A Rock Drummer With an Eye for Modernism Tunes Up a Los Angeles Midcentury Matt Helders of the Arctic Monkeys has a penchant for throwback film and design; interior designer Corinne Mathern used it to...
Architect Clive Wilkinson’s L.A. Home Perches Over a Commanding View An architect draws on the best of L.A. living for his family’s new home.
In Search of Alvin Lustig Settling into a midcentury home in Los Angeles, a young couple celebrate its provenance: quite possibly a rare residential...
Introducing SEMIHandmade Eight years ago John McDonald had never picked up a woodworking tool in his life.
LA's Restored Overlook Park This week LA unveiled its newest park, a 50-acre greenspace that sits 500 feet above the city just southwest of Downtown, on a...
Knibb Modular Showcase Garden In a new space on Abbot Kinney in Venice, California, landscape designer Sean Knibb has unveiled an environmentally-friendly ...
Robin Wilson Green Cabinets At this point it's hard to take the term "eco-friendly" at face value.
On Greener Turf With new laws limiting water consumption in many places, it shouldn't be a surprise that drought-tolerant and native landscaping...
Corbusier's Cabanon at RIBA The only structure that famed architect Le Corbusier ever designed for himself has been reconstructed inside the Royal Institute...
Paperfold Lamps Architects are notorious for being sticklers for detail.
Domestic Construction Brooklyn design duo Domestic Construction have been hard at work turning found objects, fabric and paint into imaginative...
Formosa 1140: Density in LA Although it's not a 'green' space specifically, the new Formosa 1140 building in West Hollywood, by Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects...
Islands of LA On my commute last week I noticed a sign posted on a traffic island declaring the narrow grassy strip an 'Island of LA Nat'l Park.
Pleats-Pleats Sofa In accordance with the old saying, March has come in like a lion from coast to coast.
Matryoshka: Public Art in West LA As the LA Times attempts a controversial mapping of LA neighborhoods, which appears to be creating more divisions in the city...
Modernica's 20th Anniversary Eames Chair In honor of Modernica's 20th anniversary, the company is releasing a new iteration on the classic mid-century fiberglass shell...
Ferm Living Washable Wallpaper Living with kids and living in style can often feel like a catch-22.
Melissa Manfull's Tesseracts The term Tesseract was coined in the 19th century by science fiction writer Charles Howard Hinton to describe the 4-dimensional,...
New Marimekko Spring Line The famed Finnish textile brand Marimekko, renowned for simple, bright prints (and owing their original popularity in the US to...
7 Questions For Mark Allen of Machine Project I met Mark Allen about 10 years ago when he was getting his MFA, and even back then he was a connector.
Cable Camouflage Now that laptops and iPods have become like extra appendages for most of us, tangled cords and unsightly nests of cables are a...
French Adbusters There's some citizen adbusting going on in France where groups describing themselves as "deboulonneurs" or "unscrewers," are...
8 Questions For Tina Roth Eisenberg Tina Roth Eisenberg runs a successful graphic design company but is perhaps better known as the author behind the design centric...
Marmol Radziner's Rincon 5 Live in LA If you read Dwell's February 2009 Process section, you saw the inner workings of the Marmol Radziner prefab factory, where they...
Do It Yourself Bibles If lean times mean better design, smarter design, then we're already feeling the benefits.
The Puti Trees The Puti Trees series of posters look like a cross between a modern subway map and children's book illustrations, so you probably...
The 12 Cent Calendar Looking for a cheap calendar that will never run out of pages? Think you're clever enough to think like a computer? Then this is...
Instant Gratification Long before the age of digital cameras there was the Polaroid SX-70 Land Camera.
Handmade Nation Like the Arts and Crafts movement that exploded at the turn of the century, today's DIY revolution is a return to community and...
Cloud by Bouroullec Wallpaper recently announced their winners in various design related categories.
Angela Adams and The Birds and The Bees Angela Adams is largely known for her bold textile design, but more recently she's expanded her line to include clean-edged...
5 Questions for Carrie and Andrew Purcell Husband and wife Carrie and Andrew Purcell are in the business of making beautiful, and mouthwatering, photographs together.
Modern Correspondence If one of your New Year's resolutions was to keep in better touch with family and friends, consider doing it in style the old...
A Victory Garden for the White House? The White House groundskeepers have made some progress and have launched a gardening practice designed to be more...
Kathleen Hills Lighting If your resolutions this year involve simplicity and well-designed products, look into designer Kathleen Hills.
Weck Canning Jars The Slow Food movement, not the mention Frtiz Haeg's modern day Victory Gardens, have sparked a renewed interest in canning and...