Innholdsfortegnelse for July/August 2019 i Dwell

Airbnb changed everything. Yes, there were vacation rental services long before the home-sharing juggernaut launched, but its software and scale have opened up a completely new way of exploring the world. Travelers once limited to hotels in tourist quarters or friend-of-a-friend recommendations now have the ability to easily stay in far-flung neighborhoods and architecturally significant homes, seeking out what it might be like to actually live in a place rather than just consume its guidebook-approved offerings. Of course, home sharing has been a double-edged sword. In cities like Barcelona, tourism has metastasized to the point of squeezing out locals, and in places like London, New York, and San Francisco, it has contributed to a choking affordability crisis. On the other hand, it has also created opportunities for forging human connections.…

ROBIE 1 CHAIR Frank Lloyd Wright designed this dining chair for the famed Robie House in Hyde Park and later used it in his Prairie Houses. The high back with vertical struts was intended to create a sense of intimacy around the dinner table. CHICAGO CHAIR Chicago architecture firm Krueck + Sexton created these sharp-edged chairs—made from mirrored steel, brass, and metallic golden leather—for one residence in the 1990s, but they embody the bravura of the city’s whole skyline. WRONG CHAIRS The design duo that goes by Norman Kelley based their Wrong series on drawings of classic Windsor chairs, which they deconstructed and recombined. The results are deeply intriguing, even if they are technically, well, wrong.…

Following a decade of rapid economic growth in South Korea, things are finally starting to slow down. According to Jinhee Park, cofounder of the Seoul- and NYC-based architecture studio SsD, this has led to more time for creativity—particularly for the city’s younger residents. “People are getting more and more into design, and younger generations don’t feel like they have to get married and have children, so they have a certain freedom,” says Park. SsD has played a big part in the city’s flourishing design world, most notably with its Songpa Micro-Housing, an apartment complex that offers a new typology for dense urban living by blending public and private space. “Society is changing really fast,” Park says. “Korea is small, so we are very good at adapting and developing things in…

Malik Ashiru was in Bali when he heard that his ambitious plans for renovating a Brooklyn condo could move forward. He had an exacting vision for the space that required nearly gutting it. To pass the time while the city reviewed the paperwork, Malik had taken a sabbatical from his business development job at Google, traveling around the globe to Africa, Europe, and Asia. “The moment they told me the approval was almost done,” he says, “I was on an airplane back.” The 1,400-square-foot, two-story apartment is in a former paper factory that was converted into lofts in the early 1980s. Malik hired Douglas Segulja and Margot Otten, of OSSO Architecture, to transform it into a warm, flexible space where he could host family and friends and display art he…

Miguel Ángel Aragonés’s house in Mexico City is spread out over nearly 11,000 square feet, but the designer doesn’t occupy much of it. He and his wife, Ana, who is CEO of his firm, spend most of their time in two places: the principal bedroom and a dining/living room where they sprawl on enormous sectional furnishings while watching films or TV. When their granddaughter, Emilia, visits, she sleeps with them, leaving the other four bedrooms unoccupied. Miguel’s home doubles down on the features that have characterized his 36-year career. The three-story building gets its name, Rombo III, from the sharp geometry of its walls. There’s ample breathing space, both indoors and out. It’s surrounded, and in some areas completely covered, by greenery. It has a partially indoor pond and an…

• 1951 Moritz Kundig earns an architecture degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. • 1952 The architect arrives in the United States, settling in Salt Lake City and later in Merced, California. • 1955 Kundig moves to Spokane, joining Whitehouse, Price, DeNeff, and Deeble. • 1961 Kundig’s acclaimed Unitarian Church in Spokane is completed. • 1962 The architect forms his own firm: Moritz Kundig & Associates. • 1971 The Kundig house is built and has one owner for most of the next 47 years. • 1984 Kundig is named an AIA Fellow. • 2018 The Hissongs purchase the house in August. In November, they find out that Moritz Kundig is the architect. • 2019 Renovations are completed in May.…

