Writing Archive
Happy Camper | Surface
Cultural Constructs | Surface
Just Back From Los Angeles: Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen | Travel + Leisure
Listening to the Land | Topos
Winning Streaks | Surface
San Francisco’s New Heights | Departures
Just Back From Rome: Matthew Marks | Travel + Leisure
Homegrown | Interior Design
Just Back From Iraq: Anderson Cooper | Travel + Leisure
Learning on the Job | SAAS in Focus
Off the Beaten Path | SAAS in Focus
Furniture Complex | GRAY
Good Neighbors | GRAY
Bringing it Home | GRAY
Finding Beauty | GRAY
36 Hours in Austin, Texas | The New York Times
The city’s unofficial motto, “Keep Austin Weird,” blares from bumper stickers on BMWs and jalopies alike, on T-shirts worn by joggers along Lady Bird Lake and in the windows of independently owned shops and restaurants. It’s an exhortation for a city that clings to eccentricity, even in the face of rapid development.
36 Hours in Carmel-by-the-Sea | The New York Times
With its architectural mishmash of storybook English cottages and Swiss Alpine chalets, the small town of Carmel-by-the-Sea in Northern California resembles a Disneyland version of Europe. But walk a few blocks to Carmel’s steep, sandy beach and the view is pure California: a rugged Pacific coastline spangled with rocky outcroppings and ghostly cypress trees.
36 Hours in Kyoto, Japan | The New York Times
Kyoto, the former imperial capital of Japan, is a vibrant mash-up, an ancient city electrified by the breathtakingly new.
36 Hours in Salt Lake City | The New York Times
There’s a new party in Salt Lake City. Utah liquor laws were normalized in 2009 for the first time since 1935, allowing patrons simply to walk into a bar and order a drink, as if they were in any other city.
A Lot in a Lot | Dwell
A Bay Area landscape designer works her yard like a jigsaw puzzle, packing a bevy of distinctive destinations into a steep and diminutive plot.
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.
A San Francisco Treat | Town & Country
Exploring the California Academy of Sciences, the greenest museum on earth.
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.
A World Apart | Dwell
Inspired by her natural surroundings, a Dutch felt artist intuitively crafts a home on a northern Holland harbor.