美國Dwell創意家居雜誌是美國著名的新型家居雜誌之一,創刊於2000年;以美式裝置風格為主,從冷峻到休閒,從都市住宅到鄉間度假屋,從最摩登新潮的擺飾品到垂手可得的家用品,主要內容是國外建築和國內設計。
Dwell的欄目包括:摩登時代、走訪名人居、座標之外、小路彎彎、世界進行式、與名家面對面、Dwell工作室、戶外有藍天、當期商品索引、編者精選等。
展示現代居住風格的Dwell雜誌越來越多的受到年輕讀者的寵愛,該雜誌僅僅創辦了六年,就已經擁有了超過 300,000 名讀者,包括建築師、設計師、營造商、以及對設計精通的消費群體。
雜誌創辦人 Lara Hedberg Deam 認為:人們想要看到一些對現代住宅設計睿智但易於理解的想法,探討這種設計如何符合我們的文化,並能夠很好地融入他們的生活。Dwell正是這樣向讀者細緻地展示現代化住宅的設計理念,但更關注設計並居住在住宅裡的人。Dwell認為,好的設計是現實生活的組成部分。
因此,Dwell不僅僅是一份家居雜誌,而是試圖向讀者講述每一位建築師或特色產品背後的故事,而不是單單告訴讀者哪種顏色或是哪一款椅子在哪一季很流行。
Generally, in magazines concerned with the design of homes, fruit bowls abound. High-priced photo stylists spend hours arranging them. You see them in photographs of kitchens and living rooms. Often there’s a bowl of unblemished green apples on the bathroom vanity or a bowl of pomegranates in the bedroom. The fruit bowl is sometimes accompanied by a vase of tulips, glistening with spray-on dew, and precious little else. No quart of milk. No crumpled bag of Pepperidge Farm cookies with only half of one cookie left at the bottom. No dish of Meow Mix on the floor. In short, no signs of life.
At Dwell, we’re staging a minor revolution. We think that it’s possible to live in a house or apartment by a bold modern architect, to own furniture and products that are exceptionally well designed, and still be a regular human being. We think that good design is an integral part of real life. And that real life has been conspicuous by its absence in most design and architecture magazines.