In an up-and-coming area of Copenhagen, a pair of designers and their twin girls inhabit a converted loft, filling it with serious design savvy and a hefty dose of creativity.
A family matriarch enlisted an architect, an interior designer, a builder, and a landscape architect to help realize her vision for a diminutive, low-key lakeside getaway.
The landscape architecture firm carves out a vertical garden for a New York City residence and, in the process, creates a nest for its human and avian inhabitants.
Yeah, yeah: We know. Dwell homeowners love an Eames shell chair, and our readers love to point out just how much. Still: It's an enduring modern classic for a reason.
AvroKO—the hospitality design firm with serious muscle—expands its growing empire with an inaugural project in Chicago, Momotaro. Here's Dwell's take on the one-of-a-kind restaurant interior.
The bay window can be the stuffiest of portals to the outside world, but not when the roomy floor space it creates inside is used to great effect, or when its exterior shape takes a decidedly…
The reigning couple of color has made an indelibly saturated mark on the furniture scene of today. Here, a look at a new monograph on their work by Phaidon.
From penny tile to raised relief to bold color, some backsplashes are distinctive enough to characterize an entire kitchen on their own. Here are a bunch of the best.
Virgin hires Rockwell Group Europe to rethink the hotel room paradigm for its entry into the hospitality field, a modern hotel in a historic building in Chicago.
The rational yet graphic all-over grid pattern is back with a vengeance in the trend forecast for 2015. Click through for a look at nine essential pieces that employ a grid pattern.
A modern window is not just an aesthetic statement, it's a feat of engineering (there's a reason why historically, homes sport small apertures with multiple panes).
Homegrown vintage modern classics from the likes of Herman Miller, George Nelson, and Knoll are up for sale in Wright's American Design auction starting February 12.
Who says traditional anniversary presents have to hew to the norm? We’ve rounded up eight unusual takes on classic gifts for your next relationship milestone.
Following Dwell's February 2015 story exploring how modern architects design chapels, synagogues, mosques, and other places for worship, we've rounded up a few more stellar examples of the genre.
In the past few months, Dwell has published a bevy of buildings sporting show-stopping and technically complicated ceilings, proving that innovative design doesn't just happen at eye level.
How can you turn a planning office, a cow shed, a horse stable, or an old garage into a transcendent modern home? Check out these eight projects for inspiration.
You've seen their shots on the pages of Dwell, and read their biographies in our contributor pages; now, follow along with five of Dwell's favorite photographers as they document their travels and…
Each year, Dwell's annual prefab issue is a bestseller—and with constantly improving prefab processes and materials, we chronicling more innovative modular designers than ever before.
Dwell has been covering modern architecture, interiors, prefab, small spaces, and renovation since 2000—now take a look at the best of the best, culled from the top-selling issues in the magazine’s…
A studio jewelry manufacturer founded in the 1980s opens its vault, selling the remaining stock from a trove of brooches, necklaces, and earrings designed by the Memphis Group.
Continuing the success of August, the Yves Béhar-designed blockbuster into the keyless entry market, rigorous industrial design comes to home connectivity.
A restrained interior by architect Annabelle Selldorf adds gravitas to restaurateur Danny Meyer's latest hotspot, Marta, inside the new Martha Washington hotel.
So-called starchitecture—and the backlash against it—may be the talk of the town in design circles, but ask a designer for his or her three favorite buildings and you'll get some surprisingly…
We field a lot of product queries at Dwell—and often, it’s the simplest items that cause the most shopping anxiety. Need to light up a table or desk? Let these editor-approved choices guide you.
International CES, held every January in Las Vegas, is more than a tradeshow: It's a cultural phenomenon in which consumers, press, and companies converge to learn about the newest technology that…
Pantone's annual pick for color of the year goes to Marsala, a rich brown-red the color of fortified wine. Here are a few ways to incorporate the look in furniture, lighting, and textiles.
Good things come in small packages: an important lesson to consider during the holiday season, and all year round, especially when crafting a modern abode.
It's full steam ahead for Dwell's first-ever Your Rooms We Love competition, where we're culling photos of readers home to include in an upcoming issue.
119 prefab builders made Dwell's annual list; now, check out some of their European counterparts in our roundup of prefab homes from Germany to Finland.
Peruse nine Dwell-approved tactics for making your entryway more than just another boring passthrough; consider architectural statements, savvy storage, and color.
As we begin culling our lists for Dwell's fourth Young Guns installment, in April of 2015, here's a look back at some of the emerging designers we've profiled in our pages.
Present-day interpretations of vernacular architecture can skew more modern than you might think—these examples from the pages of Dwell prove that tying a home to its location is a move that never…
An old Art Deco building in Ghent, Belgium—and former headquarters for a Socialist newspaper—sees new life as a design-y hostel for travelers on the cheap.
Browse Dwell's editor-approved holiday shopping guides for 2014, with modern gifts for industrious students, confident cooks, art collectors, consummate hosts, and more.
Dwell architecture and interiors photographer Matthew Williams offers his expert opinion on how to frame a shot and the best time of day for a photograph.
Even the most airline-mile-hoarding world traveler has to come home sometime, so we've rounded up a bevy of gifts from global artisans to inspire wanderlust every day.
To coincide with our gift guide featuring modern gifts for the consummate host, we've rounded up a few crucial tips for entertaining at home from Dwell residents past.
From tips on how to buy wallcoverings to our new favorite patterns, we're obsessed with wallpaper. Look to these ten homes for tips on how to employ the move.
Pegboards are the Pinterest-proved interior organization tool du jour: cheap, easy to mount, and far more interesting than a plain white wall. Here are six ways to work with pegboard.
The duo behind renowned New York City studio Roman and Williams give Dwell a first look at the interior they designed for Upland, a new restaurant from Chef Justin Smillie and acclaimed restaurateur…
Though hard, nonporous surfaces like glass, steel, and tile typically come to mind in bathroom design, marine-grade wood can be a smart choice to warm up a bathing space.
We dive into the wonderful world of color in Dwell's October 2014 issue, delving into how designers, architects, artists, hotels, companies, and educators saturate their surroundings.
Dwell—which maintains two primary offices in San Francisco and New York—considers Los Angeles, host to our annual Dwell on Design show, as its third home.
Open Air Modern is based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, but its reach extends to midcentury Scandinavia and beyond with a selection of curated vintage furniture and a hand-culled design library.
Each fall, editors and designers flock to the British capital to see the latest and greatest furniture, architecture, and design showcased at the London Design Festival.
Get to know Christina Liljenberg Halstrøm, Jakob Jørgensen, Line Depping, and Pernille Snedker Hansen—four rising Danish design talents who will appear at Dwell on Design NY.