Collection by Dwell

Dwell December/January 2012, Vol. 12 Issue 02: Prefab Perfected

For Paul and Shoko Shozi, a pair of retiring Angelenos, the goal was to shut out the neighborhood but bring in the sunny skies.

Decades after they met as teenagers on a Montauk beach, Manhattanites Victoria and Greg Pryor returned to Long Island to build a...

Carlos Diniz’s astounding hand-done renderings, illustrations, and screen-prints helped to push more than just a handful of...

Two San Francisco art and travel addicts overhauled a loft—and customized a pair of shipping containers—to accommodate their...

A Marmol Radziner–designed prefab house, trucked onto a remote Northern California site, takes the pain out of the construction...

Prefab construction simplified the building process of this northern Wisconsin summer home, where all materials...

Industrial designer Dror Benshetrit’s new building system, QuaDror, can be applied to make just about anything from...

A prefabricated shed sited on a Finnish island provides a perfect summer getaway.

It took a mere six months—three in the factory and three on-site—for this prefab to come to fruition on the shore of Sweden’s...

The revamp of Clover—a new fast-food joint in Harvard Square—complements the original interior and hidden skylight of the Josep...

Whilst in London, we met three talents who are making their marks on the local design scene.

With its fresh take on minimalism, French design duo Normal Studio is ushering in a new machine age.

Wiet Hekking’s specialty shop in the heart of Amsterdam displays the best of bent-ply furniture, past and present.

Searching high and low for your ideal table lamp? Brighter days are ahead.