The Case Against Glass Houses

I started writing about residential design just a few months before Dwell published its first issue, and I’ve seen a lot of trends come and go in the last quarter century. Tuscan kitchens gave way to farmhouse kitchens; an interior furnished like a Belgian monastery would be a cottagecore fantasy today; formal dining rooms have become home offices. Even movements that once seemed unstoppably American, like the increasing footprint of the average new house, have revealed themselves to be conditional.