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Above a guest room’s custom banquette in the Schwan Locke, a 151-key Munich hotel by Fettle, a portrait by Veronika Grenzebach reimagines a pioneering woman involved in the city’s early 20th– century Deutscher Werkbund movement, which combined mass production with traditional craft. Photography: Lennart Wiedemuth.

features 98 MAPPING THE FUTURE 130 THE ART OF PLACEMENT OF WORK by Raul Barreneche by Edie Cohen

Works from developer Jorge Pérez’s private collection are showcased in the lobby and public areas at One Park Grove, a Miami residential tower by OMA and Meyer Davis.

A forward-looking foursome—Huntsman, Pfau Long, RMW, and SHoP— deliver a five-star campus for Uber headquarters in San Francisco. 112 EXPERIMENTS IN NATURE by Fred A. Bernstein

140 C ALIFORNIA DREAMING by Rebecca Dalzell

For their weekend home in Spain’s western countryside, the founders of SelgasCano pair preser vation with innovation. 120 LOCAL CONTEXT by Peter Webster

From Munich to Mexico, new hotels look to their neighborhood’s history for creative guidance.

With nods to surfing and mid-century modernism, Markzeff captures the state’s coastal beauty at Alila Marea Beach Resort in Encinitas.

148 C ABIN FEVER by Michael Snyder

Forest huts and woodland lodges are the inspiration behind the interiors of Timber House, a residential tower in Hong Kong by NC Design & Architecture.

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walkthrough 47 HEART OF THE CAMPUS by Alex Bozikovic 53 SHINING LIGHTS by Georgina McWhirter

Hospitality is back and the settings are brighter than ever.

hospitality giants 81 Things Are Looking Up by Mike Zimmerman

departments 25 HEADLINERS 33 DESIGNWIRE by Annie Block 38 BLIPS by Amanda Schneider 40 PINUPS by Wilson Barlow 65 MARKET by Rebecca Thienes, Georgina McWhirter, and Wilson Barlow 93 CENTERFOLD On Another Level by Athena Waligore

The annual CODAawards celebrates projects that integrate compelling commissioned art. 198 BOOKS by Stanley Abercrombie 200 CONTACTS

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xoxo Bravo, all! This letter is actually a love note. And it goes out to us, the entire commercial design industry. I just jetted back from Chicago last night. To be sure, it was an unusual time of year for this trip, which we typically trekked to in June, right?! Yep, I’m talking about NeoCon. The annual pilgrimage to the welcoming halls of the Mart didn’t happen during Covid 2020, but business couldn’t let one more year pass. So, our favorite industry-wide meet-and-greet cum market days moved to the safer month of October. Smashing-good idea and kudos all around! Mercifully free of the unvaccinated (we all were required to show our Clear health passes), the entire show could best be described as responsible. What it lacked in the barely containable crowds of the past it made up for in determined business transactions, concise and effective meetings, the pervasive camaraderie engendered by safe behaviors, and a heckuva lot of design-y masks. Machers, old friends, Chicagoans, travelers from all points: Everyone who wanted to be counted came, and you could feel the good mojo right from the kick-off, on the stairs of Marshall’s Landing at our HiP awards (honoring the best product and people!). Our Interior Design team (and all of us at SANDOW) felt privileged to fly our flag at NeoCon 2021 celebrating design—and each other! As an additional token of love, what could be better than our November selection of projects and the masters behind them? We hiked to the verdant countryside in western Spain to share a glorious weekend cottage that’s one part restoration, one part innovation…and that made us green with envy ;) . On the hospitality front, we took in more local enviros in France, Germany, Italy, and Mexico, where design honors the past but always looks ahead. Speaking of the future, we also Ubered out to, well, Uber’s San Francisco headquarters and were absolutely wowed! From the high-tech digital experience to the high-touch personal one, with all the heads-down work areas and heads-up amenities one could imagine (and let’s not forget two glorious glass sky bridges to get you places!), the design by four prominent firms will make any employee yearn to go back to work…now! So, from sharing what’s new at any number of trade shows to featuring projects in the pages of this magazine and on our social channels (and DesignTV), we are always sending you the best of what’s out there in design…with all our love!

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principal: José Selgas. principal: Lucía Cano. firm site: Madrid. firm size: Eight architects and designers. current projects: A museum and a hotel in Rizhao, China. honors: European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture–Mies van der Rohe Award finalist. breakfast: Selgas and Cano keep hens and have fresh eggs every day. dessert: They search for the finest chocolate everywhere they go. selgascano.net NOV.21

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Huntsman Architectural Group “Mapping the Future of Work,” page 98 associate principal: Nicole Everett. associate principal: Alison Woolf. firm sites: New York; Chicago; San Francisco. firm size: 61 architects and designers. current projects: Tolleson and Horsley Bridge Partners in San Francisco. honors: Interior Design Best of Year Award; IIDA Illinois Red Award; Starnet Design Awards. painting: Woolf uses watercolor, gouache, and oil to depict her local urban scenery. partner: Everett and her 78-year-old father are climbing California’s Mount Shasta next year. huntsmanag.com

RMW “Mapping the Future of Work,” page 98 design principal: Hakee Chang, AIA. senior designer: Jenna Szczech, IIDA. firm sites: San Francisco, San Jose, and Sacramento, California. firm size: 93 architects and designers. current projects: Tech- and transportation-client headquarters in Northern California; Prologis America in Seattle. honors: AIA Silicon Valley Award; WoodWorks Award. nature: Chang’s next adventure is to experience the Northern Lights. nurture: Szczech has done ballet and contemporary dance since age 3. rmw.com

Meyer Davis “The Art of Placement,” page 130 principal: Will Meyer. principal: Gray Davis. senior project manager: Sonya Cheng. firm sites: New York; Los Angeles; Miami. firm size: 59 architects and designers. current projects: Etereo Auberge Resorts in Riviera Maya, Mexico; W Rome; Four Seasons Resort, Shurayrah Island, Saudi Arabia. honors: Interior Design Best of Year Awards; AHEAD Award; Boutique Design Product Award. road: Meyer, a vintage car buff, has a 1957 Austin Healey he received as payment for his first design project. water: Davis, also a vintage vehicle fan, has a 1947 Chris-Craft motorboat, a house warming gift from architect Bill Ingram. maps: If Cheng wasn’t an interior designer, she would love to be a cartographer. meyerdavis.com 26

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OMA “The Art of Placement,” page 130 partner: Shohei Shigematsu. firm sites: New York; Rotterdam, Netherlands; Hong Kong. firm size: 120 architects and designers. current projects: New Museum expansion in New York; Albright Knox Gallery extension in Buffalo; Reefline underwater sculpture park in Miami Beach. honors: AIA Honor Award. art: Shigematsu led the design of the Faena Forum in Miami and the Sotheby’s headquarters renovation in New York. talk: He gave a TED lecture in 2011. oma.com

NC Design & Architecture “Cabin Fever,” page 148 principal: Nelson Chow. firm site: Hong Kong. firm size: 10 architects and designers. current projects: Wellwellwell Restaurant and Vitae Beauty Spa in Hong Kong; K11 Atelier office building in Hangzhou, China. honors: Interior Design Best of Year Awards. at home: Chow built a pine sleeping loft inspired by tree houses in his Hong Kong apartment. on screen: Shirley: Visions of Reality is a favorite movie because the sets reproduce several Edward Hopper paintings. ncda.biz

“California Dreaming,” page 140 principal: Mark Zeff. director of hospitality: Stacie Meador. firm site: Brooklyn, New York firm size: 15 designers. current projects: Kimpton Fontenot Hotel in New Orleans; Point Thompson Hotel in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico; NAYA residential development in Punta Mita, Mexico. honors: Interior Design Best of Year Awards. at sea: Zeff is an avid fisherman. amid the trees: Nature is a constant inspiration for Meador’s work. markzeff.com

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The Grand Slam season culminated with 18-year-old U.K. phenom Emma Raducanu winning the US Open women’s final. Fellow Brit Lois O’Hara is doing her part in inspiring the next generation of players with her recently completed tennis courts at Northcliffe Park in Bradford. The similarly young artist first made a name for herself in the publicspace realm with the Brighton basketball court she painted in 2018 with wavy saturated blues and pinks and the word joy. “My signature style is based on the idea of using fluid lines and curves to encourage movement—whether that’s physically or imaginatively, in the mind,” the selfdescribed sunset chaser says. “These colors are vibrant, so they stand out, but also carefully calibrated so the focus isn’t taken away from the ball as it’s hit across the court.” Meanwhile, the focus continues on O’Hara, who has projects underway for Newmor Wallcoverings, brands Estrella Damm and Fedrigoni, and London’s Battersea Power Station and Design District, a new coworking complex for creatives.

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Although he was commissioned for the 2020 edition of Frieze Sculpture at Rockefeller Center in New York, “He’s one of the most significant yet underrecognized artists who has made important and singular achievements in the history of sculpture and abstraction.” This statement comes from associate curator of contemporary art Jessica Bell Brown in regard to the subject of “Thaddeus Mosley: Forest,” which bows this fall at the Baltimore Museum of Art. What’s also noteworthy about the Pennsylvania native: He’s employed wood from felled trees, sawmill cutoffs, and reclaimed building materials long before repurposing became trendy. Oh, then there’s the fact that he turned 95 in July. The BMA exhibition showcases five biomorphic works Mosley made from when he was 89 to today, using solely a mallet and chisel.

Clockwise from top left: For “Thaddeus Mosley: Forest,” at the Baltimore Museum of Art, October 17 to March 27, 2022, the 95-year-old sculptor is debuting Katz Kurve, which he made in 2021 from salvaged wood. Opposing Parallels-Blues Up and Down for G. Ammons and S. Stitt from 2015. Tatum Scales, 2020. Mosley in 1957 with an untitled piece. Off Minor, 2019. 34

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“always wanted to be a coffee house,” senior associate Rufina Wu begins. But the fit-out required finesse. “With our strongly sculptural building, the inside had to reference the architecture—and also complement it.” The Perkins&Will interiors team acknowledged the unusual geometry with a feature element on the ceiling. Starting with a central oculus, fins of white fabric stretch outward toward the perimeter. LED strips spill warm illumination through the fins, which are made from a textile used for dif fusing light on film sets. The effect is

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It could have posed an interior quandary. A pavilion in the public square serving Emily Carr University of Art + Design complex in Vancouver, BC, all by Perkins&Will, is round in plan, the structure consisting of 10 petals of CNC-cut laminated timber clad in cherry-hued shingles (thus its nickname, Red Pavilion). But after Nemesis Coffee leased the site, its third in the city, all in creative hubs, and contacted Perkins&Will via an Instagram direct message, the unusual container’s 2,000-square-foot interiors began to take shape. The space had

both “organic,” Wu notes, and calming and echoes the exterior petals. Perkins&Will selected a muted palette for the materials, the architect continues, to create a vibe that is welcoming, especially on Vancouver’s frequent gray days. The choices of glass, stainless steel, and pale woods were also affected by pandemic supply-chain hiccups. The firm relied on a hometown fabricator for the curved birch-plywood paneling and a circular high table, its center containing a leafy green tree.

In between all the swooshes is a highly functional eatery. A stainlesssteel bar slices through the middle of the plan, dividing the seating from the kitchen and service areas. Above, a continuous glass divider modulates from clear (for display cases) to reflective (concealing restrooms). “It reveals exactly what should be revealed,” Wu says, “and hides the rest.” For those wanting to be seen, the café opens onto an outdoor patio furnished with recycled-plastic chairs. —Alex Bozikovic

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Clockwise from top left: Fins of fire-retardant fabric stretch out above the bar in vibrationfinished stainless steel. The full kitchen is only partly visible thanks to the mirrored portion of the project’s central glass component. Flooring is polished concrete and baked goods are visible through the clear glass section of the partition. Blu Dot chairs and custom tables furnish the outdoor patio. Concrete and white oak compose the custom high table.

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Saguez & Partners project Drinks & Co, Paris. standout A hybrid bar and liquor store in the 8th arrondissement is a veritable enchanted forest—albeit one rendered in an effervescent blue—with 20-inchthick acoustic sound dampeners shaped into leaves descending from the ceiling and murals painted with the herbs that compose the libations offered on-site.

