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ON THE COVER At Alchemy, a cannabis dispensary in Toronto by Studio Paolo Ferrari, eco-resin, in a color intended to be all-encompassing and visceral, is custom-molded by Kline Specialty Fabrication into a feature wall. Photography: Joel Esposito.

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features 88 TROPICAL BOUNCE by Michael Snyder

Collaborating on the Coco guest pods at the Art Villas Costa Rica, a small resort at Bahia Ballena, Archwerk.cz and Formafatal are energized by its rain forest setting. 96 A QUIET PLACE by Monica Khemsurov

Moscow’s iO Beauty Gallery, a spa and salon by Asthetíque, is an oasis of peace and calm in the bustling city. 104 LIVING THE DREAM by Jane Margolies

A Belgian house by Joris Van Apers supports his family’s body and mind—and the environment.

112 COLOR THERAPY by Peter Webster

Bright hues, warm textures, and spirited design are part of the program at wellness, medical, and fitness centers here and abroad. 126 TENNESSEE SHUFFLE by Ted Loos

International and local sensibilities converge at the Virgin Hotels Nashville, an alluring and comfortable retreat by Markzeff. 136 PLANT-BASED REGIMEN by Rebecca Lo

Rooftop greenhouses are among the nature notes at the head quarters for innovative skin-care brand JP Lab in Hangzhou, China, by Xu Studio.

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walkthrough 51 CLOUD NINE by Wilson Barlow 57 HIGH DESIGN by Edie Cohen

departments 25 HEADLINERS 29 DESIGNWIRE by Annie Block 40 BLIP by Amanda Schneider 44 PINUPS by Wilson Barlow 67 MARKET by Rebecca Thienes and Georgina McWhirter 83 CENTERFOLD International Style by Colleen Curry

Color and meaning, design and art— all are on display outside a Miami showroom by Mexico’s Esrawe Studio and Denmark’s Superflex. 178 BOOKS by Stanley Abercrombie 180 CONTACTS

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present...future Right now, as I am penning this, we are passing the 11-month marker—exactly to the day— of this long-haul race to beat the bug. Yesterday, blissfully on cue, the administration announced having acquired 300 million more doses of the vaccine, enough to immunize the entire population by July! Misinformed folks notwithstanding, the much-touted herd immunity is now tangible. Ladies and gents, it’s time to talk about the future in present tense! What we have been wishing, dreaming, and agonizing over is just around the corner. At the risk of sharing soft spots in my COVID-19 armor, I have to make a pedestrian con fession: I am longing for the day to simply just talk shop! Longing to be considering, covering, and dealing with the meat-and-potato issues that used to confront each and every one of us in the trade before this hell broke out. Now, we (nearly) can. And just as blissfully on cue, we present our March issue. It is a monument to the best design, which will no longer be a parade of empty cathedrals in the desert, but instead—and achievable real soon—populated spaces with people leading a seminormal existence! Our stories inside detail, in living color, the here and now of design, to be sure. Our portfolio focuses predominantly on matters of health and wellness, as it should, because we’ll be contending with that duo for the foreseeable future. Germany’s largest orthopedic center—in the round—focuses on a “hospitecture” philosophy merging hospitality with healthcare, thanks to Matteo Thun & Partners. Perkins and Will designs a wellness center in Georgia as a holistic environment for care prevention and education— but let’s not forget the fitness studios, gym, and lap pools! And 4a Architekten designs an aquatic park in Germany with a kids’ pool, mud area, and outdoor-changing building that reminds us all how important health and wellness is for our children! All the above, even branded as new and different, is just part and parcel of our newly found normality. I, for one, can’t wait to wade and wallow in it with you! Be healthy! Be well! xoxo,

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Archwerk.cz “Tropical Bounce,” page 88 co-founder, partner: Martin Kloda. co-founder, partner: Hana Procházková. firm site: Prague. firm size: Three architects. current projects: Sea of Tranquility landscape project and a house in Branov, both in the Czech Republic; Art Villas Costa Rica pavilion in Bahia Bellena. honors: BigSEE Architecture Award. role model: Veteran Czech architect Martin Rajniš for his approach to natural and experimental architecture. peaceful prelude: Procházková and Kloda met in 2012 at one of the buildings for their ongoing Sea of Tranquility reclamation project. all torque: They both like assembling materials with bolts or screws. archwerk.cz

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Formafatal “Tropical Bounce,” page 88 principal: Dagmar Štěpánová. firm site: Prague. firm size: Nine architects and designers. current projects: Achioté residential development in Bahia Ballena and a residence in Dominical, both in Costa Rica; La Mer café in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. honors: Elle Deco International Design Award. role model: Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha for his conceptual skill and strong modeling of spaces through raw concrete architecture. sweet spot: Štĕpánová, who loves the jungle, found her life balance in Costa Rica. easy rider: She also enjoys motorcycling and surfing. formafatal.cz

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Markzeff “Tennessee Shuffle,” page 126 principal, owner: Mark Zeff. director of hospitality design: Stacie Meador. firm site: Brooklyn, New York. firm size: 10 architects and designers. current projects: Virgin Hotels New York; Naya residential building in Punta Mita and Point Thompson Hotel in Cabo San Lucas, both in Mexico. honors: Interior Design Best of Year Awards. role model: Pierre Chareau for being a fascinating part of our design history curriculum. reading: Zeff collects books on Winston Churchill. breathing: Meador likes to scuba dive in exotic locations, such as Thailand and Bonaire. markzeff.com

Joris Van Apers BV “Living the Dream,” page 104 owner, ceo: Joris Van Apers. firm site: Reet, Belgium. firm size: Six architects, designers, and engineers. current projects: Houses in Antwerp, Belgium; Munich; and Mallorca, Spain. role model: Andrea Palladio for his sense of proportion and dialogue between design and craftsmanship. body: Van Apers and his family are planning to kite-surf in Morocco post-pandemic. mind: A cultural trip to Japan is also on the horizon. vanapers.be

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Asthetíque “A Quiet Place,” page 96 co-founder, partner: Julien Albertini. co-founder, partner: Alina Pimkina. office sites: New York and Moscow. office size: Nine architects and designers. current projects: Livv Natural Health cafés in San Diego and Los Angeles; Wild and Farm restaurant in Moscow; Kahawa café in Doha, Qatar. honors: Restaurant and Bar Design Awards. role model: AvroKO co-founders William Harris and Kristina O’Neal for being true mentors, strong designers, and good friends. urban: Albertini met Pimkina in New York in 2016, when she was visiting from Moscow, and they founded Asthetíque later that year. rural: They both love to experience nature. asthetique.com

Xu Studio “Plant-Based Regimen,” page 136 design director: Yijun Xu. principal: Shijin Xu. firm site: Shanghai. firm size: 25 architects and designers. current projects: West Bund Canteen & Shared Space and Yeation flagship in Shanghai; GLP headquarters in Hangzhou, China. honors: A’Design Award; Golden Eagle Design Award. role model: Actress Amami Yuki for her strength and independence. teacher: Yijun Xu is an interior design professor at the China Academy of Art. student: Shijin Xu learned Chinese brushstrokes when she was just 6 years old. xustudio.cn

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From top: For 19 Chairs, a charity project by Tom and Will Butterfield, illustrator Jean Jullien volunteered to drape the pine chair the brothers made and sent him during lockdown with his acrylic on canvas. The full collection of seating, walking sticks, lighting, and artwork will be auctioned April 1-30 at 19chairs.co.uk, to raise funds for Age UK and Resourcing Racial Justice, and exhibited April 22-25 at Protein Studios, London.

One material. Two brothers. Many days of COVID-19 lockdown. Combine the three and the result is 19 Chairs, an ambitious fundraising project conceived by Tom and Will Butterfield, a 27-yearold furniture designer and a 23-year-old graphic designer, respectively, living together in London. Opting to use their shelter-in-place time creatively and usefully, the Butterfields secured a stockpile of basic square section pine and, for each of 19 days, handmade a chair in their shared home studio. They then made a list of their 19 most admired artists and designers—Tom Dixon and Sabine Marcelis among them—and, in true Gen Y fashion, messaged them on Instagram to join in their cause to raise money for Age UK and Resourcing Racial Justice. The brief: to reinterpret the chair “with an older person in mind.” Es Devlin transformed hers into a sculptural light source; Benjamin Edgar replaced his straight seat slats with drooping CNC-cut ones, painted the entire piece bright blue, and titled it Tired, but Quite Optimistic. All will be exhibited at Protein Studios in late April. The online auction launches at the beginning of the month. 19chairs.co.uk

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“The experience of growing up in a reclusive environment is deeply embedded in my practice,” says Anastasia Komar, who’s from Kaliningrad and spent her childhood on the shore of the Baltic Sea, when asked about influences. Today, that aesthetic manifests in environments, furniture, and handbags that lie at the intersection of design and sculpture, the metaphysical and the tactile. Her firm Forms has designed exhibitions for Moscow’s Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, public and residential projects in New York, where she’s now based, and, since 2013, a year after Komar graduated from the Moscow Architectural Institute, handbags, which, although small in scale, have a monumental quality. Each is handmade of Spanish leather, in styles that play with perception. The Houndstooth collection, for instance, reinterprets the traditional Scottish check in three dimensions. Fluid is more philosophical. “It expresses the immensity of singular moments, the fast pace of modern life, and how everything melts together, flowing from the highest of highs to the lowest of lows,” says Komar, who always travels with her Fluid backpack. CLOCKWISE FROM BOTTOM: TURKINA FASO (2); ANASTASIA KOMAR @MOOQKO (3)

Clockwise from left: Model Arielle Simone wears the Houndstooth shoulder bag by Forms founder Anastasia Komar, who also conceived the shoot’s set design as part of her art practice, Mooqko. The red Transformers bag, Dot Mesh clutch, and the Fluid shoulder bag and backpack are handmade of leather and available at f-o-r-m-s.com.

