January/February 2023

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Dwell magazine provides fresh, intelligent coverage of modern residential architecture and design.

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Editor-in-Chief William Hanley Executive Editor Kate Dries Managing Editor Jack Balderrama Morley Senior Design Editor Mike Chino Senior Home Guide Editor Megan Reynolds Culture Editor Sarah Buder News Editor Duncan Nielsen Contributing Editor Kelly
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In This Together
We shouldn’t delude ourselves: We can’t shop our way out of ecological disaster. Obviously, no gadget you can put under your sink to save water is going to keep the earth’s temperature from rising—at least not by itself. But we should all still try t
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Contributors
Photographer Modern World, p. 18, and One Last Thing, p. 96 Jamie Chung’s portfolio contains a wide array of objects brought to life in minute detail. When an item isn’t necessarily photogenic, the Brooklyn photographer’s approach is to focus on what
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Comments
Dear Mr. Hanley, I ask you to please rethink your opinion that the old-fashioned, single-family American home no longer works for how we live. Not so. It works remarkably well for the stability of citizens and for a greener, electrified future. It no
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Smart Doorbells
Horrifying and dystopian! Part of the police state. @ellasturgis I like that I can see who was at my door when I’m not home. @tieeds Things marketed as “smart” universally are not. @pengwynn1 I get locked out kinda often and really appreciate that I
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Houses We Love
by Robert Hutchison Architecture & JSa Arquitectura The owners of this off-grid retreat in the mountains south of Mexico’s Valle de Bravo envisioned a cabin that would integrate seamlessly into the landscape. The result is a series of volumes—a main
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Modern World
They might not be the most glamorous things in your home, but it’s the behind-the-scenes systems that can help lessen its ecological impact. We’ve gathered a trove of products promising to make your world a little greener. And we spoke with experts a
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Room to Grow
Surrounded by rows of cabernet grapevines, olive trees, a centenary oak, and bright blue sky, this cedar-clad prefab looks as if it has always stood on its cinematic site in Healdsburg, California. But the 540-square-foot Dwell House landed on the lo
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Home Heat Home
When you buy a centuries-old château in Normandy, France (and who among us hasn’t?), you do expect that it’ll require a whole mess of renovations. But the dreams of a livable château mostly involve Ephronian kitchens and lush gardens and not the real
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High and Dry
When Martin and Casey Johnston added a stand-alone studio to their property in a flood-prone region on the east coast of Australia, they baked disaster resilience into the design. They just didn’t expect to have its limits tested so soon. Within a mo
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Pole Position
Erica and Eduardo Heidenreich’s remote delta retreat can be reached only via a magical one-hour boat ride from Buenos Aires through the narrow, winding tributaries and canals of the Paraná River. As our vessel skips across the water and brilliant gre
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Wood Works
Not your usual soundtrack to a suburban morning: the soft clucking of chickens in their coop below your bedroom window. But for Farah Agarwal and Arjen Aarnoudse, cofounders of architecture firm The Way We Build, it is one of the joys of living in th
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Fog Design + Art
JANUARY 19-22, 2023 FORT MASON CENTER fogfair.com January 18, 2023 Preview Gala Benefiting the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Altman Siegel, San Francisco, CA Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY / Casemore Kirkeby, San Francisco, CA Anthony Meier
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Dwellings
SEA LEVELS WILL RISE. FIRES AND FLOODING WILL BECOME MORE FREQUENT. RESOURCES WILL BECOME MORE PRECIOUS. THE STORIES THAT FOLLOW ARE ABOUT HOMES THAT LOOK TO THE PAST AND THE PRESENT TO OFFER HOPE FOR THE FUTURE. TYPEFACE DESIGN: ECAL TYPEFACES ■
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The Earthship, Circa 2023
Highway 64 is a lonely, two-lane blacktop that runs east-west in northern New Mexico, spanning the Taos Plateau, part of the Rio Grande rift. The Sangre de Cristo Mountains rise in the east. The sky is vast. After the road crosses the Rio Grande Gorg
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Fighting Future Fires
To step into Barbara Ferris’s new house, you have to first grapple with what took out the old one. A charred black curve of eucalyptus arcs up the front door—it’s a handle but also a piece of the neighbor’s tree, which exploded in the November 2018 W
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Capital Building
Even as Andrew and Hannah Linn were moving into their first home, in Washington, D.C., in late 2015, the soon-to-be-newlyweds were hunting for the next. Their small apartment “was the perfect place for that moment, but we never even pretended that it
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Artful Restoration
After years of trying out life in the hustle and bustle of cities like London and Chicago, artist John Brooks and his husband, Erik Eaker, were looking to permanently settle into a quiet oasis in Louisville, Kentucky, close to John’s family. Having l
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True Blue
For years, retired attorney Dale Schreiber and his wife, Lois, planned to transition from New York City to the suburbs of South Orange, New Jersey, to be closer to some of their children and grandchildren. The couple are avid collectors of art and mi
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Modern Market
More at Dwell.com/Shop Creating Beautiful Bathrooms The new Suave sink available in gloss or matte white & matte black, set on welded metal console, paired with Aquatre tub and Cigno faucets, defines the classic mid-century simultaneously modern desi
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Sourcing
30 Room to Grow Norm Architects normcph.com Abodu abodu.com 30–31 Windows from Marvin marvin.com; folding glass wall from NanaWall nanawall.com; siding from Real Cedar realcedar.com 32–33 Appliances from Bosch bosch.com; lighting by Ravenhill Studio
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One Last Thing
When the big earthquake comes, and with it a tsunami, I have a list of things I’d take with me in my go bag. Obviously the main thing is just to get out of the house with my husband and kids as fast as possible. But if we have 10 extra minutes, I’d g

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