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Gulla Jónsdóttir Architecture & Design project Esperanza, Los Angeles. standout Inspired by the sand dunes of the restaurant’s Manhattan Beach location, concrete swoops to form the expressive tone of the white-hot destination, where a carved plaster wall, bevy of perforated-clay pendant fixtures, scallop shell– reminiscent stools, and bronze-backed bar shelving up the breezy-chic factor. —Georgina McWhirter

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The sculptural objects made by the Los Angeles–based Elyse Graham Studio begin with what is essentially a simple balloon. Hydrocal plaster is poured inside one, and then pumped with air and rotated so the liquid coats the interior. When the plaster hardens, the balloon is peeled off, and, through a small opening, resin is poured into the interior in thin layers for additional strength. The roughly 9-inchhigh Quasar Sculpture 01 is the result of similarly manipulating an inflated donut shape. The warped striations of pigment were created using a technique akin to marbling paper for a psychedelic exterior Elyse Graham describes as an “on-the-spot expression of joy.” elysegraham.com NOV.21

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Phantila Phataraprasit of Sabai Design

Emily Daws of Emily Daws Textiles

Debra Folz of Debra Folz Design

Chelsea and James Minola of Grain Design

product The Essential Chair. standout This pillowy seat covered in a velvet made from recycled water bottles is the first from the Black and Asian women–owned sustainable brand that’s produced in High Point, North Carolina. sabai.design

product Waterways. standout Crafted in her workroom on Johns Island, South Carolina, the designer’s hand-illustrated and digitally printed Belgian linens evoke the romance of summers in Charleston County. emilydawstextiles.com

product Pattern Penchant. standout The designer’s first collection of architectural glass for interiors includes freestanding or suspended overlapping circles of laminated lowiron glass made in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. patternpenchant.com

product Arch. standout Fabricated in the Pacific Northwest from Portuguese cork, the table and bench are cut from the cylindrical forms standard to the corkproduction process, yielding minimal waste. Through Colony. goodcolony.com

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product The Ambrose Heal Club Set. standout Brittany’s Denim Dress at the 2001 American Music Awards & Her Date’s Canadian Tuxedo is the hyper-specific pop-culture colorway of the polyester on the seating by the young Angeleno. lululafortune.com

product Allcomer. standout Stools that come in wood species such as Pennsylvania black walnut and cedar have curves shaped by hand using a spoke shave and rasp at the company’s Brooklyn Navy Yard studio. bienhechobklyn.com

product Oanh. standout Named after a friend, the intriguingly split lounge chair, with coordinating sofa, by the founder of his namesake interior-design studio is crafted in Middletown, New York.

product Cortado. standout The founder of the Detroit studio and his BFA-student apprentice experiment with manufacturing items out of industrial waste, like these speckled tabletops made from a blend of re cycled plastics. thingthing.us

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an homage to ancestors Artist-activist Malene Barnett, founder of the Black Artists + Designers Guild, is an authority on cultural traditions and art practices in the African diaspora. Envisioning a contemporary Black experience rooted in these customs, she uses her art as a way to uncover, understand, and celebrate her heritage. Working with Lulu and Georgia, she debuts Kindred, a line that translates her intricate hand-built clay sculptures and vessels into standout wallpaper. Printed in York, Pennsylvania, the five patterns include Mosaic, dotty and metallic-accented, and Bequia, its ripples inspired by the Caribbean Sea settling into meditative repetition that’s as beguiling as the glint of sunlight on ocean waves. luluandgeorgia.com

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If we have one mission in our yearly report on the Interior Design Hospitality Giants—the top 75 firms specializing in the sector—it’s to get the bad news out of the way first. So let’s talk about what you already suspect. In the previous 12 months, the Hospitality Giants tallied $576 million in total fees, down from $1.16 billion the previous year. The number for next year is similar, with the 2022 forecast coming in at $572 million. This moderate drop mirrors the forecast from the Top 100 Giants earlier this year. What parts of the overall business took the biggest hits? Well, pretty much everything. The actual allocation of work across sectors didn’t fluctuate—but they all went down. Hotels remain the linchpin of the group’s business, bringing in 57 percent of all fees. Luxury hotels make up half of the hotel business ($174 million), with boutique, mid/economy, and micro hotels bringing in the rest. The other sectors are small yet significant by comparison. Resorts make up 10 percent of total fees ($56 million), while multiuse, restaurants, bars/ lounges, gaming, condos, cruise ships, spas, and country clubs all bring in single-digit slices of income that adds up to roughly $190 million. Every dollar counts in a year like this. The nature of the Hospitality Giants’ business is revealed in the numbers, as well. While fee totals dropped, total jobs also fell but not as much. These Giants worked 4,742 jobs in 2020, a drop of only 150 from 2019. They expect that number to fall a bit more in 2021. Also notable are the profit margins of certain categories. Hotels make up 39 percent of job volume and bring in 58 percent of fees, while restaurants make up 19 percent of jobs and 7 percent of fees. Square footage White Elephant Palm Beach Hotel in Florida is by Elkus Manfredi Architects [50].

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also shines a light on business. The Hospitality Giants worked on 149 million square feet, down from 263 million in 2019. That’s the second lowest total since we expanded to 75 firms on the list in 2007. (These numbers have not been seen in survey respondents since 2010, when a volcanic eruption in Iceland disrupted flights for many months and an earthquake devastated Haiti—events that impacted consumer air travel and subsequent use of business in the hospitality industry, just as the COVID-19 pandemic has.) The breakdown between new projects, renovations, and refreshes has also shifted to 47, 46, and 7 percent, respectively. On a positive note is the renovations figure, which, in 2019, accounted for only 42 percent of work. It’s an upside to the low consumer numbers: Clients were able to perform renovations that are difficult to accomplish without major disruption to day-to-day business. One bit of bedrock in all this data is furniture & fixtures/construction products. The Hospitality Giants saw an 11 percent drop to $17.2 billion here, with a forecast of $17.6 billion in 2021. While this is technically the lowest total since 2012, this number has shown resilience over the years. Since 2013, it’s hovered between $18 and 20 billion annually, with the exception of an outlier $23.7 billion in 2018. To boot, the 62/38 construction products-to-F&F ratio hasn’t budged much in the past five years. As for where all this work is happening, 2020 saw not so much a negative shift but more a return to normal. The percentage of Hospitality Giants who work outside the U.S. rose significantly from 15 percent in 2019 to 24 percent in 2020. That seems notable on the surface, however international work rates have traditionally hovered around that 25 percent park for the past decade. It seems likely that, rather than 2020 events having a marked effect on the number of overseas projects, 2019 simply saw an abnormally low percentage. About two-thirds of firms doing international work did it in Asia and the Pacific Rim, while half were in the Caribbean and Europe. About a third went to Canada and Mexico. A little more than half of these Giants think international work will grow in general, with the Middle East and Asia being the most likely hot spots. But as usual, the U.S. is where they believe the real action will be, particularly the Northeast, Southeast, and Southwest. Particularly interesting perhaps is the Hospitality Giants seeing potential in U.S. regions that remain hardest hit by the pandemic. The main question when news like this drops is: What will next year bring? Or as one rep from Looney & Associates comments, “Who has the crystal ball?” One thing that at least seems certain is the Hospitality Giants don’t see any one sector suddenly breaking out and riding to the economic rescue. They forecast no real change in the allocation of their business sectors. There’s also very little agreement between firms on what will happen with project counts across specific segments in the coming year, particularly with regard to hotels and restaurants/bars/lounges/nightclubs, which are almost evenly split between predictions of more, fewer, or no change in project numbers. Even the highest agreement—that resorts/spas/country clubs will see no change—is agreed on by fewer than half of firms. This paints a vivid picture of the way 2020 unsettled the hospitality industry’s assumptions and expectations. But there is a bright spot: in the multiuse category. It more than doubled its 2019 predictions in 2020 and is predicted to rise by 10 percent in 2021. For more optimism, we look beyond the Hospitality Giants data. First, vaccines. As of this writing, 56 percent of the U.S. population is fully vaccinated. That’s not anywhere near herd immunity, but two of the biggest travel and hospitality hubs—California and New York—have vaccination rates of 59 and 64 percent, respectively. Even 58 percent of Florida’s population has been fully vaccinated, slightly higher than the national rate. And vaccine manufacturers are on the verge of seeking Emergency Use Authorization for children under age 12. We are slowly creeping toward more normal living. Another good sign: Travel rates are climbing. HospitalityNet.org reports that U.S. hotels outside the largest 25 markets are approaching pre-pandemic occupancy levels, and small town and interstate hotels now have higher occupancy rates than 2019. Air travel has rebounded as well: The TSA states that the number of passengers passing through airport security now routinely hits over 2 million per day; that number never cracked 1.5 million between January and April 2021. As for future business, there are good signs there too. For the Hospitality Giants surveyed about “clients appetite for investment in design services,” when specifically asked about hospitality work, 36 percent said clients were eager. What post-COVID investment will come will most likely hinge on health and wellness design trends. “Designing for sustainability and wellness is not optional anymore,” Elkus Manfredi Architects principal Elizabeth Lowrey says. “We’ve been weaving it into every aspect, not only because our clients are asking for these features but also because it’s a moral imperative to create healthy and inclusive environments for our collective well-being.” A Wimberly Interiors rep adds, “The pandemic has provided society an opportunity to once again reprioritize balance in our lives. Likewise, this time of crisis has made us keenly aware of the need to do more with less and our responsibility for our solutions to be resilient for generations to come.” If what we saw in 2020 is the worst of the COVID-related business downturn, we can consider ourselves lucky. Next year’s data will be critical in assessing longer-term business prospects. For now, there are reasons to be cautious but also reasons to be optimistic. Fortunately, few people go broke being cautiously optimistic. —Mike Zimmerman

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WORK INSTALLED

HOSPITALITY FEES

VALUE

SQ. FT.

(in millions)