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From top: For Ginger Kale in Houston, Gin Design Group installed stadium-style seating of poured-in-place concrete and leather seat pads and commissioned a 5-by-10-foot cotton wall hanging from Nancy McElligott of Zigzag Macramé. Juice packaging is by Ordinary Concepts. Under the café’s glued laminated timber ceiling beams, custom tables and stools are stained or spun white oak and the counter skirt is clay brick.

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Location, some say, is everything. It certainly is a major boon for Ginger Kale, a new veggie-centric café in Houston. Possibly the city’s only restaurant to have a lakefront view, in this case of McGovern Lake, “We purposefully limited the palette to five natural elements,” designer Gin Braverman explains, “so the setting remains the prime focus.” Beyond the 180degree glass facade, Gin Design Group outfitted the airy 1,300-square-foot interior with custom furnishings and finishes in wood, exposed brick, leather, concrete, and rope. The latter three compose a show-stopping sitting area: Backing stadium-style benches is a wall-size macramé installation by Nancy McElligott, who Braverman discovered on Etsy. It’s the perfect perch for gazing out at the water while enjoying matcha strawberry chia pudding and an Oh Kale Yeah! cold-pressed juice.

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cooling reflections They’re not an automatic pair. A celebrated British sculptor and Colorado’s oldest and largest water utility. But when David Harber won the commission for a pair of sculptures for Denver Water, the process was

fluid and the outcome spectacularly refreshing. Harber has been creating custom-built sundials, water features, and sculptures in natural materials like verdigris bronze, oxidized steel, and Carrera marble for such clients as Princeton University and the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc for decades. For his Mile High City installations, he crafted marine-grade, mirror-polished stainless steel, chosen for its reflective and durable qualities, into the towering Hydra and Water Droplet. The seven curving lengths of the former reach skyward at 18 to 26 feet. The dropshape latter stands nearly 22 feet. At 3,550 and 1,030 pounds, respectively, it was water that enabled their exis tence: They were shipped from the U.K. to the U.S. by boat.

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Clockwise from top: Marine-grade, mirror-polished stainless steel forms Hydra, one of David Harber’s two sitespecific sculptures commissioned by Nine dot Arts for Denver Water. The other, Water Droplet, stands at the utility site’s entry and has a blue-painted interior. Hydra’s seven branches, also partially painted, were inspired by the manyheaded mythical Greek serpent.

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Clockwise from bottom: At Dengo, a 16,000- square-foot chocolate concept store in São Paulo by Matheus Farah e Manoel Maia Arquitetura, native peroba do campo, or mahogany, composes the table bases, case goods, and bar face in the Meu Dengo station, where customers can customize ingredients. The framework, columns, and some ceilings are engineered CLT. In the factory, a live Fenix palm stands under the skylights atop flooring of re-constituted broken ceramic.

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Its 104 million Instagram followers is one indication that Dengo is a producer of world-changing chocolate, or, for those fluent in Portuguese, Chocolate com sabor de mudar o mundo, the Brazilian company’s slogan. Its cocoa comes from trees in sustainably managed agroforests, and the Bahia farmers from which the beans are acquired are fairly paid. Matheus Farah e Manoel Maia Arquitetura was equally conscientious in its design of Dengo’s first freestanding site, a four-story concept store in São Paulo that also happens to be the country’s tallest wooden building. And that wood is engineered CLT, which is prefabricated, thermally efficient, and easy to install, reducing project costs, duration, and waste. Also noteworthy is the flooring, particularly in the site’s factory, shop, and custom-chocolate station; it’s called caquinhos, or little pieces, and consists of re-constituted shards of broken red ceramic. It was a popular style in 1940’s and ’50’s São Paulo homes but also nods to Dengo’s best-selling product: Quebra-Quebra, big bars of chocolate that can be broken into many pieces for sharing—sweet and affectionate, which just happens to be the Bahia translation of dengo.

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It was only in June of 2018 that legislation passed to legalize cannabis on a federal level in Canada. Since, the country has been quick to respond, with dispensaries opening all over, from Vancouver to Nova Scotia. Toronto alone has dozens, one of note in the heart of downtown. Alchemy by Studio Paolo Ferrari not only subverts the marijuana cliches but also delivers an interactive and elevated boutique experience. Material choices throughout the project’s four areas totaling 1,500 square feet explore a fundamental tension within the world of cannabis: The product is a plant that grows from the ground but uses cutting-edge technology to maximize its potential. So at Alchemy, industrial elements like anodized aluminum, solidsurfacing, and eco-resin, the latter in the form of an undulat52

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ing feature wall, mix with natural ones, such as solid ash, terrazzo, and terra-cotta. “There’s something beautiful about the highly engineered alongside the earthy,” Paolo Ferrari says. “The store is somewhere between a temple and a factory.” There’s also color play. While the predominant impression is an all-white environment, there are moments of saturated hues. The feature wall, which is found in the accessories room, is a fiery orange, and it’s coordinated with carpet in the same shade. Most of the columns and storage displays of oils, concentrates, and topicals in the rest of the shop are white or silver, but there’s the occasional one in canary yellow. “Color was used to punctuate the concept of alchemic transformation,” Ferrari explains, “to be all-encompassing and visceral.” The shopping experience is multisensory. Upon entering,

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Clockwise from top left: Beneath a ceiling of anodized-aluminum fins, inspired by those Oscar Niemeyer developed in 1971 for the Paris com munist party headquarters, a solid white-ash table is embedded with interactive screens. Carpet in the accessories room is nylon. Oils, concentrates, and topicals are stored in anodized-aluminum shelving units, the rear one powder-coated. Other shelving is solid-surfacing. Flooring is terrazzo.

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w a l k through health/wellness Clockwise from top left: Unglazed terra-cotta tiles clad the cashwrap desk, column, and wall, where the commissioned digital artwork is by Tristan C-M. Orders are fulfilled in the back of house, visible through a portal of aluminum-framed glass. An aperture fitted with LED grow lights maintains the ficus at the store’s entry. Edibles are locked inside eco-resin domes.

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is Ferrari’s way of making a regulatory requirement, in this case that orders must be fulfilled out of reach of customers, an attractive component. He’s done the same at the entry. Due to COVID-19 capacity limitations, customers often have to line up. So Ferrari rewards their wait with a 10-foot-tall live ficus that looks like a giant weed plant. —Wilson Barlow FROM FRONT MASLAND CONTRACT: CAR PET (ACCESSORIES). THROUGHOUT KLINE SPECIALTY FABRICATION: CUSTOM FUR NITURE, BUILT-INS, CEILING. CLÉ: TILE. SANTA MARGHERITA: TERRAZZO. DU PONT: SOLID-SURFACING. BARRISOL: STRETCHED CEILING. SHERWIN-WILLIAMS COMPANY: PAINT. INVERSE LIGHTING: LIGHTING CONSULTANT. ELEVATE BUILD: PROJECT MANAGEMENT, FIXTURE CONTRACTOR.

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visitors discover small digital viewers containing kaleidoscopic visuals embedded in the walls. Farther in, when they engage with “sniff jars,” product information comes up on touch screens set into a large organically shaped table. Behind the cash-wrap desk, an oversize screen loops videos of cannabis macro imagery. It’s a favorite area for Ferrari. “It’s the opposite of what you’d expect,” he says, noting the tactility of the desk’s terracotta tile as opposed to the smoothness found elsewhere. “It gives a wabi-sabi sensibility.” Behind the desk is a generous round window revealing the store’s back of house. It

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site Toronto. standout Dubbing itself “your best bud” and the “curator of cannabis,” this brand’s second Canadian outpost makes artful use of the industrial fiberglass grate, a cost-effective and quick-build substance, the 1,200-square-foot result alluding to luxury not with materials or finishes but by its memorable, pared-down setting.

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project Serra. site Los Angeles. standout Home to the Southern California debut of the Oregon company called the Italian word for greenhouse is a gut-renovated former parking garage, now filled with light and displays for vapes, edibles, and topicals in a luxe brass, white oak, and Carrara marble palette akin to what’s found in a high-end accessories boutique, aka “the Louis Vuitton of cannabis.”

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site Toronto. standout With a name borrowed from a weed-amount nickname, the brand’s 650-square-foot flagship is dense with organic materials: rammed earth for plinths and cash-wrap area, brick flooring and wall, walnut for edibles cabinetry, and Japanese paper in the Santa & Cole pendant fixture chosen for its resemblance to a rolled joint. —Edie Cohen

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summer dream Imagine, if you will, dinner alfresco on an ocean-facing terrace. That was the idyllic setting CMP Design envisioned when conceiving Panarea, an armchair for Pedrali with a cosseting backrest handwoven into an open triangle pattern. “A woven object always inspires a certain reverence for manual work,” CMP partner Antonio Pagliarulo says. “Panarea wants to be a continuation, in a modern way, of one of the oldest construction techniques.” Outdoor-ready polypropylene cord wraps most of the tubular steel frame, which can be powder-coated Terra-cotta, Sand, Blue, or Gray. Match or contrast the seat cushion and throw pillow, upholstered in fabric made from the same polypropylene. pedrali.it

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product Sol. standout The U.K.-based designer reworks the club chair sweetly named after her husband into an outdoor version constructed of planished bronze, shown here in Rosemary Hallgarten’s Eden polypropylene. fbc-london.com 68

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product Za. standout Under the prolific industrial designer, the brand’s signature recycled aluminum is reimagined as a stool, available in three heights, six powdercoats, or anodized or hand-polished aluminum, all handmade in Pennsyl vania. emeco.net

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product Mün. standout OEO Studio’s founders brought to life the Shanghai manufac turer’s lighting collection, called the Japanese word for moon, which includes a rechargeable LED lantern that can hang, inside or out, from its silicone strap. stellarworks.com

product Borea. standout The aluminum-framed garden sofa by the Interior Design Hall of Famer and company creative director recycles 510 plastic bottles for its plush polyester fiber–filled cushions, upholstered in a classically striped waterproof acrylic. bebitalia.com

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product Fynn. standout GamFratesi’s low-slung, mid century–style armchair employs cabinetmaker workmanship for its solid teak frame, woven with wicker-effect cord and topped by cushions covered in a polypropylene jacquard weave.

product Meteo S. standout The Spanish manufacturer and German industrial designer team up again, this time for an umbrella made from materials that are 70 percent recycled and 100 percent recyclable post-use, in more than 30 colors.

product Venexia. standout Quaint iron stair railings inspired the Nichetto Studio name sake’s occasional table, its base crafted from powder-coated aluminum strips and topped with lava stone (shown) or enameled terra-cotta.

product WeftOut. standout Founder of wallpaper and textile company Society of Wonderland, the artist utilized this manufacturer’s innovative Create tool to transfer her graphic geometric patterns to woven UV-resistant polyester.

