Sommaire pour May-14 de Dwell

Ferreting out “closet” modernism in unexpected places is Dwell’s bailiwick. In this issue we bring a decidedly global perspective to the hunt, highlighting innovative projects in The Netherlands, Sweden, El Salvador, and India, to name a few. Keeping an eye on emerging trends worldwide helps us contextualize the good work evolving in our own backyard; a modern view is universal, after all. We kick of the issue with our annual roundup of emerging talents (page 30). We track these men and women all year long, checking in periodically to see what they’re working on and how they are faring as they come into their own as practicing designers. We nod to the flash of promise evident in their unbridled creativity and revel in the fact that, for most of these…

The Danish textile brand Kvadrat tapped Swedish-Chilean designer Anton Alvarez—of Dwell’s Young Guns class of 2013—for its annual exhibition at Milan’s Salone Internazionale del Mobile. For his installation, Alvarez adapted his hallmark thread-wrapping machine. The automated industrial process binds together basic furniture with colored, glue-soaked string. In this iteration, he substituted brightly hued textile paint for glue, using it to saturate Kvadrat’s Divina wool thread as it wraps a curved structure. kvadrat.dk, antonalvarez.com dwell.com/kvadrat-salone Go online to see more Kvadrat projects, including one-off designs by Muller Van Severen, Bethan Gray, and more.…

One afternoon, on a plot of land 30 minutes south of Mumbai, India, architect Bijoy Jain is showing a client around. It is 104 degrees in the shade, and the client, a young IT executive, wears shorts and designer sunglasses. Jain, who often has his best ideas onsite, suddenly stops by a gnarled tree, places his hand on his forehead. “This is where your house will be,” he says. “And I already have an idea...” Then Jain pauses for a long time; the silence begins to make the client nervous. The young executive offers a contribution to the planning of his future home: “You get a fantastic view of the valley from here,” he says cheerfully. Jain gives him a very serious look and says, “No, you will not get…

Few other design events gather more industry professionals together than Dwell on Design. This year, as in years past, we are proud to partner with established organizations such as the American Society of Interior Designers, the American Institute of Architects, the American Society of Landscape Architects, and the Association of Professional Landscape Designers, among many others. Key partners also include the U.S. Green Building Council, which will offer green-building-focused programs and introduce an exciting new initiative at the show. Artecho Before she founded the landscaping component of the Venice, California–based architectural firm Artecho, American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) member Pamela Palmer worked for PWP Landscape Architecture. There, she contributed to projects in the United States and abroad, including in Shikoku and Kobe, Japan. These experiences informed her design aesthetic,…

Design can make or break kitchens and bathrooms, determining whether a stovetop heats up quickly, a washing machine saves water, or a stone floor stands up to excessive wear. Innovation is a must for the brands set to appear at Dwell on Design, and their inventiveness helps preserve raw materials and protect crucial landscapes around the globe. From smartphonecontrolled wall ovens to powerful showerheads, well-designed kitchen and bath products elevate our homes from basic to brilliant. Our industry partners from the National Kitchen and Bath Association (NKBA), will host several NKBA-credit educational sessions at the show, including a Design Through Visualization course by past president John K. Morgan. Onstage, creative minds and personalities behind the goods will join us for talks, illuminating what’s happening now and what comes next. Dacor…

PROJECT Casa Azul ARCHITECT Cincopatasalgato LOCATION Acajutla, El Salvador Architect José Roberto Paredes’s signature structures connect people with their environments. For a seaside house at the northern end of El Salvador’s coast, the same holds true. Tasked with creating a simple, elegant retreat with a mix of aesthetic details, Paredes divided the 4,000-square-foot house into “islands of activity.” He left the main living space—which has zones for cooking, dining, and lounging—open to the elements, an unobstructed view of the Pacific Ocean on one side, and a swimming pool on the other. Since his clients love to make meals together, Paredes placed the kitchen in the center of the room and outfitted it with a custom yellow hood and a prismatic wood sliding wall by the San Salvador–based designers Claudia &…

PROJECT Fjällbacka House ARCHITECT Gert Wingårdh LOCATION Fjällbacka, Sweden The sleepy fishing village of Fjällbacka, on Sweden’s rugged west coast, is peppered with houses built in the local vernacular—with painted clapboard and steeply pitched roofs. One glaring exception is the bold, contemporary summer house belonging to Swede Isaac Pineus and his Scottish partner, Andrew Duncanson, designed by renowned Gothenburg architect Gert Wingårdh. The couple spend most of the year in Stockholm, where they own a midcentury furniture gallery called Modernity, which Duncanson founded in 1998. They live in the city center in a Victorian terrace-house apartment along with their three-year-old twin sons, Tom and Marc. But they always wanted a place in the country, where they could escape their busy cosmopolitan lives. “It’s every Swede’s dream to own a summer…

The product-packed Modern Market section of Dwell just got even better with a fresh look and an innovative crop of new modern designs. In this highly shoppable section, you are guaranteed to discover that one unique item or special gift that makes you feel at home in the modern world! For more products and services, visit us online at dwell.com! LA Furniture Store Welcome change into your home with LA Furniture’s diverse collections of sleek designer furniture. Specializing in modern, contemporary, and transitional furniture, our pieces showcase a nod to European and Eastern cultures, resulting in a modern array of items that will surely provide comfort and conversation in an equal measure. View our wide variety of furniture lines on our website or in our showrooms located in Los Angeles…