DESIGN STAFF

1 HIRSCH BEDNER ASSOCIATES Los Angeles, hba.com

$111.0 $6,975.0 1,480

2 GOLD MANTIS Suzhou City, China, goldmantis.com

$37.4

3 WILSON ASSOCIATES Dallas, wilsonassociates.com

$748.5 35.6 1651

RANK 2020 2 new

$33.3 178

$28.3 2,643

4 GENSLER San Francisco, gensler.com

5 FORRESTPERKINS/PERKINS EASTMAN New York, perkinseastman.com

$25.4 291

6 WIMBERLY INTERIORS New York, wimberlyinteriors.com

$16.9 86

7 YABU PUSHELBERG New York, yabupushelberg.com

$16.6 1.2 71

8 DLR GROUP Minneapolis, dlrgroup.com

$12.6 $43.2 110

9 GETTYS GROUP Chicago, gettys.com

$12.2 $175.0 50

$12.0 $783.0 8.8 296

10 6

10 HOK St. Louis, hok.com

11 ROCKWELL GROUP New York, rockwellgroup.com

$12.0 180

12 HKS Dallas, hksinc.com

$11.2 152

13 AVROKO New York, avroko.com

$11.0

$1.0 0.4 101

$9.2 56

$8.7

$1,626.2 0.9 59

16 CHAMBERS Baltimore, chambersusa.com

$8.6 $110.0 33

17 BASKERVILL Richmond, VA, baskervill.com

$8.4 $199.9 94

$8.2 $180.0 21

$8.1 $120.0 90

20 POPULOUS Kansas City, MO, populous.com

$7.7 52

21 JCJ ARCHITECTURE Hartford, CT, jcj.com

$7.4 36

22 ROTTET STUDIO Houston, rottetstudio.com

$7.1 $0.4 56

23 ICRAVE New York, icrave.com

$7.1 $400.0 32

24 NELSON WORLDWIDE Minneapolis, nelsonworldwide.com

$6.7 20.0 382

25 DALTON STEELMAN ARIAS & ANDERSON (DSAA) Las Vegas, dsaainteriors.com

$6.7 $639.6 41

26 LOONEY & ASSOCIATES Dallas, looney-associates.com

$6.6 $100.0 38

27 CALLISONRTKL Baltimore, callisonrtkl.com

$5.7

$49.2 16.8 241

new

28 SPACE MATRIX DESIGN CONSULTANTS Singapore, spacematrix.com

$5.7

$1,126.0 0.8 265

29 SIMEONE DEARY DESIGN GROUP Chicago, simeonedeary.com

$5.4 26

$5.3

$105.0 0.9 75

$5.1

$71.9 0.3 30

$4.4 $10.0 30

33 HFS CONCEPTS 4 Long Beach, CA, hfsc4.com

$4.3 $60.0 16

34 NICOLEHOLLIS San Francisco, nicolehollis.com

$4.3

$1.1 0.1 78

35 SMALLWOOD Atlanta, smallwood-us.com

$4.0 44

36 HBG DESIGN Memphis, TN, hbg.design

$4.0 38

14 MEYER DAVIS STUDIO New York, meyerdavis.com

15 STONEHILL & TAYLOR ARCHITECTS New York, stonehilltaylor.com

18 DAROFF DESIGN + DDI ARCHITECTS Philadelphia, daroffdesign.com

19 LEO A DALY Omaha, leodaly.com

30 ARIA GROUP ARCHITECTS Oak Park, IL, ariainc.com

31 EDG DESIGN Novato, CA, edgdesign.com

32 CHAMPALIMAUD DESIGN New York, champalimaud.design

37 BAR NAPKIN PRODUCTIONS Phoenix, bnp-llc.com

$3.6 $110.0 1.1 14

38 DESIGNAGENCY Toronto, thedesignagency.ca

$3.5 61

new

39 STUDIO 11 DESIGN Dallas, studio11design.com

$3.3 22

40 PREMIER PROJECT MANAGEMENT Dallas, premierpm.com

$3.2 $70.0 12

$3.1

$75.0 4.0 11

42 KLAI JUBA WALD ARCHITECTURE + INTERIORS Las Vegas, klaijuba.com

$3.0 15

43 DENTON HOUSE DESIGN STUDIO Salt Lake City, dentonhouse.com

$3.0 $5.8 69

41 FLICK MARS Dallas, flickmars.com

44 STUDIO DADO Coral Gables, FL, studiodado.com

$3.0 16

45 PARKER-TORRES DESIGN INC. Sudbury, MA, parkertorres.com

$3.0 23

$2.9 $79.4 5

46 C2 LIMITED DESIGN ASSOCIATES Fairfield, CT, c2limited.com

47 DAWSON DESIGN ASSOCIATES Seattle, dawsondesignassociates.com

$2.8 $61.0 17

48 //3877 Washington, 3877.design

$2.7 $4.0 23

49 DESIGN DIRECTIONS INTERNATIONAL Marietta, GA, ddi.cc

$2.7

$42.5 3.4

5 0 ELKUS MANFREDI ARCHITECTS Boston, elkus-manfredi.com $2.6 49

51 GREYMATTERS Singapore, grey-matters.com

$2.5 $100.0 1.5 35

52 CHIL INTERIOR DESIGN Vancouver, BC, childesign.com

$2.4 $24.0

53 MERRIMAN ANDERSON ARCHITECTS Dallas, merriman-maa.com

$2.3 $320.0 1.3 6

54 ARCHITECTURE, INCORPORATED Reston, VA, archinc.com

$2.3 *NR - not reported

72 new

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HOSPITALITY FEES

VALUE

SQ. FT.

(in millions)

DESIGN STAFF

RANK 2020

55 THOMAS HAMILTON & ASSOCIATES Richmond, VA, thomashamiltonassociates.com

$2.3 $90.0 1.5 12

new

56 MANCINI DUFFY New York,, manciniduffy.com

$2.2 $19.0 45

57 HVS DESIGN Rockville, MD, hvsdesign.com

$2.1

58 AECOM Los Angeles, aecom.com

$2.1 $2.1 494

new

$45.0 3.2 17

59 INDIDESIGN Los Angeles, indidesign.com

$2.1 $3.5 10

60 CBT Boston, cbtarchitects.com

$1.9 129

61 HATCH DESIGN GROUP Costa Mesa, CA, hatchdesign.com

$1.8 $125.7 22

62 C+TC DESIGN STUDIO Atlanta, ctcdesignstudio.com

$1.8 21

63 BRAYTONHUGHES DESIGN STUDIOS San Francisco, bhdstudios.com

$1.7 16

new

64 BG STUDIO INTERNATIONAL New York, bgstudio.com

$1.7

$1.0 0.6

65 THE LAWRENCE GROUP St. Louis, thelawrencegroup.com $1.7 $43.5 0.2 78

new

66 API(+) Tampa, FL, apiplus.com

$1.6 18

67 CHIPMAN DESIGN ARCHITECTURE Des Plaines, IL, chipman-design.com

$1.5 $27.0 48

new

68 SEIFERT MURPHY Dallas, seifertmurphy.com

$1.5

new

69 HORD COPLAN MACHT Baltimore, hcm2.com

$1.4

$5.8 0.0 19

new

70 DAS ARCHITECTS Philadelphia, dasarchitects.com

$1.4

$250.0 0.7 800

71 AREEN DESIGN London, areen.com

$1.4

$10.0 0.3 84

72 LS3P Charleston, SC, ls3p.com

$1.3

$129.4 1.3 122

new

73 WALDROP+NICHOLS STUDIO Dallas, waldropnichols.com

$1.2

$49.6 0.7

new

74 ROWLAND+BROUGHTON Aspen, CO, rowlandbroughton.com $1.2 $153.0 0.2 23

new

75 K2M DESIGN Cleveland, k2mdesign.com

new

$1.1

$53.0

*NR - not reported

Rockwell Group

Yabu Pushelberg

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Renovation/Retrofit 46%

Vue in Singapore is by CHIL Interior Design [52].

COURTESY OF CHIL INTERIOR DESIGN

Refresh previously completed projects 7%

hospitality project categories

New construction 47%

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Gensler [4] designed the Hotel San Luis Obispo in California.

“Sustainability will not just be a requirement. It will be a baseline.” —Staci Patton, DLR Group

“Resort stays will become fully transformative experiences. The focus on seamlessly connecting outdoor/indoor spaces and customized activities will be further enhanced as guests utilize new technology to build virtual and real relationships with their destinations.” —Ryan Schommer, Gettys Group “Beyond the narrative of reflecting locale, hotels can create a distinct regional experience that the community can participate in.” —Anna Kreyling, Baskervill

“To be on-site again is great—both revitalizing and challenging.” —Christy Coleman, Leo A Daly NOV.21

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global growth potential for next 2 years international

Southwest

55%

Southeast

53%

Middle East

31%

Northeast

47%

China

29%

Midsouth

37%

Europe

23%

Mid-Atlantic

29%

Asia/Australia/New Zealand

23%

Midwest

24%

Caribbean

20%

Northwest

20%

Mexico

15%

Central/South America

15%

India

11%

Africa

Canada

Other

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2020

$16,608,000

Yabu Pushelberg

$4,023,605

Smallwood

$2,957,639

$4,250,000

NicoleHollis

$3,200,000

$11,500,000

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during the next 2 years, does your firm expect to see more or fewer project activity in these hospitality segments?

fee by project segment hotels (total)

$329,282,553 2020 $333,426,445 2021 (forecast)

hotels (luxury)

$173,711,251 $173,427,276

hotels (boutique)

$83,261,639 $85,071,324

hotels (mid/economy)

$70,540,488 $73,803,225

hotels (micro)

$1,769,175 $1,856,442

multiuse (hospitality/retail/residential) 43% 27% 11% 19%

multiuse (hospitality/retail/residential)

$26,475,660 $26,242,991

restaurants/bars/ lounges/nightclubs

condo-hotels/timeshares 32% 27% 28% 13%

$6,955,483 $8,502,206

resorts/spas/country clubs

24% 46% 14% 16%

resorts

$56,259,063 $63,972,687

gaming

23% 25% 15% 37%

spas

$9,856,527 $9,563,594

cruise ships

4% 20% 23% 53% country clubs

other

22% 22% 11% 44%

$14,766,127 $14,496,342

gaming

$20,055,648 $19,188,735

restaurants

$42,907,875 $38,932,323

bars/lounges/nightclubs

$17,753,075 $11,805,866

cruise ships

$11,623,319 $3,706,585

more projects

no fewer change projects

n/a

hotels (luxury)

29% 32% 28% 11%

hotels (boutique)

43% 26% 20% 11%

hotels (mid/economy)

31% 30% 23% 16%

micro hotels

12% 24% 20% 43%

condo-hotels/timeshare

19% 27% 15% 39%

methodology The annual business survey of Interior Design Hospitality Giants ranks the largest design firms by hospitality design fees for the 12-month period from January 1, 2020 through December 31, 2020. Hospitality design fees include those attributed to: 1. All hospitality interiors work. 2. All aspects of a firm’s hospitality design practice, from strategic planning and programming to design and project management. 3. Fees paid to a firm for work performed by employees and independent contractors who are full-time staff equivalent. Hospitality design fees do not include revenues paid to a firm and remitted to subcontractors that are not considered full-time staff equivalent. For example, certain firms attract work that is subcontracted to a local firm. The originating firm may collect all the fees and retain a management or generation fee, paying the remainder to the performing firm. The amounts paid to the latter are not included in fees of the collecting firm when determining its ranking. Additionally, where applicable, all percentages are based on responding hospitality Giants, not their total number. The data was compiled and analyzed by Interior Design and ThinkLab. 90

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The CODAworx manifesto is simple: Art matters. The belief that artistic contributions enliven and enrich spaces flows into the organization’s annual CODAawards. Celebrating its first decade, the Collaboration of Design + Art awards honor the year’s best projects integrating commissioned art into an interior, architectural, Clockwise from top left: A commercial or public space. Winners and merit recipient, an LED chandelier by Studio merit selections were chosen in 1Thousand graces the lobby of the Chase 11 categories, such as trans Center Arena in San Francisco by Gensler and Manica Architecture. Lucy Simpson’s port ation, commercial, and painted cast-aluminum Bawuwan for the landscape. The jury featured Park Sydney Erskineville apartment com Interior Design editor in chief plex snagged a residential merit. Marc Cindy Allen—the magazine is Fornes/TheVeryMany’s ultra-thin painted a partner of the awards—and aluminum Agent Crystalline, the institu 17 other luminaries, including tional category winner, rises in front of the Edmonton Police Center in Alberta. Pratt Institute president Frances Bronet, architect Chad Oppenheim, and American Society of Interior Designers CEO Gary Wheeler. The group combed through nearly 400 entries from 19 countries to honor the most exemplary installations, sculptures, and interventions. Their top 100 selections were posted online where the public could vote for two people’s choice selections. In all, this year’s awards represent over $463 million in commission fees, but their power lies in the energy and meaning they bring to spaces from Canada to Colombia. —Athena Waligore

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Clockwise from top left: The transportation category winner, Sea Change by Jill Anholt Studio, is an interactive LED installation of mirror-polished stainless steel in a North Vancouver, Canada, bus transit tunnel. Jessica Bodner’s Golden Ramhorn, a hand-sculpted painted steel sculpture at a private airport in Livingston, Montana, earned a landscape merit. Anri Sala’s Time No Longer, an immersive film and sound installation commissioned for the Buffalo Bayou Cistern in Houston, is a merit recipient in the public spaces category. One Plus Partnership’s Changsha Insun International Cinema in China is the hospitality winner.

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mapping the future of work A forward-looking foursome—Huntsman, Pfau Long, RMW, and SHoP—deliver a five-star campus for Uber headquarters in San Francisco text: edie cohen photography: eric laignel

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It’s been 12 years since Uber disrupted the transportation system with its ride-hailing technology that’s now ubiquitous. Today, the company proves itself another disruptor, this time in workplace architecture and design. Uber’s new San Francisco headquarters is a consortium of four towers, not by one or even two firms, but four internationally renowned studios. Like dating, Uber paired them in a harmonious match. For MB1 and MB2, Uber’s first commissioned ground-up headquarters, SHoP Architects conceived the original building plan, and then RMW came aboard for interiors. Huntsman Architectural Group was mainly responsible for the interiors of MB3 and MB4, originally created on spec by Pfau Long (which has since merged with Perkins&Will). Then Huntsman and RMW collaborated with Uber on the campus master plan. MB, by the way, stands for Mission Bay, the city’s burgeoning, formerly industrial neighborhood. As for stats: MB1 is 11 stories, MB2 seven, including the partially enclosed rooftop, and buildings three and four rise 11 stories each. All told, interiors total just over 1 million square feet and will eventually bring together some 6,000 staffers. “We saw this as an opportunity to unite employees within a campus setting rather than have them scattered throughout the city,” begins Uber director of workplace and real estate Tracie Kelly, who worked alongside project executive Michael Huaco, Uber’s VP of global real estate. As for the design teams? “It was a happy marriage,” Huntsman associate principal Nicole Everett reflects. On a grand scale, Uber is conceived as a micro-city, one within and connected to the urban area at large where the two pairs of towers align. This micro-city breaks down into boroughs signified by the towers, communities analogous to floors, and neighborhoods as sig naled by teams. It’s a broad organizational device allowing for 100

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Previous spread: In building two of Uber’s San Francisco headquarters, a 23-acre, a four-building complex with architecture by Pfau Long and SHoP Architects and interiors by Huntsman Architectural Group and RMW, the latter two firms also overseeing the master plan, powder-coated aluminum fronts the plaster enclosure of the ground-floor events space. Opposite: Also in building two, by SHoP and RMW, custom shelving in planked walnut veneer nods to old-school carrels in the library, for heads-down work. Top, from left: That building also contains the complex’s main lobby, where LED-powered graphics and an overhead interactive installation present a museumlike vibe. A ceiling cutout allows for a bar in the pre-function area for its main event space upstairs. Bottom: Back downstairs, the 40-foot-long custom reception desk was installed in three pieces.