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throwing shade They may look like abstracted umbrellas. But these sunshades for Landscape Forms are metal, fix to the ground, and, unlike their fabric cousins, do not articulate. Referencing post-and-beam architecture, the trio of styles by Scott Klinker Design’s namesake founder are made of cast and extruded aluminum cunningly unobstructed by visible hardware. Offered with solid or perforated shades, the round Disc, gabled Peak, and square Stretch—perhaps the most umbrellalike, mimicking taut fabric stretched over fanned ribs—range from modernist to traditional. But all embody the quintessential minimalism for which industrial designer Scott Klinker, who heads the 3D design graduate program at Cranbrook, is known. landscapeforms.com

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totally rad During the early days of their Los Angeles furniture company, RAD, Ryan Anderson and Russell Hill began experimenting with perforated steel. That was a decade ago. That experimentation has since evolved into a series of outdoor staples that include sleek perforated or slatted steel barstools, like Signature, alongside minimalist mixedmedia tables, sofas, and ottomans, such as Square. “RAD was influenced by my SoCal childhood in the ’80’s and ’90’s,” Anderson says. “My favorite thing to do was go to the Vans store with my mom and customize a pair of shoes.” Today, that translates into making furniture that designers can easily modify in size, color, and material. Fun fact: The company name references another childhood favorite, the 1986 BMX sports flick Rad. radfurniture.com

“We saw a void in domestically manufactured outdoor furniture that wasn’t over-designed”

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pleasing tints Stylist Maria Gabriella Zecca has been tapped by Roda, the maker of outdoor furnishings nestled in the Italian province of Varese, for a series of sophisticated rugs in desaturated hues. Loom-woven by hand and dubbed Tint, Zecca’s eye for hues yields two subtle colorways unencumbered by trendchasing: Blueen, a mix of aqua, sky blue, and green, and Griege, a mélange of grays and browns. Rendered in polypropylene, each rug measures 78 by 118 inches and has fringe unusually placed along its two longer sides. It lends a softness to the sturdy outdoor ground coverings, which could easily migrate indoors. rodaonline.com

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hola, roja Meet Pablo Carballal, an architect from Madrid. His upcoming furniture line, Candi—a side project of his firm, CAN Arquitectos—debuts with an update to the classic rocking chair. You know the ones, in steam-bent wood and woven rattan. This outdoor iteration, however, takes that wavy language and distills it into swooping 1-inch-diameter steel tubes, curved using numeric control technology and lacquered cherry red, thus its name, Granadina, Spanish for grenadine. A cushion covered in samecolor Trevira CS, namely Kvadrat’s Patio, Velcrofasten to the frame. Its curves and colors nabbed an Honorable Mention at the European Product Design Awards. pablocarballal.com

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bright days ahead Color puts extra pep in seating and more 1. Stripe It acrylic-polyester and Utopia bleach-cleanable polyester velvet by KnollTextiles. knolltextiles.com 2. Arena divider in powder-coated galvanized steel by iSiMAR. isimar.es 3. Bee Hive for residential apiaries in recycled poly

ethylene in Sunset Orange by Loll Designs.

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in powder-coated aluminum and acrylic by Varaschin. varaschin.it 5. Basaglia + Rota Nodari Studio’s Cortina 026 benches in hot-dipped galvanized steel by Urbantime by Diemmebi. diemmebi.com 2 4

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1. Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec’s Palissade chaise longue and armchair in powder-coated steel by Hay.

hay.com 2. RadiceOrlandini’s Ola armchair in powder-coated

steel, polyurethane foam, and weather-proof fabric by Potocco. potocco.it 3. Equinox cabana with automated louvered roof in proprietary Aluma-teak by Tuuci. tuuci.com 4. Antonio Larosa’s Garda collection in powdercoated aluminum and jatoba and composite woods by Benchmark Contract Furniture. benchmarkcontractfurniture.com 5. Jacques Deneef’s Teak Jack garden sofa in

teak and polypropylene in Mocha by Ethnicraft. ethnicraft.com 6. MoBar 50 mobile beverage bar with extension

table in stainless steel and oak by Dometic. dometic.com

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international style 1. For Arca Wynwood Design Center, an architectural materials showroom and arts center by Esrawe Studio that’s blocks from Miami’s Design District, Héctor Esrawe’s pen-and-paper sketches reveal the two tile shapes—one convex, one concave—he devised to clad two of the building’s elevations. 2. He collaborated on the facades with the art collective Superflex, which made a watercolor to demonstrate the alternating pattern of the tile shapes. 3. Superflex then developed a tile palette based on the denominations of pesos from Mexico, where parent company Grupo Arca is based. 4. That was followed by another watercolor proposing a striped color sequence. 5. During the same phase, a final sequence of precise, numbered hues was decided upon. 6. A matte glaze in the colors was applied to prototypes of the facade tiles. 7. The tiles are subsequently aligned in varying widths based on the Fibonacci sequence. 5

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1 1. The north and south elevations encompass 6,339 square feet of tile. 2. The ceramic tiles are adhered using cement and sand mortar. 3. The 13,000-square-foot Arco Wynwood Design Center, the second showroom Esrawe Studio has designed for Grupo Arca, offers masonry bricks and exotic natural and Italian-fabricated engineered stone as well as space for temporary exhibitions, film screenings, and musical performances. 4. Echoing the neighborhood’s colorful murals, the project is called Like a Force of Nature, referencing the wavelike illusion of the tiles and a commentary on current global economic and environmental crises.

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tropical bounce Collaborating on the Coco guest pods at the Art Villas Costa Rica, a small resort at Bahia Ballena, Archwerk.cz and Formafatal are energized by its rainforest setting text: michael snyder photography: boysplaynice

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Over two decades ago—long before founding a design company that specialized in retail spaces for multinational brands—the Czech entrepreneur Filip Žák visited Costa Rica for the first time. He was in his early 20’s, a backpacker, only just setting out on a lifetime of travel for both pleasure and work that has, to date, taken him to some 70 countries. After selling the company in 2014, “I finally had a chance to decide what to do with the rest of my life,” Žák reports. “And it left me the money I needed to build.” Žák and his wife had already started laying plans for when that freedom finally came. They wanted to build a small resort someplace tropical but not overtaken by tourism. Someplace politically stable, with rich biodiversity and wildlife, and a culture and language different from their own Central European heritage but also recognizable. Costa Rica, with its lush jungle, mountains, and wild Pacific coast, seemed an obvious choice. Nearly three weeks of intensive land hunting there led to Bahia Ballena’s Playa Hermosa, near the town of Uvita, where they purchased a 5-acre lot on an undulating, forested hillside with views to the ocean below. After building a brutalist villa for his family—an assemblage of concrete slabs, like ruins amidst the greenery—and a rentable steel-frame house he

Pervious spread: At the Art Villas Costa Rica, a small resort on Playa Hermosa, a network of stairs and catwalks surrounds one of five teak-and-canvas Coco pods by Archwerk.cz and Formafatal. Opposite top: The pods sit on steel columns well clear of the lush ground vegetation. Opposite bottom, from left: Pod 1’s shower has cement tile. Its custom headboard is woven from cotton cord and straps. Built-in painted-plywood shelving outfits the dressing area. Top: Uncanvassed sections of the frame create the sensation of sleeping in the treetops. Bottom: The pods are carefully oriented to allow for maximum openness while providing necessary privacy.

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calls the Atelier, Žák became, as he puts it, “obsessed with tree houses.” Flipping through a book on the subject, he spotted a never-built Swiss project comprising volcano-shape pods set in the Alpine woods, and immediately saw the possibility of adapting the scheme for his rainforest retreat, which he had named the Art Villas Costa Rica. Exploring the idea further led him to Martin Kloda and Hana Procházková, young Czech architects who founded their firm Archwerk.cz in 2012. Top: The fifth and largest pod houses a communal kitchen and dining area. Bottom: Natural rattan pendant fixtures are augmented with LED spotlights above the custom table, which is flanked by teak-and-rattan stools. Opposite: Pod 2’s custom teak bed is framed by woven rattan sconces, polished-nickel nightstands, and steel columns that rise through the floor, also teak.

