Everything Our Editor-in-Chief Liked at Brooklyn’s NYCxDesign Shows Lighting with hair is officially a thing. You need a dedicated olive spoon. And other observations.
Editor’s Letter: Fresh Ideas for Outdoor Living Welcome to our annual celebration of porches, patios, and brilliant backyards.
The Best of Milan’s Surreal Exhibition of New Designers, According to Dwell’s Editor-in-Chief From a sconce with a ponytail to an ice bucket with feet (and earrings), the work at Alcova leans into the uncanny.
Editor’s Letter: Crunching the Numbers Welcome to our annual Money Issue, where compromises lead to creativity as we dig into what great design actually costs.
Editor’s Letter: Divine Interventions These inspired additions, updates, and overhauls use historic buildings as raw material for new ways of living.
These Are the Best Things We Saw at the Miami Design Fairs This Year Dwell’s editor-in-chief and an intrepid photographer went to Design Miami, Alcova, and other design events happening around town...
Editor’s Letter: America Today Renovations rethink the past, new architecture helps people in the present, and progressive planning plots a better future: It’s...
The Dwell 24: Panorammma Maika Palazuelos’s tabletop objects are vessels for her specific and peculiar point of view.
The Dwell 24: Jevon Brown The recent RISD-graduate makes textiles that evoke barber shops, Miami, and the Carribbean diaspora.
The Dwell 24: Allca Rugs Haizea Nájera’s textiles are a direct line from her handmade gestures to your living room.
Editor’s Letter: The Tyranny of Taupe Sure, Zillow says painting your walls gray could increase the sale price of your home. But we say don't be afraid of your decor.
Editor’s Letter: Far From Home From hard-to-reach hiking cabins in the Italian Alps to a warm family home in Bhutan, the miles covered in our travel issue share...
The Best Furniture at NYCxDesign According to Dwell’s Editor-in-Chief The Millennial aesthetic has officially aged out. People still love ceramics. Sofas are only getting larger.
Editor’s Letter: Urban Jungles Porches, patios, renegade pools—the outdoor spaces at these homes demonstrate inspired and surprising ways to cultivate a patch...
Editor’s Letter: The Money Issue When it comes to our homes, the most taboo topic is also the most relatable.
Seeing the Lights at “The Lamp Show” A luminous duck, a softly glowing bowl of rice, and many more unconventional takes on lighting prompted long lines for the...
Editor’s Letter: In Our Backyard Climate change is coming for all our homes. But there are ways we can build for the future.
Editor’s Letter: The New Neighbors How American homes are taking risks.
The Dwell 24: These Are the Best New Designers Out There Dwell’s 2022 list of emerging talent features meeting-the-moment furniture, lighting, and more objects for your home.
Editor’s Letter: Home and Away Our annual travel issue looks at how the places we go influence where—and how—we live.
Editor’s Letter: Room to Grow The stories in this issue show the many possibilities for what verdant living can look like—all creative, some a little extreme.
Editor’s Letter: Introducing Our Annual Kitchen and Bath Issue We offer renovation inspiration, expert recommendations, the climate case for giving up your gas stove, and more.
Editor’s Letter: The Middle Ground We should look at these Canadian townhouses as a playbook for patching up the middle of the housing market.
Editor’s Letter: Livable America This year, in our annual Made in America issue, we unpacked the concept of "livability" and the influential rankings that rate...
A Conversation With New Orleans Designer, Planner, Teacher and Activist Amy Stelly The Louisiana native explains how cities can heal the wounds of racist development—without accelerating gentrification.
The Dwell 24: These Are the Designers You Need to Know in 2021 Every year, we present the most exciting designers making furniture, lighting, and other objects for your home.
Affording America: Denver’s Albus Brooks Wants Cities to Incentivize Equitable Development The Denver city council president–turned–private developer advocates for density, affordability, and bringing everyone to the...
Affording America: Representative Ilhan Omar Wants Homes for All The Minnesota congressperson thinks the federal government should guarantee a place to live for every American.
Two Experts in Quarantine Architecture Predict How the Pandemic Will Affect Our Homes Authors Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley started writing “Until Proven Safe,” a book about medieval quarantine architecture, long...
Li Edelkoort Thinks Coronavirus Will Change Consumer Behavior Forever At this year’s Design Indaba conference in Cape Town, the famed trend forecaster spoke about coronavirus, consumption, and her...
Q&A: Architect Rem Koolhaas Turns Our Attention to the Countryside The famed advocate of urban living embraces country life with a new exhibition.
A Conversation With L.A.’s Chief Design Officer Christopher Hawthorne The city’s chief design officer explains why Los Angeles is America’s creative capital and what the mayor is doing to make...
A Conversation With Berlin Architect Diébédo Francis Kéré The visionary architect talks about his home village in Burkina Faso and his lodgepole pine-log pavilion at Tippet Rise Art...
Q&A: Artist Olafur Eliasson on How You Should Light Your Living Room On the eve of a career-spanning show, the famed artist offers his thoughts on art, design, and the relation between quality of...
Q&A: Curator Paola Antonelli Takes a Surprisingly Optimistic Look at Human Extinction The exhibition “Broken Nature” at the Triennale di Milano explores design and the Earth’s inevitable uninhabitability.
Meet “Object & Thing,” New York’s Rule-Breaking New Art and Design Fair Launched by a Frieze art fair veteran, the weekend-long event presents 200 works by both artists and designers in a Bushwick...