Allison Arieff
Allison Arieff is Editor-at-Large for Sunset and writes the By Design column for the NY Times. From 2002-2006, she was Editor in Chief of Dwell (and was the magazine's founding senior editor). She lectures frequently on design and sustainability and is author of the books Prefab and Trailer Travel, and the editor of numerous books on design and culture including Airstream: The History of the Land Yacht.
Blog Posts by Allison Arieff
I first came across Lefroy Brooks’ elegant fixtures at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair several years ago, and I’ve yet to find any products as elegant and functional. I can’t… More
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Got too much stuff in your kitchen? Take a lesson from John Perry, whose kitchen houses a motley assortment of secondhand gadgets that would appear at first glance to have been a highly prescient strategy… More
My parents met while admiring a Dali painting at the Philadelphia Art Museum, so it’s only fitting that art museums are among my favorite places to go for inspiration. Sometimes just a half hour… More
A friend once admired a jacket I was wearing and then went home and ordered the same online. She emailed me right after, with some remorse, saying we were "twinsumers," meaning that we wanted to own what… More
Propeller [propellermodern.com], a great modern furniture boutique here in San Francisco, recently asked three local designers to "create a more interesting, more functional, more beautiful place" to put… More
Writing in the Australian Journal of Ceramics, Damon Moon wrote of Kirsten Coelho's poetic works of porcelain: "late-nineteenth century European sensibilities met a thousand years of North-Asian ceramics… More
Ever found yourself miles from home, wondering if you’d left the coffee pot on? What if you could turn it off using your iPhone?
The explosive growth in personal technology—everything from… More
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