Kloda and Procházková have built their practice around natural materials and made construction an essential part of the design process. Their work is based in simple geometric forms that they extrapolate out with the simplest possible components: wood beams, hammers, and nails. “We’re not craftsmen—we’re just architects,” Procházková explains. “Because we usually build with our own hands, the designs have to be straightforward.” For Žák’s little colony of tree houses, the idea was to create structures that were not only responsive to the landscape but also “something that could be built by anyone,” Kloda says. Sitting high on steel columns, the five ovoid forms they devised—UV-resistant canvas stretched over teak frames— look like coconuts dangling above the canopy or buoyed lightly on a sea of a vegetation. Hence their collective moniker: the Coco. The pods are connected by light-as-air catwalks and stairs fashioned from teak, expanded metal, and steel, an infrastructure designed by another Czech firm, Formafatal, which also executed the Coco interiors—as it had for the two previous houses on the property. Founder Dagmar Štěpánová, a trained engineer and architect, first visited Costa Rica seven years ago. “From that moment I dreamt of building something there that would follow the local atmosphere,” she says. Shortly after, she got her first commission from Žák. 92

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PROJECT TEAM PETR TŮMA: ARCHWERK.CZ. ATELIER FLERA: LANDSCAPE CONSULTANT. CHRISTIAN VENEGAS: STRUCTURAL ENGINEER, MEP. PRODUCT SOURCES FROM FRONT INTERLUDE HOME: NIGHTSTANDS (POD 2). MARILOU: HANGING CHAIR, PENDANT FIXTURES, STOOLS (KITCHEN/DINING). WAC LIGHTING: SPOTLIGHTS. SONDALEZA: CHAISE LONGUE (KITCHEN/DINING), LOUNGE CHAIRS (PODS 2, 3). NOTRE MONDE: BLACK SIDE TABLE (POD 2). THROUGHOUT GRANADA TILE: FLOOR TILE. NALURI COLLECTION: SINKS, TUB. DELTA: SHOWER FITTINGS, SINK FITTINGS, TUB FILLER.

For the brutalist-inspired family home, Štepánová used wood, water, and abundant greenery to bring nature into the spare, geometric interiors. She took the same approach for the Atelier down the hill, a Miesian pavilion clad in rust-color perforatedaluminum panels and topped by a green roof that makes it dissolve into the forest. For the Coco group—four small guest pods and a larger one for a kitchen and communal dining area—the challenge was reconciling opposites: how to create something both minimal and luxurious, radically open yet warm and private, a podium lifted over the forest and a nest settled close among its branches. Each guest pod encircles a slightly raised central platform on which a queen-size bed is set against a headboard woven from colorful cotton cord and straps that evoke the tangled vines of the rainforest. Overhead, a canopy of mosquito netting reads as a delicate sculpture in its own right, echoing the form of the surrounding canvas structure. Dressing and bathing areas with cement-tile flooring are located around the perimeter where, by rolling up the canvas wall, soaking in a freestanding terrazzo tub becomes an outdoor experience. The world beyond the slender teak frame—forest and fog, toucans and monkeys, the sound of the sea below, the wind in the treetops above—is distilled to its perceptible essence in a voyage through the realm of the senses. “That’s the fun part of architecture,” Žák says: “To explore.”

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Opposite top: The custom mosquito net in pod 3 echoes the form of the enclosing structure. Opposite bottom: Its soaking tub offers a partially alfresco bathing experience when the canvas panel is rolled up. Below: At night, the pods, which range from 215 to 538 square feet, glow like welcoming lanterns amidst the jungle darkness.

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Previous spread, left: In the groundfloor waiting area at iO Beauty Gallery, a two-story Moscow salon and spa by Asthetíque, a velvet-upholstered oak seat pulls up to a Brazilian quartz crystal–embedded concrete table, both custom. Previous spread, right: A treatment room features a custom tile mural and terrazzo flooring. Top, from left: Walls, ceilings, and most flooring throughout are finished with pigmented micro cement, a resin-andcement composite that resembles raw concrete. Tambour-style oak paneling wraps around the shampoo station. Bottom, from left: Oak forms the cus tom reception desk and the productdisplay surround. Nearby, real olive trees backdrop the waiting area.

In the fall of 2019, interior construction was about to begin on iO Beauty Gallery, an upscale salon and spa in one of Moscow’s wealthiest residential neighborhoods, when its founder had a change of heart. She ditched the existing scheme—drawn up by a local firm, it was crammed with the kind of glitzy gold fixtures and ostentatious furnishings that have long populated Russian luxury design stereotypes—and instead hired Asthetíque, a New York studio she’d just discovered on Instagram. “When the client saw our work, she knew we would understand that the space didn’t need a lot of rich, gold things, but something simple, elegant, and modern,” firm founder and partner Alina Pimkina reports. “Times have changed. Now the people in Moscow who have money travel the world. They aren’t scared of minimalism.” Pimkina, who was born in Russia, and her American co-founder and partner Julien Albertini agreed to take over the project, trading all the bling for a

more of-the-moment design that fit their own definition of luxury: investing in materiality and functionality in order to create an elevated experience for customers. In the case of iO, that meant sparing no expense to ensure that the spa would be as calming and soothing as possible—a true place of escape from Moscow’s notoriously harrowing pace. “We wanted to create a magical space that would feel like a haven for busy women,” Albertini says. “When you go inside, you enter a different world,” Pimkina adds. The 3,500-square-foot spa occupies two floors in a new Neoclassical-style building, its stone-andbrick facade awash with columns, porticoes, and large mullioned windows. One of Asthetíque’s first ideas for turning the raw space into a relaxing, cocoonlike environment was to introduce curvaceous elements that channel the female form. This strategy is most evident in the wavy walls behind the reception desk and surrounding the second-floor

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waiting area. Built from drywall and plaster, these undulating architectural features, which took more than a month to construct, achieve the twin goals of adding visual softness and helping with spatial flow. Reception’s rippling backdrop finds echo in the curves of the oak front desk, a custom Asthetíque design, like much of the project’s furniture, while the billowing envelope of the upstairs waiting area is matched by the sensuous, upholstered curves of the center banquette. “You feel like the spaces are hugging you, because everything is so soft and smooth,” Pimkina says. That feeling is consistent throughout iO’s other spaces, which include waiting, hairstyling, and makeup areas on the largely open ground floor; and private rooms for manicures, pedicures, facials, and other treatments on the more-enclosed second level. The designers unify them all by coating almost all flooring, walls, and ceilings with micro cement, a durable resin-and-cement composite finish that resembles raw concrete. But by tinting the material with muted green, blush, and beige pigments, they have created matte surfaces that look almost like velvet. Each room is monochrome from top to bottom, and all the overhead track lighting systems are recessed into the ceiling to lessen the amount of extraneous visual information. Secondary materials— boucle upholstery fabrics, oak window shutters, tambour-style oak paneling, textile hangings—have all been chosen for their warmth and tactility. Pimkina and Albertini also took inspiration from nature to enhance the feeling that iO is a respite from big-city life. They commissioned French artist Stéphanie Marin to create a translucent textile installation—an airy assemblage that mimics a Background: Inlaid brass letters from the salon’s logo dot the floor of the upstairs waiting area. From top: Custom bas-relief leaves, nudes, and astral bodies reminiscent of Henri Matisse paper cutouts festoon the manicure-room walls. In a powder room, LEDs set in a channel around the edge of the custom terrazzo vanity create a flattering glow for selfie-taking. Painted wall motifs extend onto doors. Opposite: A light-diffusing textile installation by Stéphanie Marin hangs over the upper waiting area’s velvet-upholstered custom banquette. 100

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Top, from left: Tracks for adjustable spotlights—a salon necessity—are recessed into the ceiling to lessen the system’s overall visual impact. The spa’s signature wavy walls, here enclosing another powder room, were made by spackling drywall with levelfive finish plaster and sanding it to super smoothness. Bottom, from left: Custom oak and marble cabinetry in a treatment room echoes the project’s wavy, feminine theme. On the ground floor, a custom gradient-glass partition separates the hairdressing stations from the waiting area while retaining a feeling of openness.

cluster of puffy cumulus clouds—to hang above the upstairs waiting-area banquette. For the same space downstairs, they set a velvet-upholstered sofa in front of a grove of olive trees—“a Mediterranean touch,” Pimkina notes. A group of frostedglass pendant fixtures overhead evokes rain while the cast-concrete coffee table in front has an indented bowl filled with sand and Brazilian quartz crystals. “While waiting, customers get a feeling of healing power,” Albertini explains. Those details underscore the fact that, unlike the spa’s original scheme, Asthetíque’s cannot be characterized as specifically Russian. It’s a more contemporary, universally appealing response to the global phenomenon of high-achieving women seeking life balance by turning to wellness and selfcare. But at the same time, the designers have taken pains to infuse iO’s interior with its own instantly recognizable visual identity, most conspicuously by embossing, debossing, or painting the

micro-cement walls with a galaxy of Henri Matisse– like motifs—leaves, female nudes, stars, planets— and studding the upstairs floor with inlaid brass “iO” logos. “The original concept was over-the-top and more-is-more, but it wasn’t calming or particularly unique,” Albertini says. “Now, there are unusual shapes, one-of-a-kind lighting, and hieroglyphicstyle art. It’s minimal, but memorable.” PROJECT TEAM ILYA MOZGUNOV; ANNA LUTAEVA; DENIS KLEIMENOV; IGOR KHRUPIN: ASTHETÍQUE. PRODUCT SOURCES FROM FRONT STUDIO ARDO: CUSTOM TILE MURAL (TREATMENT ROOM), WALL TILE (POWDER ROOM 2). SFERA DECORA: CUSTOM PENDANT FIX TURE (RECEPTION). TAKARA BELMONT: SALON CHAIRS (SHAMPOO STATION, TREATMENT ROOM). OMNITON: CUSTOM TERRAZZO VANITY (POWDER ROOM 1). FIMA CARLO FRATTINI: SINK FITTINGS (POWDER ROOMS). SMARIN: CUSTOM TEXTILE INSTALLATION (UPSTAIRS WAIT ING AREA). SALINI: SINK (POWDER ROOM 2). THROUGHOUT P.S PEOPLE: CUSTOM FURNITURE. DREAM LIGHT: LIGHTING. OUTSTAFF CEMENT: MICRO CEMENT.

