Indice dei contenuti per May/June 2017 in Dwell

This magazine’s point is not to fetishize design, but to explore how and why it works. When one learns to spot these things, it’s easier to understand how good design thinking is possible on any scale, on any budget, in any circumstance. Most people don’t get the chance to walk a factory floor to see how an object is made. They don’t see iterations born from relentless research and development, versions pushed and pulled to find the elusive bridge between quality and cost. Very few do. This is the purpose of Dwell—to show the “try” behind the “do.” Take, for instance, the young couple who decided to leave Brooklyn after eight years of trying, and succeeding, to build careers in the design industry. Garnering bigger and bigger commissions and partnerships,…

Georgina Gustin Hunt With the Hounds page 102 Georgina Gustin is a Washington, D.C., reporter who focuses on food policy, farming, and the environment. Her story for this issue, a DIY midcentury remodel in Wilmington, Delaware, was unlike her previous assignments for the magazine. “Most of the projects I’ve written about for Dwell began in someone’s imagination,” she says. “This house was already there, just ready for another owner who personalized it with a lot of hard work and persistence.” Georgina has written for The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Washington Post, and Gourmet. Stephen K. Johnson Hunt With the Hounds page 102 After studying at Brigham Young University, photographer Stephen Kent Johnson relocated to New York. For this issue, he visited Delaware to shoot George Marrone and…

Positioned on a rocky outcropping in Coldstream, British Columbia, Jon Friesen and Silping Wong’s home presents a paradox: The glassy box, cantilevered into space, suggests lightness and pure form, while the cladding of burned Douglas fir and raw steel gives the impression of solidness, utility. The house, designed by D’Arcy Jones, has an air of being at once rugged, broken-in, and effortless. “It was built to be very tough, like a farmer’s post,” Jones says, “but also delicate relative to the site.” The house overlooks Kalamalka Lake Provincial Park, located roughly halfway between Calgary and Vancouver. When Jon and Silping, both medical professionals, embarked on the project, they had in mind a dwelling that complemented their lifestyle, which is oriented around outdoor activities. “We knew that we wanted the house…

In San Francisco, the tug between new (slick, contemporary condos) and old (wood Victorians) plays out in Dogpatch, a historic district that houses a large collection of turn-of-the-20th-century homes that survived the 1906 earthquake. One of those Victorians is an 1890 cottage that caught fire in 2008, destroying everything but the shell. That allowed a young couple who’d been searching for a single-family home to have the best of both worlds: a Victorian with 21st-century interiors. “The fact that it was in such a bad state made everything possible,” says Patrice Martin, who owns the cottage with her husband, Nathan Wilson. “It was a blank slate.” When the couple inspected the fireravaged house, they were living in a Mission District apartment with their infant daughter. Despite the building’s four scorched…

When Brian Littleton set out to combine two apartments into a 3,000-square-foot triplex in Chicago’s Wicker Park in 2014, he had some unusual ideas—an indoor tree house, a “rocket room,” and an electric model train track suspended from the ceiling, to name a few. At the time, he was both a young-at-heart bachelor and an enthusiastic uncle with a niece and nephew, now five and six, who live about a mile away. “I thought, why don’t we build some fun stuff to convince them to come over more,” says Brian, who owns a digital marketing company. But he didn’t want the interior to feel like a funhouse. So he tasked Studio Gild and Perimeter Architects with creating brilliant play spaces while also making the home elegant enough for grown-ups. “Brian…

You have to drive a bit to find a bookstore these days, but after seeing someone else’s copy, I had to have it, @dwell!! Excellent issue! —@JadenAlexander3 on Twitter The new issue made me feel like reading The Unknown Craftsman again! (It’s funny that I am reading it in English). Wrapping Soetsu Yanagi’s words on the spine of the magazine was a nice touch— I agree that art is more beautiful when it suggests something deeper, something beyond its appearance. Great words. I also really liked the cabin on the cover. The article shows that a good house’s design should have a personal connection to the owner. The cabin was born from their lifestyle! Very inspiring. It reminded me of my grandparents’ house in the countryside of Japan, surrounded by…

Whenever I am asked to single out my favorite design trends, I often dither. What constitutes a trend? Conversely, whenever I am asked about my least favorite trends, I snap right back without a moment’s hesitation: taxidermy. In the last ten years, taxidermy has become cringingly ubiquitous, an international symbol of hipster glam. Opening an artisanal cocktail den? Hang a bison on the wall and toss a jaunty hat on its horn. Furnishing your rock star lair? A crouching tiger sets the tone. Need an Instagrammable selfie for your burgeoning lifestyle brand? Jet to Deyrolle in Paris and pucker up. Looks cool, right? Not to me—to me it’s a depressing ode to animal cruelty. So when I opened my March/April issue of Dwell, the sharing, caring, thinking man’s design magazine,…

You were one of the founding members of the Memphis design movement, which gained global notoriety in the mid to late 1970s. What was Italy like at that time? In the 1970s, I was a student. When you are a student, you have all your life in front of you, and you have to be optimistic. I wanted to show myself as able to make life better. It was also a very special moment, because in 1968 students started, especially in France and later in Italy, to be openly against not only the political regime, but especially the concept that everything should be immovable, closed, paralyzed by rules and traditions, by conventions. Especially conventions. This was fantastic for me, to fight against this bullying situation. To show that the role…

