The Dwell 24: This Year’s Best Emerging Designers

The architects win over neighbors with a layered brick facade that plays off the city’s traditional Victorian, Tudor, and Edwardian homes.

The emerging designers in The Dwell 24, our annual roundup of rising talent, are moving ahead with new ideas in furniture, lighting, and other objects for your home.

What should you do when your flat screen feels like a big black hole swallowing your decor? TV makers are offering all kinds of solutions.

Maya Bird-Murphy, founder of Chicago Mobile Makers, converted a Postal Service truck into a pop-up design classroom for neighborhood children.

Marlon Blackwell Architects’ U-shaped Tanglewood Cabin in Arkansas perfectly frames vistas through the treetops.

A rare 1920s dwelling gets a contemporary face-lift along with a clever cabana-like addition.

With inspiration from the creative homeowners, architects David Leven and Stella Betts design a bunker-like backyard structure that’s surprisingly animated.

Architect James Cutler designs a refined cabin that honors this remote stretch of rugged landscape.

The innovative Schoonschip neighborhood features 30 architecturally designed homes that all produce their own energy and use sustainable materials.

Designed by a little-known architect in 1949, the now streamlined home honors its original bones.

Architect Barbara Bestor layers surprises throughout the home, which she designed to fit within the partial footprint of an existing cottage.

Johnsen Schmaling Architects design a linear residence recalling the path of ancient glaciers on the Kettle Moraine.

Made from dried calabash fruit and commonly used across Africa, the bowls have provided Ilori with creative inspiration since his childhood.