Dwell的September/October 2020目录

We already knew this would not be a normal year, but when Salone del Mobile, the massive annual furniture fair in Milan, was canceled in late March, it hit home that the design world’s busiest season would essentially be written off. For designers just starting their careers, it meant missed opportunities to make a splash at the usual exhibitions, fairs, MFA shows, pop-ups, and other events around the world. They lost out on the ripple of visibility that comes with throngs of people posting about them on social media—not to mention, of course, the ensuing orders. We conceived this year’s Dwell 24—our annual list of exceptional emerging designers creating furnishings, lighting, and other objects for your home (p. 23)—as a way to make up for those losses. It provides a…

“It’s like an apple you took a bite of,” says architect Marlon Blackwell, describing a cabin designed by his firm on a sloping bluff overlooking Beaver Lake in the Ozark Mountains. Its boxy shape has a section carved out of one side that creates a semi-enclosed porch where the views are best. “In a strange way, we made a cave in response to the forest,” Marlon says, “a place for refuge.” The house is a weekend getaway for a Kansas City couple—Leah Curry, a project manager at an experience design company, and Dan Curry, a lawyer—and their 17-year-old daughter and 11-year-old son. “We drew the plan around the porch area,” says Meryati Blackwell, Marlon’s wife and his partner at Marlon Blackwell Architects. Indeed, the cabin’s kitchen, living room, and three…

“The most important thing was to bring a sense of authenticity to the project, like it really couldn’t exist anywhere else or for anyone else.”Jodi Batay-Csorba, architect “‘This house doesn’t belong here.’ That’s what they told us,” says Enzo Mancuso, recounting the hard-fought battle that he and his wife, Erminia, along with architects Jodi and Andrew Batay-Csorba, waged to build their home in Toronto’s High Park neighborhood. The cause of the neighbors’ consternation? An unfortunate, but not incurable, case of NIMBYism. Specifically, they protested the two-story residence’s untraditional brick facade. But despite its boldly modern presentation, the house has decidedly vernacular DNA. High Park today hosts a mix of housing styles, but it remains filled with Victorian, Tudor, and Edwardian homes—nearly all of them made of brick. “Toronto is a…

In a Northeast Portland neighborhood filled with old Craftsman houses, a 1920s Prairie-style residence has always stood out for its clinker brick facade and double corner lot. “We fell in love with it because of the uniqueness of the architecture,” says Anyeley Hallová, speaking from the home’s front stoop. She and her family can be found here frequently, especially on summer afternoons when the strong sun lingers late into the evening. Anyeley, a partner at the real estate development firm Project^, and her husband, Ed Halla, an entrepreneur working on a beverage start-up called Máte Time, purchased the home in 2016. The couple had been looking around the city for a lot where they could build a new house for themselves and their two children but changed course when they…

Even on a sunny day like today, this part of Amsterdam is stark. North of the city’s historic center, the canal is straight as an arrow and unforgiving, the sheds and warehouses on its concrete banks proof that the area’s industrial origin is not far behind us. But take a turn onto a set of interconnected wooden walkways and into a new floating neighborhood, called Schoonschip, and things start to feel homey. After 10 years of planning, designing, and building, the community’s 30 floating houses have moored along five interconnected piers. Commissioned in tandem by like-minded neighbors-to-be, the two- and three-story buildings are now home to 46 households. They are fairly close together, and as you walk by, you notice people sitting on their terraces or roofs. You can hear…

When massive glaciers made their way across Wisconsin 18,000 years ago, they left behind long, fingery strands of ice that collided, scraping and shaping the earth into the rocky terrain now known as the Kettle Moraine. Architect Sebastian Schmaling reflected on that dramatic geological upheaval as he explored ways to connect the house he was designing for Chris and Sally Candee to its natural history. “What fascinated us all was the dynamic that had shaped and formed this land,” says Schmaling, a founding principal at Milwaukee-based Johnsen Schmaling Architects. “You can imagine these parallel fingers, or tongues, of the glaciers moving next to each other at different speeds as they melted away.” Those spindly shapes became the inspiration for the Candees’ 2,870-square-foot residence, which comprises three long, linear volumes. They’re…

20 Brick Layers Batay-Csorba Architects batay-csorba.com General contracting by Concepts by Di Noto Inc. pdinoto@sympatico.ca Exsen Engineering exsen.ca 21 Gap pendant by Woud woud.dk; dining table from Batay-Csorba batay-csorba.com; cooktop from Gaggenau gaggenau.com; Disegno D4 faucet by Aquadesign aquadesign.ca; XOOTUBE 38 IP40 pendant by LED Linear ledlinearusa.com; STI Otto porcelain tile on bedroom wall and STI Magnum LaRoche porcelain slab on fireplace from Stone Tile stone-tile.com; H38DF fireplace by Montigo montigo.com; lounge chairs, vintage; sofa, custom; Bob coffee table from Poltrona Frau poltronafrau.com; Nala rug and throw pillows by Mkt eltemkt.com 46 Mountain Majesty Marlon Blackwell Architects marlonblackwell.com Insite Construction insitenwa.com Engineering Consultants, Inc. ecilr.com Landscape design by Stuart Fulbright stuartfulbright.com 49 Custom dining table by The Urban Lumber Company urbanlumberco.com; windows by Ozark Mountain Glass 479-419-5551 and Razorback Ironworks…

THE DWELL 24 Here are the up-and-coming designers who need to be on your radar right now. The New York design fair Wanted Design helped us create the list—we’re highlighting several studios that would have exhibited at its events. THE DESIGN LIFE We asked The Dwell 24 about how they work and what their lives look like. In these pages, we present the results. MEXICO CITY / @PLATALEASTUDIO Platalea Studio Platalea Studio’s Lilia Corona and Rodrigo Lobato are lifelong students of the culture and crafts of Mexico. Their bold dinnerware, light fixtures, and furnishings take up traditional materials and techniques while addressing complex themes like colonialism, sexuality, and Mexican identity—“basically how Mexican society is involved with the outside, and how the outside is involved with Mexico,” Corona explains. The pair…

“The house is very particular, and in some ways it’s very ‘designed,’ but it’s also really informal.”STELLA BETTS, DESIGNER When Andrew Zuckerman and Niki Bergen decided to build a large guesthouse behind their home in upstate New York, they didn’t ask their designers for two bedrooms, two baths, or any of the other usual requirements. “We led with a narrative rather than a program,” says Andrew. He and Niki started sharing ideas and stories about what their lives could look like. “We showed them a picture of this old Japanese couple, like in their 80s, soaking at an onsen,” Andrew says, describing one of many reference images. “I showed them pictures of Pompeii and I said, ‘I want you to design this place backward, from it as a ruin. What…

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I go to Nigeria several times a year, but I visited my parents’ hometowns in that country for the first time when I was 11. It was such a special experience to see my aunties and uncles sitting under a cashew tree, drinking palm wine from calabash bowls. When I got older, I started collecting them. The bowls are made from dried calabash fruit, and they are used across Africa for eating and drinking, as well as in rituals and ceremonies. When I first started designing, calabash bowls really inspired me. I love that their beauty comes from their uniqueness—each one has its own shape. Today, so many products are mass-produced, but this is a natural form, not controlled by humans in any way. I look to the calabash for…