Global Style

Dwell traveled to Turkey’s most cosmopolitan city for the first annual Istanbul Design Biennial, discovering a modern heart beating within ancient walls.

The former Constantinople isn’t all Ottoman-era carpets and ruins: A cutting-edge art, dining, and travel scene overlays its rich past.

A floating wall on a Johannesburg cottage draws inspiration from local mining moguls and Mies van der Rohe.

Geometric motifs taken from a centuries-old document still serve as inspiration to Istanbul’s contemporary designers.

Behind a traditional colonial in Lima, an angular house attuned to its site takes shape.

A far cry from the whitewashed buildings of Mykonos, this vacation home on the Aegean island of Skiathos will make any modern design fan go Greek.

Inspired by a never-performed symphony he discovered in a book by avant-garde composer John Cage, architect Steven Holl has designed a masterful home and gallery in Seoul that...

Industrial designers Frederik Roijé and Victor le Noble founded New—a manufacturer of contemporary pieces by young Dutch designers—less than a year ago in an unlikely creative hot...

From his studio in London’s Hackney Central borough, Philippe Malouin is constantly testing ideas.

A philosophical designer based in Beyoğlu relies on handicraft, woodworking, and the universal meaning of nature.