Drool—I love every single bit of Jonathan Adler and Simon Doonan’s beach house (“Top Grades,” March 2014) and would not change a thing. And let’s talk about that amazing rope-macramé wall hanging! Jennifer Juniper Posted to Facebook Happy to see Dwell venturing down into the southern United States (Modern World, February 2014). We need some lessons in modern residential design down here. @Ryanf ser01 Posted to Instagram The Lewin House (Modern World, February 2014) kind of reminds me of Cameron’s home in Ferris Bueller’s Day Of. Brenna DiGerolamo Posted to Facebook I worked in the mid-’60s for a designer in Austin named Daniel T. Powell, while earning my architecture degree. While we didn’t do anything quite as cool as the roof structure on the Bernstein residence (“Flight Deck,” February 2014),…

Our 2014 class of rising talent includes designers from Bulgaria, South Korea, Portugal, and beyond. This year’s installment shows that global design is more accessible than ever before, thanks to technology and fluid borders. Benjamin Graindorge France Parisian designer Benjamin Graindorge is self-deprecating but completely content in his chosen métier, professing that “learning is freedom.” His enlightened state derives from time spent in Patagonia as a student—a period when he considered dropping out of design school—and a later sabbatical in Japan. Before his travels, Graindorge admits he was more interested in the image of an object than its relationship to its user. Following his worldly design education, as well as a yearlong stint with renowned furniture designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, his work has taken on a new dimension. It’s…

Ori Salt and Pepper Mills Designed by Anderson & Voll for HAY, $35 The Ori Salt and Pepper Mills are a geometric and colorful addition to a tabletop. Designed by Andersson & Voll, the mills feature a ceramic mechanism that grinds pepper, salt, and other spices. Revolver Stool Designed by Leon Ransmeier for HAY, $350 A barstool that rotates a complete 360 degrees, the Revolver Stool can be used at a bar, kitchen counter, or as occasional seating. Leon Ransmeier designed the stool with a footrest for added comfort. Copenhague Desk 190 and Copenhague Chair Designed by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec for HAY Desk $1,510; Chair, $375 The Copenhague Desk 190 and Copenhague Chair were designed by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec for the new buildings at the University of Copenhagen…

With a functionalist, minimalist sensibility, its no wonder Scandinavian design has had a strong footing in our magazine’s 14-year history. At Dwell on Design, we continue our tradition of highlighting innovative work and people from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland—this time in a live format. Hilde Angelfoss As director of innovation and design at the Norwegian furniture company Stokke, Hilde Angelfoss dedicates her time to creating furniture rooted in the principles of sustainability, simplicity, and beauty. Throughout its 82-year history, Stokke has held true to Scandinavian notions of utility plus beauty and since 2006 has focused solely on children’s products. “We design with a purpose,” Angelfoss says. “Not only to make attractive functional products, but to stimulate the connection between parents and their children.” Join Angelfoss and Dwell’s editor-in-chief, Amanda…

In an industrial area not far from the center of Copenhagen, a giant wedgeshaped edifice is taking shape. When it is finished in 2017, its sharply angled roof will be home to one of the Danish capital’s newest and most unusual tourist draws: a ski slope. But the building’s name—the Amager Bakke incinerator—exposes it as more than a mere novelty; it’s also an ambitious attempt to solve a vexing problem. When it is up and running, the $650 million pistetopped plant will have the capacity to burn up to 400,000 tons of garbage each year, producing enough heat and electricity for about 150,000 households. Denmark and other European countries are generating more of their electricity by burning garbage, reducing their energy costs and reliance on fossil fuels while sharply curbing…

PROJECT Lycabettus Penthouse ARCHITECT Esé Studio LOCATION Athens, Greece When Iason Vassiliou bought a twostory apartment in the center of Athens, Greece, in 2008, he wasn’t troubled by its quirks, including an oddly angled wall in the living room and a master bedroom so small that he had to step over his girlfriend, Maria Voutsina, to get out of bed. An electrical engineer whose company makes semiconductor chips, Vassiliou is used to cramming lots of important material into a tiny space. Irregularly shaped rooms seemed like a worthy trade-off for what he was getting: incredible views of Mount Lycabettus, the highest point in Athens, with a whitewashed church at its peak and pine trees at its base. Although the couple were enchanted with their views, the apartment itself didn’t completely…

“It was a series of odd coincidences that led us to this house,” says Mark Aink, as he sips an espresso in his family’s home in Monnickendam, a small town 20 minutes from Amsterdam. “The newspaper ad wrongly listed it as being in the city,” he continues, perching on an Eames chair, while pet Rhodesian Ridgeback Boby sniffs contentedly around his feet. “We didn’t want to move outside Amsterdam, but it was a roomy house, so we thought it was worth a look. But I lost the ad and ended up viewing the wrong place—number 13, instead of number 18, which happened to have just gone on the market, too.” Although 13 Noordeinde was then, according to Aink, “a crappy office conversion, with a low ceiling and a dark apartment…