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living the dream A Belgian house by Joris Van Apers supports his family’s body and mind—and the environment text: jane margolies photography: jan verlinde/living inside

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In 2000, Joris Van Apers was a young man in Belgium working for a big international engineering firm. That was also the year he built himself a house, next door to his parents’, in Duffel, a town approximately 15 miles south of Antwerp. For work, he had been helping plan massive state-of-the-art industrial plants all over the world. So he was yearning for a project on a smaller, more personal scale, one that would serve his own needs and be more reflective of his own taste. His parents owned Andreas Van Apers BV, a company named after his father that acquired and sold reclaimed wooden beams and other upcycled building components, which meant he had a ready supply of sustainable materials at hand. The experiment crafting the 5,400-square-foot house turned out to be pivotal in several ways. Van Apers started working at AVA and eventually, in 2008, took the helm of what’s now called Joris Van Apers BV. From the experience of designing his own house, Van Apers launched an interior design practice as an arm of JVA. So, in addition to sourcing and providing reclaimed materials for such design-world notables as Jacques Garcia and Alex Vervoordt and operating a showroom in nearby Reet, JVA increasingly completes full-house renovations for other clients. In fact, the design studio now makes up 70 percent of the business. As for his own three-bedroom home—which he shares with his wife, Caroline, JVA’s CFO, and their two teenage daughters—that’s evolved, too. Over the years, he has reworked the interior to the point where no room looks the way it did two decades ago. Although the basic layout and key features remain—the varying ceiling heights to create spaces that alternate between expansive and intimate, à la Frank Lloyd Wright, one of his heroes; the ground level’s checkerboard floor of tile salvaged from castles and monasteries in Burgundy, France—the interior has turned warmer and more expressive. “It works well for our family and our minds,” the engineer turned designer begins. 106

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Previous spread: In the Duffel, Belgium, home of the Joris Van Apers BV owner and CEO and his family, a ceiling of reclaimed pine beams caps the living area, furnished with Jindřich Halabala armchairs and a custom sofa. Opposite top, from left: Brass and leather chairs from the 1970’s ring the dining area’s custom oak table. Handmade raku tile conceals storage in the kitchen’s slate island. Opposite bottom: Salvaged tile flows through the entry hall and throughout the house's ground floor. Top: The custom cupboard is nutwood. Bottom: Beyond the lime-finished walls and polyester curtains, the stair landing hosts a treadmill and space for yoga.

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A case in point is the metamorphosis of the central staircase, a series of two spirals that cleave to each other and the two floors through which they rise—it was Van Apers’s riff on M.C. Escher’s famous graphic depiction of endless staircases. When he first built the stair in 2000, he rendered it in stainless steel and glass. That old “carcass,” as Van Apers puts it, is now sheathed in a creamy white mix of plaster and hard micro cement, giving it a fluid, organic look. “It’s less transparent, more mysterious,” he notes. Off it, on the ground floor, the spacious open-plan living/ dining area has a 14-foot ceiling and a wall of windows overlooking the verdant property with swimming pool. Its new palette of jewel-toned reds, greens, and blues for walls, artwork, and upholstery were derived from Paul Klee paintings. The moody hues “embrace you,” Van Apers says, helping to temper the height of the space. A new ceiling adds warmth, too: Its grid pattern formed from reclaimed pine beams was inspired by the one in the lobby of the Gramercy Park Hotel in New York. Furniture includes vintage dining chairs found in a shop on Antwerp’s famous Kloosterstraat and a coppertoned side table by fellow Belgian Ado Chale joined by pieces of Van Apers’s own design. There’s his curved sofa, with an actual copper base, a dining table—a sculptural oval in oak he made by hand, his first furniture design—and, in an homage to Isamu Noguchi, a coffee table near it in black slate, a material Van Apers likes for its tactile quality. Opposite: A mix of plaster and hard micro cement clads the spiral staircase. Top, from left: A Lucien Petit sculpture stands near the pool, thermally heated to allow for year-round swimming. Staircase treads and upstairs flooring are pine. Bottom: Kitchen sink fittings are brass. MARCH.21

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It reappears in the living area’s fireplace surround as well as topping and facing the center island in the adjacent kitchen. That island is decorated with handmade black raku tiles, some of them on hinges so they function as doors, swinging open and revealing household items stored in cubbies. Part of the kitchen renovation entailed Van Apers installing a small gas fireplace in a wall. It’s used “every morning when we sit there with our kids and every noon and evening,” he says. “When you see the little flames, it immediately puts you in a different state of mind.” Physical fitness is also important to the family, so the staircase landing a half-story up is devoted to it. There, the parents sometimes unfurl yoga mats and follow an online instructor on the bigscreen TV. Their younger daughter, a devoted soccer player, might run on the treadmill when she can’t get out for a jog. Another half-story up are two bedrooms belonging to her and her sister, and at the top of the house, under the eaves, is the main suite. The deep window seat in that bedroom hides a whirlpool tub; when the pine seat is lifted and the tub filled with water, “We can open the window to the outside and, even in the winter, sit in a warm bath and take in fresh air,” Van Apers says. Their bathroom shower also has a hammam function for steam baths. Floor tiles are reclaimed from terraces and pathways in York, England, and the ceramic basins are set on a nutwood counter that came from an old bank. Outside on the 8-acre grounds, there’s a barrel sauna and a nearby pool house, including a bar, bathroom, and covered outdoor lounge area with fireplace. The pool is thermally heated, so the family swims yearround. During the pandemic, they have used the pool area to maintain a modicum of a social life, inviting one or two friends over to gather around the fire for a drink.

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Opposite top: Reclaimed outdoor tiles lead to the main bathroom’s shower/hammam. Opposite bottom, from left: The stair rises through the house’s three floors. Reclaimed pine lines a closet/dressing area in the main bedroom. Top: The main bedroom’s 1½-foot-wide pine floorboards were blackened by a process similar to shou sugi ban. Bottom: The nutwood chest has been fitted with a TV that rises with the touch of a remote.

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color therapy Bright hues, warm textures, and spirited design are part of the program at wellness, medical, and fitness centers here and abroad text: peter webster See page 116 for Vitalbad, an aquatic and recreational park in Kusel, Germany, renovated by 4a Architekten. Photography: David Matthiessen.

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“This is a world of healthy emotions, chosen to influence positive and constructive moods”

Davide Macullo Architects project Chenot Palace Weggis, Switzerland. standout The renovation of the lakeside property included a four-story, concrete-and-timber new-build that added 45 guest rooms to the existing 52, atop a partly subterranean state-of-the-art medical spa and wellness center, its sculptural ceilings evoking scenes of forests, roots, water, and fire—all symbols of nature and vitality. photography clockwise from below left: Roberto Pellegrini; Alex Teuscher (2); Fabrice Fouillet (2).

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“The fresh ceiling design in particular gives a unique identity and cheerful atmosphere”

4a Architekten project Vitalbad, Kusel, Germany. standout Updating this aquatic park involved stripping the existing 4,250-square-foot indoor-pool building down to its shell, replacing structural elements with a framework of white steel girders, and installing new surfaces—including a multicolor suspended ceiling of lightweight wood-wool boards— while a new children’s pool, mud area, and changing building were added outdoors. photography David Matthiessen.

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Matteo Thun & Partners project Waldkliniken Eisenberg, Germany. standout Surrounded by forest, the 177,600-square-foot circular building—the country’s largest orthopedic center—features local larch and oak for its facade and interiors, part of a “hospitecture” philosophy in which the aesthetics and comforts typical of hospitality projects are combined with the rigorous clinical requirements of a healthcare facility. photography clockwise from below: Gionata Xerra (3); HGEsch (2).

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“We tried to bring out three things: respect for nature, purity, and the cultivation of deep joy”

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Perkins and Will project Piedmont Wellness Center, Fayetteville, Georgia. standout Incorporating fitness studios, gym facilities, therapy and lap pools, and spaces for medical professionals, the two-story building not only reduces clients’ physical stress through the implementation of acoustical and cushioned wall, ceiling, and flooring materials but also uses expansive glass to connect them to the serene forested surroundings. photography Mark Herboth.

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“Our goal was to create a holistic environment for care prevention and education that helped to reduce stress and pain and increased healing”

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“Hundreds of patients per day can now receive state-of-the-art clinical care in a region home to some 40,000 veterans”

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project Omaha VA Ambulatory Care Center, Nebraska. standout Connected to the existing Omaha VA Hospital, the ground-up, 157,000-square-foot outpatient facility, which includes the agency’s first fully dedicated women’s health clinic, uses a symbolic language of material, shape, color, and pattern—multihued glazing resembling military “colored bars,” smooth limestone walls evoking “duty and security”—to express honor for the veterans who come to receive medical care. photography AJ Brown Imaging.

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“The core DNA of an exercise venue lies in its inspiration and motivation for fitness”

Pone Architecture project Fusion Fitness Q-Plex Premium Club, Shenzhen, China standout Channeling the burgeoning brand’s signature colors to conjure an avant-garde, 45,200square-foot flagship, spaces have been outfitted with the latest hightech equipment for a multitude of training classes—both group and private—and an 8,600-square-foot, glass-enclosed swimming pool. photography Ming Chen.

