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Laure is a Los Angeles–based photographer and design enthusiast. When not contributing to Dwell and Apartment Therapy, she's opening too many tabs in Firefox, baking, gardening and exploring the great outdoors.

Green Campers
Tonke builds old-fashioned wooden campers on a modern undercarriage.
The Food Pyramid in Practice
The new Pyramid lunchbox takes the guesswork out of satisfying the daily recommended proportions of grains, fruits, protein, and...
Flickr Pool: Green Buildings and Sustainable Communities
Flickr is a great place to find visual inspiration, often allowing you to travel all around the world right from your desk chair.
Roundup: Best CFL's
We all know that changing out traditional incandescent light bulbs for compact fluorescents is a huge step towards managing...
Charles and Ray Eames on NBC in 1956
When resources are limited, design takes flight.
New Color for Take-out
Bare fridges filled with nothing but hot sauce, a couple bottles of beer, and some old take-out will be getting a makeover with...
Wallpaper That Fixes Walls
A new line of wallpapers from Graham and Brown allows you cover up that disaster you call a wall.
Modernist Architecture Feeling the Pinch?
Falling prices for classic Lautners and Neutras might be a telltale sign that even modern masterpieces are feeling the pinch.
Tools for Living
Just in time for budgets to shrink everywhere, Design Within Reach unveils their new Tools For Living line of impeccably designed...
REBAR at Machine Gallery
REBAR, a collective of artists, designers, and activists based in San Francisco—masterminds of PARK(ing) Day LA—will be at...
Flipped Strips
Tired of the never-ending parade of nondescript strip malls, the Scottsdale Museum of Art recently held a competition to rethink...
Wall Calendar to Keep Track of the Big Picture
Although it may be difficult to fit it in your pocket, and it certainly lacks the convenience of an iPhone or Blackberry, this...
Mitsura Koga
A new show of stone vases at Japanese boutique, Tortoise General Store, will likely knock your socks off.
World's Tallest Lego Tower
Remember those lazy days making Lego houses and hospitals, clicking everything into place and feeling that you'd really built...
Prefab Treehouses
Who didn't want a tree house growing up? Well now you can either live vicariously through your kids or indulge in the greatest...
Los Angeles Architecture Top 40
Los Angeles is a diverse city filled with green space, urban space and all different kinds of people, incomes and tastes.
When Down Means Forward
Upon arrival at the aforementioned Terminal 2E I realized that although a sign with an arrow pointing a certain direction should...
To Do: Edible Estates Demonstration Garden
Earlier this year Fritz Haeg embarked on the first public Edible Estates Garden at southern California's Descanso Gardens in an...
They Make Houses Too?
We've all found ourselves fawning over the perfectly minimal housewares, stationary, and incredibly awesome tiny pens that...
Portable Architecture
As David pointed out, things could be a lot worse.
Air France Terminal 2E
Flying from the Air France Terminal at LAX (which has been shifted out of the outdated Tom Bradley Terminal) and arriving in...
A Gehry Gets a Facelift
Looks like Santa Monica Place (originally designed by Frank Gehry) will be getting a face-lift that will make it less about the...
For Your Art
LA has been slowly establishing itself as a great center for arts and architecture.
Pedaling in Paris
More than ever before, the streets of Paris are filled with bicycles.
Electrolux Design Competition: The Sook
Electrolux recently unveiled the finalists in their design lab competition.
LA's First Prefab Home Open for Opinions
Three months ago, this was the site of Leo Marmol's new prefabbed residence in Venice.
Earth Sheltered Homes
Homes built underground (aka Earth Sheltered Homes) are starting to look pretty enticing, what with the state of the economy and...
Mixed Signals
Leave it to the French to have fun with something extraordinarily mundane.
Modern Memo Board
No matter how hard I try to live a life that's clutter free, it seems there's not really a way to eliminate the need for a place...
Dispatch: Maison et Objet
Every fall the Maison et Objet Show in Paris sets and spots trends in lifestyle and home design.
Hope for the Jet Set
I'm about to hop on a transatlantic flight and am not looking forward to 12 hours in the same tiny seat.
2nd Annual Park[ing] Day LA
GreenMeme is getting ready to launch their second ever Park[ing] Day LA.
High Profile Utensils
It's no secret that architects and designers stray from their main medium and try their hand at various smaller scale projects.
Living Walls
A tiny bit like the Renzo Piano-designed Pompidou Centre that wears its insides on its outside (pipes, ducts, all the 'ugly'...
Affordable Art: L'Affiche Moderne
Pierre Wetzel: The Last Fall A new French site has entered the affordable art marketplace selling limited edition prints from...
LA, Salvaged
Inspired by Blake Dollahite's ability to pull together such a stunning home on a tight budget, I started scouring the local scene...
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