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letters • Your July/August issue arrived last week and was the best ever (said often). The homes featured were excellent, showing great architecture, industrial and natural fabrication… plus the magic of steel windows. Thank you and keep it coming.
What’s the story behind your most unbelievable furniture score? • Dumpster dive? Online auction? Garage giveaway? We asked our community to share the tales of dumb luck and dogged persistence that led to their most treasured pieces. Add your too-good-to-be-true furniture adventure at dwell.com/best-find
Land of Pod • RM-3 (short for “raw materials, three ways”) is Dwell’s new podcast exploring the secret life of building materials and how they shape our world in unexpected ways. Here, our host, writer and architect Dan Maginn, walks us through the concept. dwell.com/raw-materials
Bay Watch • A master suite addition maximizes views of the San Francisco Bay.
THE DWELL TWENTY FOUR • Drawing from countless submissions, innumerable visits to fairs and galleries, and—yes—Instagram, we bring together two dozen of the most promising creatives and duos, 35 and younger, who are testing the limits of art and design.
MARLO KARA AND ISAURE BOUYSSONIE
KUSHEDA MENSAH
SARA JAAFAR
JAE YANG
JENNIE ADÉN
HANNA ANONEN
AYAKO ARATANI AND EVAN FAY
ENY LEE PARKER
INÈS BRESSAND
SALMAN JAWED
HIROTO YOSHIZOE
AND RAIKO VALLADARES
QUINCY ELLIS
MARISA MÜSING AND ÁLVARO GÓMEZ-SELLÉS
DAVID POMPA
RICH MNISI
VLASTA KUBUŠOVÁ AND MIROSLAV KRÁL
MEI-LAN TAN AND VICTOR LEFEBVRE
AGUSTINA BOTTONI
EMILIANA GONZALEZ AND JESSIE YOUNG
DOZIE KANU
CECILIA XINYU ZHANG
EREZ NEVI PANA
YEMI AWOSILE
Cone of Uncertainty • A daunting lighting design pushes a seasoned Italian craftsman to rethink the limits of concrete.
Neri Oxman • The architect, artist, and MIT Media Lab professor sees buildings of the future as being designed more like organisms and less like machines.
Charleston Coup • A cinder block duplex in South Carolina is recast in the mold of a New York City loft.
Not Quite Wright • A flattering rumor holds that a midcentury gem in Oregon is an unrecognized work by America’s most famous architect.
Mystery Box • Tracing the known history of an enigmatic midcentury home.
Enclosure Act • Sheltered by a fence, a low-key landscape gives a family in Vancouver a new lease on outdoor living
Landmarks & Engels • A Belgian couple abide by strict preservation rules to breathe new life into an International Style villa by architect Lucien Engels.
Mod Side of the Barn • In South Africa’s scenic Elgin Valley a simple rural form sets the foundation for a hotelier’s family retreat.
THEIR OWN GIRARD • A MICHIGAN FAMILY FINDS THE LAST of a LITTLE-KNOWN, THOUGHT-TO-BEEXTINCT BREED: A HOUSE by ALEXANDER GIRARD.
HERE’S LOOKING AT You • BALANCING GLOBAL STYLES WITH MOROCCAN STANDARDS, a MODERNIST CUBE in CASABLANCA CATCHES the EYE WITHOUT STICKING OUT.
Garage Scale • A former car shop in San Francisco offers everything an artist and her husband need: a home, a studio, and a gallery.
Big Idea, Small Footprint • MINI LIVING Brings Their Urban Cabin Concept to Los Angeles
How Young Designer Lauren Palmer Forecasts the Future of Kitchens
Collectors’ Edition • A vignette-rich cottage in Greenport, New York,...