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—and encouraging—qualities of contributing to a “sense of place bring ing people together to a positive environment,” Alison Woolf, also a Huntsman associate principal, notes. Thus everyone, no matter where their location, experiences a shared panoply of indoor-outdoor junctions: public spaces, collaboration areas, and quiet zones in the form of libraries, wellness facilities, terraces, cafés, and break rooms—specifically designed to be communal and active, or focused and calm. Each pair of buildings shares an approximately 30,000-square-foot cafeteria, supplemented by four coffee bars. All together the setting offers a work-from-anywhere scenario, albeit one with dedicated workstations, indicative of an autonomous office paradigm. The fact that each environment presents a uniquely textured fabric induces folks to interconnect and continuously explore the entire campus—much as they would San Francisco’s heterogenous streetscape. Given their origins, the two sets of buildings are entirely different. Logic has the introduction start at MB1 and MB2, since the gateway to the campus occurs at the latter. Double-glass facades create 102

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Opposite top: The main event space’s focal point is a 9-by-24-foot monitor with a digital display so sharp it can be viewed in bright daylight with no shades drawn. Opposite bottom: The ground-floor events space maintains connection to the street and city, while its back wall is wired as an abstracted city grid. Top: A view down into a building two solarium reveals a West Elm Workspace sofa. Bottom, from left: A sliding door closes off one of its break rooms, and the maple wall incorporates signage for the main events space, called The Forum. For the cafeteria shared by buildings one and two, RMW installed curved white-oak banquettes.

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“The architecture is a beauty”

This page: For buildings one and two, with architecture by SHoP, the smaller of the two double-story lobbies is a cube surrounded by dichroic glass tubes. Opposite: A pair of sky bridges, mirrored on the underside, connects the pair of SHoP buildings.

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layered transparency as a vertical atrium weaving through all floors be tween the two skins—and a literal and metaphorical connection to the city. The design teams refer to this interstitial space as solariums, for gathering or working. “They give people the choice to choose their own adventure,” SHoP associate principal Shannon Han says. They also add the asset of fresh air. Computer-controlled, operable windows respond to weather conditions creating what she terms “breathing facades.” Yet, adds RMW design principal Hakee Chang, “We were essentially presented with 17 different floor plates due to the various ways in which the solariums engage with the building core.” Unlike typical buildings with a central core, he continues, “Circulation is concentrated along the sides to high light the bridge connections.” Two reflective glass sky bridges, mirrored on the bottom and visible from outside the buildings, span levels four to six and five to seven with pathways both covered and uncovered. Inside, the main lobby is a digital experience. “Conduits run from the feature wall behind the 40-foot-long concrete desk, up to the ceiling and along the length of the space,” RMW senior designer Jenna Szczech explains. Then come choices. Grab a coffee or proceed directly to the events space occupying most of the rest of the floor. Like moths to a flame, visitors are pulled to it, since it’s wrapped in a backlit and perforated white screen. Inside, the room is multifunctional and divisible, made so by an accordion-pleated partition that can rise to the ceiling. These are two of what RMW calls “iconic spaces,” meaning places with campus-wide draw. The cafeteria is another. In MB2, it occupies the entire second floor in a setting every bit the hip restaurant: polished concrete flooring, serpentine white-oak banquettes overlooked by a curvaceous installation of acrylic tubes, and brass floater strips. Up on the sixth floor is the second and main events space. The Forum, 106

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Opposite: In building four, with interiors by Huntsman, Stephanie Forsythe + Todd MacAllen pendant fixtures are suspended over the smaller lobby. Top, from left: Slatted French chestnut forms the stairwell of the larger lobby in building three, also by Huntsman. The pendant fixtures are paper. Bottom: A stadium stair connects two floors in building four.

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preceded by an icy white pre-function environment with a mossy back wall hinting at the rooftop terrace above, counts as an all-hands venue. “The architecture is a beauty,” Szczech states. Indeed it is: a bright, double-height room enclosed on two sides by a floor-toceiling window system capped by a grid of skylights. Work areas, with each team neighborhood introduced by a “front porch” and privy to break rooms, are focused and calm. Quieter still is the cobalt cocoon punctuated by oak and walnut millwork. Sssh, this is the fifth floor’s head’s-down library devoid of any AV component. What’s missing from this complex scenario? Art, as true walls are scarce. For that, all commissioned from locals, cross over to Huntsman’s component. The two buildings face each other across a plaza; MB3 has a terrace off its seventh floor. While the SHoP-RMW parcel has built-in wow factors, “We had to create these spaces after the fact,” Woolf recalls. For starters, the firm cut through slabs in multiple locations. Now both structures have double-height lobbies, the larger with a slatted wood statement stairway, the smaller a cube framed with dichroic glass tubes, their colors changing according to one’s viewing stance.

Top: Off building three, the terrace features a custom painted steel canopy cum wind screen by Huntsman and landscape architect SWA. Bottom, from left: Inside, a double-height space has a painted, multi-panel artwork by Leah Rosenberg. With the city’s skyline visible at rear, the two other buildings face each other across a courtyard. Opposite: Nike Schroeder’s threaded artwork spans the double-height wall of a break room on the top two levels of building four.

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The ceiling above the bleachers, beneficiary of a cutout between floors four and five, has more fluctuating colors. A double-height break room, itself a novel amenity for the top 10th and 11th floors, has a fiber artwork extending upward over the expanse. Meanwhile, a vibrant, multi-panel painting is installed at the connector stair from yet another break room to the wellness suite. Uber is particularly proud of this initiative. Almost every floor campuswide has a mother’s room, but the big push is the mirrored studio for yoga, barre, or dance classes with a bird’seye view of the terrace below thanks to glass sliders. There are also adjacent pre- or post-workout chill zones that beckon with hanging wickerlike chairs. Back inside, the cafeteria serving this part of the quad is anything but corporate. It presents a cheeky take on the green wall with verde tiles. The ceramics combine with stitched, whitebolster fabric to form a dimensional divider between servery and seating. Post-prandial, staffers can head to MB4’s makers’ room for collaborative work or MB3’s library for heads-down work. This version is “a digital and tech-enabled space prompting different neurological stimuli,” Woolf says. Regardless, Huntsman paid some homage to the old-school library format by furnishing it with long tables and carrels. It turns out, some things don’t need disrupting.

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Top: Huntsman combined two local ceramic tiles with stitched fabric for the dividing wall between food service and seating in building three and four’s shared cafeteria. Bottom: Birch-plywood millwork in the collaborative makers’ room is like a large pegboard enabling flexibility for boxes and shelves. Opposite top: In building three, the wellness suite extends to a post-yoga relax zone with Nana Dietzel hanging chairs. Opposite bottom, from left: Huntsman’s version of the library has larch parquet flooring. Ceramic tiles create a colorful mosaic at the entry to the wellness suite.

“Almost every floor campus-wide has a mother’s room” f PROJECT TEAM

SKANDIFORM: CHAIRS. KRISTALIA: TABLE. FILZFELT: ACOUSTIC PANELING. DESIGNTEX:

DAVID LINK; DAVID MECKLEY; RENE CALARA; ADAM MURPHY; GREG DUMONT; EDNA WANG; JENA

BANQUETTE BACK FABRIC. KNOLL TEXTILES: BANQUETTE SEAT FABRIC. MUUTO: ARMCHAIRS

KISSINGER; SARUYNA LEANO; AMY STOCK; SIERRA GOETZ; HADLEY BELL; PATRYCJA DRAGAN;

(LIBRARY), STOOLS (COFFEE BAR, BREAK ROOM, COUNTER). MINUS TIO: TABLES (EVENT SPACE).

DAVID HEVESI; JULIO GUTIERREZ; EDWARD SWEENEY; ELIAS HORAT; PAM ROBINSON; TAKRIT

ASSOCIATED TERRAZZO CO.: FLOORING (PRE-FUNCTION).ARPER: STACKING CHAIRS. DECOUSTICS:

JIRAWUDOMCHAI; JOANNA HERINGER; ERIC NELSON: HUNTSMAN ARCHITECTURAL GROUP. TERRY

CEILING PANELS. CARNEGIE FABRICS: PANELING FABRIC. BENDHEIM: GLASS PANEL (BREAK

KWIK; KAREN LETTENEY; JIN PARK; OWEN HUANG; BRITNI WILLIAMS; DARREN BARBOZA; JANET

ROOM). MARTIN BRATTRUD: CUSTOM BANQUETTES. YELLOW GOAT DESIGN: CUSTOM CEILING

BRADEN; SAL WIKKE; OSCAR CATARINO; FELICE ROSARIO; GLORIA N. RASMUSSEN; ANNETTE

INSTALLATION (CAFETERIA). GLOBAL LIGHTING: PENDANT FIXTURES. MOLO: PENDENT FIXTURES:

LITLE; JOSH CARRELL; MAURICE FARINAS; JONATHAN CHOW; YINONG LIU: RMW. QUEZADA

(COFFEE BAR). GOLDRAY INDUSTRIES: DICHROIC GLASS PANELS. PEDRALI: CHAIRS. WEST COAST

ARCHITECTURE: ARCHITECT OF RECORD. ALFA TECH: LIGHTING CONSULTANT, MEP. THERE: GRAPHICS

INDUSTRIES: TABLES. HBF TEXTILES: CUSHION FABRIC (STADIUM SEATING). FERMOB: CHAIRS

CONSULTANT. SWA GROUP: LANDSCAPING CONSULTANT. THORNTON TOMASETTI: STRUCTURAL

(TERRACE). KETTAL: SOFAS. CB2: TABLES. LANDSCAPE FORMS: CUSTOM TRELLIS. SOLID MANU

ENGINEER. SALTER: ACOUSTICAL ENGINEER. ATELIER TEN: LEED CONSULTANT, WELL CONSULTANT.

FACTURING CO.: STOOLS. LIGHTOLIER: CEILING FIXTURES. TON: CHAIRS (CAFÉ). V2 LIGHTING

ACCO: MEP. MISSION BELL; MONTBLEU: WOODWORK. CONCRETEWORKS: CONCRETEWORK. DPR

GROUP: PENDANT FIXTURES. STATEMENTS: WALL TILE. GEIGER: WALL FABRIC. GARRET:

CONSTRUCTION; TRUEBECK: GENERAL CONTRACTORS.

BANQUETTE FABRIC. WOODTECH: TABLES, BENCHES (MAKERS’ ROOM). SIKA DESIGN: HANGING

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CHAIRS (WELLNESS CENTER). MAFI: FLOORING. GARDEN TRELLIS CO.: CUSTOM CEILING.

FROM FRONT HUSH: CUSTOM INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION (LOBBY). STEELCASE THROUGH WEST

FINELITE: LINEAR FIXTURES. SCHIAVELLO: SCREENS (LIBRARY). TURNSTONE: TABLES. HAY:

ELM WORKSPACE: BENCH, TABLES (LOBBY), SOFA, COFFEE TABLES (SOLARIUM). ZEHNDER RITTLING:

CHAIRS. STUDIO TREVELYAN: PENDANT FIXTURES (WELLNESS). THROUGHOUT CAESARSTONE:

CEILING PANELS (LIBRARY). INTERFACE: CARPET TILE. ALLIED MAKER: SCONCES. WATSON: TABLE.

SOLID SURFACING. MANNINGTON COMMERCIAL: FLOORING. GRATO: WOOD SLATS. STONE

GUS MODERN: SIDE CHAIRS. & TRADITION: STOOLS. APPARATUS: PENDANT FIXTURES. MENU: STOOLS.

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experiments in nature For their weekend home in Spain’s western countryside, the founders of SelgasCano pair preservation with innovation text: fred a. bernstein photography: iwan baan

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Previous spread: On a 12-acre former farm in Spain’s Cáceres province, four existing buildings and a newly built, yellow-doored guest house compose the weekend compound by and for the cofounders of SelgasCano. Opposite top: The masonry facade of the cottage has chiseled holes fitted with acrylic. Opposite bottom: The apertures bring light into the upstairs living area, where a 1950’s rattan sofa by Dirk Van Sliedrecht stands beneath planks from the cottage’s original firstfloor ceiling. Top, from left: Downstairs, the stone wall behind the kitchen counter has an irregular window opening handmade by Selgas and Cano. The couple also designed the hanging metal fireplace separating the living and dining areas. Bottom: Above the kitchen, with a cedar countertop, is the dining area, supported by a rebar structure.