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International and local sensibilities converge at the Virgin Hotels Nashville, an alluring and comfortable retreat by Markzeff

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For designers, working with a strong brand is a blessing. But it can be a tricky one. It’s helpful to have elements to build upon for the narrative. But how to make a project reflect the company identity as well as one’s own expertise? Interior Design Hall of Fame member Mark Zeff faced this duality when conceiving the Virgin Hotels Nashville in Tennessee, the burgeoning brand’s third completed property. Virgin Group, founded by British multi-hyphenate Sir Richard Branson, has long spread its particular type of insouciance across its airplanes, record label, and even vodka. That cheek permeates the company’s hotels, too. At the Chicago property, for instance, there’s a white porcelain dog keeping watch outside each pet-friendly guest room. The details are sometimes rooted in locale. Bartender uniforms for Virgin Hotels Las Vegas, opening soon, are patterned with card suits. All the properties, however, share a common thread: frequent appearances of what’s called Virgin red. The 262-key Nashville project continues that tradition. Zeff, a South Africa native with myriad hotel, restaurant, bar, and spa interiors in his portfolio, as well as residences for the likes of Gabriel Byrne and Hilary Swank, and the Markzeff director of hospitality design, Stacie Meador, pull off the task of incorporating just enough of Virgin’s DNA to reflect its signature playfulness while still instilling the firm’s own undeniable stamp and Nashville’s essence. “The idea was to embrace the music idea, but not go too heavy into it,” Zeff begins, “and to incorporate a bit of Virgin’s whimsy.” The property opened on the city’s famed Music Row in quintessential 2020 fashion—during the heart of the pandemic but before the tragic December bombing—in a new 14-story, 200,000square-foot building with a rooftop swimming pool by Blur Workshop and Hastings Architecture. Zeff and Meador’s modern-industrial interiors echo the structure’s steel-and-glass shell, and then they warmed things up with bursts of that special red, painted brick, and reclaimed-wood millwork. As for requests from the client, specifically Virgin Hotels vice president of design Teddy Mayer and former CEO Raul Leal, the brief was for the site to be truly welcoming. “Every guest should be able to find a niche for themselves,” Leal said before recently stepping down. The music theme is struck soundly at the beginning of the journey, with a massive installation of country instruments hanging above the pair of reception desks, backed by a wall of reclaimed oak. The heart of the project is a two-story lounge called the Commons Club, a feature in all Virgin Hotels, that’s anchored by a billiards table and a floating steel staircase, both with soft surfaces in red. 128

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Previous spread: At the Virgin Hotels Nashville in Tennessee by Markzeff, the Commons Club’s reclaimed oak paneling hosts a wall collage of dozens of vintage cameras— one in Virgin red, the same color as the felt on the billiards table—by Live Artfully Atelier. Opposite top: The floating steel staircase in the Commons echoes the industrial aesthetic of the ground-up, 14-story building by Blur Workshop and Hastings Architecture. Opposite bottom: In reception, an installation of musical instruments is by John Peralta. Top, from left: A custom rug in the Commons was inspired by an antique Turkish design. More reclaimed oak anchors reception. Bottom: Surrounded by reclaimed rough-sawn Douglas fir planks, lime-wash paint and polyester velvet appoint the library’s 13-foot-high niche. Photography: courtesy of Virgin Hotels.

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Opposite top: Custom teak chaise longues line the rooftop pool. Opposite bottom: Cowhide-strip wall covering and velvet upholstery join a shag rug in the Shag Room, the hotel’s private lounge. Top, from left: The elevator lobby leading to the rooftop pool features custom beach ball–inspired pendant fixtures. Based on Western fringe shirts, the lounge’s custom chandelier is five tiers and 11 feet at its widest. Bottom: All Virgin Hotels guest rooms are outfitted with Virgin’s proprie tary bed design, but this property’s are trimmed in leather. Photography: courtesy of Virgin Hotels.

“Guests often have their picture taken next to it,” Mayer notes. The Commons serves as “the courtyard, the piazza of the village, the collecting point for everybody,” Zeff says of the lounge, from which visitors can access the Kitchen, the Bar, and the Shag Room, as Virgin dubs its food and beverage spaces. Referencing Nashville’s abundant scenery, a collage of dozens of vintage cameras—surrounding a single red one— hangs on one wall of the Commons. Under a grand chandelier of exposed light bulbs, a rug inspired by antique Turkish carpet, a luxe sofa upholstered in cowboy-boot brown leather, and deep-blue velvet armchairs—all custom, like much of the furnishings throughout the hotel—form an eclectic seating area. A last-minute reconfiguration of the furniture right before the July opening, so guests could maintain social-distancing, ended up reinforcing the openness and flexibility of the space. “We try to be flirty,” Mayer says about the Shag Room, the hotel’s super-sexy private bar/lounge. But it could easily be called the Fringe Room, too. In doing her Nashville research, “I happened upon all these cool Western shirts with gorgeous fringe,” Meador says. She ran with the idea and created an enormous five-tiered ceiling fixture draped in shimmering gray and red fringe. She then echoed its verticality in the wall covering, made from long strips of gray cow hide. Plush velvet banquettes and carpet, shag of course, all in charcoal, complete the sultry scene. In the guest rooms, Virgin stipulates the same bed for all its hotels, cosseted in curves resembling the ones in first class on the company’s airplanes. To give them a Nashville nod, the Markzeff team edged them in deep-brown leather. Pillow-filled window seats make every chamber feel like an oasis, as do the bathrooms. Carrara marble vanity tops, a separate well-lit makeup area, and an extra curtain for privacy make them, Meador notes, “female-centric,” given the brand’s appeal to women.

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Top, from left: A guest room’s custom steel sconce. Felt banquette fabric at the Kitchen restaurant. Custom plate pendant fixtures in private dining; photography: courtesy of Virgin Hotels. Bottom, from left: Neon signage atop the steel entry canopy. The pre-function area’s Abigail Avery Books art piece. The rooftop bar’s mural by Emily Elizabeth Miller.

Opposite: The building’s exterior and interior palette of brick, steel, and wood comes together in the Commons, where a custom swing seat and sectional stand on planks of engineered European white oak.

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Every Virgin property also has a presidential suite called Richard’s Flat, after Sir Branson; Nashville’s is 1,500 square feet and Zeff mixed in lanterns from Mexico and sconces by Rich Brilliant Willing. As for red in the guest quarters, doors are coated in it as are bathroom showerheads, developed specially with Kohler. “It’s that balance between good design and not taking yourself too seriously,” Meador says. To wit, the Funny Library, another Virgin Hotels public-space staple, displays humorous books and bobbleheads on its built-in shelves, but has an overall sophisticated global/local air, thanks to a 13-foot-high seating niche cloaked in jewel-toned teal and flanked by planks of roughsawn Douglas fir. PROJECT TEAM ERIKA BRITTON: MARKZEFF. BLUR WORKSHOP; HASTINGS ARCHITECTURE: DESIGN ARCHITECTS. BOLD: LIGHTING CONSULTANT. MUSEUM EDITIONS: ART CONSULTANT. CRE CRISTINA RIVER EXCHANGE: PURCHASING AGENT. EMC STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS: STRUCTURAL ENGINEER. BLUM CONSULTING ENGINEERS: MEP. BARGE CAUTHEN & ASSOCIATES: CIVIL ENGINEER. YATES CON STRUCT ION: GENERAL CONTRACTOR. PRODUCT SOURCES FROM FRONT RESTORATION HARDWARE: BILLIARDS TABLE, BARSTOOLS (COMMONS). ORIENTAL WEAVERS: CUSTOM STAIR RUNNER. LUSIVE DECOR: CUSTOM CHANDELIER. CREATIVE TOUCH: CUSTOM RUG. RUSTBELT RECLAMATION: CUSTOM SWING SEAT (COMMONS), TABLES (RESTAURANT). CASTE: WOOD TABLE (COMMONS). THROUGH DANISH DESIGN STORE: LOUNGE CHAIR (LIBRARY), SIDE TABLE (SUITE BEDROOM). VISUAL COMFORT & CO.: SCONCES (LIBRARY). COURISTAN: CUSTOM RUNNER. DESIGN WITHIN REACH: SIDE TABLES (LIBRARY), TABLES (LOUNGE). TUUCI: UMBRELLAS (POOL). MODERN SHOP: OTTOMANS (LOUNGE). RANGE PROJECTS: CUSTOM CHANDELIER. M&J TRIMMING: FRINGE. PERFECT RUG: RUG. KYLE BUNTING: WALL COVERING. STELLAR WORKS: CHAIR (ROOFTOP LOBBY), CHAIRS (RESTAURANT). SUNSET DESIGNS: CUSTOM PENDANT FIXTURES, CUSTOM SCONCES (ROOFTOP LOBBY), CUSTOM LAMPS (RESTAURANT). CHAPMAN: CUSTOM SCONCES (GUEST ROOMS). CHANDRA: CUSTOM AREA RUG. BLACK ROOSTER DECOR: COCKTAIL TABLE (COMMONS). LIGHTOLOGY: FLOOR LAMP. REJUVENATION: PLANTERS. YUNXIU LIGHTING: CUSTOM CHANDELIER (PRIVATE DINING). TEAK WAREHOUSE: CHAIRS (BAR). NORTH 88 OUTDOOR: TABLE. &TRADITION: PENDANT FIXTURE. TACCHINI: CHAIR (SUITE BEDROOM). HUDSON VALLEY LIGHTING: FLOOR LAMP. MARC PHILLIPS: CUSTOM RUGS (SUITE). PAMPA: THROW PILLOWS (SUITE). MAJESTIC MIRROR & FRAME: CUSTOM BACKLIT MIRROR (BATHROOM). FOUNDATION HOSPI TALITY: CUSTOM MIRROR. TUDO & CO: SCONCES. KOHLER CO.: SINK FITTINGS. ROYAL THAI: CUSTOM CARPET (HALL). ARTICLE: OTTO MAN (SUITE LIVING AREA). INDUSTRY WEST: CREDENZA. CASAMIDY: PENDANT LANTERNS. RICH BRILLIANT WILLING THROUGH THE FUTURE PERFECT: SCONCES. THROUGHOUT ARCHITEX; CARNEGIE; DESIGNTEX; ELITIS; FIL DOUX; KRAVET; MAHARAM; OPUZEN; PERENNIALS FABRICS; ERICA SHAMROCK TEXTILES: UPHOLSTERY. GLOBAL LEATHERS; MOORE & GILES; TIGER LEATHER: LEATHER. DS MICHAEL FURNITURE; FAIRMONT DESIGNS; LILY JACK; LUXE FFE; QUALITY & CO.; SKYPAD INTERNATIONAL; TELOS HOSPITALITY: CUSTOM FURNITURE. HF DESIGN: ENGINEERED FLOORING. ENDICOTT: BRICK. BENJAMIN MOORE & CO.; PORTOLA PAINTS & GLAZES: PAINT.

