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Hundreds of 2-foot-diameter lids from the steel barrels in which products are shipped to Cape Verde, an archi pelago off West Africa, were recycled, sanded, polished, spray-painted, and assembled into a brise-soleil for Ramos Castellano Arquitectos’s addition to the National Center for Handcraft, Art and Design on the island of São Vicente. Photography: Sergio Pirrone.

features 88 THE ITALIAN JOB by Edie Cohen

The W Rome, a hotel by Meyer Davis, is a cinematic interpretation of the Eternal City. 98 GARDEN PARTY by Marisa Bartolucci

114 DOTS IN THE OCEAN by Joseph Giovannini

Covered with colorful disks, an addition to the National Center for Handcraft, Art and Design in Mindelo, Cape Verde, by Ramos Castellano Arquitectos gives the island nation a cultural icon.

Outdoor entertaining was a client priority for Casa 124 EBB AND FLOW Bento, a house in São by Wilson Barlow Paulo by FCstudio. For the BMW Experience Center in Chengdu, China, 106 CONCRETE JUNGLE Archihope drew inspiration by Alyn Griffiths from the carmaker’s global Ludwig Godefroy brand identity and the carved the boutique rivers integral to the city’s Casa TO hotel into history. Mexico’s Pacific coast and surrounded it with 132 FRAMING THE VIEW lush native vegetation. by Peter Webster

Five fabulous international resorts from the Greek islands to the South China Sea make the most of stunning natural vistas.

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walkthrough 39 CAMERA READY by Carlene Olsen 45 SENSE OF PLACE by Wilson Barlow

Urban hotels utilize bespoke elements to embrace their local cultures.

hospitality giants 67 UPWARD BOUND by Mike Zimmerman

departments 19 HEADLINERS 25 DESIGNWIRE by Annie Block 30 PINUPS by Lisa Di Venuta 35 CREATIVE VOICES Back to You by Anna Gaissert

Artist Matt Magee plays with language through abstraction, isolating its shapes, sounds, conventions, and connotations in painting, printmaking, photography, and sculpture.

83 CENTERFOLD It Takes Two by Athena Waligore

For 10 years, the annual CODAawards has proven that combining design with commissioned art yields stellar results. 190 BOOKS by Stanley Abercrombie 192 CONTACTS 195 INTERVENTION by Wilson Barlow

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Archihope “Ebb and Flow,” page 124 founder, chief architect: Hihope Zhu. firm sites: Shenzhen, China, and London. firm size: 15 architects and designers. current projects: BMW 5S showroom in Shenzhen; BMW flagship store in Foshan, China; Chiang Mai Meditation Center in Thailand. honors: Novum Design Gold Award; Muse Creative Platinum Award. foodie: While earning his master’s at the Politecnico di Milano, Zhu would eat at Internet-famous restaurants. feline: At the Archihope office, he has a few cats, all of which are rescues. archihope.com

FCstudio “Garden Party,” page 98 principal design director: Flavio Castro. firm site: São Paulo. firm size: Four architects and designers. current projects: Houses in Iporanga and Chapadão

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Ludwig Godefroy “Concrete Jungle,” page 106 founder: Ludwig Godefroy. firm site: Mexico City. firm size: One architect. current projects: Casa Soskil, Casa Roca Ahumada, and Casa La Paz hotels, all in Puerto Escondido, Mexico. on the go: A native of France, Godefroy has practiced in Paris, New York, and Barcelona, Spain. finding home: He founded his own firm after moving to Mexico in 2011. ludwiggodefroy.com

Meyer Davis “The Italian Job,” page 88 co-principal: Will Meyer. co-principal: Gray Davis.

senior associate, co-director: Zoe Pinfold. firm headquarters: New York. firm size: 65 architects and designers. current projects: A Rossinavi yacht; a hotel and a residence in Sydney. honors: Interior Design Best of Year Awards; NYCxDESIGN Award. state: Meyer and Davis are from Tennessee. college: They also both graduated from Auburn University. abroad: While at Carnegie Mellon University, Pinfold spent a year in Florence, Italy, studying product design. meyerdavis.com

