Architecture & Design
Process: Ruché Sofa | Dwell
On a walk through Ligne Roset’s factory near Lyon, France, we track the multitude of steps, hands, and hours required to craft this very refined couch.
Architecture & Design
A Simple Plan | Dwell
A Marmol Radziner–designed prefab house, trucked onto a remote Northern California site, takes the pain out of the construction process.
Architecture & Design
An Epic Plot | Dwell
Architect Steve Bull designed a high-impact, low-maintenance home for a pair of intrepid clients in Alaska, but that was only the beginning of the adventure.
Architecture & Design
New Prospects | Dwell
A Brooklyn architect shows what a little elbow grease, a healthy dose of naïveté, and a decade can accomplish.
Architecture & Design
Bless This Desk | Dwell
The right workspace can transform your creative life. Dwell puts six desks to the test.
Architecture & Design
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.
Architecture & Design
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.”
Architecture & Design
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.
Architecture & Design
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.
Architecture & Design
The Cheap Seats | Dwell
There are lots of handsome chairs out there, but sitting beauties that cost $250 or less are a rarer breed.