The married architects José Selgas and Lucía Cano have become known for their luminous buildings, mostly made from translucent materials in bright colors and bulbous shapes. These include Second Home coworking spaces in Los Angeles, London, and Lisbon, Portugal; a school in Nairobi; and rec centers and meeting halls throughout their native Spain. But the couple’s weekend house—decidedly rustic, with barely a smooth surface in sight—couldn’t be more different from those widely published projects. Does that portend a change in architectural direction for SelgasCano? “We always try to work with what we find,” responds Selgas, reeling off a list of projects in which the couple used existing elements. In the case of the weekend house, in Cáceres province, a few hours west of Madrid, those elements included three farm buildings—a pair of chicken coops and a small stable for goats and donkeys—closely clustered around a rudimentary two-story cottage. The cottage didn’t have a source of heat—not a fireplace or even a chimney. When the previous owners would build a fire to keep warm, they did it on a stone in the middle of the kitchen floor, eventually blackening the woodwork overhead. Over the four-year renovation, Selgas and Cano did install a fireplace and stoves, but other wise they changed as little as they could. One of their main interventions involved lowering floors, by excavating, and raising ceilings to get a bit more headroom. “We can’t enter like chickens,” the 6-foot 4-inch Selgas says. But when the local contractors thought the ceilings should be 8 feet or higher, he demurred. A bit under 7 feet was enough, lest the character of the buildings be destroyed. “The existing scale was really nice.” Still, where roofs were raised above the tops of existing walls, in the cottage and stable, there were gaps the couple filled with sheets of acrylic, giving the structures newfound NOV.21

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lightness. They also chiseled holes into some of the masonry walls, “to bring in additional sunshine,” Cano says. Acrylic was cut into panes that fit those irregularly shaped openings. Inside, while much of the woodwork and masonry were left in their natural state, some sections were painted white in order to bounce light around. They added rooms within the existing footprint, mostly using salvaged materials, including some of the blackened wood from the cottage’s original first-floor ceiling. “It’s part of the history of the house,” Cano notes. Much of the design work was extemporaneous. The contractors, skilled as they were, weren’t comfortable working from plans. “So we typically would go there with them and say, ‘Let’s put a wall up to this height,’ and ‘Let’s install a wardrobe there,’ and then we’d choose the wood,” Selgas explains. He and Cano supervised construction together. And they did so forgivingly. The house, Cano says, “wasn’t meant to have perfect anything.” The couple’s own bedroom, largely below-grade, had been one of the chicken coops. Its new roof is a concrete slab covered with soil and native plants. Puncturing a thick sidewall are two unusual windows. The first was made from a stump that one of the builders was saving for just the right project. The other was a kind of barrel, built to be installed a few degrees off horizontal. Selgas and Cano planned to use it to see mountain peaks, but the builders installed it upside down. “So now you see the lawn,” Selgas reports. “It’s almost like a piece of sculpture.” The other chicken coop and the former stable became the compound’s two guest bedrooms. In the cottage, the original kitchen was pretty much open to the elements. “We kept much of that feeling,” Selgas continues. But he and Cano created a structure out of rebar to support the living and dining areas in the renovated upstairs. They also used rebar to frame the new stairway. And they broke a hole through the wall, “So the kitchen would have a relationship with the outside table, where we typically have dinner,” Cano says. Asked how they made the hole, she adds, “carefully and by hand.” To complement the couple’s modern and vintage pieces by the likes of Monica Förster, Dirk Van Sliedrecht, and Hans Wegner, the builders made custom furniture on-site. “They have the time, the patience, to do things you can’t do in places where labor is Top, from left: The guest-house roof is a chestnut-plank terrace with vintage deck chairs. A copper pipe feeds water from the property’s exisiting spring to the man made swimming pond. Lined in local pine, the guest house has a wall that opens entirely and Hans Wegner’s AP71 chair beside an Italian vintage lamp. Its exterior began with an existing stone wall; one of the yellow steel doors leads to storage. Bottom: Verner Panton’s Ilumesa table joins a side chair by Alejandro Cano. NOV.21

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Top, from left: The former stable, entered through an original wood door, is now one of two guest bed rooms. Its bathroom has a vintage marble sink. Bottom: The primary bedroom, the former chicken coop and partly below-grade, is also clad in pine planks, its sidewall punc tured with irregular apertures and a reused mid-century fireplace. Opposite top: Some surfaces, such as a guest-room “headboard,” were painted white to reflect sunlight. Opposite bottom: Between the foreground stone wall and the cottage is the primary bedroom’s green roof.

expensive,” Selgas says. He said the price of the renovation was about $50 a square foot, or about $65,000 altogether—a fraction of what it would have cost in any major city. After finishing converting the original buildings, Selgas and Cano decided they needed space to keep garden tools and patio furniture. An existing stone wall became one side of their planned storage building. They added the other walls, one of which is punctuated by yellow doors, and a wooden ceiling (made of the formwork from the project’s concrete pour)—perfectly adequate for a storeroom. Except that while working on it, Selgas says, “We noticed the incredible views and decided to transform it into a guest house,” albeit one that’s far simpler, spatially and structurally, than the main house. (A portion of this new structure was reserved for storage.) Asked what she likes best about her family’s weekend compound, Cano answers, “It’s the setting. It’s nature.” That includes a rushing stream they use for swimming and an Eden of fig, olive, orange, and lemon trees. In fact, as the plantings around, and on, the house grow in, “The buildings are disappearing,” she says happily. For his part, Selgas, an environmentalist, is particularly pleased by the project’s modesty. “Wasting space is a problem for our society,” he says. “We should only create what we’re going to use.” Like his and Cano’s gently upgraded buildings, he adds, “The future will be more about renovations than new things.” PROJECT TEAM LUISMI QUINTANA: BUILDER. RUBÉN CRIBA: CARPENTER. PRODUCT SOURCES FROM FRONT CISAL: SINK FITTINGS (KITCHEN).

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local context From Munich to Mexico, new hotels look to their neighborhood’s history for creative guidance

text: peter webster

See page 124 for Fettle’s Schwan Locke hotel in Munich. Photography: Lennart Wiedemuth.

Anonimous and JAHS project Tá Hotel de Diseño, Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico. standout Housed in an early 20th-century neocolonial mansion, the two-story, 11-key boutique property is laid out around a pair of courtyards—one with a pool, bar, and restaurant, the other flanked with guest quarters—while rooms on the upper level are surrounded by a new ipe deck and bronze-finished steel lattices that nod to the city’s colonial-era ironwork. photography Rafael Gamo.

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Fettle project Schwan Locke, Munich. standout Starting with an almost completed apartment building, the 151-room hotel freely reinterprets the city’s early 20th–century Deutscher Werkbund movement, paying homage to its ethos of combining mass production with traditional craft through the joinery details of the café counter and lounge bar as well as the many pieces of custom furniture, light fixtures, and art. photography clockwise from top right: Edmund Dabney (2); Lennart Wiedemuth (3).

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“Our goal was to recreate a warm place where rooms would be closer to an apartment than a hotel but with all the comforts of the latter”

Maidenberg Architecture project Hotel Louvre Montana, Paris. standout While the gut renovation of the mid 19th–century hotel left little but the staircase and elevator intact, the 25-room, seven-story property retains its Haussmannian charm thanks to a crisply revamped facade and residentially inflected interiors that embrace the period’s design codes but in diverted, modernized form, the custom star-embroidered fabric on the breakfast room wall being a twinkling case in point. photography Christophe Bielsa.

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“Natural colors such as ocher and earth tones prevail in the rooms, creating a visual dialogue with the vernacular materials”

Point3architecture project Hotel Paradis Pietrasanta, Italy. standout Working exclusively with natural materials— marble, terra cotta, ceramic, and wrought iron among them—the three-level, 12-key Tuscan property, formerly an 18th-century palazzo, feels as if it’s always been there yet with enlivened interiors featuring furniture channeling 1970’s Italy and a series of wall tapestries by Moroccan artist Khalil Minka. photography Filippo Bamberghi.

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Works from developer Jorge Pérez’s private collection are showcased in the lobby and public areas at One Park Grove, a Miami residential tower by OMA and Meyer Davis text: raul barreneche photography: eric laignel

“Let’s build sculpture.” That’s how Will Meyer, principal of Meyer Davis, recalls the design team of One Park Grove—the last of three towers to be built in a Coconut Grove, Miami, waterfront residential complex—being rallied by Jorge Pérez, chairman of Related Group, which co-developed the project with Terra Group. “Jorge didn’t say, ‘Let’s build a box and decorate it,’” Meyer notes. “It’s a totally different approach to design.” Pérez, one of Miami’s preeminent art collectors (his name graces the Pérez Art Museum Miami by Herzog & de Meuron) assembled an all-star lineup to bring One Park Grove to life. OMA, led by partner Shohei Shigematsu, envisioned the tower’s undulating architecture of exterior concrete columns that swell and contract like the trunks of royal palm trees. Studio Sofield designed the understated kitchens and bathrooms in the residences. Landscape architect Enzo Enea laid out the parklike grounds, which cover 5 acres and include an outdoor amphitheater, a ribbon of swimming pools, and a sculpture park. And celebrity event planner Colin Cowie programmed services and experiences from music playlists to poolside towel and sunscreen selections. Meyer Davis’s charge was designing the tower’s lobby, amenity spaces (more than 50,000 square feet of them, including a screening room, spa, and wine room), and other public areas, incorporating artwork from Pérez’s extensive private collection. “There are a lot of branded towers in Miami, but this one has a real personality,” co-principal Gray Davis says. “It touches on all the sensory points that make an enjoyable experience and give the project a real soul.” Meyer Davis senior project manager Sonya Cheng calls One Park Grove’s interiors “bohemia on the bay.” That’s a reference to Coconut Grove’s long history—it’s the city’s oldest neighborhood—and reputation as Miami’s free-spirited artistic and intellectual hub. Onetime abode of John Singer Sargent, Tennesse Williams,

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Previous spread: Art in the lobby at One Park Grove, a residential tower in Miami by OMA, with public spaces by Meyer Davis, includes a bronze by Argentine sculptor Alberto Bastón Diaz and a mural by Venezuelan painter Paul Amundarian. Opposite top: Apparatus Studio pendant fixtures hang above reception’s custom marble-clad desk with integrated steel planter and shelving. Opposite bottom: The custom rug, marble-tile flooring, and rounded furniture echo the organic curves of OMA’s architecture. Top, from left: The giant concrete head is one of three comprising South African artist Ledelle Moe’s sculpture Memorial Collapse. Works by Kelley Johnson, in foreground, and Polly Apfelbaum, at rear, enliven an elevator corridor. Bottom: A custom sofa and vintage-inspired armchair gather round William Gray nesting tables.

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Another of Moe’s monumental concrete heads lies on its side beneath Bec Brittain pendant fixtures.

