Innholdsfortegnelse for March/April 2022 i Dwell

True confession: I would have a hard time giving up a gas stove. As an enthusiastic home cook—with an admittedly mixed track record of success—I love the intuitive sense of temperature control and elemental feeling of cooking over a flame that gas provides. But the ecological toll is enough to make me consider going electric. And someday I may not have a choice. New York City, where I live, recently started phasing in a ban of natural gas hookups in most new construction—including renovations that require a building permit. It’s one of many cities across the country to do so. Some 70 percent of New York’s greenhouse gas emissions come from buildings, and a study published in January found that gas appliances leak methane into our homes even when they’re…

“I still wake up every single day and love my job,” says Judaline Cassidy, the self-described feminist plumber and founder of Tools & Tiaras, a New York City–based nonprofit that helps girls and women get a start in the construction industry. “I love meeting people and fixing their problems, but I also love empowering them to do certain things themselves.” With a quarter century of success in a male-dominated field, Cassidy is a well-known and respected trailblazer—but she won’t clog a conversation by fishing for compliments. Instead, she’s eager to share her wisdom so that the pipes in your home seem less intimidating. “Plumbing is like solving a puzzle,” she says. We brought readers’ most pressing plumbing questions to Cassidy for her insights, and here’s what she had to say:…

At the end of 2020, my wife and I bought a two-story brick house on a tiny block in South Philadelphia, near where we’d been renting for close to a decade. We liked the wood floors and the big front window, and it was basically move-in ready with no major repairs. But for the first two months we lived here, we kept smelling gas. Three or four times the utility people came out, found a leak around one of the pipe fittings, which we’d get fixed, and then a day later, we’d smell gas again. We knew it probably wasn’t a big deal, but row house explosions in the neighborhood were not unheard of. The smell began to haunt our dreams. We replaced the pipes around the boiler and eventually…

“For me, luxury is about cooking, having ample space, and enjoying the views—not necessarily having luxurious materials.”MARTÍN BRAVO, RESIDENT Three hours from their home in Santiago, Martín Bravo and his husband, Omar Zúñiga, have built a true escape. In the Chilean capital, Martín helms Design Systems International, a studio “for designers who code,” and Omar makes films and is a founding partner of Cinestación, an international production company. But deep in an Andean forest, at the end of a serpentine dirt track, is a hillside retreat meant simply for cooking and conversing with friends as they take in the spectacular views. To create a simple design for the complicated location—“We’re an hour drive from a store, so you need to know what to bring and make sure you bring it,”…

A home in Brazil puzzles together colonial architecture and high modernism with contemporary prefab panels. A 19th-century house in Germany gets a sustainability-focused makeover, complete with photovoltaic shingles on the roof. And a former dentist’s office in Mérida, Mexico, opens up to a breezy series of living spaces. Each home references what came before it but skips the nostalgia, using the past to frame undeniably contemporary ways of living. TYPEFACE DESIGN: GALERÍA BY LATINOTYPE…

From the outside, Casa San Cristobal looks much like the other homes in Mérida’s historic center, with a tall plaster wall that faces the street—no front garden, no way to peek inside. The only signs that something special lies behind the pale-green facade are the sleek house numbers and two bright-blue doors. These hints do little to prepare you for entering the dramatic 2,381-square-foot home that architectural designer Marc Perrotta shares with his husband, travel writer and editor John Newton, and their miniature Pinscher, Lily Beth. A towering front room spans the width of the property, the laptops on a concrete-top table and a low bookshelf running along the wall indicating that it’s the couple’s home office. A 10-foot-tall cased opening leads to a dining room enlivened by vintage and…

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Fabian Martínez Photographer “A Remarkable Reset,” p. 94 While Fabian Martínez says his photographic style is “often melancholic,” shooting the Mérida, Mexico, home (above) of John Newton and Marc Perrotta was a joy. Martínez first met the owners on Instagram. Impressed with their construction progress posts, he reached out. “I was going to be in Mérida with a friend, and I originally contacted John and asked if I could just visit the house,” says Martínez. That meeting ultimately led to his work with Dwell, in a happy coincidence for the photographer: “It’s always crazy to me how events unfold after putting yourself out there and approaching people.” Samuel Kerr Illustrator “Ed Warner,” p. 42 Samuel Kerr is drawn to iconic subjects like Gandhi, Obama, and even Trump’s hair. “As a…

“There’s confusion that the more expensive the design is, the more of a luxury it is. But expensive materials do not make the design.”EDNA PALLARES, RESIDENT Silhouettes of paintbrushes and palette knives carved into a concrete medallion above an otherwise unassuming entry signal that you’ve arrived at artist Edna Pallares’s home and studio. The 3,422-square-foot compound of white-painted brick volumes is a refuge among the dense, cobblestone streets of Mexico City’s Coyoacán neighborhood. The sun-soaked sculpture patio—where Edna’s dog, Mica, likes to greet guests—hints at the unique spatial sequence that defines the live/work residence, with three structures separated by internal patios and a narrow corridor that serves as a backbone. “It started as such a simple idea of volumes and courtyards,” says architect Luis Beltran del Río, cofounder of local…

