Ten Years of Dwell!

“What would Hans Wegner say?” I tweeted upon seeing a citrus-tinged Wishbone chair on Design*Sponge.

Does the alphabet take on more meaning when it’s freed from the confines of cast-in-lead movable type, pen and paper, and the frame of a computer screen? Capturing words and...

Mill Valley, California, might not be a hotbed of modernism, but it was here, ten years ago, that Dwell came into the world alongside founder Lara Hedberg Deam’s first home—now...

For our 10th anniversary, we decided to check in with six of the residents we featured in our first year to chat about how the houses (and their owners) have fared after a decade.

Sweeping up is a crummy job, but someone’s got to do it. Luckily, these eight vacuum cleaners are here to help you eliminate even the biggest of messes.

In 1959, Philip M. Isaacson, a young lawyer, commissioned fellow Harvard alum, architect F. Frederick Bruck, to design him and his wife the house of a lifetime.

Here at Dwell we've always acknowledged the power of great art, whether it's adorning the walls of a modern house, or gracing the pages of our magazine.

When artists Ramona Trent and Anthony Pearson teamed up with architects Escher GuneWardena for a full-scale renovation, they bestowed a remarkable view upon an unremarkable...

A thoroughly modern house in Baton Rouge owes its sleek and sustainable form to its vernacular roots.

In a South Minneapolis neighborhood of century-old housing stock, Julie Snow’s bold but elegant residential design fulfilled Andrew Blauvelt and Scott Winter’s desire for a loft...

Rather than being an historical movement from the first half of the 20th century, left over and reheated, we think of Modernism as a frame of mind.

Aside from that mischievous caveperson in France who used a piece of charcoal to draw a line around some stick figures that suggested some kind of manmade shelter, it is generally...

Sadly there's no blueprint for how to best work with an architect. Follow the example of the Smiths, though, and you'll come out ahead.

The Joneses went for a splashy starchitect to design their new home. Then things took a turn for the worse.

There is so much rolled up in a building—form, function, historical reference, materials, craftsmanship—that developing a comprehensive opinion on its design can be daunting.

Ten years from now, a hundred, a thousand? Yeah, we know what architecture will look like then.

Modern architects love to claim they’re reflecting the local landscape in their designs, but the Wayland, Massachusetts, home of architect Stephen Chung isn’t playing around.