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Trending on Gardenista: Growing Green
This week, the Gardenista crew has been filling us in on sustainable gardens, steel cabins, and Henry David Thoreau's collaboration with today's climate scientists. Here are five of the most popular...
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The World's Greenest and Most Economical Shelving System?
During our recent remodel, my husband and I realized a dream we've had since we met in architecture school: we purchased our first set of Vitsoe 606 Universal Shelves. Designed by Dieter Rams in 1960,...
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Recycle This: A Pair of Fishermen's Cabins Turned Beachside Cabanas
While most people recycle bottles and cans, Lisbon architect Manuel Aires Mateus salvaged a pair of old fishermen's cabins to create a rustic rental escape. The architect calls the project Cabanas no...
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Current Obsessions: Pale and Interesting
We're wrapping up the week with a look at what's on our radar right now: Above: Where Architects Live exhibit at Salone Mobile. Above: In LA? This year's three-day Legends of La Cienega event, Novel...
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The Architect Is In: An East Village Penthouse Taken Back in Time
Remodelista readers voted the dining area of this penthouse loft in New York's East Village as the Best Professionally Designed Dining Space in the 2013 Remodelista Considered Dining Awards. Curious to...
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This Week's Table of Contents: North Country
This week we're heading north to Canada and thereabouts: join us for a week of cabins, canvas tents, and made-in-Canada designs. We're launching the issue with a tour of John Baker and Juli Daoust's...
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A Scandinavian-Inspired Kitchen with Hints of Japan
Not too long ago, on a quick business-ey type trip to Toronto, I made a side pilgrimage to Mjölk (one of our favorite shops ever at Remodelista). Sensing my curiosity (read: snoopiness), owners John...
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Organic Porcelain Ware from Montreal
"I am touched by lines, curves, textures, pebbles," says Montreal-based ceramicist Basma Osama of Ceramik B. Osama makes tableware notable for its natural forms and delicacy. Her slipcast butter...
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Domestic Dispatches: The Unused Kitchen
The first kitchen we had, when my husband and I were newlyweds, was about half the size of our current bathroom. It had room for a sink, a placemat-sized workspace, and a four-burner stove that was one...
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Les Touilleurs: A Kitchen Emporium in Montreal
Located in Montreal's fashionable Outremont neighborhood Les Touilleurs is a high-end kitchen emporium with a working demonstration kitchen and an impeccably designed interior by Louise Savoie. Owners...
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Steal This Look: Dining Room Inspiration, Pacific Northwest Edition
Whenever we're in Portland (Oregon, that is), we head straight to our favorite restaurant, Clyde Common, at the Ace Hotel. Located in a lofty, two-level space, the restaurant is decorated in a low-key...
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Style + Sustainability: Lighting from Castor Design
Stalwarts of Toronto's irreverent creative scene, multi-disciplinary firm Castor Design has salvaged burned-out fluorescent bulbs from the trash heap and put them to new use: as glowing sculptures. The...
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Required Reading: Modern Originals: At Home with Midcentury European...
In 2005, San Francisco-based photographer Leslie Williamson decided to make a list of the houses of her favorite architects and designers with the idea of visiting them all in her lifetime. As she was...
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A Philosopher Turned Ceramicist, Quebec Edition
"Is there any older, quieter, or finer craft than pottery?" asks Quebec-based ceramicist Renaud Sauve of Atelier Des Cent-Ans. "The clay to which the potter gives form is a basic material, one of the...
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Object Lessons: The Hudson's Bay Point Blanket
Native Americans aren't generally associated with sheep, especially not sheep dotted about the limestone villages of the English Cotswolds. Yet the Hudson's Bay Point blanket owes its existence to...
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10 Easy Pieces: Solid Block Side Tables
The solid block side table is an evolutionary offshoot, we imagine, of the world's first table. That table must have been a tree stump or a medium-sized rock dragged inside for use. Today's block...
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An Off-the-Grid Cabin in Vancouver, Candlelight Included
When snowboarders Susan Scott and David Scott of Scott & Scott Architects set out to build themselves an off-the-grid alpine cabin, they let the free spirit of their sport be their design guide....
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Trend Alert: 10 Herringbone and Chevron Patterned Walls
Not just for floors: lately we've been spotting herringbone-patterned walls and exteriors everywhere. Above: Herringbone wood walls at Father Coffee in New Zealand. Above: Herringbone ceramic tiles in...
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Eileen Fisher: These Clothes Start with a Seed
Eileen Fisher began her company 30 years ago with a focus on natural fibers—but ultimately realized that natural is not enough. Natural fibers can still come with herbicides and pesticides that have...
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Handmade Kids' Furniture from Objets Mecaniques in Montreal
Objets Mécaniques is the work of Ariane Ouellet-Pelletier and Ariane Martel-Labrecque, who specialize in making practical objects using sustainable materials and techniques—and their own...
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