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from Interior Design April 2022 – 90th Anniversary

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WOLFGANG VOLZ/© 1982 CHRISTO AND JEANNE-CLAUDE FOUNDATION See page 46 for The Mastaba, a project for Abu Dhabi, a concept conceived 45 years ago by Christo and Jeanne-Claude, captured here in February 1982 researching a site in the United Arab Emirates.

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1. Founded in 1847 by Louis-François Cartier, the House of Cartier initially specialized in selling jewelry and works of art, but eldest son Louis shifted the 175-year-old brand to what we know today, thanks in part to inspiration he found in Islamic art, his collection of which is being celebrated in the Diller Scofidio + Renfro–designed exhibition, “Cartier and Islamic Art: In Search of Modernity,” that debuted at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, and opens at the Dallas Museum of Art May 14 featuring a 1926 Cartier Paris vanity case in platinum, gold, onyx, diamonds, and emeralds. 2. Marking the bicentennial of the birth of Frederick Law Olmsted, perhaps best known for designing New York’s Central Park and Prospect Park and laying the philosophical foundation for the later creation of America’s national and state park systems, “Olmsted 200: Parks for All People” is uniting over 120 organizations in events, concerts, celebrations, and advocacy campaigns unfolding across the country all year. 3. In 1929, seven years after founding The Barnes Foundation, Dr. Albert C. Barnes and his wife Laura (left, in 1933) made their first of many trips to the American Southwest, initiating the couple’s collecting of Native American art; now, to kick off its centennial, the Philadelphia institution is presenting “Water, Wind, Breath: Southwest Native Art in Community,” its first exhibition dedicated to the subject, its myriad Pueblo and Navajo pottery, jewelry, and textiles, including Ramona Sakiestewa’s wool-cotton Basket Dance/11 from 1991, on view through May 15.

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Jeremiah Goodmanwould have become a centenarian this October. Although we lost the renowned artist and Interior Design Hall of Fame member in 2017, at age 94, his spirit and talent live on in perpetuity through the dozens of covers he illustrated for the magazine between 1952 and 1967. Among the standouts that would likely fly off newsstands today are his pink-and-white confection from May 1953 and verdant yet minimalist salon from November 1952. In addition to his magazine work, Goodman was invited into the private spaces of such notables as Carolina Herrera, Pablo Picasso, and Diana Vreeland to paint portraits of their rooms, either in gouache or watercolor, as seen in the Paris office of the late head of Fiat, Gianni Agnelli (above). Many of these were chronicled in Jeremiah: Inspired Interiors, his second monograph published by PowerHouse Books, released posthumously in 2018. Today, his illustrations are in the permanent collections of the Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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In 1922,Henry Ford purchased the Lincoln Motor Company from inventor Henry Leland for $8 million. Over the last century, with concepts like the 1955 Futura (top), Lincoln’s craftsmanship has captured the attention of such luminaries as Thomas Edison and Frank Lloyd Wright— and now a new generation, as witnessed in the ArtCenter College of Design Anniversary concept car (below). “As we prepare for an electrified future by 2030, we’ll continue to build on our DNA, thinking about the cabin as a we space, not just a me space,” Lincoln global design director Kemal Curić says. “Imagine a rejuvenate mode that would create a personalized sensory environment through displays, lighting, climate, audio, even scent.”

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In the nine decades since George G. Blaisdell founded Zippo, no one has ever spent a cent on the mechanical repair of patent number 2032695. Originally sold for $1.95 and backed by Blaisdell’s lifetime guarantee “It works or we fix it free,” millions of WWII personnel established the lighter as an icon the world over. “The shape and functionality are globally recognizable, but many people say it’s the unmistakable ‘click’ that enhances the status,” associate vice president of global marketing Lucas Johnson says. “In fact, it’s one of the few products in the U.S. to be sound-trademarked.” In 2012, Zippo’s 80th anniversary year, production of the lighter surpassed 500 million.

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It was August 1932 when the LEGO Group was founded in Billund, Denmark, by Ole Kirk Kristiansen. Among the celebrations for its big 9-0 this year is the summer release of a special anniversary Lego set voted on by the public, the winner yet to be revealed. There have been additional milestones across the decades. One is LEGO House (below), a 130,000-square-foot experience center in Billund designed by fellow Danish entity Bjarke Ingles Group, the building’s composition of 21 staggered blocks resembling LEGO bricks when captured via drone. For International Women’s Day last year, LEGO relaunched one of its 1980’s ad campaigns—“What it is is beautiful.” (top middle)—centered on young female builders and modernized it by allowing parents to upload an image of their daughter and her LEGO creation to the company website to generate a unique poster with such slogans as “What it is is original.” and the hashtag #legofuturebuilders. Collaborations have been stacking up, too. Among the noteworthy are sneakers with Adidas, the Launderette of Dreams installation with Yinka Ilori, and the LEGO Collection x Target (top left). LEGO, by the way, is an abbreviation for leg godt, Danish for play well.