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Opposite top: Every Virgin Hotels property has a presidential suite called Richard’s Flat, after the company’s owner, Sir Richard Branson; this one includes lime-washed walls and a custom wool rug. Opposite bottom: Lamb topiaries and faux-grass furniture, all custom, populate the events-space terrace; photography: courtesy of Virgin Hotels. Top, from left: Guest bathrooms combine Carrara marble and oak. Along guest hallways of custom Axminster carpet, doors are lacquered Virgin red. Bottom: Pendant lanterns by Casamidy cluster above a custom sectional in the presidential suite’s living room.

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plant-based regimen Rooftop greenhouses are among the nature notes at the headquarters for innovative skin-care brand JP Lab in Hangzhou, China, by Xu Studio text: rebecca lo photography: xiaojing huang

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The historic Chinese city of Hangzhou brings to mind temples and pagodas rising in the mist against the bucolic setting of West Lake, a UNESCO World Heritage site. In recent years, the scenic beauty is being eclipsed by an encroachment of research and development centers, as the area is home to tech-commerce giants such as Alibaba Group. With this polarity of tradition colliding with modernization, Junping Fang chose the Hangzhou Creative Design Center to set up shop for his skin-care brand JP Lab. Formerly the Hangzhou Xileng Refrigerator Factory, the complex is part of the rehabilitated neighborhood east of the central business district, now occupied by such independent small businesses as silversmiths and florists, where some of the buildings have rooftop soccer pitches to get creative juices flowing. Architects Yijun Xu and Shijin Xu, who, while unrelated, first met while working together at Steinberg Hart in Shanghai before founding Xu Studio in the same city, previously collaborated with Fang on a JP Lab pop-up in 2018. The project attracted both media attention and consumer popularity, paving the way for Xu Studio to be tapped for JP Lab’s 10,000-square-foot, two-story retail and office space. “The center has a cultural atmosphere and is frequently visited by young people,” design director Yijun Xu explains. “JP Lab’s site used to be the office of an industrial design company. But the building had become outdated, with a large number of solid exterior walls and a fragmented interior layout among the renovation’s biggest challenges.” Xu Studio based its concept on the experimental spirit of JP Lab, which pushes the boundaries of skin care yet looks to nature for its sustenance, as well as Fang’s love of science and space travel. “We drew inspiration

from the brand’s features and Junping’s own childhood dream of living on Mars,” Yijun Xu explains. “He is quite imaginative and was a part of the entire design process.” The firm addressed the first challenge by installing a polycarbonate curtain-wall system that, at night, is lit up like a lantern by LEDs, revealing the structure’s clean euclidean lines and alluding to a spaceship against a black sky. Few but oversize windows are strategically placed to either reveal or conceal the interiors. A swath of floor-to-ceiling glazing near the entry allows glimpses into JP Lab’s beauty bar and lab. But, nearby, a tall black-concrete slab that hosts signage, also LED-lit, hides the main entry corridor. “We adopted a veiled 138

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entrance because this is a by-appointment showroom,” principal Shijin Xu explains. “It also creates a more mysterious atmosphere, allowing visitors a chance to discover and explore the space.” The ground floor is JP Lab’s public face. Visitors enter via a dark tunnel as if travelling into a wormhole, eventually emerging into a bright, white open space that’s akin to landing on a star. A large retail area with a trio of extra-long display counters and a consultation lounge both showcase and facilitate discussions of new product lines. A semicircular bar, faced in perforated stainless steel, allows customers to experiment with products while enjoying a beverage. Suspended above the bar are acrylic containers filled with fruit and flowers, some of the natural ingredients used in JP Lab cosmetics. Customers that require privacy or more extensive discussions can opt for the skin-consultation room, which can be cordoned off by translucent acrylic curtains. Overhead, the entire ceiling is sheathed in silver wall covering, crisscrossed with sleek LED tubes. “The combination of metallic textures and materials, various lighting, and interactive storage drawers yield a purity often associated with futuristic aesthetics,” Yijun Xu notes. All three retail counters are topped with tempered frosted glass and built-in LEDs.

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Opposite the bar is a staircase that leads to the office space on the second floor. A series of desks, ganged together, form the open work area and are oriented perpendicularly to a wall of windows to maximize natural light for staff. The mostly white, silver, and black palette from downstairs continues here but is interrupted by glass partitions tinted blue. Nearby is a lounge plus meeting and broadcast rooms. “This is where Junping engages in livestreamed sales and discussions,” Shijin Xu says, “often recommending new lotions and potions for netizens.” The staff pantry and finance office make up the balance of the floor. The epoxy-covered stairs continue up to the rooftop, which Xu Studio transformed into a useable, and attractive, events space as well as a physical manifestation of JP Lab’s mission. After laying down large-format silvery tiles and embedding LEDs between them, the firm devised a trio of simple glass boxes that expand upon the light-box effect of the facade. The largest is a lounge/meeting room. The other two are encased by luminescent film and function as greenhouses. “They hold more than 70 varieties, like bergamot, thyme, mint, sage, and eucalyptus,” Yijun Xu says of the volumes. Providing the raw materials for researching which extracts to incorporate into new products, the roof, and the headquarters overall, “is a place,” he continues, “to dream about the future.” PROJECT TEAM CHENGYU LUO; LING DING; YAN JIANG; JIAJUN MAO; ZHIWEI HE; MENGYU CAI; JIAHUI DONG: XU STUDIO. HANGZHOU WENJIN CULTURAL CO.: LANDSCAPING CONSULTANT. LIFOR DESIGN: LIGHTING CONSULTANT. QL LIGHT: CUSTOM SIGNAGE. SHANGHAI YUANZHU ARCHITECTURAL DEC ORATION DESIGN CO.: MEP. SUOFEIYA HOME COLLECTION CO.: WOODWORK, FURNITURE WORKSHOP. BOYAN ARCHITECTURAL DECORATION ENGINEERING CO.: GENERAL CONTRACTOR.

PRODUCT SOURCES FROM FRONT CIMIC: TILE (ROOF). WUXI CITY TUOYE PMMR PRODUCTS: CUSTOM TUBES (BAR). QITE: PANELING, BAR FRONT (BAR), PANELING (BROADCAST AREA). SHANGHAI YAOPI GLASS GROUP: GLASS PARTITIONS (RETAIL AREA, OFFICE AREA), BLACK MIRROR (ENTRANCE). GENSIN: POLYCARBONATE PANELS (FACADE). THROUGHOUT ARTSKY: WALL COVERING. SUEKAE&LIGHTING: CUSTOM LIGHTING. SHENZHEN WANBANG FLOOR ENGINEERING: FLOORING. NIPPON PAINT: PAINT.

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Opposite top: The entry corridor is crowned with JP Lab’s slogan Discover the power of nature installed on a mirrored wall behind waves of ceiling-mounted LED tubes. Opposite bottom: Metallic wall covering on the ceiling and a custom glassPrevious spread: Rand Elliott Architect’s topped table furnish a broadcast area used for livestreamed sales events. Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center and Top: For the office area on the second floor, tinted glass partitions spaces; the concrete stair leads to the roof. Bottom: its adjacent studios building occupy a One of the volumes, which range from 100 to 600 square feet, is a meeting room; all three stand on ceramic tiles inset 4-acre campus in downtown Oklahoma with LED strips. City, next to a railway line. Top: In reception, where flooring is polished concrete, the face of the custom desk has inset maple slats as does the wall in the adjoining café. Bottom: In the director’s office, Charles and Ray Eames guest chairs the face of the custom desk has inset maple slats as does the wall in the adjoining café. Bottom: In the director’s office, Charles and Ray Eames guest chairs In the director’s office, Charles and Ray Eames guest chairs

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MDF ITALIA NVL

French designer Jean Nouvel’s table (now in a coral-red special edition) floats a slim top above a substantial base, the converging volumes retaining a noticeable void—an apt metaphor for pandemic times. Through DDC. ddcnyc.com

STANDOUTS MOLDED HIGH - DENSITY RIGID POLYURETHANE BASE

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ASTERÉ Archetype

Manufactured by the newly formed brand, an offshoot of Élitis, French talent Garance Vallée’s digitally printed wallpaper mural combines architectonic structures with organic shapes in her signature palette of terra-cotta, powdery cocoa, and burnt spice. astere.fr

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Quantum mechanics and wave motion studies instigated the New York designer’s small-batch Helios lighting collection, in frostedglass tube accented with mouth-blown elements and solid satin brass. christinazantonio.com 150

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standouts handmade to order customizable wool and bamboo collection includes fabric and wallpaper

PIERRE FREY Sunlight

From artist Liz Roache’s apropos Optimism collection, a hand-tufted cut-pile wool rug in high-wattage, future’s-so-bright hues boasts a collagelike gradated pattern that nods to the Bauhaus. pierrefrey.com

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VERONESE Lido

Architect Bruno Moinard’s monumental, space-filling fixture was sparked by bossettes, the small blown-glass fluted elements that grace 18th-century Rezzonico chandeliers. verone.se

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JABUTICASA AL13

Aluminum brings a sense of lightness to the minimalist yet hard-working wood-top desk by the Brazilian brand, which—like all its designs—is crafted in Rio de Janeiro. jabuticasa.com

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SUPERNOVAS Afterlife

Designed by Rotterdam duo Odd Matter, the collection of easy-to-assemble furniture includes a stackable and fully recyclable indoor/outdoor bench that epitomizes the company’s belief in a circular economy; customers can even trade in products as their needs change. supernovas.world 154

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standouts individually adjustable headrests patented mechanism leather or fabric upholstery

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CASSINA Maralunga

The company celebrates the 100th anniversary of Vico Magistretti’s birth with a special edition of his cozy and convertible best-seller, with adjustable headrests, in a Kvadrat Febrik upholstery that mimics the 1973 original. cassina.com

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RØROS TWEED Lotta

The Norwegian maker collaborated with Polish designer Maria JeglinskaAdamczewska on jacquardwoven blanket/throws to adorn the Puro Hotel in Kraków—and also available through the hospitality brand’s online store.

