collection of window treatments featuring fabrics from the archives of renowned textile...

The Th!nk Ox is a five-seat concept car introduced last spring at the Geneva Auto Show.

One of the many joys of the very small San Francisco neighborhood of Jackson Square—home of Dwell HQ—is the top-drawer William...

The high speed rail system in France, called the TGV, has revolutionized travel within the country.

Iconic photographer of mid-century modernism Julius Shulman may or may not have been a pack rat.

Just because you can’t afford a vintage Eames chair doesn’t mean you can’t have a little Eames in your life.

Fifty four artists and collectives are participating in this year's California Biennial which runs until March 15th at the...

The Whitney Museum of American Art recently put on view a collection of Alexander Calder mobiles from 1926-1933, so it's perhaps...

Dror Benshetrit has developed a name for himself as a luxury design jack-of-all-trades, applying laws of physics to projects from...

How to Wrap Five Eggs, a mid-60s classic of Japanese design, came back into print in the US last month from Shambhala...

When I was in college I lived in a cinder-block walled dorm room.

For any Chicago-based Dwell readers looking for something to do this Saturday, November 8, I'm pleased to say that I'll be...

Not only was MOS Archtiects’ Floating House (featured on the cover of our November 2008 issue) a big hit, so was the art hung on...

Looking for a singular kind of gift to give or to get this holiday season? You're in luck because the people behind the DWR...

Calling all Upper West Siders: no longer any need to travel to Soho, the village or the Upper East Side to pay a visit to...

Often public architecture seems to happen in all the wrong places.

The Bouroullec brothers continue to prove that there's no limit to variation and innovation in chair design.

For book enthusiasts who are up to their eyeballs in books, there are tons of great modern systems for storing them, some that...

The rather poorly named Leeum Samsung Museum of Art (an unfortunate collision of “Lee”, surname of the Samsung family who...

Maya Lin’s newly opened exhibition at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, titled Systematic Landscapes, depicts a stunning...

He lists his grandmother ("who recycled everything") as his inspiration. How can you not be smitten with Scott Raffaele?

Make of it what you will: Welton Becket's "House of Tomorrow" is in foreclosure.

Perhaps I’m displaying my own design ignorance here, but I had never heard of American architect, inventor and professor of...

Tonke builds old-fashioned wooden campers on a modern undercarriage.