New Prospects | Dwell
A Brooklyn architect shows what a little elbow grease, a healthy dose of naïveté, and a decade can accomplish.
Bless This Desk | Dwell
The right workspace can transform your creative life. Dwell puts six desks to the test.
Hecho en Oaxaca | Dwell
An experimental shop in Oaxaca, Mexico, is resuscitating the region’s ancient crafts traditions and bringing indigenous artisans’ designs into the 21st century.
Long Island Found | Dwell
In the summer of 2007, Charlie and Rebecca Fisher noticed something odd about their weekend house, a boxy 1960s cottage in Amagansett, Long Island: “When the washer was on the spin cycle, the whole place would shake.”
Family Patterns | Martha Stewart Living
A California clan takes a spirited approach to decorating its home, boldly combining colors and print.
Model Behavior | Dwell
Monica Förster takes a hands-on approach to furniture design. In her Stockholm studio, she whips up a flurry of tiny paper models—“3-D sketches”—that rival their full-scale progeny for beauty and craftsmanship.
A Platform for Living | Dwell
Setsumasa and Mami Kobayashi’s weekend retreat, two and a half hours northwest of Tokyo, is “an arresting concept,” photographer Dean Kaufman says, who documented the singular refuge in the Chichibu mountain range.
The Cheap Seats | Dwell
There are lots of handsome chairs out there, but sitting beauties that cost $250 or less are a rarer breed.
Light on the Subject | Dwell
Don’t be fooled by his mellow, self-effacing demeanor: Architect Thomas Phifer is a master of his craft, designing daylit, minimalist buildings that meld the ideals of classic modernism with 21st-century innovations.
All Together Now | Dwell
When Svetlin Krastev and Dessi Nikolova had their second child, they saw two options: Go broke buying a bigger apartment, or renovate their existing 620-square-foot home.