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An old subway token from Philadelphia. One Turkish lira found on an Istanbul street on a really good day. A vintage ashtray from the (West) Berlin Hilton, acquired at a Minnesota flea market. These and many more objects that I’ve picked up while trav

Photographer “Setting Up Shop,” p. 40 “Point of Departure,” p. 68 For New York City–based photographer Matt Dutile, it’s all about light, “whatever the subject it’s falling on.” In Sarasota, Florida, that light was on both Rick Doblin, a leader in th

Re: “Hide & Seek,” May/June Nice to see Dwell showcasing a country like Colombia, whose design aesthetics are incredible and don’t get enough attention from U.S. design media. @BRUCSITA VIA INSTAGRAM Re: “People Who Live in Glass Houses,” May/June Th

When faced with an unappealing brick wall and white ceiling in my otherwise wood-paneled sunporch, I had to go green. I settled on Benjamin Moore’s Bavarian Forest in semigloss, and the result is a warm cavern that makes the week I spent painting tot

After a long hiatus, travelers can once again explore global hubs incubating the future of design. And who better to provide insight into your new favorite destinations than the creatives born and raised there? We asked five expats who have establish

Architect Anna Noguera transformed this historic townhouse in Girona, Spain, the ancient city where she grew up, into a four-level rental. “The main inspiration was the austerity of the environments people lived in during the sixteenth century, when

COURTESY TIIPOI X DIASPORA CO. (MASALA DABBA); COURTESY JAYA JAITLY (CRAFTS ATLAS OF INDIA); COURTESY AMAN KHANNA (CLAYMEN); COURTESY EKAYA (BANARASI DUPATTA) ■

PHOTOS: JUNIOR SEALY (SELF-PORTRAIT); NATHANIAL GUNBY (OBJECTS); JAMIE CHUNG (BAJANISMS) ■

PHOTOS: EMMANUEL ANDRE (MIMI PLANGE); MIDUNU CHOCOLATES (SPICY DRINKING CHOCOLATE);. COURTESY STUDIO BADGE (MINI MAYA PLATTER); COURTESY PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE (A MAN OF THE PEOPLE); COURTESY ASAFO FLAGS (LEAPING MONKEY); COURTESY GOODEE (BABA TREE PAK

FREDERICK MCSWAIN (LIFT); COURTESY GIANT ROBOT (TOTORO 6" FLUFFY GREY PLUSH); JAMIE CHUNG (CLEARLY KINETIC TUMBLER); COURTESY KAPLOW (CRUXGG AIR FRYER); COURTESY JUN CHA (CAPO) ■

PHOTOS: LICHENG LING (SELF-PORTRAIT);COURTESY GALLERY SOHE (VASE NO. 1);COURTESY PEARL RIVER MART (BEE & FLOWER SANDALWOOD SOAP). COURTESY ALDO CIBIC (LOTTY DECANTER); COURTESY MIRANDA ZHANG (TWO PARTS); COURTESY JÉRÉMIE THIRCUIR AND WANG HUA (JÉRÉMI

When Pau Munar and Victoria Rodriguez decided to build a beach house on the sunny Mediterranean island of Mallorca, they had their sights set on Son Serra de Marina. It’s a precious stretch of coastline that backs to grassy dunes and mountains and is

In the heart of downtown Kyoto, mere steps from the grounds of the old Imperial Palace, a narrow stone-paved alley runs through a pocket of historic homes. There’s an undeniable magnetism to this old lane lined with small wooden houses, where neighbo

If you’re thinking about moving to Hawaii, you’re not alone. But transplants shouldn’t necessarily expect a warm welcome. Long simmering tensions about who gets to live on the islands have flared over the past couple of years into a full-blown crisis

After weeks of fruitless searching for a place to call home in the seaside Portuguese city of Porto, an American couple got a hard sell from their realtor about a property: “It’s a little different, but it’s just weird enough that it might be right f

The neighborhood of Hacienda de Valle Escondido, about an hour north of Mexico City in Zona Esmeralda, is part of a larger development that began years ago, encouraging people to invest in a quieter, greener lifestyle. “The idea was to live in the co

When Robert Burley and Debra Friedman needed more space, they found it in their own backyard. The couple’s house in Toronto’s Danforth neighborhood had suited their family of five. But in 2019, Robert and Debra, both professional photographers, decid

In the spring of 2009, I drove into the depths of the Sarasota, Florida, suburbs to visit a building known as Arcturus. I had a lot of decisions to make at the time. I was graduating from college, and something called a mortgage-backed security had s

One of Danny Lindstrom’s earliest memories of loving a building was when he was nine years old and saw the Alfred Hitchcock thriller North by Northwest for the first time. The massive limestone-and-wood walls and cantilevering steel beams of the movi

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My brother Lyndon gave me these Murano glass orbs to mark big occasions. He gave me the first one—with the millefiori pattern and small white stars—when I graduated from law school. It came new, in a box with a ribbon, and the presentation was beauti