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When we were scouting for people to include in this year’s Dwell 24, our annual celebration of the best emerging designers in the world (p. 33), we kept encountering strange things: melting Tiffany lamps, rubber furniture, hairy lighting, and other odd objects. Surrealism is having a moment in design, as it has been in art, fashion, and other creative arenas, and now it’s a twisting thread running through the collection of fresh work we’re featuring here. Some designers channel dreams. Anna Horváth’s rough concrete benches, which nod to de Chirico, could be the setting for a brutalist fantasy or a monolithic nightmare—not surprising, given that she’s currently working beneath crumbling frescoes in an 18th-century building in rural Hungary. (Take a closer look at the cover.) Meanwhile, Copenhagen duo Christian +…

Erandi de Silva Writer “The Dwell 24,” p. 33 Erandi de Silva first learned about Rejo, a furniture design duo she profiles for this year’s Dwell 24, during the pandemic. “I was drawn to the work of these two young women from Palestine engaged in product design that looks for contemporary translations of their experience,” says de Silva, a Sri Lankan–British architect and writer, project editor of the Phaidon book 20th-Century World Architecture, and founder of the Loké Journal, a publication that probes the complexities of global design production. “Curiosity around underrepresented narratives is what draws me to my work,” says de Silva. “It’s important for all of us in the global design community to stay curious, particularly in regard to perspectives that are not always foregrounded.” Coke Bartrina Photographer…

“What a cozy home. I want to fall asleep reading a book on the green couch by the window.” @katypantz on Instagram Re: “Always in Motion: How a Sea Ranch residence with big panel doors became a study in light and movement.” July/August This is such a fun and sensible idea for the floor plan. I’m not a fan of the plywood, but to each their own. The built-in couch and daybed are just begging for afternoon naps. Well done! MISTYG ON DWELL.COM An interesting and handsome house, to be sure, but its black shingle facade would never have made it through Sea Ranch’s original guidelines for natural materials. RICHARD STEIN ON DWELL.COM I feel like 50 percent of the budget went into those windows…which I’m not mad at. Nice…

Love. When done right, they add texture and definition to difficult spaces. @laurelwaterson interiors What’s to hate if you live in a small or very large space and need to delineate different spaces? @wendi_sumknight Love the color and texture they add—but all I can think is how they’d absorb odors (i.e., kitchen/cooking smells) & hold dust. @twiggytoskey Unless you’re David Lynch OR they cover a window and extend/wrap an adjacent wall, then just NO. Not as a divider unless you’re on a theater stage. @cocobolo_ arbiter_collection Hospital vibes. @zllenellen In the early 2000s, I actually contacted hospitals to see if I could find a supplier of these curtains. Was very excited when Ikea brought out their system. In my new home, these don’t work. But when I was doing a…

2000 The Fruit Bowl Manifesto 2001 Our First Prefab Issue 2002 Welcome to Van Life 2002 A Passion for Planning 2003–2004 Dwell Home Design Invitational 2005 National Magazine Award for General Excellence 2005 Dwell’s Got Sole 2006 Dwell on Design 2006 Dwell.com Launch 2006 Home Office 101 2006 Moriyama House Cover 2007 Our 50th Issue—and Some Prescient Gadgetry 2009 Our First Shipping Container Home Feature 2009–2010 The Future Issue and Dwell’s 10th Anniversary 2010 Unhappy Hipsters 2011 Smaller and Smarter Issue 2012 Prime Time Cameos 2012 Jens Risom’s Block Island Family Retreat 2015 Scaling Down 2016 Memphis for Millennials 2016 Modern by Dwell at Target 2017 Tech Booms at Home 2017 Conversation Pits Make a Comeback? 2018 Budget Breakdown 2020 The ADU Is the Future of Home 2020–Present Fixing an…

MY STUDIO IS… 80% A hive of productive clutter 20% A study in head-clearing minimalism IF I HAD TO CHOOSE ONE… 48% Brutalism 20% Memphis 32% Bauhaus “People don’t really get what I’m doing here, so I want to show them that design can be used in everyday life.”DU, O, NG GIA HIÊU HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM / @NEMPROJECTS Ném If you ask Du, o, ng Gia Hiêu, the multidisciplinary designer behind Ném, there’s probably something in your trash that could be turned into a beautiful object. Maybe it’s a broken fan or foam packing materials, or perhaps it’s fruit netting, as seen in his first vase. Hiêu makes much of his work from found objects collected around his home in Ho Chi Minh City something he started doing after he…