“At times, circulation took a backseat to art placement, in which Pérez played an enthusiastically active role”

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and Joni Mitchell, the Grove, as it’s known, is home to the city’s top private schools and the former Coconut Grove Playhouse. The neighborhood also happens to be one of the city’s leafiest, with a dense tree canopy that stretches to the shores of Biscayne Bay. “I thought we should provide something of the essence of Coconut Grove, immersed in nature and maximizing exposure to light and air,” Shigematsu says of the 23-story tower’s 68 residences, which he likens to “stacked villas.” Shigematsu cites another influence on OMA’s architecture: Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s 1983 Surrounded Islands, where they wrapped an archipelago of tiny islets in nearby Biscayne Bay in sheets of hot-pink polypropylene. Cheng also mentions the installation as influencing how the lobby interiors negotiate the tower’s unique peanut-shape footprint—pinched at the center with two elevator cores—and multiple grade changes. Similar to the way the islands were encircled with concentric bands of pink fabric, the designers layered ribbons of stone flooring that radiate outward from the core. “Where all those lines converge and intersect, we created ‘islands’ of seating groups,” Cheng explains. Patterned rugs ground those sitting areas—Meyer describes them as “moments of serenity, the residual between waves”—as they float between the core and the lobby’s curved glass exterior. The language of undulating forms continues vertically, with core walls clad in slats of white oak and others hosting a palisade of backlit white panels. “It’s not a traditional layout—it’s organic and really out there,” Meyer acknowledges. “It was hard to describe to people who weren’t on the team exactly what we were doing. It’s really a new language with its own logic, rules, and geometry, but it creates its own sense of space.” Positioning large sculptures from Pérez’s collection also directed Meyer, Davis, and Cheng’s choreography of the lobby’s interior. At times, circulation took a backseat to art placement, in which Pérez played an enthusiastically active role. “Sometimes, we’d pick a spot and Jorge would say, ‘No, this piece works better over there,’” Cheng recalls. Sometimes the team accompanied Pérez to his private storage facility to preview artworks, other times to the art museum in downtown Miami. “We turned the typical design process upside down to achieve a different result,” Meyer notes. An early recommendation was South African artist Ledelle Moe’s ensemble work Memorial Collapse, a trio of monumental heads, laid on their sides, with rebar emerging through the concrete. “When Jorge suggested those, our response was a resounding ‘Hell, yeah!’” Top: A Joan Gaspar floor lamp and Meyer recalls. “He gets really a Ramón Úbeda and Otto Canalda excited about art. When he table lamp bring a living-room vibe sees the direction a designer to a pool cabana clad in ipe planks. or architect is going in, he Center: Overlapping backlit panels wants them to take it as far as turn a lobby wall into a glowing they can. If you lean in on his palisade. Bottom: One Park Grove joins the complex’s two other spirit, you get results.” OMA-designed towers. Other works populating Photography: Iwan Baan. One Park Grove’s public Opposite: Slatted white-oak walls, spaces run a gamut of styles stained three different hues and and media. Outside in the hung with Spanish moss, mirror gardens, Jaume Plensa’s The the ribbed architectural concrete Poets in Bordeaux (Body Soul of the lobby’s upper reaches. God, Country, Water Fire), which comprises three 35-foot poles topped by illuminated resin busts, changes appearance as the lights cycle through different colors. Interior amenity spaces feature more subtle works, including delicate vellum drawings by Miami-based artist Michele Oka Doner and a Richard Serra etching. 136

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One Park Grove’s well-orchestrated blend of architecture, design, and art bears an ultimate stamp of approval: Earlier this year, Pérez, who has lived on the Coconut Grove waterfront for decades, decided to trade in his Venetian palazzo-style mansion for a penthouse at One Park Grove. He donated the $33 million proceeds from the sale of his house to The Miami Foundation. PROJECT TEAM SCOTT ABRAHAMS; MATTHEW HASELTINE; CASS NAKASHIMA; NILS SANDERSON; DAEHO LEE; MATTHEW EDGARDO DAVIS; JEREMY KIM; GONZALO LOPEZ; PANTEA TEHRANI; SUMIT SAHDEV; JUN SHIMADA; ANDREW MACK; MIGUEL DARCY; BETTY FAN; CARLY DEAN; AHMADREZA SCHRICKER; BRITT JOHNSON; SHIDA SALEHI-ESMATI; JACKIE WOON BAE; IAN WATCHORN; FILIPPO NANNI; ESIN EREZ; LUKE WILLIS: OMA. MEI LAU; DREW TUCKER; MARIANNE MORDHORST: MEYER DAVIS. ARQUITECTONICA: ARCHITECT OF RECORD. ARREDOLUCE; ENEA GARDEN DESIGN; PLANT THE FUTURE: LANDSCAPING CONSULTANT. SOUTH DADE LIGHTING: LIGHTING CONSULTANT. DESIMONE CONSULTING ENGINEERS: STRUCTURAL ENGINEER. FELLER ENGINEERING: MEP. VSN ENGINEERING: CIVIL ENGINEER. ALLEGHENY MILLWORK; MILES OF WOOD: WOODWORK. EXCELLENCE IN STONE: STONEWORK. AMERICAN UPHOLSTERY: CUSTOM UPHOLSTEREDGOODS WORKSHOP. MORIARTY: GENERAL CONTRACTOR. PRODUCT SOURCES FROM FRONT STRIPE VINTAGE MODERN: BLUE ARMCHAIRS (LOBBY). STELLAR WORKS: NESTING TABLES. F&R GENERAL INTERIORS: CUSTOM CONSOLE (LOBBY), TABLE (WINE ROOM). APPARATUS STUDIO: PENDANT FIXTURES (RECEPTION). STEEL MONKEY DREAM SHOP: CUSTOM SHELVING (RECEPTION, LOBBY). GABRIEL SCOTT: PENDANT FIXTURES (LOBBY). TACCHINI: ROUND SIDE TABLES. LIAIGRE: FLOOR LAMP. THE FUTURE PERFECT: MODULAR COFFEE TABLES. PHILLIPS COLLECTION: SIDE TABLE. BEC BRITTAIN: PENDANT FIXTURE. HARBOUR: SOFA, CHAIRS, COFFEE TABLE (CABANA). MARSET: FLOOR LAMP. METALARTE: TABLE LAMP. RH: CONSOLE (SPA), PENDANT FIXTURE (PLAYROOM). USONA: CHAISE LONGUES (SPA). HBF TEXTILES: WALLCOVERING (SCREENING ROOM). LUDWIG & LARSEN: SCONCES. SACCO CARPET: CUSTOM CARPET. KRAVET: CHAIR FABRIC. JAB ANSTOETZ: PILLOW FABRIC. OPUZEN: DRAPERY FABRIC. TRI-KES: CUSTOM WALLCOVERING (PLAYROOM). TOMMY BAHAMA: PILLOWS. WINE CELLAR INNOVATIONS: CUSTOM LOCKERS (WINE ROOM). LE LAMPADE: CEILING FIXTURE. THROUGHOUT TAILOR-MADE TEXTILES: CUSTOM RUGS. BENJAMIN MOORE & CO.; SCUFFMASTER: PAINT.

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Opposite top: In the spa, a lounge area includes a pair of chaise longues pushed together to form a tranquil nook. Opposite bottom: Custom tiered seating upholstered in velvet appoints the screening room. Top, from left: Vinyl wallcovering and a wooden palm tree, both custom, define the kid’s playroom. Paneling of wire-brushed oak fitted with polished-brass lockers encircles the wine room. Bottom: A concrete-and-grass amphitheater sits at the base of the tower. Photography: Ossip van Duivenbode.

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California Dreaming With nods to sea, surf culture, and mid-century modernism, Markzeff captures the state’s coastal beauty at Alila Marea Beach Resort in Encinitas

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As a boy growing up in Cape Town, South Africa, Mark Zeff slipped out of the house one morning and took a train to the ocean. “My mother woke up and couldn’t find me,” the Interior Design Hall of Fame member and Markzeff principal recalls. “A friend and I had gone on a mission to collect sea creatures.” Armed with jam jars and formalin, they spent the day gathering specimens like anemones and brought them back home. “I was punished heavily, but my mother also encouraged me to do it again,” Zeff says. He’s gravitated to the sea ever since, scavenging, surfing, and scuba diving around the world. In 2018, Zeff evoked this history in a pitch to design the Alila Marea Beach Resort in Encinitas, a beach city in San Diego County. The dramatic site sits atop sandy bluffs facing the Pacific Ocean to the north and west, and the developers originally envisioned hiring a local who knew the coast. Though based in New York, Zeff proved that his firm belonged on the project. “We won the contract because I put together a visual essay of how I’ve been personally connected to the ocean all my life,” the designer says. As outsiders, he and Stacie Meador—Markzeff director of hospitality design and an avid diver herself—brought a fresh take on SoCal style, creating warm, pared-down interiors that channel the power of the sea. The 250,000-square-foot building, by Joseph Wong Design Associates, occupies a long 4-acre lot that slopes on both sides “like the back of an animal,” Zeff observes. The location necessitated an unusual layout. Most of the 20-plus hospitality properties the firm has completed, including Hotel Van Zandt in Austin, Texas, and Virgin Hotels Nashville, are towers with a vertical orientation; the three-story Alila Marea, however, has a horizontal plan similar to a cruise ship. Amenities are spread out to maximize views. The lobby, coffee bar, and spa are on the ground level; a central staircase leads to a ballroom and conference area, plus a gym, pool, and sun deck; and the 117-seat Vaga restaurant is on the third floor. With 21 luxury hotels across Asia and the U.S., the Hyatt-owned Alila brand aims to celebrate its locations with a natural, authentic aesthetic. For Zeff and Meador, that meant concrete floors, driftwood sculptures, custom oak furniture, and a palette of earthy neutrals— without a seashell in sight. “We weren’t literal with every thread,” Meador explains. “The way the ocean hits the coast there is so powerful that we really wanted that strength in 142

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Previous spread: In the lobby of the 130-room Alila Marea Beach Resort in Encinitas, California, by Markzeff, custom leather-upholstered white-oak benches and mahogany lounge chairs with seagrass seats overlooked by native Torrey pines evoke a subtle oceanside vibe. Opposite top: Cast-in-place concrete treads and risers and painted-steel rods form the property’s central staircase. Opposite bottom: A photograph by local artist and surfer Aaron Chang hangs in a lounge. Top, from left: Another Chang image backs reception’s hand-carved oak desk. LEDs illuminate the staircase. Bottom: The 250,000-square-foot hotel building is by Joseph Wong Design Associates, which collaborated with Markzeff on the facade of board-formed concrete and walnut-color composite cladding.

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the concept. But it’s also restrained because the ocean can be very quiet.” As divers, Zeff says, they experience a different side of the sea and know there’s only “a muffled and beautiful noise” beneath the crashing waves. That submarine perspective informed the stillness of the dimly lit spa—with beige textured-vinyl wall coverings and a hemlock-wrapped sauna—and the illumination of the central staircase. “One of the most amazing things about diving is when the sun shines down through the volume of water—the staircase feels like that,” Zeff notes. There’s no skylight at the top, but LEDs shining up and down on each level form a glowing yellow cylinder; white painted-steel rods rise through the center of the stairwell like sun rays. Zeff, who hasn’t lost his boyhood fascination with marine life, says the rods also remind him of an urchin’s tendrils. Other aquatic references are similarly subtle. The 130 guest rooms echo the colors of the coast with driftwood-finished oak headboards and rope and rattan details. In the ballroom, chandeliers reminiscent of fishing nets hang above a custom Axminster carpet, its swirling lines alluding to kelp forests, the treelike algae found in waters nearby. The lobby’s patterned concrete floor riffs on scientific drawings of marine animals by Ernst Haeckel, a 19th-century German artist whose work Zeff collects. “He studied the symmetry and mathematics of sea creatures, and his work looks at their molecular

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Top, from left: The concrete floor in the lobby has a stenciled pattern inspired by German artist Ernst Haeckel’s molecular drawings of sea creatures. Chaise lounges by George Tsironas line the pool. Limewash paint coats a corridor wall. Bottom: Paneling of surfboard-inspired fiberglass and sapele mahogany surrounds the poolside bar, furnished with custom sofas, Masaya & Co. woven-leather chairs, and Nanimarquina ottomans.

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structure,” Zeff explains. The designers created a giant stencil loosely based on Haeckel’s illustrations, laid it over the concrete, and applied a whitewash stain. “It looks integral to the concrete and has a nice depth to it,” Meador adds. The beach theme is most evident at the Pocket, the poolside bar. Encinitas is the birthplace of the iconic Bing Surfboards and a mecca for the sport overall, so Markzeff teamed up with surfboard designer Brian Szymanski to craft fiberglass-and-walnut paneling for the space. “Brian went into his archive and found surfboard colors and patterns from Bing’s heyday, which was the early ’60’s,” Zeff says. Streaks of red, teal, and cream alternate with sapele mahogany, the wood giving the rounded room a mid-century air. Kilim ottomans pick up the striped look. With the mighty Pacific steps away, the setting is enough to make guests want to hit the waves—or just kick back with a Pocket Margarita and enjoy the view.