With their company Assemblage, the husband-and-wife team of Heidi and Christian Batteau have turned a quiet town in rural Arkansas into a small but thriving center for handcrafted wallpapers Although they met as students at the Kansas City Art Institute, it wasn’t until they took a course abroad in Europe that romance bloomed. To be together after graduation, Christian, a native Californian, moved with Heidi to Brooklyn, and for many years they both had thriving careers. He made sculptures and founded an artfor- architecture company with his sister, creating wallpapers for Peter Marino, Dior, and Axel Vervoordt, among others. Heidi found equal success as a textile designer, with a client list that included Carnegie, Knoll, Maharam, Starwood, and Starbucks. But after almost eight years, they began to tire of city…

Set on a winding street and screened by clusters of creosote bushes and palo verde and ironwood trees, Ethan Wessel and Sarah Swartz Wessel’s Phoenix residence does little to call attention to itself. And that suits them just fine. “We’ve come back from the airport and the driver will ask, ‘Where’s the house?’” Ethan says. But step through the gate, and the front courtyard opens to a breathtaking vista clear through the living/dining room to the rear patio and beyond to a custom skate bowl. As evidenced by that last feature, the house is not just a family home for the designers and their sons—Addison, 17, and Elliot, 13—but a richly personal expression of what intrigues and delights them. Designed over the course of 10 years and still a work…

Max Heinritz was born 28 years after the publication of Jane Jacobs’s The Death and Life of Great American Cities, but his embrace of urbanism—with all its chaos— takes a page from her playbook. Max’s modestly scaled loft, for which he designed and made many of the furnishings, sits on the top floor of a 1908 building that went condo in 2006, offering homeowners a no-frills berth in the heart of San Francisco’s downtown. Just outside the front door awaits a dizzying array of shops, theaters, and corporate offices, including Twitter’s, as well as a robust population of street denizens. For Max, who left his job as a Google engineer late last year in order to work more independently on early-stage software projects, the location is perfect: “I spent a…

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The line between art and architecture can get blurry. But art and ecology? Usually clearer. Artist Olafur Eliasson and landscape architect Günther Vogt upset the normal balance between manmade and natural with the site-specific installation Your Glacial Expectations. In 2012, the duo laid pool-like mirrors in a field outside the headquarters of textile manufacturer Kvadrat, turning the rolling grasslands of Ebeltoft, Denmark, into a canvas for the changing sky. On May 9, a new hardcover book named after the artwork, with photos and essays about its dreamy environment, will arrive in the United States via Thames & Hudson.…

For Japanese-American designer Isamu Noguchi (1904– 1988), using washi, or paper, was a way to sculpt with light. Noguchi had powerful memories of washi from a childhood spent in Japan, and he never forgot the lure of the material. During a 1950 trip to Gifu, Japan, a prefectural capital known for its mastery of paper techniques, the mayor asked for Noguchi’s advice on how the area could modernize. “It was a logical convergence of my long interest in light sculptures, lunars, and my being in Japan,” Noguchi wrote in his 1968 autobiography, A Sculptor’s World. “Paper and bamboo fitted in with my feeling for the quality and sensibility of light. Its very lightness questions materiality, and is consonant with our appreciation today of the less thingness of things, the less…

“ The idea was to mirror the forest in our design without disturbing it in our execution.” MARIE-CLAUDE HAMELIN, ARCHITECT Landscape architect Suzanne Rochon spent more than two years searching for an isolated weekend getaway close to her home in Montreal. Upon discovering five densely wooded acres with an old lumberjack’s shed in the Eastern Townships region in 2002, Suzanne says she “fell in love with the land and nearly forgot to visit the shack.” No wonder. The rough-sided structure had just one window and a Dutchstyle barn door for light. It had electricity, but no running water. It was also strewn with items discarded by the hunters who occasionally used it. It was, in a word, “disgusting,” as she remembers. Suzanne spent the next 10 years working on the…

SAM FLORES Artist and vinyl toy designer Sam Flores has been creating art since he was a boy in New Mexico. His drawings, paintings, graphics for skateboards, and clothing reflect such influences as Edo Period landscapes and surrealism. samflores.com SEEN Dubbed the “godfather of graffiti,” Bronx-born Richard Mirando began spray-painting subway trains under the moniker SEEN. In the early ’80s he moved to abstract painting and now creates sculpture and mixed-media pieces. graffitiloser.com DEPH Josh Welsher, aka Deph, is an Orange County, California, graffiti artist, illustrator, and toy designer and the cofounder of To Die For Clothing. His work has been featured on cars, on skateboards, in video games, and in print ads. todieforclothing.com KAWS Brooklyn-based Brian “KAWS” Donnelly began as a graffiti artist and has since designed clothing, done…

“ We are big on no waste. And when we say ‘no waste,’ we mean in every sense of the word. It’s very wasteful building over the whole lot, for example, because then you never enjoy all of it.” ERLA DÖGG INGJALDSDÓTTIR, ARCHITECT Building smarter is at the heart of everything architects Tryggvi Thorsteinsson and Erla Dögg Ingjaldsdóttir do. Whether they’re testing the limits of indoor/outdoor living or developing a prefabricated wall system that they hope will make traditional wood framing a thing of the past, the founders of the Santa Monica design studio Minarc are consumed with making structures stronger, lighter, and more efficient. It was just that kind of innovation that led Jaclyn Lieber and her husband, Jay, to hire the Iceland-born duo. The Liebers had purchased a…

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