Sam Grawe

High-rise superblocks and identical clusters of row houses set apart from the urban grid have been much maligned as some of the...

If good fences make good neighbors, then Shino and Ken Mori are the best neighbors ever.

All it takes to play is a healthy imagination, but a modern playhouse adds to the fun.

With the opening of the Royalton Hotel in 1988, Phillippe Starck ushered in the new age of boutique design hotels.

It's not everyday that you get on a plane with someone who's been to the moon, and someone who has his own spaceship, but that's...

Mill Valley, California, might not be a hotbed of modernism, but it was here, ten years ago, that Dwell came into the world...

Flying high in the air with the greatest of ease or low over a table to accent your meal, a pendant illuminates the room like no...

After spending the better part of Sunday on the floor of the Javits center, at five pm, I joined a motley (but stylish) crew for...

While cruising the floor of the ICFF today, I couldn't resist dropping in to have a chat with Dwell's old neighbor and all...

Among the static furniture displays of the 22nd annual International Contemporary Furniture Fair, which opened at New York's...

When these full-time foodies renovated their Chicago condo, getting the kitchen right meant finding the right kitchen island.

Case Study architect Edward Killingsworth’s masterpiece, the 1957 Opdahl House, fell into ruin, but thanks to a musician with a...

Marcel Breuer’s Wassily chair, the Eames lounge chair, George Nelson’s Ball clock, and Giancarlo Mattioli’s Nesso lamp are just a...

For almost a decade Dwell has printed countless examples of new furniture designs, but with a handful of exceptions, little has...

San Francisco–based design team Mike and Maaike wave goodbye to the driver's seat with their concept car, the ATNMBL (the...

It might have seemed like an oxymoron to Frank Lloyd Wright, but it’s a reality in this Boston photographer’s flat, designed to...

Which is harder? Creating a new classic or restoring an old one? Leo Marmol of Marmol Radziner discusses staying consistent with...

Designer John Picard isn’t afraid of getting his hands dirty in the kitchen, or washing the sand off his feet in the bathroom.

For Parisian gallery director Didier Krzentowski, the art of collecting has become a career by design.

In Santa Monica, architect and activist Cory Buckner is working to preserve the living monuments of L.A.'s mid-century-modern...

At work, you don’t usually get to choose where you sit, but at home it’s a different story.

So many recipes leave so much to chance, and that is why I love the waffle iron.

Not quite at home on the range? No need to boast the most roast? For boiling, frying, searing, and simmering, the drop-in cooktop...

I’m tired of hearing about the golden age of flight, that era when air hostesses (never hosts) wore Pucci uniforms, Pan Am logos...

Listening to your favorite music—–from that “Blame It on the Rain” cassingle to an 8-track of Tusk—–used to be a pretty...

Hybridization is hit or miss (i.e., the jackalope).

Along the ever-expanding coastline of Hawaii’s Big Island, an architect and his family exchange fast-paced city life for a...

Boldly declaring “One Chair Is Enough,” Artek, the Finnish company founded in part by legendary architect Alvar Aalto, today...

Soon after arriving in Milan, relieved at having made it through the nine-hour airline delay and gotten to Italy in one piece, we...

Every year, journalists make the pilgrimage to Milan in the hope of finding products that are unique, that offer a new typology,...

Looking for directions on the road to sustainability? At Leger Wanaselja Architecture's multifamily development in Berkeley,...

A mere eight miles from Mount Vernon, George Washington’s Georgian neoclassical plantation home, and just nine miles south of Old...

The Simpsons’ C. Montgomery Burns once said, “Sitting—the great leveler.

Gallerist Martin Kudlek shows us that there’s more to Cologne than its cathedral.

While some of Joe Columbo’s designs have proven the test of time (Alitalia still uses his plastic flatware), others were simply...

Set into the dense tropical foliage of Hawaii’s wildest coast is a house that goes with the flow by welcoming the breeze.