ROBERT SWIERCZYNSKI

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2 vase styles brown engobe stoneware crafted using the coil - pottery technique

TACCHINI Pablo

ANDREA FERRARI

A tribute to Pablo Picasso, Studiopepe’s cubist composition of overlapping geometric forms seems to shape-shift depending on the viewing angle; a companion piece honors the artist's muse, Dora Maar. tacchini.it/en MARCH.21

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standouts noise - absorbing felt dividers chair accommodates left - and right handed individuals engineered plywood frame

KEILHAUER Pact

Designed by EOOS, the 50-piece collection comprising seating, benches, tables, privacy screens, and panels makes the most of small spaces while supporting endless arrangements. keilhauer.com

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B+N INDUSTRIES System 1224

A modernist and infinitely customizable system of components—panels, shelves, cabinets, backlit and magnetic graphics, and accessories—can be repositioned from the front without tools. bnind.com

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FERMOB Luxembourg

Embodying the spirit of the iconic Jardin du Luxembourg chairs, Frédéric Sofia’s durable update combines the lightness and resistance of aluminum with the comfort of curved seat slats and the practicality of stackable frames. fermobusa.com

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FEENEY, INC. DesignRail Resin Panel—Ginko Thatch Design

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TUUCI Northstar Mast

Featuring a state-of-the-art structural and aesthetic enhancement that utilizes the company’s channel and ridge marine architecture, the nautically inspired mast elevates parasol design by allowing unique finish combinations. tuuci.com

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MOHAWK GROUP Personal Studio

The company’s interactive visualization platform allows users to re-color the brand’s running-line products, creating personalized flooring solutions for any and every contract project. mohawkgroup.com

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TILEBAR Bond Indio 24” x 48” Matte

The large-format porcelain tile collection combines a modern metallic gleam with the opaque marks of age and oxidation for an expression of urbanindustrial chic. tilebar.com

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Stylishly distinctive yet understated, the dual-mount ceiling fan features benefits aplenty: a heavy-duty three-speed reversible motor, custom reversible blades, Wi-Fi compatibility, and more. craftmade.com

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PIONEER MILLWORKS Shou Sugi Ban

Shiplap planks usable as interior paneling or exterior siding offer a dramatic slant on tradition, the charring process creating an array of textures and highlighting grain patterns that take well to a variety of hues. pioneermillworks.com

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FORMICA CORPORATION Beige Elm

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INFINITY DRAIN Next Day Custom Linear Drains

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Available in numerous colors and patterns, these ecofriendly—and easy-to-apply—water-based concrete-look coatings can be used to liven any interior. concretewallfinish.com

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Architecture Is a Social Act: Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects

Mok Wei Wei: Works by W Architects

by Lorcan O’Herlihy and Frances Anderton Amsterdam: Frame Publishers, $45 272 pages, 436 illustrations (218 color)

edited by Justin Zhuang New York: Thames & Hudson, $85 352 pages, 594 illustrations (294 color)

In his foreword, O’Herlihy recalls that in the 1990’s, when his namesake firm was young, architecture was more about “materials and technology and. . .form” than it was “about the people who were living in these buildings, or about the cities they occupied.” Things have changed, with Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects, from its offices in Los Angeles and Detroit, leading the way in many respects. The majority of the 28 designs shown is housing of many shapes, sizes, and price ranges, some of it fitted onto oddly shaped “imposs ible” sites. But there are also offices, galleries, shops, and bus stops. A building for the University of California San Diego is a collaboration with Gensler, and, in L.A., LOHA partnered with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill on a 190-unit mixed-use development. A large and ongoing LOHA project is a master plan for the city of Raleigh, North Carolina. In every case, the results have been fresh, multifaceted, animated, and unpretentious, but never for a moment boring. “The most important aspect of our work, for us, is its specificity,” we’re told in the book’s afterword. “We are not building from an abstract idea or a fixed aesthetic that can be. . .applied anywhere. If LOHA has a vision this is it: to create places people want to live in, where people can attach themselves to the roots that are already there and plant some of their own. You might say we are engaged in the aesthetics of living.”

This is an unusual and unusually hefty book showing one building each in Malaysia, Beijing, and Jakarta, with all the rest of the 75 designs in Singapore, the city-state of islands founded in 1819 by Sir Stamford Raffles and now one of Asia’s richest and most densely populated countries. All the work is by the Singapore firm W Architects headed by architect Mok Wei Wei. There are shops, shopping arcades, private houses, hotels, schools, churches, and even an Italian restaurant. But the early pages (beginning with a town house completed in 1984) concentrate on high-rise residential towers, generally of concrete and usually with private terraces, many of their facades animated by sliding sunscreens of wood lattice and sometimes by “hanging gardens” of greenery. The later pages show larger and even more interesting commissions. These include renovations of—and additions to—two Singapore landmarks, the National Museum of Singapore, built in 1887 as the Raffles Library and Museum, and the Victoria Theatre and Concert Hall, its core built in 1849 as the Singapore Town Hall. The climax is an entirely new structure, the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum, a striking, almost windowless masonry shell “envisioned as a monolithic rock” protecting its fragile collection of specimens and fossils. In all, it’s a stirring body of work in an intriguing location.

b o o k s edited by Stanley Abercrombie

What They’re Reading... When I Stop Talking, You’ll Know I’m Dead

Dan Brunn Principal of Dan Brunn Architecture

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“I’m typically intrigued by people’s history and their story of how they per severed and established themselves. This book is full of that. It’s made me even more connected to personal gains and losses and the reality of growth. There isn’t such a thing as an instant, or moment of, success or enlightenment. I believe it comes through a process, which the book highlights. Having just completed a renovation of a 1929 house in Berkeley, California, and a com mercial art deco renovation in Los Angeles, where I also wrapped up my own net-zero home, I especially related to it. Fittingly, my next read is Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship and Purpose,” President Joe Biden’s 2017 memoir.”

BOTTOM RIGHT: MICHAEL ALLEN

by Jerry Weintraub New York: Twelve, $18 304 pages, 32 illustrations (17 color)

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c o n ta c t s DESIGNERS IN SPECIAL FEATURE

DESIGNERS IN WALK-THROUGH

Leo A Daly (“Color Therapy,” page 112), leoadaly.com.

Commune Design (“High Design,” page 57), communedesign.com.

4a Architekten (“Color Therapy,” page 112), 4a-architekten.de. Davide Macullo Architects (“Color Therapy,” page 112), macullo.com. Perkins and Will (“Color Therapy,” page 112), perkinswill.com. Pone Architecture (“Color Therapy,” page 112), pone.cn.com. Matteo Thun & Partners (“Color Therapy,” page 112), matteothun.com.

PHOTOGRAPHERS IN FEATURES BoysPlayNice (“Tropical Bounce,” page 88), boysplaynice.com.

FutureTriibe (“High Design,” page 57), wearetriibe.com. StudioAC (“High Design,” page 57), archcollab.com. Studio Paolo Ferrari (“Cloud Nine,” page 51), studiopaoloferrari.com.

PHOTOGRAPHER IN WALK-THROUGH Joel Esposito (“Cloud Nine,” page 51), joelesposito.com.

DESIGNERS IN CENTERFOLD Esrawe Studio (“International Style,” page 83), esrawe.com. Superflex (“International Style,” page 83), superflex.net.

Xiaojing Huang (“Plant-Based Regimen,” page 136), weibo.com/u/1770678302. Eric Laignel Photography (“Tennessee Shuffle,” page 126), ericlaignel.com. Mikhail Loskutov (“A Quiet Place,” page 96), mloskutov.squarespace.com.

BOYSPLAYNICE

Jan Verlinde (“Living the Dream,” page 104), Living Inside, livinginside.it.

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i n t er vention When OLI Architecture co-founder Hiroshi Okamoto was approached by the Gagosian gallery for a site-specific installation, details were sparse. All he really knew was that it was to hold a significant piece of art on a private collector’s estate in Bedford, New York. Only after earning the commission did Okamoto learn that he had been recommended by the artist himself, Richard Serra; the two had collaborated on a different project in 2011. This time, it was for the architect to design an 830-square-foot structure to contain Serra’s monumental London Cross (2014). “Our task was to build an environment to best experience the piece,” Okamoto recalls. The sculpture is comprised of a pair of weathering-steel plates, each 7 by 40 feet in height and length but only 21/2 inches thick, that cross and balance at one dramatic weight-bearing point. To “heighten but not interfere” with the work, Okamoto continues, he surrounded it with a minimalist, double-height envelope of poured-in-place concrete flooring and white hydrated-lime walls, the latter not only abutting the plates at their ends but also helping to hold them in place. “The structure and sculpture are one and the same,” he adds. To address competing demands from client and artist—that the pavilion be open and to avoid any unnecessary shadows on the sculpture, respectively—the OLI team conducted an analysis of the site’s yearly sun patterns. That research culminated with installing a north-facing sawtooth skylight and two low-lying windows. For the facade of what’s now fittingly called LX Pavilion, Okamoto chose slats of charred Accoya pine that will weather over time, just like Serra’s steel. No wonder he recommended him. —Wilson Barlow

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