PROJECT TEAM FRANCESCA M C CULLOCH; LIANG LIN: MARKZEFF. JOSEPH WONG; RICK ROUND; MICHAEL TRIA: JOSEPH WONG DESIGN ASSOCIATES. NERI LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE: LANDSCAPE CONSULTANT. OHM LIGHT: LIGHTING CONSULTANT. DCI ENGINEERS: STRUCTURAL ENGINEER. EMERALD CITY ENGINEERS: MEP. WB POWELL: WOODWORK. CALIFORNIA SHEET METAL; M.A.S. IRON COMPANY: METALWORK. THUNDER JONES CONTRACTING GROUP: CONCRETEWORK. AFM CONTRACT; BISCAYNE HOSPITALITY: CUSTOM FURNITURE WORKSHOPS. SUFFOLK: GENERAL CONTRACTOR. PRODUCT SOURCES FROM FRONT EDELMAN LEATHER: BENCH UPHOLSTERY (LOBBY). CB2: TABLES. INTERNATIONAL TREESCAPES: TREES. RESTORATION HARDWARE: CHAIRS (LOBBY), CLUB CHAIR (SUITE). COMPOSITION HOSPITALITY: CUSTOM CHAIRS (RECEPTION). DAVID ALLEN: CUSTOM DESK. RESYSTA: COMPOSITE PANELS (FACADE). 10DEKA OUTDOOR FURNITURE: CHAISE LONGUES (POOL). NANIMARQUINA: OTTOMANS (BAR). MASAYA & CO.: CHAIRS. BLU DOT: ROUND TABLE. ATELIER VIERKANT: PLANTERS. STARK CARPET: CUSTOM CARPET (CONFERENCE AREA). GOMMAIRE: OUTDOOR CHAIRS. LULU & GEORGIA: OUTDOOR SIDE TABLE. RICH BRILLIANT WILLING: CABANA PENDANT FIXTURE (POOL). HELO: WOOD SUPPLIER (SAUNA). ELITAS: CUSHION UPHOLSTERY (FIREPIT). AMERICAN LEATHER: CUSTOM SECTIONAL (SUITE). NOIR TRADING: COFFEE TABLE. J.A. CASILLAS: CUSTOM BED. LOSTINE: LAMPS. THROUGHOUT SURFACING SOLUTIONS: CUSTOM CONCRETE FLOOR. DOMINGUE ARCHITECTURAL FINISHES: LIMEWASH PAINT.

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Opposite top: In the conference area, the Axminster carpet’s custom pattern is based on kelp forests. Opposite bottom: Iroko clads a cabana; the pendant fixture is by Rich Brilliant Willing and Meyer Davis. Top, from left: Canadian hemlock wraps the sauna. Cushions covered in polyolefin circle the concrete firepits near the pool. Bottom: A custom sectional, a credenza in rattan and stained oak, and lamps by Lostine appoint the presidential suite.

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cabin fever Forest huts and woodland lodges are the inspiration behind the interiors of Timber House, a residential tower in Hong Kong by NC Design & Architecture NOV.21

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Previous spread: Floating amid tropical foliage, a wood cabin marks the entry to Timber House, a Hong Kong residential tower with interiors by NC Design & Architecture. Left: Powder-coated corrugated steel clads the entry doors and surrounding wall, while fluted glass insets allow daylight into the lobby. Opposite top: The custom blackened-steel reception desk evokes a woodburning stove. Opposite center: Reflected in an elevator cab’s mirror ceiling, a custom blackened-steel ladder seems to stretch to infinity. Opposite bottom: Custom pendant globes illuminate the interior of the cabin.

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Hong Kong is among the last places on earth where you might expect to find a tree house. Yet there, in the middle of the Kowloon neighborhood, straddling the end of a congested, towerlined alley, you’ll find just that: a wood cabin with a simple gabled outline that a child might draw, suspended 12 feet above street level amidst tropical foliage. Conceived by NC Design & Architecture, the abstracted cabin marks the entrance to Timber House, a new 30-story residential complex by property conglomerate New World Development and architecture firm AGC Design. It’s also an invitation into a world of curiosity and childlike wonder where, NCDA principal Nelson Chow says, “People should feel that anything is possible.” Born in Hong Kong and raised between there and Toronto, Chow received a master’s in architecture from Ontario’s University of Waterloo before earning a certificate in men’s tailoring at New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology in 2005. He had always wanted to study fashion but the instability of a career in that industry made it a hard sell to his family. So he spent the first years of his professional life as an architect at AvroKO, a Manhattan firm specializing in hospitality projects. There he worked on designing everything from restaurant-staff uniforms to custom furniture, a holistic approach he took with him when he moved back to Hong Kong in 2009. Chow founded his firm two years later, working on prominent restaurant and bar projects, including his breakthrough design for Foxglove, a slick speakeasy behind a 19th-century umbrella shop in downtown Hong Kong. “I like to think of my designs as stage sets that engage with emotional experience,” Chow says. “Architects like to look

down on interior designers, and interior designers like to look down on people who work at a smaller scale than they do. But I think really everything, every detail, is equally important.” That meticulous, experiential ethos made Chow the perfect designer to head up New World Development’s Timber House project. “I’m always looking for avant-garde ways to help strengthen the important relationship between society and our planet,” says CEO and executive vice chairman Adrian Cheng, the driving force behind the complex. “It’s very important to us that we make an impact with each property we produce, and I believe Timber House does this in a fun and creative new way.” Backing onto Ho Man Tin hill, a sliver of greenery that has made its eponymous neighborhood one of the city’s most sought-after residential districts, Timber House generates wonder and surprise precisely by restoring the connection between people and nature otherwise lost in the teeming metropolis. Comprising 240 apartments ranging in size from 222 to 526 square feet, the building is conceived principally for young families who move to the area for its top-notch schools. The tree house, which floats in a three-story cutout at the building’s entrance, is just the first suggestion of the witty, mysterious, kid-friendly world inside. Powder-coated corrugated steel doors with brass handles and fluted glass panels are a portal between the sun-blasted concrete maze of the neighborhood and the lobby—a cool, forest lodge of a space, its walls painted deep olive—centered on a custom blackened-steel reception desk that resembles a woodburning stove, complete with smokestack. Each of the two elevators across the lobby has a backlit blackened-steel ladder running up its rear wall; reflected in the cab’s mirror ceiling, the rungs 152

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Left: Adjoining a terrace with rope furniture by Emiliana Design, the children’s play area on the amenities floor has a reading cabin accessed by ladder. Right top: The 30-story tower, which features lushly planted apartment balconies, is by AGC Design. Right bottom, from left: Textured matte ceramic tile clads the facade. The entrance is angled so exiting residents get a framed view of the wood cabin.

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Top: A dining area with a custom table surrounded by Hee Welling chairs adjoins the amenities-floor communal kitchen. Bottom: In an apartment bathroom, the curves of the mirror cabinet and sink vanity— both custom—echo one another. Opposite top: Custom French trompe l’oeil wallpaper brings a librarylike calm to the communal lounge area, which is furnished with custom sofas and coffee table. Opposite bottom: A network of floating cabins turns the children’s area into a miniature city.

appear to offer infinite ascent toward an unseen destination. “We like to create a sense of whimsy wherever we can,” Chow says, “especially in this project, which is really for kids.” Communal amenities span the second floor. A lounge, dining area, and kitchen occupy a ter raced corner space overlooking the adjacent forested hillside—a shock of green that’s echoed in the pine lacquer finish on the custom kitchen cabinetry. A third of the floor is dedicated to a play area that includes a cluster of suspended cabins similar to the one down on the street. The little structures, which float above a ball pit, padded activity zone, and reading nook, are connected by tubes, like a miniature cloud-borne city built for and governed by children. That singular combination of sophistication and play continues into the residential quarters on the higher floors. At the entrance to each unit, brass fixtures Chow calls “curiosity lights” use magnifying glasses to highlight apartment numbers. Inside, hand-picked finishes, from back painted–glass kitchen backsplashes to custom brass hardware, lend a sense of under stated luxury, while a carefully chosen palette of pale grays, deep greens, and black is a far cry from the harsh, blank white of many residential-development interiors. Black and gray ceramic tile clads the building’s facade, which is dotted with lushly planted balconies that provide privacy for city-facing apartments. The verdure extends to a rooftop garden-farm that commands impressive views of Hong Kong’s jagged skyline and gives clear outward expres sion to the developer’s commitment to sustainability. “Every city is addressing the idea of sustainability in its own way,” Chow notes, “so bringing greenery into a building, that’s not just happening in Hong Kong. But in a place this built-up, every inch counts.” So, too, does every door handle, every surface, every point of connection between spaces and people—all the de tails that, taken together, make Chow’s work so engaging. Ultimately, Timber House suggests precisely what the de signer hoped: If you can live in a cabin in the heart of Hong Kong, then maybe anything truly is possible.

PROJECT TEAM JOHN LIU; RAIN HO; RAFAEL PARDO; JASMINE KONG; EDDIE WONG: NC DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE. AGC DESIGN: BUILDING ARCHITECT. ADRIAN L NORMAN: LAND SCAPING CONSULTANT. SPECTRUM DESIGN & ASSOCIATES (ASIA): LIGHTING CONSULTANT. HIP SENG BUILDERS: GENERAL CONTRACTOR. PRODUCT SOURCES FROM FRONT KETTAL: SOFA, TABLE, OTTOMANS, CUSHIONS (TERRACE). PIERRE FREY: CURTAIN FABRIC (PLAY AREA, LOUNGE). KOZIEL: WALLPAPER. HAY: CHAIRS (DINING AREA). KVADRAT: SOFA FABRIC (LOUNGE). KOHLER CO.: TOILET, SINK, SINK FITTINGS (BATHROOM). CERAMICA VOGUE: TILE. THROUGHOUT PAINT: DULUX.

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The Australian studio's textured Tableton lamps are sand-cast from a single piece of either gunmetal, polished to reveal a rose-gold surface, or aluminum, left raw and unadulterated. volkerhaug.com

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standouts fabric by limonta

1-, 2-, or 3- seater club chair and pouf variations

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CALICO WALLPAPER

The incandescent skies of English Romantic painter J.M.W. Turner are captured with modern-day spirit in Atmosphere. calicowallpaper.com 164

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CALICO WALLPAPER

Company cofounder Rachel Cope’s training as an art therapist sparked Abstract, a dreamy Jungian-inspired wallcovering with gestural washes of color. calicowallpaper.com NOV.21

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PARETE

The self-described multi-culti group of design junkies manufacture on-demand wallcoverings like Neo Geo, a modernist’s take on flat geometry in cork and metallic foil. paretewalls.com

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BILLY COTTON

The industrial designer’s no-nonsense S4 coffee table in oak with blackened steel hardware is part of a larger collection that plays with metal joinery. billycotton.com

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HERVET MANUFACTURIER

It seems appropriate that this attitude-laden leather armchair, Capitaine I, is the brainchild of Daft Punk’s former creative director and features the selfsame funky futuristic swagger. hervet-manufacturier.fr 168

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STANDOUTS DESIGNED BY DUNCAN CAMPBELL AND CHARLOTTE REY NEW ZEALAND WOOL

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NORDIC KNOTS

The fascinating palette of CampbellRey’s Garden Maze rug tips the hat to Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours, an 1814 taxonomic guide to nature’s hues. nordicknots.com

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STANDOUTS EXTERIOR IN RIGID POLYURETHANE FOAM INNER IN FLEXIBLE POLYURETHANE FOAM CENTRAL STEEL BASE , TUBULAR METAL OR SOLID ASH WOOD FRAME BASE

PEDRALI

The brand teams with Patrick Jouin to introduce Ila, a refined lounge armchair with an optional headrest that riffs on a classic wingback. pedrali.us

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POLLACK

Dubbed the Wilder collection, a haberdashery-inspired upholstery-fabric line influenced by the sartorial cut of British menswear spans natural fibers and hospitality-ready highperformance polyester. Très chic! pollackassociates.com

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DESIGN WITHIN REACH CONTRACT

The multifunctional Quilton sofa collection by Doshi Levien—a DWR Contract exclusive from HAY—is made to encourage socialization, provide focus, and inspire productivity. dwrcontract.com

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ACCESSORIES

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standouts recycled - content bronze expert craftsmanship suits traditional to contemporary spaces

ROCKY MOUNTAIN HARDWARE

A collaboration with Robert A.M. Stern Architects, the Oasis door and cabinetry hardware collection features sculptural, organic profiles at once contemporary and timeless. rockymountainhardware.com

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COR SITZMOBEL

The divan-base elements of Jehs+Laub’s modular sofa system Jalis21—which riffs on the archetypal seating unit, a folded cushion—can also be used solo, as easy chairs or ottomans. cor.de

standouts seam tape - emphasized contours solid beech frame ; tempered steel serpentine springing removable covers

400+ fabrics and 50 leathers

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FORMICA CORPORATION

For interior vertical applications ranging from walls and furniture to retail fixtures and signage, DecoMetal laminate and solid metals offer a hearty dose of color, sheen, and craftsmanship. formica.com

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33 styles solid aluminum phenolic core paper greenguard gold for indoor air quality class 1 / a fire - rated

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BOVER BARCELONA

Skybell Plus, a sleekly elegant fixture designed by Manel Molina Studio for the Spanish brand, is an exercise in artful reduction, its conical shape derived from the emanation of light. bover.es 178

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standouts heat - formable into virtually any shape or size half the density of glass excellent chemical resistance

3FORM

Ten-plus years of R&D went into making Flek Pure, a terrazzo-like closed-loop architectural resin material made completely from recycled pelletized trimmings from 3form’s Varia. 3-form.com

