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• Yarn Bombing Uses Knitting as a Public Art Form

  

  Yarn Bombing Los Angeles covered the Craft and Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles with 7,500 hand crocheted granny squares for the CAFAM Granny Squared project in... Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2015 HOME, INTERIOR DESIGN

• 5 Modern Concrete Floors

  

  In a Montreal home, a radiant hot water heating system was installed under a new concrete floor slab above the old foundation. Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2015 HOME, INTERIOR DESIGN

• What It's Like to Work With 99-Year-Old Design Icon Jens Risom

  

  What was it like to take on the legacy of such a celebrated designer?It took a couple months until I felt comfortable knowing who he was and he felt... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2015 HOME, INTERIOR DESIGN

• 7 Wood-Clad Homes

  

  In the eastern Netherlands, resourceful recyclers 2012Architects have built a house almost entirely out of locally sourced scrap, from old billboards to broken... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2015 HOME, INTERIOR DESIGN

• 10 Ways to Use Wood in the Bathroom

  

  Like a little chapel on the prairie, architect Jean-Baptiste Barache’s simply elegant retreat in the tiny Normandy town of Auvillier is a modern play on... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2015 HOME, INTERIOR DESIGN

• 19th-Century Homes Meet Modern Design

  

  A 65,000-square-foot 19th-century factory in Geneva, New York houses Brandon and Amy Phillips’s apartment and furniture workshop.  Photo by Ball Albanese.... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2015 HOME, INTERIOR DESIGN

• 7 Things to See at Sight Unseen Offsite

  

  Husband-and-wife duo Mimi Jung and Brian Hurewitz of BROOK LYN are displaying these spun metal planters. Each one is made in Los Angeles and no two planters... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2015 HOME, INTERIOR DESIGN

• A Modern Mattress Company You Should Know

  

  This Memory Foam Mattress features E3 Sleep Products’ three-part comfort system, including a two-inch top layer of cool gel infused memory foam, a middle... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2015 HOME, INTERIOR DESIGN

• 8 Modern American Kitchens

  

  In designer Scott Croyle's San Francisco home, architect Cary Bernstein selected sequenced walnut veneers for the kitchen and dining area. Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2015 HOME, INTERIOR DESIGN

• What You Can Accomplish With a Single Shipping Container

  

  The centerpiece of this brickyard-turned-community garden in Toronto is a welcome hut housed in a shipping container, which was sourced from a contractor just... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2015 HOME, INTERIOR DESIGN

• 6 Super Comfortable Couches

  

  A 50-year-old leather sofa by mid-century Swedish designer Arne Norell adds color and warmth to the black and white tones in this New Zealand home. Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2015 HOME, INTERIOR DESIGN

• Meet the Dwell on Design Awards Jury

  

  Sally Kuchar, a former designer and currently the cities editor at Curbed, will help select and hand out the 10 Dwell on Design Awards to exhibitors at the show. Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2015 HOME, INTERIOR DESIGN

• Glowing Report: 5 Softly-Lit Houses

  

  Using polycarbonate shingles, architect Indra Janda built an inexpensive backyard "garden room" that looks opaque during the day and glows at night. Photo by Ti... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2015 HOME, INTERIOR DESIGN

• LED Lighting So Brilliant It's in an Art Museum

  

  Ketra's A20 lamp is a fully tunable, calibrated light source that earns a high color rendering index for its white, pastels, and saturated colors. It can dim... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2015 HOME, INTERIOR DESIGN

• This Glowing Library Addition is Every Writer's Dream Escape

  

  The studio replaces a single-story garage, which was demolished so this project could be built. Its ground level still serves as a carport, but the upper... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2015 HOME, INTERIOR DESIGN

• 17 Things to See at NYC Design Week 2015

  

  Atlanta-based furniture designer Chris Hardy collaborated with midcentury master Jens Risom, who just turned 99, on the Ven storage collection for Design... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2015 HOME, INTERIOR DESIGN

• 5 Modern Homes in America's Grasslands

  

  Architect Josh Shelton's affordable housing prototype in Kansas draws inspiration from the breezy indoor-outdoor homes Eichler built in midcentury California. Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2015 HOME, INTERIOR DESIGN

• Midcentury Modern Building in Lexington, Kentucky Faces Looming Demolition

  

  This midcentury modern building, which stood as the Peoples Bank in downtown Lexington, Kentucky since the 1960s, may be nearing the end of its days, unless... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2015 HOME, INTERIOR DESIGN

• 5 Modern Outdoor Living Areas

  

  The residents of these twin San Diego abodes take in the scenery from the comfort of their exposed living room. The couple sits on a Polder sofa by Hella... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2015 HOME, INTERIOR DESIGN

• 7 Space-Saving Solutions from Some of Our Tiniest Houses

  

  In an update on a traditional Japanese carpentry technique, a staircase hides space for storage in this Fukushima home. “We were able to create a clean,... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2015 HOME, INTERIOR DESIGN