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Six institutions to celebrate 60 years. That’s the innovative approach the Fondation Pierre Bergé–Yves Saint Laurent is taking to mark the anniversary of Saint Laurent’s first runway show, on January 29, 1962, when he was a mere 26 years old. The exhibition, dubbed “Yves Saint Laurent aux Musées,” celebrates both the French clothing designer’s mastery and art in general throughout a half dozen Paris museums: the Centre Pompidou, Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, Musée du Louvre, Musée d’Orsay, Musée National Picasso-Paris, and Musée Yves Saint Laurent Paris, the latter, which opened in 2017, showcasing the Hommage à Piet Mondrian (bottom right) and Hommage à Tom Wesselmann (far right) dresses from 1965 and 1966, respectively. Five years later was when French photographer Jeanloup Sieff captured the courtier in black and white (bottom left), which appears at the Centre Pompidou. The program runs through May 15.

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1. Main Event 2022 is the April 30 gala celebrating 50 years of the boundary-pushing creativity of SCI-Arc, the private Los Angeles university focused on architecture— and the intersection of innovation and humanity, which this anniversary branding image illustrates via a playful reference to the creation of Adam—that counts Shigeru Ban and Barbara Bestor among its notable alumni. 2. Air France established Meridien Hotels in 1972, the first in Paris; today, the Marriott International–owned brand is called Le Méridien Hotels & Resorts, has grown to over 100 properties worldwide, including the new Le Meridien Maldives Resort & Spa (top) and the historic Le Méridien Barcelona in Spain (bottom), and, for its 50th anniversary year, looks forward to opening Le Royal Méridien Doha and Le Méridien Hualien Resort. 3. Also created in 1972, by French journalist Franklin Loufrani for the newspaper France Soir, the Smiley trademark has become one of the most recognizable icons in graphic design, not to mention on Smart phones in the form of emojis, thanks to Loufrani’s son Nicolas, who also launched the nonprofit Smiley Movement in 2017. 4. “Portrait of Nation II: Beyond Narratives” celebrates five decades of visual arts in the United Arab Emirates, a highlight being The Mastaba, a project for Abu Dhabi, the only permanent work by Christo and Jeanne-Claude that consists of 410,000 multicolored steel barrels stacked into a 492-foot-high mosaic echoing Islamic architecture, an idea first conceived by the couple in 1977 and now being carried out, posthumously, in the Liwa desert by Christo’s nephew Vladimir Yavachev and the Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation.

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Cindy Allen coined for the prized top spot of every issue of Interior Design. She should know: As editor in chief, she has selected more than 300 of them in her 20year tenure (see page 50 for more on this). The covers have certainly evolved since the magazine’s inception in 1932, then called the Decorator’s Digest; it became Interior Design and Decoration in 1937, and its current title in 1951. In her letter for the March 2017 issue, celebrating our 85th anniversary, Allen wrote, “The future is rushing in”— an apt observation then and a particularly prescient one for now, as we all pivot the covetable cover eagerly back to normal as the COVID-19 pandemic recedes. But what has never diminished is our dedication to the unequaled talents, unmatched work, and everevolving business of design—and to showcasing the very best visuals.

HARRY ANDERSON SHERMAN EMERY STANLEY ABERCROMBIE

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“To be one of only five

editors is such a treasure,” Cindy Allen says, referring to Mayer Rus, Stanley Abercrombie (still the magazine’s books editor), Sherman Emery, and Harry Anderson, the founder and original publisher of the magazine. Allen is not only the second longest–serving editor (she's actually been MAYER RUS at the helm for almost 21 years) but also the only woman. “September 2001 was my first issue,” she recalls. “Highs and lows come with the territory, but my desire to create community, to support change has remained constant.” Before being named editor, Allen began her term at Interior Design as the marketing director—an experience that makes her uniquely positioned to man today’s digitally disrupted ship, which she has helped morph from a monthly print issue to a multimedia content generator and global design media brand. “I'm dedicated to supporting the industry, whether in print or pixels.”