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Week in Review: 7 Great Stories You Might Have Missed August 16, 2013

Each week Dwell.com delivers more than 50 original posts, articles, and interviews focused on the latest in modern design. We wouldn't want you to miss a thing, so we've pulled together our top stories of the week. Take a look and see what you might have missed.

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Vintage kettles and a wide-ranging assortment of pots and pans sit above kitchen cabinets from IKEA.
Vintage kettles and a wide-ranging assortment of pots and pans sit above kitchen cabinets from IKEA.
Moonshine is beautifully set in an isolated spot in the English countryside outside of Bath. The dramatic juxtaposition of a stone gamekeeper's cottage and a modern timber framed addition gives the home a quaint, pastoral feel while capitalizing on the dramatic view of St. Catherine's Valley.
Moonshine is beautifully set in an isolated spot in the English countryside outside of Bath. The dramatic juxtaposition of a stone gamekeeper's cottage and a modern timber framed addition gives the home a quaint, pastoral feel while capitalizing on the dramatic view of St. Catherine's Valley.
519 Porgie Walk by Horace Gifford (1963). Restored in 1983 by Bromley Caldari Architects.
519 Porgie Walk by Horace Gifford (1963). Restored in 1983 by Bromley Caldari Architects.
Designed by Australian architect John Wardle, these steel shelves hang from wooden pegs in the walls of this compact guest cottage, built on the site of a former sheep shearing shed.
Designed by Australian architect John Wardle, these steel shelves hang from wooden pegs in the walls of this compact guest cottage, built on the site of a former sheep shearing shed.
Nestled in an apple grove in Sebastopol, California, the Orchard House is a rural idyll. And with the voracious design appetites of a family of gastronomically inclined clients, this concrete prefab construction is quite literally a moveable feast of a home. To create the board-formed concrete exterior and interior elements like the kitchen island, a system of four-by-four-foot concrete modules was created from a reusable formwork of 2-by-12-foot boards that could be easily moved around the site.
Nestled in an apple grove in Sebastopol, California, the Orchard House is a rural idyll. And with the voracious design appetites of a family of gastronomically inclined clients, this concrete prefab construction is quite literally a moveable feast of a home. To create the board-formed concrete exterior and interior elements like the kitchen island, a system of four-by-four-foot concrete modules was created from a reusable formwork of 2-by-12-foot boards that could be easily moved around the site.
The house is clad in smooth stucco top-coated with white Venetian plaster.
The house is clad in smooth stucco top-coated with white Venetian plaster.