Innholdsfortegnelse for July/August 2025 i Dwell

Not a fan. There would be water splashes everywhere and very hard to keep clean. @debpeds71 Wet rooms belong on boats, where they are a necessity, and not in the home, where they most certainly are not. Megan Reynolds, senior home guide editor Love it for moisture control, hate it for cleaning grout lines & glass. @tylagace_fit Too stark. @pinktini101 Love it when there’s a divider. Hate water spillage outside. @andrewzunt Love it! More room to splash around and dance naked when no one is watching. Suzanne LaGasa, creative director Too wet for me. I like a dry floor after a bath or shower. @bgsbucks Hate. Everything gets damp, they’re a mess. I bought a house with one and can’t stand [it]. @hallepickering They’re a great way to make use…

I started writing about residential design just a few months before Dwell published its first issue, and I’ve seen a lot of trends come and go in the last quarter century. Tuscan kitchens gave way to farmhouse kitchens; an interior furnished like a Belgian monastery would be a cottage-core fantasy today; formal dining rooms have become home offices. Even movements that once seemed unstoppably American, like the increasing footprint of the average new house, have revealed themselves to be conditional. The desire for glass is another one of those unwavering patterns in modern home design that turns out to be less than gospel. Glass houses aren’t as covetable as they used to be, and you don’t have to simply take my word for it. This is a trend you can…

“The home is designed to physically and conceptually integrate with the natural environment.”REI MITSUI, ARCHITECT It’s a late March afternoon, and the mountains of Japan are awakening to spring as Rob Tull dozes in his living room. The soft-spoken Englishman hails from a small town on Great Britain’s southern coast, and after living abroad for nearly three decades, he has finally found a place to put down permanent roots with his wife, Junko, who is originally from Okayama. The home, with its sprawling glass surfaces and sharp angles, could feel out of place this deep in the woods, but nature doesn’t seem to mind it. A pack of wild macaques arrives to clamber over heaps of firewood, and their cries enter the house via an open kitchen window. The monkeys can…

Peter Fisher Photographer “Undivided Sky,” p. 40 Peter Fisher moved to New York right after college with a film degree in hand. “I loved filmmaking and movies, and that started it all,” he says. A job in animation at the New Yorker led to a photo editing role—and a shift toward still photography. Now he moves between portrait, nature, and music photography, approaching each shoot with the same intention: “I try to be as present as I can…so I can actually be in the moment with the person.” For this issue, Fisher brings that approach to the Vermont house of Phish bassist Mike Gordon. “If I can just make this house and Mike look as fun as they seem,” he says, “then I think I will have done a good…

A Hotel “Village” in the Woods In 1938, Ponti worked with Austrian architect and cultural theorist Bernard Rudofsky, also a Domus staffer, to design a “hotel in the woods” built on the rocky slopes of Monte Solaro on the Italian island Capri. They planned for a series of individual rooms, or “cells,” connected by winding paths that served as corridors. The design utilized natural materials and fluid lines to blend in with the property’s existing mature trees, with each room getting expansive windows positioned to bring the outdoors inside. Ponti described it as creating a place for people “to lead the Capri lifestyle,” one in which visitors, for the duration of their stays, could become Caprese, staying both on the island and within it. While the project was never realized,…

Despite sitting on a quiet, residential street in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Joanne Quintana’s home sees around 300 cars a day. Used as a shooting location for the hit drama Breaking Bad starting in 2008, the four-bedroom ranch-style dwelling still attracts rabid fans, some of whom try to re-create an iconic scene where the chemistry teacher turned meth dealer throws a pizza on the roof. “We’ve had pizzas on our roof. We’ve had pizzas on our driveway; pizzas until we’re sick of looking at pizzas,” Quintana’s mother told NPR in 2015. After frequently talking to the press about the terrible experience of living in the home—which necessitated the construction of a six-foot fence and increased police patrols in the area—Quintana officially said “we’re done” early this year. The price tag to take…

