The Power of Design: Creating Without Fear

Preview the Editor’s Letter from our January/February issue, written by Dwell founder and CEO Lara Deam.

Each of the home’s four staggered volumes is covered in a blanket of native grasses.

Spare, sturdy, almost minimalist—Thos Moser’s signature chair distills generations of know-how.

Tom Givone reworked a rare 19th-century row house in upper Manhattan on his own and found a new career along the way.

The first order of business for the incoming president of the International Interior Design Association is tackling diversity.

A couple budgets carefully while renovating a split-level house on Chicago’s Near North Side.

A Texas interior designer expands her vision outdoors with a water-wise garden.

An architect reimagines a narrow 1901 row house in Noe Valley while preserving its historic facade.

More Japanese minka than Sears, Roebuck & Co., a kit home in the Bay Area—complete with a meditation room—provides the right bones for a renovation.

Calling it a “director’s cut,” designer Bryan Boyer reloads his storied Detroit home with some bonus features.

Way out in the wilderness of Ontario, a curiously shaped house stretches along a tricky ridge.

The Louis Kahn–trained architect and lifelong tinkerer tells us about the tools he can’t work without.