Topic: Design Within Reach Inc.

The Rise and Fall of Design Within Reach

Retailer Design Within Reach helped create a new appreciation for the modernist aesthetic. With design more mainstream than ever, why is the company in such dire straits?READ»

• Seeing Double: Is It DWR or Someone Else?

Hot Seat

Room Board built its business as carefully as it creates furniture. Now it's moving in on the competition--and taking a place at the table.READ»

No Joke: These Guys Really Do Work Out of a Cardboard Box

When the employees at Nothing, an Amsterdam ad agency, say they work out of a cardboard box, most people are probably think they're making a joke about their cheap-o bosses. They're not, and the bosses aren't being cheap at all. ...READ»

Flawless to Clueless, Part III: Peanut Birdfeeder

One of the great joys of living in Palisades, New York, is that it is teaming with wildlife. When I saw the Peanut Birdfeeder in the "Design Within Reach" catalog, it looked way too beautiful to actually work. I was skeptical, but decided to spend the $90 to give it a try.READ»

Office Furniture Porn

The new edition of Design Within Reach's Workspace catalog arrived in the mail yesterday. And I felt like I was receiving a porn magazine. The catalog is as well designed as anything they sell, and I'm slightly ashamed of our ...READ»

Romancing the Dilapidated: What Will Post-Recession Décor Look Like?

Will the financial crisis translate into a discernible new style?READ»

Work/Life: Welcome to My 24/7 Seamless Life

I'm sitting cross-legged on the floor of my office in Austin, TX, wedged between a bolster and a hard place. It's a customer's personal Pilates studio. The night before, I was holed up in my Chicago office, curled up on a futon in a ...READ»

Which Way Design: Seven Telling Events for the Fall

As surely as weighty new catalogues from Design Within Reach and Ikea land with a thump at your door, the fall design season awaits on the far side of Labor Day. This is the customary moment for design editors to preview fall events. ...READ»

My Favorite Bookmarks: Roger Black

Picks from the Chairman of Danilo Black Inc.READ»

The Future of Design

From the $300,000 table to the $30 teakettle, design is dressing up the American way of life. READ»

Flat-Pak Cardboard Furniture: Coming to a Doomed Start-Up Near You

Cardboard: The little commodity that could. Twenty years ago, Frank Gehry turned cardboard into a classic furniture series; twenty years later, one ad firm built its entire office out of the stuff. And here's a new design: ...READ»

• No Joke: These Guys Really Do Work Out of a Cardboard Box

'Objectified' Review: A Hurricane of Consumer Values

    There's a moment, at the beginning of the documentary Objectified, where Jonathan Ive, Apple's head of design, takes his iPhone out of his pocket and wipes it along the hem of his shirt to remove the ...READ»

• Gary Hustwit's "Objectified" [video]

Home Away From Home

Get yourself a temporary office to work like a grown-up while traveling. READ»

Editor's Letter

Reveling in rivalry.READ»

Prefab Homes: But What Would Frank Lloyd Wright Say?

The Frank Lloyd Wright School tries its hand at prefab with an instant desert home.READ»

So Long, Stockholm. Six Reasons Why Belgium Will Be the Next Hotspot for Design

Ten years ago the fashionable destination for design-minded travelers was the Guggenheim at Bilbao, where Frank Gehry's titanium acrobatics famously cast their spell. When design tourists pack their black clothing this month they will ...READ»

Work/Life: Selling a dream? Don't make returning it a nightmare

For my birthday, a thoughtful friend bought me the Wolford Fatal dress. This killer dress is basically a long tube you can wear any which way, but not loose. A pricey toob at that - $165. There is a picture of it at the bottom of ...READ»

Would You Make Your Backyard an Office?

As aversion to driving grows, home office sheds come into fashion.READ»

Introducing Guest Blogger Laura Guido-Clark: Creating Beauty That's Skin-Deep

If you want to get to know designer Laura Guido-Clark, you might start by tooling around her Web site. Slide your cursor, even to a mundane link--"Contact," say--and suddenly you've drawn a cool and sinuous patterned coral line on a ...READ»

Power

Back in the fat days -- the happy mid-1990s -- Clifford Stoll, the bad-boy computer programmer, asked me, "What's going to happen to us when electricity is gone?" Short of the apocalypse, I wondered, how could that ever happen? I ...READ»

Designer's Favorite Things

A great designer realizes the beauty in someone else's work. Here, Steve McCallion, creative director, Ziba Design and Clive Wilkinson, founder, Clive Wilkinson Architects, both share some of their favorites.READ»

Fast Talk: Voices From the Creative Front Lines

Remember when MBAs ruled? No more. Creative thinkers are in demand for their flexibility. Meet five leaders who have parlayed their "useless" academic degrees into business success.READ»

Talent Pool

Making their mark from New York to Tokyo. Fourteen talents who are driving design forward.READ»

Marcel Wanders Designs Miami's Mondrian

As his multipart empire expands into the U.S., Marcel Wanders's moment has come. He's riding it for all it's worth. READ»

• 2008 Masters of Design
• Marcel Wanders’s South Beach Mondrian
• The Vision of John Maeda