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walk this way During Milan Design Week 2017, the Unconfined: The Galaxy S8 installation brought the design philosophy of Samsung to life through an interactive experience where visitors wandered through a maze of overscale suspended organic shapes incor porating digitized motifs, able to create mesmerizing avatars on the electronics company’s mobile app. It was a much-buzzed about collaboration between Zaha Hadid Architects and Universal Everything, a digital art collective founded in 2004 by graphic designer Matt Pyke that counts Apple, Hyundai, and Radiohead among its other clients. This fall, at 180 The Strand in London, the studio is the sole star of the show in “Lifeforms,” an exhibition of 14 moving-image works that evolve and shift with time and interaction, meaning no visitor sees the same thing twice. “We’re interested in how living forms can be represented through the eyes of today’s generative technology—from the movement of a single figure tracked using motion capture to a simulation of a crowd of thousands revealing collective patterns of human behavior,” Pyke says of the content he and his core team of architects, creative directors, and technologists produce. For this show, UE partnered with Ab Rogers Design to create a series of “habitats” for each life form, yielding an experience similar to exploring a parklike digital ecosystem. From top: Machine Learning, a video and stereo sound work by Universal Everything, is appearing in the digital art collective’s solo show “Lifeforms,” at 180 Studios in London through December 18. Superconsumers, commissioned by Hyundai LIVART ArtLab in 2019. Infinity, a generative video.

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It was 1966 when Kimbell Art Foundation director Richard F. Brown began interviewing architects to construct a museum in Fort Worth, Texas, to house the collection of Kay and Velma Kimbell. On the roster were Marcel Breuer, Gordon Bunshaft, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. But the commission ultimately went to Louis I. Kahn, whose work emphasized natural light, a vital component to Brown’s vision for the institution. Kahn responded with a distinct form composed of cycloid concrete barrel vaults rimmed with narrow plexiglass skylights. Completed in 1972, just two years before Kahn’s untimely death, today the Kimbell Art Museum is widely recognized as one of the most significant works of modern architecture.

To celebrate its golden anniversary, the Kimbell has acquired three of Kahn’s rare pastels from 1951, while he was visiting the Temple of Apollo in Greece, an experience that allowed him to break through the International Style and infuse antiquity into his architecture, which manifested in his design of the Texas museum. They’re on view in “The Kimbell at 50,” the year-long exhibition highlighting its outstanding acquisitions and exhibitions across the decades. Clockwise from top: An archival image of architect Louis I. Kahn standing against a travertine auditorium wall in the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, before turning it over to its owner, the Kimbell Art Foundation, on August 3, 1972 is part of an exhibit celebrating the institution’s 50th anniversary. Kahn’s Temple of Apollo, Corinth, at Midafternoon and Temple of Apollo, Corinth, at Midday, both 1951 pastels and charcoal on paper recently acquired by the Kimbell. A current view of the museum’s south portico. 26

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During COVID lockdown, Rebecca Moses got busy. In her home studio, the artist and fashion designer began painting healthcare professionals, an exercise that consummated in a traveling exhibition of 46 female portraits called “Thank You Mount Sinai Nurses.” Today, she’s continued her oeuvre of depicting brave, talented women with “Voices,” her show on now at Ralph Pucci International in Los Angeles of vivid, 6-foot-tall paintings of eight jazz legends: Josephine Baker, Joyce Bryant, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, Hazel Scott, Nina Simone, and Sarah Vaughan. “They’ve all made a significant impact on my life, their ballads accompanying unforgettable moments in my journey,” Moses says. “The canvas size was important because the women are larger than life. The boldness of color ties into the depth and emotion conveyed in their music.” The works mark the artist’s first use of such 3-D elements as leafing, rice paper, and rhinestone—effects that help “depict each singer’s multidimensionality.” Accompanying the exhibit inside the gallery is “Style Energies,” a series of murals painted directly on the fa cade that Moses says “reflect a new generation of strong, diversi fied, and dynamic women that dance to their own tune.” Clockwise from top: Billie Holiday is one of eight 4-by-6-foot acrylics on canvas by Rebecca Moses in “Voices,” through February 10 at Ralph Pucci International in Los Angeles. “Style Energies,” her 12-foot-wide murals on the gallery exterior. Nina Simone and Sarah Vaughn from “Voices.” Moses at Pucci’s sculpture studio in New York.