Integrated into solid surfaces from ABKStone, this app-controlled system performs a vanishing act: One minute it’s a stove and the next, an unobstructed countertop. It’s great for small spaces where you can use the extra countertop area. This range’s cooktop features all the typical accoutrements offered by induction products, but Wolf has also thought through the software. The range’s smart oven includes nearly 50 dish presets controllable from your phone. One advantage of an induction cooktop is the valuable storage space it saves (no need for gas lines below the stove). But what about the area above? Home cooks can forgo bulky vent hoods with this cooktop, which incorporates a fan into its surface. Miele’s latest induction cooktop debuts in May and uses features like superfast water boiling, remote monitoring,…

1 Ricky Moore Owner of Saltbox Seafood Joint in Durham, North Carolina, and a Culinary Institute of America graduate, Moore was also an army cook, an Iron Chef competitor, and a 2020 James Beard Foundation semifinalist for Best Chef in the Southeast. “Due to the great quality of North Carolina seafood, sometimes the simplest ingredients are all that’s needed to help this healthy protein shine. My pantry is stocked with lemons for ceviche and herbs like parsley, tarragon, dill, and chives to finish my chilled shrimp salad and bouillabaisse. I have seafood stock to create a deep, rich flavor for stews and condiments like capers, mayo, and Dijon for fish salads. A nice range of fats—especially olive oil—is key.” 2 Kimberly Tilsen-Brave Heart The chef and co-owner of Etiquette Catering Company in…

After a decade of renting, architect Alessandro Ronfini and Astrid Chastka, a set designer and art director, were eager to buy a property of their own. Staying in their Brooklyn neighborhood would mean another small apartment, so they began looking for land upstate. In 2018, they purchased 11 forested acres in Olivebridge, a hamlet that had everything they wanted: natural beauty and a creative community, and still less than two hours from the city, where their work is based. Alessandro, a Passive House designer at his own firm, Demo Architects, went about creating “a version of a gable house that a child would draw,” he says. His take is monolithic, a prefab-panel structure cloaked in dark galvalume—steel coated in aluminum, zinc, and silicone that prevents oxidation. Its 1,490-square-foot plan has…

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I’m always on the lookout for interesting kitchen tools—things that might have a unique purpose that will help me cook. I was at my dad’s house, looking for something in his kitchen, when I found this spoon that belonged to my grandmother, and I was like, Whoa, this is meant for me—it would be perfect for quenelling! Quenelles are dumplings traditionally made of creamed fish, but the name can also just refer to the shape, like an egg. In pastry, we do them with ice cream or whipped cream, and I had just learned how. Stores have special tools shaped a bit like this, more narrow toward the edge so they create the quenelle more easily, but I thought this was perfect, because it’s so pointy and has a deep…

Matthew Herman got into the fragrance business when he realized that scent can be a way for people to feel safe expressing and playing with their personal interpretations of gender. That, and he has a sense of humor. “Let’s call it Boy Smells and put it in a pink box—it literally came out of my mouth in three seconds,” he says of naming the brand of candles, fragrances, and, most recently, underwear that he founded with David Kien. Their fragrances are well-packaged cocktails of traditionally female florals, typically masculine musks, and every accord in between—plus the occasional whiff of weed. With names like Polyamberous and Broken Rosary, the scents are sometimes subtle, sometimes bold, a puzzle to define, and undeniably fun—like gender at its best. As we have been dreaming…

TikTok phenom Jon Kung’s 1.5 million followers love the Detroit-based chef for their brand of easy-breezy recipes served up as 60-second takes (as of press time, their most popular garnered 14.5 million views and counting). Some of their creations are made using only a wok and a portable induction cooktop. Kung (opposite) shares why they believe cooking with gas is in the past. Why do you believe induction is the future? Cooking with induction offers the simplicity of an electric cooktop with the power of a gas stove top—but greater control. For example: You can set an induction cooktop down to a specific temperature more precisely than gas and maintain it consistently for hours, essentially turning any pot into a slow cooker. Induction will make you a better cook once…

Tom Deacon’s life, like his work, is a mix of old and new, indoors and out. An architect by training, he became renowned as a furniture designer, leading Canadian manufacturer Keilhauer to its first mass-produced chair, the Tom, an innovation in high-tech plastic, and then back into upholstered fame with his Danforth chair, for a time the official seat in the White House Situation Room. With a thriving practice based in Toronto, Tom bought a tall Victorian there in 1987, which he and his then partner renovated to give it a wide-open interior. In 2000 he left it all behind to dig in the dirt on land he owns in the countryside, creating intricate gardens and landscapes. A decade later, the professional world again beckoned, but Tom, now single, found…