101 Spring Street NEW YORK CITY I first toured 101 Spring Street, Donald Judd’s five-story, cast-iron former family home in SoHo, New York City, a decade ago, while on a date with a filmmaker who practiced transcendental meditation on the subway. Walking up the steps to the various restored floors, each designed to serve a different purpose, took us to new heights of intellectual rapture. Here was neither the cold severity one finds at art institutions like the Dia Beacon, nor a monument to wealth, like some other historic homes. Instead, in tours of small groups, one learns about Judd’s artistic ambitions, his conceptual experiments with space, his values—observing, thinking, reading, and drawing (swoon)—and how his young family once lived here. Touring the home again for this article, I was…

All architecture is public. Whether or not a house is a gorgeous addition to a historic neighborhood or an awful eyesore, housing exists as part of interconnected, communal systems—urban infrastructure and the natural environment among them. Janna Levitt and Dean Goodman, cofounders and principals of LGA Architectural Partners, had that in mind when they designed one of their most recent projects. An unconventional condominium in Toronto’s Harbord Village neighborhood, it addresses housing as part of these larger systems that, for the most part, have restricted density, damaged the environment, and disconnected residents from the landscape. Located on a corner lot that was once zoned for single-family homes and is surrounded by mixed-density housing, LGA’s Ulster House includes four condos, one of which the couple live in. Unlike much of the…

“This house is sick. I’m glad he kept the midcentury charm but modernized it.”@mandabeamcc via Instagram Re: “Buying a Prefab ADU Was Supposed to Be Easier Than This.”  Dwell.com I’m one of the 189 creditors in the Holy Ground bankruptcy saga. I paid in full for my home that I obviously never received. Our stories are impactful…. Thank you for writing a detailed article about the success and warnings of this industry. CHARLOTTE CECIL VIA DWELL.COM It would be helpful to also note that thousands of homeowners are continuing to build ADUs the conventional way using local contractors, often for under $200K. Prefab sounds great until you realize it’s more expensive than a standard build. Los Angeles County permitted 45,000 ADUs in 2023—and only a tiny fraction were prefabs. PAT…

The air shifts on the narrow, winding road from El Limón to Playa Estillero, growing richer and slightly earthier with the smell of damp soil and sun-warmed wood. All is quiet as we arrive in this coastal enclave on the Dominican Republic’s Samaná Peninsula, except for the sounds of palm trees swaying lazily in the ocean breeze, construction in the distance, and rhythmic calls from roosters, woodpeckers, and frogs. Tucked behind a veil of fruit trees and tropical plants is a kit building, originally imported from Brazil in 2003, that was once a reception center for a tight-knit sailor’s club before it was converted into a private home. The three-bedroom beach-side cottage has more recently been revamped by Jennifer and Kenard Bunkley of Queens, New York, to serve as a…

Though the realities of life in Mongolia’s landscapes can be harsh, roughly 40 percent of the country’s people live semi-nomadically. Even as the country has rapidly urbanized, around one-third of the population still live in gers, tentlike structures that have been central to Mongolian culture for millennia. The design offers housing that’s both reasonably quick to construct and disassemble (important for herders who travel along seasonal routes tending to their livestock) and built to adapt to different weather, which can range from extreme sandstorms during spring to summer hail and winter blizzards. Last winter, photographer Matt Dutile visited the ger camps of a few herder families across Mongolia, learning how residents use the structures to meet their changing lifestyles and the enduring cycle of the seasons. “The through concept of…

If I am asked to describe my perfect vacation, the answer is simple: a pool and the beach, a hotel room with brisk A/C, sun, and, above all, an experience in a setting that borders on the ridiculous. Every one I take checks at least two of these boxes, but it can be hard to find a place that does it all—opulence, drama, and a White Lotus experience minus the existential angst and murder. That is, until I went to Atlantis Paradise Island in the Bahamas, a temple dedicated to the arts of water sports (not the sex kind) and aggressive relaxation. As legend goes, in May 1994, a South African hotel impresario named Sol Kerzner bought a languishing property on Paradise Island from famed television host Merv Griffin and…