The Dwell 24: This Year’s Best Emerging Designers

The architects win over neighbors with a layered brick facade that plays off the traditional local Victorian, Tudor, and Edwardian homes.

The emerging designers featured in our annual roundup of rising talent are moving ahead with new ideas in furniture, lighting, and other objects for your home.

What should you do when your flat screen feels like a big black hole swallowing your decor? Television makers are offering all kinds of solutions.

Maya Bird-Murphy, founder of Chicago Mobile Makers, converted a Postal Service truck into a pop-up design classroom for neighborhood children.

Renowned Arkansas firm Marlon Blackwell Architects’ U-shaped Tanglewood Cabin perfectly frames vistas through the treetops.

A rare 1920s dwelling gets a contemporary face-lift along with a clever cabana-like addition.

With inspiration from the creative homeowners, the duo behind Levenbetts design a backyard structure that blurs the line between domicile and artwork—while remaining surprisingly...

Architect James Cutler designs a refined cabin that honors this remote stretch of rugged landscape.

Working together for 10 years, a group of residents complete Schoonschip, an experimental neighborhood of architecturally designed homes built from sustainable materials on a...

Designed in 1949 by Donald Edwin Pedersen—a lesser-known member of Southern California’s roster of midcentury architects, the now streamlined L.A. residence honors its original...

Architect Barbara Bestor layers surprises throughout the home, which she designed to fit within the partial footprint of an existing cottage.

Johnsen Schmaling Architects design a linear residence recalling the path of ancient glaciers on the Kettle Moraine.

Ilori explains how the bowls, made from dried calabash fruit and commonly used across Africa, have provided creative inspiration since his childhood.