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3 wood finishes ; 8

chrome - free leathers fully - upholstered leather option multiple base options weight - compensating recline mechanism and discreet height adjusting lever

HUMANSCALE

The Summa executive chair pairs minimalist, luxe styling with effortless functionality, thanks to seamlessly integrated control mechanisms. humanscale.com/summa

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standouts tufted textured loop delivers in 10 days or less thrive by universal fibers cradle to cradle , nsf 140 , and cri green label plus certified

BENTLEY MILLS

The Master Class carpet tile and broadloom collection suits education and corporate interiors alike courtesy of its playful yet purposeful designs, ranging from orderly, variegated History Notes to large-scale Media Made (shown). bentleymills.com NOV.21

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standouts cast joints with custom extrusions curated fabrics and finishes ultra - high - end foam and batting

BROWN JORDAN

Take it outside! The Moto collection elevates outdoor seating with Suncloth fabrics covering tailored cushions, Dekton tabletops, and sleek powder-coated aluminum frames internally reinforced to span long distances. brownjordan.com 182

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TILEBAR

The Division collection of 8-by16-inch ceramic wall tiles sports a rounded, dimensional relief pattern offering the appearance of four modules in one. tilebar.com

standouts for commercial and residential spaces

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standouts from the modern refinement collection non - pvc backing made with postconsumer pvb dynex sd fibers permanently resist acid - based stains

TARKETT

Combining large and small yarn deniers, the textural and cozy Knot Stitch modular carpet—offered in three sizes and 10 colors—channels the irregularity and sensorial quality of hand-knotted textiles. commercial.tarkett.com 184

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standouts exceeds 50,000 double rubs custom colors available ships carbon neutral

VALLEY FORGE FABRICS

Stone-washed denim gets a high-performance reboot via Hospitality Denim, an Oeko Tex-certified polyester blend (in woven and vinyl constructions) suitable for upholstery, bedding, drapery, and more. valleyforge.com

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CROSSVILLE, INC.

The Color Blox 2.0 porcelain tile collection boasts a 15-color palette, ranging from playful tones to earthy neutrals, and is available in five sizes plus myriad trims for a fully finished installation. crossvilleinc.com standouts u . s . made green squared certified for interior walls and floors or exterior walls suited to commercial and residential

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WOLF-GORDON

RAMPART Resolve PVC-free flexible wall protection is designed for heavy-traffic environments and offers the same impact- and abrasionresistance as rigid sheet goods. wolfgordon.com

standouts by wg design studio stain - and abrasion resistant nearly 400 colorways across entire rampart collection withstands a variety of commercial cleaners and disinfectants

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EXPORMIM

Norm Architects looked to design history for inspiration in creating the iconically simple Cask, a contemporary classic crafted of low-VOCtinted peeled rattan with a water-based, UV-filtering finish. expormim.com

STANDOUTS RANGE OF FINISHES AND TEXTILES FOR INDOOR USE CRAFTED IN SPAIN

JONAS BJERRE-POULSEN

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FURNITURE

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6 BASE OPTIONS , 5 EDGE PROFILES WIRELESS CHARGING AVAILABLE ROUND , RECTANGLE , AND BOAT TOP SHAPES

NUCRAFT

Created with Gensler serving as product design consultant, the Ascari Conference collection imbues meeting space with elegance, high performance, and advanced technology. nucraft.com NOV.21

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standouts color - body porcelain wide color range

ROCA TILE USA

Abaco In & Out is the manufacturer’s first silky-smooth yet slip-resistant tile collection for indoor or outdoor flooring as well as wet areas, with numerous options available for floors and accent walls. rocatileusa.com 190

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standouts fine porcelain stoneware tiles and planks natural and honed finishes

CERAMICHE PIEMME

The tactile appeal of mottled Pietra Pece limestone, with its fossils and veins, is offered in IBLA, a collection of hightech tiles in distressed, tarry colors both warm and cool. ceramichepiemme.it

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CRAFTMADE

The Quirk indoor/outdoor damp-rated ceiling fan offers abundant features: a powerful energy-saving six-speed reversible DC motor, integrated dimmable LED, handheld control, Wi-Fi compatibility—and a sharp look. craftmade.com

standouts dual mount limited lifetime warranty enhanced lens for more light output

18 w led light source

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100% recycled content nylon carbon neutral across full product lifecycle usda certified bio based product

INTERFACE

Designed with connections and transitions in mind, the color-spiked neutrals of Open Air | Transitions & Accents carpet tiles help abet wayfinding while creating both spatial definition and cohesion. interface.com NOV.21

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Nucraft Forena

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GARDEN ON THE WALL

INFINITY DRAIN

The brand’s custom, turnkey, award-winning gardens are designed and crafted with maintenance-free preserved plants that keep their vibrant look for up to 10 years, transforming interior spaces into oases. gardenonthewall.com

Courtesy of a narrow 3/8-inch drainage gap, the Slot Linear Drain unit disappears into its surroundings yet doesn’t skimp on function, with an easily accessible clean-out tray. infinitydrain.com

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MOSA USA

With its two-tone square motif, the U.S.-made Modular line of Dupont Tedlar PVF wallcoverings is formal yet playful, conveying understated luxury— while also capable of withstanding the harshest cleaning chemicals. endurewalls.com

The brand’s Mosa Stage tile collection is versatile, subtle, and supremely functional courtesy of its tactile yet hardwearing surface, nondirectional grain pattern, and gentle glimmer. mosa.com NOV.21

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CAESARSTONE Empira White calacatta marble inspired quartz surface pure white base with ebony veining greenguard certified for countertops and more

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A VIRTUAL DESIGN FESTIVAL C E L E B R A T I N G T H O U G H T L E A D E R S H I P, THE BEST OF THE BEST OF DESIGN, AND A VISION OF THE FUTURE interiordesign.net

T U N E I N 12.1–12.10

b o o k s edited by Stanley Abercrombie William Morris

Artists and the Rothko Chapel: 50 Years of Inspiration

edited by Anna Mason New York: Thames & Hudson, $75 432 pages, 600 color illustrations

edited by Frauke V. Josenhans Houston: Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University, $25 160 pages, 114 illustrations (96 color)

There have been, deservedly, many books about the multitalented English designer/craftsman William Morris (1834-1896). This one, honoring the 125th anniversary of his death, is the most comprehensive and, as designed by Ocky Murray, among the most handsome. It envelops and expands on a book by the same editor, Anna Mason, that celebrated the 100th anniversary. Mason is the former curator of the William Morris Gallery in London and has been active in the National Trust’s caretaking of Red House, Morris’s London home in the 1860's, which he designed with architect Philip Webb. She has also written about Morris’s daughter May. Chapters by a wide range of experts focus on Morris’s interior design, painting, furniture, stained glass, tiles, tableware, wallpaper, and textiles. Others examine him as a designer, writer, businessman, conser vationist (founding the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings in 1877), and political activist (for eradicating class distinctions and protecting the natural environment). There is also a chapter about the Kelmscott Press, which he founded in 1891 and where he designed every book—including a volume of his own poetry—using fonts of his own creation. New to this revised edition is a detailed chronology of Morris’s life and accomplishments. The bibliography has been expanded to more than 400 works, including some online resources, and the index to more than 1,800 entries. Such a polymath career is hard to summarize, but in all his works at a time of quickly increasing industrialization Morris consistently personified respect for the human touch. The last words of the book quote from his 1894 address to Birmingham art students, two years before his death, praising “the pleasure of creating beautiful things, which is the greatest pleasure in the world.”

In our June issue we reviewed a book celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Rothko Chapel in Houston. Here's another celebration of the chapel but as seen by artists—some well-known, some not—whose own work has been influenced by it. Their reactions to Rothko’s paintings and the octagonal chapel renew our sense of the installation’s great significance. One focus is on an exhibition held earlier this year at Houston's Rice University featuring pieces by textile artist Sheila Hicks and painters Sam Gilliam, Shirazeh Houshiary, and Byron Kim. There are also interviews with Brice Marden and David Novros from the 1975 exhibition Marden, Novros, Rothko, also at Rice. Then there are brief essays by 15 other artists and friends of the chapel, including François de Menil, son of John and Dominique de Menil, without whose vision and support the Rothko Chapel would not exist. As in the earlier book there is a foreword by Christopher Rothko, the painter’s son, who is on the chapel’s board of directors. No book can match a personal visit to the site, but by letting us see it through the eyes of others, this publication takes us almost there.

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Tomás Vera

by Eckhart Tolle San Francisco: New World Library, $17 236 pages

Cofounder and creative director of Verdi

"At my sister’s recommendation, this book ended up in my hands during the pandemic. What appealed to me was mostly its subject and what I was going through in my life— it was lockdown, and I finally had some time for myself. Eckhart Tolle’s premise is basically how to dedicate time to the present and not dwell constantly on the past and future. Seems like pretty basic advice, but it’s amazing how about 90 percent of the people I know fall into this predicament. One of the most valuable lessons I learned from the book is how to separate myself from my work by understanding that my job does not define me as a person and that dedicating time to my personal life is as (or even more) important. It seems logical, but when you're trying to achieve ambitious goals in your career, your work may consume you, and that was happening to me. The other valuable lesson I learned is that the creative process flows only at a time of presence, therefore one can assume that the more present you are, the more creation will take place. This mindset has greatly reduced my anxiety and stress and has also brought back the fun in my creative work! For instance, we recently completed our AES collection, which is composed of contemporary yet artisanal rugs that combine solid bronze bars with natural fibers— an unusual and unexpected concept that arose during the lockdown, as I was reading The Power of Now.”

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DESIGNERS IN SPECIAL FEATURE Anonimous (“Local Context,” page 120), anonimousmx.com. Fettle (“Local Context,” page 120), fettle-design.co.uk. JAHS (“Local Context,” page 120), instagram.com/jesusandresherrerasoto. Maidenberg Architecture (“Local Context,” page 120), maidenbergarchitecture.com. Point3architecture (“Local Context,” page 120), point3architecture.com.

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PHOTOGRAPHERS IN FEATURES Iwan Baan (“Experiments in Nature,” page 112), iwan.com. HDP Photography (“Cabin Fever,” page 148), hdp-photographyservices.com. Eric Laignel Photography (“Mapping the Future of Work,” page 98; “California Dreaming,” page 130; “The Art of Placement,” page 140), ericlaignel.com.

DESIGNERS IN WALK-THROUGH Gulla Jónsdóttir Architecture & Design (“Shining Lights,” page 53), gullajonsdottir.com. Perkins&Will (“Heart of the Campus,” page 47), perkinswill.com. Saguez & Partners (“Shining Lights,” page 53), saguez-and-partners.com. Sò Studio (“Shining Lights,” page 53), sooostudio.com. Sundukovy Sisters (“Shining Lights,” page 53), sundukovy.com.

PHOTOGRAPHER IN WALK-THROUGH Ema Peter Photography (“Heart of the Campus,” page 47), emapeter.com.

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all around Tiffany Gomez of Gomez Design Studio Photography by Jenna Bascom

The Festival

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100 Practical Ways to Revolutionize the B2B Sale A step-by-step playbook for the interiors industry.

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high life Since its discovery in 1953, the DNA double helix has been symbolic of life itself. That’s why BIG–Bjarke Ingels Group chose the shape for its Marsk Tower, a tall, twisting structure in Southern Jutland, Denmark. It’s located in Wadden Sea National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site and one of the last remaining large-scale intertidal ecosystems on earth. Except for the concrete base, Marsk Tower is made entirely of natural weathering steel—including the nearly 4-foot-high guardrails. Visitors can walk up the 146 steps to an apex of 82 feet “in a single spiraling loop from sand to sky,” BIG founding partner and creative director Bjarke Ingels says. (The top is also wheelchair-accessible via an elevator in the core.) From the uppermost observation deck, sight lines reach 12 miles across the flat, marshy landscape, which provides a resting place for millions of migratory birds each year. “Views stretch from Esberg to the Rømø and Sylt islands,” BIG partner Jakob Lange adds, “and beyond the Wadden Sea to the North Sea.” Indeed, the only immediately visible built forms are a chain of wind turbines.

RASMUS HJORTSHØJ/COURTESY OF BIG–BJARKE INGELS GROUP

The 30 acres surrounding the lookout are being gently developed into Marsk Camp, with glamping tents, accommodations for motor homes, and an icehouse. For BIG, perhaps most famous for its wasteto-energy power plant topped by a ski slope, the project continues the Danish firm’s mission to facilitate a relationship between people and the natural world. —Wilson Barlow

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