May/June 2023

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Dwell magazine provides fresh, intelligent coverage of modern residential architecture and design.

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Editor-in-Chief William Hanley Executive Editor Kate Dries Managing Editor Jack Balderrama Morley Senior Design Editor Mike Chino Senior Home Guide Editor Megan Reynolds Culture Editor Sarah Buder News Editor Duncan Nielsen Style Editor Julia Stevens
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Contributors
“I got my master’s in architecture, but the thing about it was that I didn’t really get to design any houses. All my projects were very large-scale,” says John Trujillo. As Dwell’s editorial fellow, Trujillo is becoming reacquainted with the resident
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Breeze-Blocks
Diffused light and a silhouetted pattern?? Ummm, yes, always! @slowloris_jessica Love them, but in NYC/New England they’re less useful. @redmhan So out of style they are back in style! @silversuedehead Definitely not passé, foundational in Mexican a
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Modern World
@STRUTZ @KEITHBOOS Berlin may be known for its rollicking nightlife, but for the next time you find yourself in the German capital, we suggest another traditional activity—flinging off your clothes and embracing the lifestyle of Freikörperkultur, or
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Houses We Love
by Yael Perry “The process was festive,” says interior designer Yael Perry of renovating her 485-squarefoot apartment in the Old North neighborhood of Tel Aviv. “I used my favorite materials.” After removing the unit’s interior partitions, the design
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The Future of Refugee Housing
With the December press release announcing a series of modular tents meant to be utilized as schools, clinics, and emergency shelters for displaced communities, Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) included a series of photos. In one, smiling, happy children
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House of Healing Hearts
@OLGA.SHTONDA For more than a decade, actress-writer Joyce Storey and her late husband, Tony Award–winning lighting director Howell Binkley, kept an open-door policy at their Harlem brownstone, frequently hosting dancers, actors, and designers who we
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Comments
Re: “Scaling Up: The proprietors of an Indiana furniture company take on a bigger project—their own house.” March/April Nothing but total admiration for all the fantastic design and work they put in, but $380 for kitchen cabinets? @KEVINKOSTYK VIA IN
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Subtle Standout
@NORSWORTHYSCOTT Off a main thoroughfare in downtown Toronto, Eva Pianezzola’s house is tucked within a quiet street of Victorian townhomes. Its front facade blends in with the neighborhood of ornate redbrick mansions, but there are details—bright re
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Creative Block
@2SPACEPHOTO Painter and multimedia artist Sara Maston is no stranger to picking up and moving. The gentrification of Toronto’s neighborhoods has caused the warehouses and affordable studios she previously rented to be torn down or renovated, leaving
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Budget Breakdown
@JEREMYJACHYM Eric Roland doesn’t mind being a little contrarian. “People love historic New Orleans charm, and I’m not saying I hate it,” says the longtime resident of the city. “But it’s not my favorite.” That was clear back in 2021, when he was on
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Building Back
@KALENGOODLUCK In early February, a light rain sprinkles across the windshield of Michelle Vassel’s forest green Prius, an official vehicle of the Wiyot Tribe. She’s driving south along the CA-255 bridge toward Eureka, a coastal city in Northern Cali
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Finding The Center
@JAVIERAGUSTINROJAS The Buenos Aires neighborhood of Parque Chas is a labyrinth. A verdant series of concentric circles morphing into squares toward its outer edges, the area has a spoke-and-wheel layout that keeps taxi drivers out for fear of gettin
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Familiar Footing
@CHANTALAANDERSON Los Angeles has just seen more than a week of torrential weather, and Molly Sedlacek is explaining how the designer of her Highland Park home had been in touch to see how things were holding up. It’s late February, and the mountains
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Connect the Dots
@MAXIMEBROUILLET When Idir Saïdani and Mélanie Labrosse asked La Shed Architecture to design their future home in Montreal, the firm was immediately taken by the playful eclecticism of their mood board. “They didn’t want a perfect, clean thing,” says
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The Poolside Life—on Loan
It was September 2022 and Lexi Pandell, a 33-year-old East Bay native living in nearby Danville, California, was trying to figure out if she should have a bachelorette party. The state was experiencing a heat wave—“the hottest and longest on record”
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Sourcing
Set decorating by Laura Revelt Set dressing by Jared Piller Digital technology assistance by Kelly Wundsam Photo assistance by Stephen Panosian Retouching by Morgan Palmer Kilogram Studio kilogramstudio.ca Desar Construction Studio desar.ca Structura
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Pool Pioneers
For Taylor Dow, getting a pool was a gradual process that also happened to be the realization of a long-term dream. When he lived on the top floor of his building in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in the early 2000s, he’d look down at a neighbor’s abovegrou
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One Last Thing
@IANSHIVER Ashely Kuo: My grandmother owned a few mah-jongg sets, but this purple one was given to me after she passed. My family, and a lot of Asian families, play the game across generations. It’s this nice thing that brings people together. Ariann
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Urban Gardeners
You can put in a pool no matter where you live—if you’re determined. At least, that’s how the undaunted bathers in this issue see it. They don’t let barriers like, say, not actually owning property stand in their way. And their tales of aquatic trium

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