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When not writing, Miyoko Ohtake can be found cooking, training for her next marathon, and enjoying all that the City by the Bay and the great outdoors have to offer.

Butterfly Gap Retreat
At the Butterfly Gap Retreat just outside Knoxville, Tennessee, managing the design, construction, and rental of modern...
Matthew Williams Exhibition 'Outside'
Kiwi photographer Matthew Williams has traveled around the globe to shoot homes for Dwell.
Summer Squash Salad
In one of San Francisco's many multi-unit buildings from the early-1900s, Heidi Lender (with the help of John Lum Architecture...
Fresh and Baked Ricotta
In Wellman, Iowa, Joanna and Geoff Mouming concocted a fresh take on the traditional barn (making it modern with the help of...
Recipe: Pasta Carbonara
When John Spanaro and Anne Mooney built a new home for themselves and their two daughters in Utah's Emigration Canyon, they...
Recipe: Creamy Banana Jam
In Barcelona's Gracia neighborhood sits the 90-plus-year-old former residence of Art Nouveau architect Manuel Raspall, whose...
Smoked Mackerel on Toast
When Texas-born couple Hunter Hindman and Shelby Carr moved to Amsterdam an into a former artist studio, the kitchen was the...
Tomato Pork Chop Rigatoni
Andrew Mandolene and Todd Goddard's house is full of old and new.
Recipe: Gazpacho With Homemade Croutons
In 2009, just as architectural designer Chris Greenawalt and his wife, Danielle, completed remodeling their Seattle home,...
Hang Around and Toss Around
A year and a half ago, three Danish powerhouse designers—Lars Holme Larsen of Kilo Design, Bjarke Ingels of BIG, and Jens Martin...
Reissued: Jens Quistgaard Mills
While we've all heard of Dansk, far fewer of us are aware of the talented artist behind the company: Danish designer Jens Harald...
Ceramics by Montes Doggett
A journey through the Intertubes recently landed me at the homepage of Montes Doggett.
Poketo Artist Wallets
Los Angeles-based design company Poketo's claim to fame is its artists wallets (though its also offers some sweet Spacetime wall...
A New Slant
In Seattle, where others saw only a severe slope and lack of municipal hookups, one couple spotted their ticket to their dream...
SF Creative Mornings Kicks Off
Friday morning in San Francisco saw not only torrential rain and spots of hail but the kick off of its own monthly...
Philippe Starck's Library Kitchen
There is no shortage of incredible kitchen systems to ogle—and if you're lucky, incorporate into your home.
Viola Park's New Kitchen Islands
Henrybuilt and Viola Park rank high on our list of great, modern kitchen systems (a list that includes the likes of Snaidero,...
A Journo Valentine's Day
Happy Valentine's Day to all you Dwell readers.
Finding My Latent Energy Use
If you're anything like me, it drives you nuts when a light is left on in a room you—nor anyone in your household—is in. How...
Studiomama's Outdoor Kitchen
A weekend always cries for a DIY project.
A Couple Restores a Seemingly Hopeless Mill in France
In 1981, Londoners Anthony and Gillian Blee purchased the ultimate fixer-upper.
Organic Laptop Bag by Zaum
We've been on a laptop bag lookout and this week Zaum's Eco Portabile Media bag caught our eye.
Dan Rubinstein on The Home Front
What's wrong with American furniture design? That's the topic burning an image on the mind of Surface editor-in-chief Dan...
Master Stroke
In Santa Monica, California, where pools are plenty but not always eye-pleasing, Padraic Cassidy lifted one 30 inches off the...
Not Ready For a Prefab House? How About a Prefab Kitchen.
Kitchen systems are a lot like prefab housing: they're designed to be modular but they're endlessly customizable—not that that's...
Activist Designers: Design 99
Gina Reichert, an architectural designer, and her husband, artist Mitch Cope, are the duo behind Design 99, an organization in...
Home to Tea House Transformation
In Eugene, Oregon, designer Ben Waechter turned a residential home into a tea house and sampling room by borrowing ideas from...
Interior Design: Nicole Hollis
To call interior designer Nicole Hollis’s portfolio “eclectic” is an understatement.
Zoe Ryan on Hyperlinks at AIC
A new exhibit opened this weekend at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Ballo Toilet Brush
Tis the season for having guests—and thus a clean house, as well.
This Western Massachusetts Idyll Cracks a Colorful Code
If windows want treatments, few are better accommodated than the colorfully fenestrated openings on the Pull House by Taylor and...
Patrick Jouin: Design and Gesture
Earlier week, Patrick Jouin: Design and Gestures opened at the Museum of Art and Design in New York.
For His First Solo Project, an Architect Builds a Backyard Chicken Coop With a Living Roof
Switching coasts from Brooklyn to Portland gave architects Mitchell Snyder and Shelley Martin a new set of unexpected clients:...
Reusable Sandwich Bags by LunchSkins
It's a shock that it's taken so long for a product like this to come along.
Cork Wine Stopper, Pourer
As more wineries are turning away from cork to seal their blends, Normann-Copenhagen is bringing the wine stopper back to its...
8 Modern Vacuum Cleaners
Sweeping up is a crummy job, but someone’s got to do it. Luckily, these eight vacuum cleaners are here to help you eliminate even...
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