PROJECT Glenorchy Art and Sculpture Park ARCHITECT Room11 LOCATION Tasmania, Australia On Tasmania’s shoreline, Glenorchy Art and Sculpture Park—a nearly two-milelong promenade—threads its way through the landscape, leading to a low-slung concrete-and-glass viewing pavilion. The minimalist 2,400-square-foot design completed in 2013 edits the panorama and invites visitors to view portions of Elwick Bay through a poetic, structural lens. “We think of architecture as a tool that manipulates human perception,” says Room11’s Thomas Bailey, the project’s lead architect. He uses the opaque portions of the building to block the least essential elements of the vista, framing the northern exposure with vibrant crimson glass. “We can also apply the thought process to other parts of the physical world: wind, shadows, the movement of the sun,” he says. “This heightens the experience when…

May 2014 Eleni N. Gage For this issue, New York writer and executive editor of Martha Stewart Weddings Eleni N. Gage authored “Drawing the Lines” (p. 104). “As I walked to the apartment, a Greek song kept running through my head about a guy who walks on Lycabettus and meets two girls he falls in love with and has to choose between,” she says. Alyn Grifiths London-based design writer Alyn Grif ths lived in Stockholm for a year, where homeowner Andrew Duncanson (“The Swede Life,” p. 114) runs a midcentury design shop called Modernity. “When I bumped into Andrew at the PAD art and design fair in London, I was excited to find out he had a holiday home on the west coast of Sweden filled with the same stunning…

PROJECT House in the Grove architect Arba, arba.pro LOCATION Veneux-les-Sablons, France Arba, the architecture firm founded by Jean-Baptiste Barache and Sihem Lamine, designed a 1,786-square-foot residence for Dominique Jacquot 45 minutes outside Paris. The house is her sanctuary from city life. “What we love most is that wood is a material that continues to settle into its environment with time.”—Sihem Lamine, architect Dominique Jacquot didn’t have many parameters in mind when she started imagining her house in the countryside, 45 minutes outside Paris. One requirement, however, was plenty of wood. She ran across architect Jean-Baptiste Barache’s wooden A-frame house in Normandy and liked that it was “pure and poetic.” So she enlisted his firm, Arba, to “create and invent”—as long as an open living plan and a space to practice…

Our keynote speaker, Stephen Burks, has made it his mission to give the work of developing-world craftspeople a wider audience in the world of name-brand design. Through his New York–based industrial design studio, Readymade Projects, Burks has developed products for brands like B&B Italia, Estée Lauder, and Missoni. Burks will kick off Dwell on Design 2014 with his keynote discussion with Editor-in-Chief Amanda Dameron, expounding on his efforts to bridge the worlds of ground-level craft and high-end design. Stephen Burks The designer’s work has reached its fullest expression through his Man Made series (A) in collaboration with Senegalese basket weavers and, more recently, his DALA line of outdoor furniture for Dedon (B). The lounge chairs, ottomans, and stools in this collection are created by weavers in a factory in the…

“We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims,” R. Buckminster Fuller said. At Dwell on Design, we’ll showcase what promises to be a very bright future thanks to young architects and designers who are making positive impacts in their fields. This year’s crop of student work—selected from, among others, Art Center College of Design, UCLA Architecture and Urban Design, SCI-Arc, and the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, whose visiting students will partake in a collaborative charette with the University of Southern California—will be exhibited in our Design for Tomorrow Pavilion. Alice Kimm Each year, we invite students from local architecture and design schools to display their work on the show floor. At the core of these exhibitions is an unseen army of mentors. One…

PROJECT Skye Steading ARCHITECT Andrew McAvoy LOCATION Aberdeenshire, Scotland A Kitchen B Dining Room C Lounge D Master Bedroom E Bedroom F Bathroom G Bridge “The house is always the perfect temperature. The only way you get cold in this house is if you’re coming down with a cold—it’ll be your own internal thermostat,” Angelique Robb says with a laugh, as she surveys the light-filled and beautifully temperate open-plan living area of the new home that she shares with her husband, Gavin, and their children, Scarlett, five, and Gus, two. Surprisingly, this cozy and partially earth-sheltered family home—which is, according to Gavin, “one step away from Passive House standards”—started life as a series of derelict and semiderelict farmstead buildings in raw and rural Aberdeenshire, in the hinterland of Scotland’s northeast…

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PROJECT Fairhaven Beach House ARCHITECT John Wardle Architects LOCATION Fairhaven, Australia In the state of Victoria, Australia, the Great Ocean Road snakes along the Southern Ocean coast, skirting the edges of cliffs that drop sharply to the pounding surf. The village of Fairhaven gazes over the area’s longest beach and an open sea that stretches all the way to Antarctica. Renée Testa and Lee Flanagan knew they wanted a house somewhere along this iconic road. The ocean is a big part of their lives: As Testa says, “Lee’s always been a surfer, and I absolutely love the beach; it’s something we both love together.” When they first saw the lot that would become their home, there was a For Sale sign out front but no one around. “We walked through…