Dwell May-14

Ferreting out “closet” modernism in unexpected places is Dwell’s bailiwick. In this issue we bring a decidedly global perspective to the hunt, highlighting innovative projects in The Netherlands, Sweden, El Salvador, and India, to name a few. Keeping an eye on emerging trends worldwide helps us contextualize the good work evolving in our own backyard; a modern view is universal, after all. We kick of the issue with our annual roundup of emerging talents (page 30). We track these men and women all year long, checking in periodically to see what they’re working on and how they are faring as they come into their own as practicing designers. We nod to the flash of promise evident in their unbridled creativity and revel in the fact that, for most of these…

Drool—I love every single bit of Jonathan Adler and Simon Doonan’s beach house (“Top Grades,” March 2014) and would not change a thing. And let’s talk about that amazing rope-macramé wall hanging! Jennifer Juniper Posted to Facebook Happy to see Dwell venturing down into the southern United States (Modern World, February 2014). We need some lessons in modern residential design down here. @Ryanf ser01 Posted to Instagram The Lewin House (Modern World, February 2014) kind of reminds me of Cameron’s home in Ferris Bueller’s Day Of. Brenna DiGerolamo Posted to Facebook I worked in the mid-’60s for a designer in Austin named Daniel T. Powell, while earning my architecture degree. While we didn’t do anything quite as cool as the roof structure on the Bernstein residence (“Flight Deck,” February 2014),…

May 2014 Eleni N. Gage For this issue, New York writer and executive editor of Martha Stewart Weddings Eleni N. Gage authored “Drawing the Lines” (p. 104). “As I walked to the apartment, a Greek song kept running through my head about a guy who walks on Lycabettus and meets two girls he falls in love with and has to choose between,” she says. Alyn Grifiths London-based design writer Alyn Grif ths lived in Stockholm for a year, where homeowner Andrew Duncanson (“The Swede Life,” p. 114) runs a midcentury design shop called Modernity. “When I bumped into Andrew at the PAD art and design fair in London, I was excited to find out he had a holiday home on the west coast of Sweden filled with the same stunning…

The Danish textile brand Kvadrat tapped Swedish-Chilean designer Anton Alvarez—of Dwell’s Young Guns class of 2013—for its annual exhibition at Milan’s Salone Internazionale del Mobile. For his installation, Alvarez adapted his hallmark thread-wrapping machine. The automated industrial process binds together basic furniture with colored, glue-soaked string. In this iteration, he substituted brightly hued textile paint for glue, using it to saturate Kvadrat’s Divina wool thread as it wraps a curved structure. kvadrat.dk, antonalvarez.com dwell.com/kvadrat-salone Go online to see more Kvadrat projects, including one-off designs by Muller Van Severen, Bethan Gray, and more.…

Our 2014 class of rising talent includes designers from Bulgaria, South Korea, Portugal, and beyond. This year’s installment shows that global design is more accessible than ever before, thanks to technology and fluid borders. Benjamin Graindorge France Parisian designer Benjamin Graindorge is self-deprecating but completely content in his chosen métier, professing that “learning is freedom.” His enlightened state derives from time spent in Patagonia as a student—a period when he considered dropping out of design school—and a later sabbatical in Japan. Before his travels, Graindorge admits he was more interested in the image of an object than its relationship to its user. Following his worldly design education, as well as a yearlong stint with renowned furniture designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, his work has taken on a new dimension. It’s…

PROJECT House in the Grove architect Arba, arba.pro LOCATION Veneux-les-Sablons, France Arba, the architecture firm founded by Jean-Baptiste Barache and Sihem Lamine, designed a 1,786-square-foot residence for Dominique Jacquot 45 minutes outside Paris. The house is her sanctuary from city life. “What we love most is that wood is a material that continues to settle into its environment with time.”—Sihem Lamine, architect Dominique Jacquot didn’t have many parameters in mind when she started imagining her house in the countryside, 45 minutes outside Paris. One requirement, however, was plenty of wood. She ran across architect Jean-Baptiste Barache’s wooden A-frame house in Normandy and liked that it was “pure and poetic.” So she enlisted his firm, Arba, to “create and invent”—as long as an open living plan and a space to practice…