Seattle artist Mattie Iverson was ready for a change. Having just lived in a modern home, she was drawn to the old-world character of a 1915 Tudor-style house, with its half-timbered facade and stained glass windows, in the Queen Anne neighborhood overlooking Puget Sound. “My dream was to marry it with some of the modern things I love,” says Mattie of the home she shares with her two daughters. Like many houses of this vintage, the inside was dark, which was particularly difficult for a visual person. Working with interiors firm NB Design Group, Mattie decided to paint all the mahogany woodwork on the main level white. “It was a big move, but for us it didn’t feel like it was changing the vocabulary of the architecture,” says NB’s James…

Built on a heritage of crafts such as weaving and pottery, Oaxaca, Mexico, could easily be considered a land of well-made tchotchkes. But its community of young designers is finding ways to keep the region’s long-established arts alive—and also give them contemporary relevance. One of them is Dominican-born Javier Reyes, who moved to Oaxaca three years ago and began working directly with local craftspeople to realize new designs. “Since I came here I’ve been able to have a better understanding of our shared history and culture,” he explains of his newfound appreciation for his roots. “I want to talk about those, the clash of two different worlds, the old and new world, the mix of cosmology and religion, and European and indigenous people.” HIS PERFECT DAY IN OAXACA… For a…

FRAGMENT CHAIR Injecting new value into wasted marble, FICT Studio worked with South Korean brand Total Marble to repurpose damaged stone. By combining the waste with resin, they resurrect the material into a variety of household items, including a chair, stool, side table, and tray. SENSORIAL STIMULI TABLEWARE The flavors of Korean food are distinct enough to pique the palate on their own, but designer Jin-hyun Jeon’s tableware takes culinary awareness a step further. Exploring the idea that “taste” can extend to more than one of the five senses, the cutlery has ripples and bumps that stimulate the mouth while you’re eating. SOBAN Most Korean households own at least one soban—a small, tray-like table with uses ranging from dining table to writing desk to altar. They are depicted in ancient…

Ravi Naidoo, founder of Interactive Africa and the creative conference Design Indaba, attributes Cape Town’s flourishing design scene to one thing: confidence. “Cape Town has a design sector that is coming of age and has the confidence to be able to mine its own stories, its own heritage, its own unique point of view, and present that to the world,” he says. Naidoo has long championed emerging designers in Cape Town, many of whom have shot to international acclaim after debuting at Design Indaba. But one of his proudest moments? A recent collaboration with Craig Dykers, cofounder of Norwegian architecture firm Snøhetta, and Thomas Chapman, founder of Johannesburg urban design firm Local Studio, to create the Arch for Arch monument—a tribute to Archbishop Desmond Tutu. HIS PERFECT DAY IN CAPE…

Jay Nelson felt the spark the moment he finished his first one. “In my mind it was such a hit,” he says. “I felt like I had made something super functional, and I kind of amazed myself. It inspired me to keep going down that path and to explore other ways of building campers.” At the time, Nelson had recently graduated from art school, and he was drawing, painting, and living in the attic above Mollusk Surf Shop in San Francisco’s Sunset District. He felt isolated living alone and wanted to travel, so in 2007 he took a totaled ’91 Honda Civic CRX that he’d bought for $200 and retrofitted it into an escape pod. “I wanted to get out, so I built a little camper that I could take…

When attorney Dominick Sekich was hired to draft guidelines for preserving Denver’s treasured Joshel House in 1994, he had no idea that one day he’d be compelled to follow those rules himself. But 19 years later, he and his husband, Scott Van Vleet, purchased the 1951 International Style landmark for their own home and began a top-to-bottom renovation. Every move they made was constricted by the provisions detailed in Dominick’s diligent—and legally binding—preservation easement: no altering the facade or roofline, no putting up fences or flora that would obstruct the public’s view of the house, and definitely no messing with a stand of Pfitzer juniper bushes lining the driveway. Dominick had fallen for the place the first time he saw it. The surrounding, one-square-mile Hilltop neighborhood was largely built during…

The panorama is staggering. High on a slope above Kenepuru Sound on New Zealand’s South Island, the parcel of land Kate Betteley and Ian Hamlin have owned for two decades overlooks a pristine coastal inlet. They have cultivated olives on the property and spent many vacations there, staying in a yurt or in small kitset shelters. But in the last few years, their ambitions have grown. They recently decided to relocate to the site fulltime. To offset their carbon footprint, they plan to regenerate the surrounding 40 acres of newly protected native forest with matai, rimu, and beech trees—a project they have named Te Ngahere Hou, which means “the new forest” in Māori. Selling their house in Wellington gave them a budget to begin the reforestation and to build a…

