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L AUREN GALLOW (“Seattle,” page 42; “Made in Translation,” page 62) is a writer, editor, and marketing consultant working in the fields of architecture, art, and design. She holds a master’s degree in art and architectural history from UC Santa Barbara. She is currently the editorial chair of Seattle-based design nonprofit Arcade.
HEIDI MITCHELL (“An Extension of Herself” page 68) is a writer and editor covering design, tech, culture, people, and places. Mitchell has held positions at various publications, including Rolling Stone, Travel + Leisure, and most recently, as editor-inchief of Town & Country Travel. The native New Yorker has lived in Chicago for five years.
MICHAEL WILSON (“Meeting of the Minds,” page 88) is a Brooklyn-based editor, writer, and the author of How to Read Contemporary Art: Experiencing the Art of the 21st Century (Abrams, January 2013). He has also curated exhibitions at venues including Site Gallery in Sheffield, United Kingdom.
Additional Contributors Hiroshi Abe John Bartelstone Simon Clemenger Becky Dann Anastasiia Duvallie Ralph Gibson Haris Kenjar Omkaar Kotedia Noelia Molteni Alonso Zander Opperman Andrew Pogue Brandon Scott Herrell Ricardo Simal
M The new Olympic Bar holds court in the center of the Fairmont Olympic Hotel lobby. See story, page 100.
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eeting architect Shannon Suess at the Fairmont Olympic Hotel for an evening cocktail felt like a great return to pre-pandemic life. It was my first in-person, work-related meet-up in more than a year, and as we sipped our drinks and chatted about the lobby and bar renovation—Shannon is an associate principal at MG2, the firm that served as the architect of record for the project—I watched her watching the hotel guests and bar patrons as they moved around the space. She admitted that this was one of her favorite parts of a project: returning after its completion and observing the interactions that happen in and with a newly finished structure. Another entertaining story from behind the scenes: There was a point at which MG2 knew that it had been chosen for the renovation project, but the announcement was still under embargo. So, Shannon would show up at the hotel with a tape measure in her purse and attempt to surreptitiously take measurements around the lobby at moments when things weren’t busy! —Rachel Gallaher, deputy editor, GRAY
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