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There seems to be more reclaimed wood in Brooklyn than trees themselves.

The new Pyramid lunchbox takes the guesswork out of satisfying the daily recommended proportions of grains, fruits, protein, and...

Got five dollars lying around? For $5.00 (plus, um, $7.50 shipping), you can snag a copy of George Nelson's 1977 classic How To...

Although we're headed into the chill of winter, it's not too soon to start planning for planting when spring showers arrive.

Fact: Urban areas, including those in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York, have been experiencing exponential growth of inner-city...

Now things get interesting: BMW, the corporate parent of Mini Cooper, has announced that an all-electric version of the Mini ...

Minneapolis-based furniture company Blu Dot is setting up a flagship shop in Soho.

Flickr is a great place to find visual inspiration, often allowing you to travel all around the world right from your desk chair.

On a trip to Seoul last week, I met an architect who my guides called “the most famous architect in Korea.”

In the design and architecture world, the Museum of Modern Art's prefab exhibition, Home Delivery, was big news during its...

Christina Kozak describes herself as a goth girl.

In these tumultuous economic times, California voters will soon have a chance to drop a cool $9.95 billion on a high-speed rail...

We all know that changing out traditional incandescent light bulbs for compact fluorescents is a huge step towards managing...

According to Malcolm Gladwell, 1930s-era bank buildings and the desk of his mathematician father are very much alike.

Michele Kaufman's MK Lotus house at West Coast...

The New York Times recently picked up on the story of Thomas Small and Joanna Brody's Culver City, California, house designed by...

While scanning the new products at one of my favorite design retail sites, Supermarket, I found a pendant lamp that I'm now...

A few weeks ago, I wrote about the impending demise of the little car repair shop on a busy corner in my Los Angeles neighborhood...

When resources are limited, design takes flight.

Arne Jacobsen’s Swan chair is no ugly duckling—especially when upholstered in swan-white leather, finished with a pearl-white...

Bare fridges filled with nothing but hot sauce, a couple bottles of beer, and some old take-out will be getting a makeover with...

A new line of wallpapers from Graham and Brown allows you cover up that disaster you call a wall.

Modernists and craftsmen are often seen as the guys who wear all black and the guys who wear flannels, respectively.

The Idler's Glossary by Joshua Glenn and Mark Kingwell, designed and illustrated by Seth, came out this month from Biblioasis.

Falling prices for classic Lautners and Neutras might be a telltale sign that even modern masterpieces are feeling the pinch.

This week at the Cooper-Hewitt is National Design Week, designated by the museum as a week of focus on the ways design enriches...

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs suggests that we only think about fancy needs like self-actualization once we've managed the basics...

Some hotel designers have an exhibitionist streak that leads them to embed opportunities for surreptitious glances into...

1963 was a big one for Grete Jalk.

Clorox launched an eco-friendly line of cleansers earlier this year and has seen its Green Works line leap to the head of the...

Gleaming from a white-washed box on North 6th Street is Corinne Gilbert's Mc&Co, a lovingly-curated shop of modern porcelain,...

“For me, design and life goes together—it was my furniture, my husband, and my life that influenced me,” responds designer...

Today is the final day to venture through this well-received survey of the phenomenon that is the prefabricated home.

Just in time for budgets to shrink everywhere, Design Within Reach unveils their new Tools For Living line of impeccably designed...

Because I have been told time and again that disposing of batteries in the garbage is a terribly destructive thing to do, I...

REBAR, a collective of artists, designers, and activists based in San Francisco—masterminds of PARK(ing) Day LA—will be at...