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I got to see the making of an Alvar Aalto vase at the Iittala glass factory in Finland in 1995, when I was studying abroad in Copenhagen. The glass blowers place the molten glass into a wood carving, and it forms this beautiful shape. This particular object stood out, because when you turn it upside-down, it looks like a building. I think of Frank Gehry or Zaha Hadid—more form-driven architects. It helped connect the dots between design disciplines for me. I shouldn’t have bought it: I was a student and couldn’t afford it, and I was traveling. But I had to have it. I backpacked around Europe for three or four months with this damn thing stuffed with newspaper and wrapped in towels and blankets or whatever I could find.…

You need only look up at the skyline to understand why Chicago is one of the United States’ most important design cities. The Chicago Architecture Biennial—the third iteration of which runs September 19, 2019, to January 5, 2020—has elevated that reputation even further. Titled …and other such stories, this year’s edition takes a hard look at how the built environment affects communities, with sections dedicated to ecology, memory, activism, and other social and political forces. Yesomi Umolu, the show’s artistic director and a curator at the University of Chicago, is particularly excited about the residencies the biennial has fostered on the south and west sides of the city. “I’m looking forward to inviting visitors to reflect on their everyday experiences with the city,” she says. HER PERFECT DAY IN CHICAGO……

Since she moved to the city’s old town in the pre-gentrification 1990s, Italian-born architect Benedetta Tagliabue of EMBT has watched Barcelona’s design community navigate between respecting tradition and forging a new path. “What I like about Barcelona is that it created itself through its capacity for design and architecture,” she says. “And I feel like it’s the same now as it has been for centuries, even if the shapes have changed and the style is more contemporary. There’s a consciousness about doing things that are simple, made with real materials, and very well built.” Case in point: her studio’s latest project, Kálida Sant Pau Centre, a sensory “refuge” for cancer patients being treated in the adjoining hospital. “It’s where they can take a moment to themselves to breathe,” Tagliabue says.…

ANDILE DYALVANE CERAMICS Andile Dyalvane’s studio crafts functional pieces that are at once elegant and earthy. For last year’s 100% Design South Africa exhibition—where he was Featured Designer of the Year—Dyalvane made a series of 100 bowls from clay that pay homage to the four elements of earth, water, fire, and air. ATANG TSHIKARE SCULPTURE Artist Atang Tshikare describes his philosophy as building “an Afrofuturistic identity.” Using patterns and line drawings on various media—including paper, ceramic, bronze, fabric, soil, and wood—Tshikare injects a contemporary edge into a South African creative lineage. SINDISO KHUMALO TEXTILES Sustainable-textile designer Sindiso Khumalo uses her work to convey elements of African storytelling. The handmade prints—which she creates using watercolors and collage—draw upon her Zulu and Ndebele roots.…

Olafur Eliasson is happy to talk about the weather. Over coffee at this year’s Salone del Mobile in Milan, the conversation moves quickly from pleasantries about the rain to the profound sociobiological effects of sunlight on the human body. The leap is not surprising. The Danish-Icelandic artist—long based in Berlin—has made the perception of natural phenomena the center of his practice for decades, illuminating social forces through the manipulation of natural ones, often on a grand scale. His 2003 The Weather Project installation filled the Tate Modern’s massive Turbine Hall with an artificial sunset, enthralling the more than two million Vitamin D–starved Londoners and tourists who collectively experienced the work during its now-famous run. The spectacle turned Eliasson into a celebrity artist and the Tate’s large-scale installations into a must-visit…

HONDA SPREE In 2009, Nelson turned a Honda Spree scooter into a beach cruiser complete with cooler, surfboard rack, and space for a wetsuit and towel. MARSEILLE BOAT While Nelson was working on a 2013 museum show in France, one of the organizers offered him an old boat. Nelson tore off the top and rebuilt it as a Buckminster Fuller–esque abode. 407 D HOUSE TRUCK Nelson returned to France in 2016 to retrofit an old flatbed farm truck—a Mercedes 407 D—into a roving surf mobile.…

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