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Dwell Dec/Jan 2010, Vol. 10 Issue 02: The Future

Great Ideas for Tomorrow

For our December/January 2010 The Future issue, we asked science fiction writer Bruce Sterling to pen a piece...

A group of Columbia University students have a good time reinventing the playground as a place to harness all that youthful...

San Francisco–based design team Mike and Maaike wave goodbye to the driver's seat with their concept car, the ATNMBL (the...

Luxury, a term that once conjured images from Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, is now just as often used to aggrandize personal...

Craving not just a home but a proper piece of architecture, a handful of design- and business-savvy Dutch families banded...

You’ve known you were destined to dwell in outer space ever since you first saw The Jetsons.

San Francisco–based industrial designers Mike Simonian and Maaike Evers sit down with Dwell's Editor-in-Chief, Sam Grawe, to talk...

Facing tight building codes and an even tighter space, Karen White and David MacNaughtan needed an architect who could turn...

Drawing on an inherited plot of land, his father’s steel company, and his brother-in-law’s architectural know-how, Motoshi...

In 1955, photographer Elliott Erwitt snapped a photo of a bereted Frenchman riding his bicycle down a tree-lined road with a...

Though it’s quite popular to proclaim that design can change the world, even the best-laid plans aren’t enough to make a...

With the preservation of mid-century buildings already a touchy subject—–many people are still unwilling to see the value in...

For almost a decade Dwell has printed countless examples of new furniture designs, but with a handful of exceptions, little has...

Marcel Breuer’s Wassily chair, the Eames lounge chair, George Nelson’s Ball clock, and Giancarlo Mattioli’s Nesso lamp are just a...