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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: COURTESY OF REBECCA MOSES; CHRIS FORTUNA; COURTESY OF REBECCA MOSES (2); ANTOINE BOOTZ

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back to you Artist Matt Magee plays with language through abstraction, isolating its shapes, sounds, conventions, and connotations in painting, printmaking, sculpture, and photography

Matt Magee is attracted to the shape of the letter U. It’s a central motif in “It’s All About You”; the artist’s current exhibition of paintings, assemblages of found material, and sculptures, running through November 7 at Standard Space gallery in Sharon, Connecticut. Using U and You interchangeably, the way one might in a casual text exchange, he plays on their contemporary slippage. Concrete poetry is written in shims and gaskets. Bars and circles in flat colors, including lime, poppy, macaroni, pigeon, and bubblegum, signal redaction. Mica glitters. Sheets of metal reflect. Magee, who has works in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, and the University of New Mexico Art Museum, is driven by the pursuit of a material grammar. As he puts it, “Finding language in the shapes of objects is one of the core tenets of my practice.” His linguistic abstractions—obscured missives, symbolic shorthand, stacked lines—encourage meditation, oscillating between the exuberance of Bridget Riley’s op art and the calm of Agnes Martin’s grids. Magee was born in Paris and, thanks to his geologist father’s peripatetic career, lived in Tripoli, Libya, and London before settling in Texas. After completing his undergraduate degree at Trinity University in San Antonio, he moved to New York, where he earned a master’s in fine arts from Pratt Institute and spent 18 years working as an archivist for artist Robert Rauschenberg. He now lives in Arizona, where his Scottsdale studio at Cattle Track Arts Compound, a complex of adobe and mid 20th–century structures, was once a barn that housed turkeys and cows. The transition from density to sprawl has given him space, both physically and figuratively, to focus on his practice. We spoke with him on the occasion of his current show.

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Your exhibition at Standard Space is titled “It’s All About You.” Who does You reference?

Matt Magee: It’s a celebration of both the letter U, a recurring symbol in the show, as well as the viewer. The phrase It’s all about you is often directed personally. In this case, however, it’s about sound play and a fascination with language, symbols, and the reflections embedded in certain surfaces, which respond to the viewer’s movements and position.

What can you tell us about the work?

MM: The show features two sculp tures, seven paintings, and seven assemblages made between 2020 and 2022 using thumbtacks, shims, baling wire, glass beads, mica, plastic bottles, aluminum cans, and other found material. What role does language play in the work?

MM: I investigate language linguis tically, semiotically, and formally. It’s a driving force in my practice. I see its shapes—the fact, for instance, that an uppercase J is three quarters of

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an uppercase U. Letters, numerals, punctuation, words, typography, concrete poetry, cryptography, Morse code, JavaScript, emojis, and texting have all become part of my lexicon. Where do you draw inspiration?

MM: I travel through each day taking photos with my iPhone. Capturing images constantly feeds how I look at and understand my surroundings. Ultimately, these images, perceptions, and reflections are distilled in my work down to basic form and memory of form.

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How did working for Robert Rauschenberg influence your work?

MM: As a young artist in the late ’70’s, I’d begun experimenting with rubber innertubes, plastic bags, steel sheeting, rocks, and nails. Bob’s experimentation with a huge variety of media gave license to my own explorations. I also admired his exuberance and work ethic. I know for a fact that he would have been in his studio 365 days a year if it wasn’t for his assistants, who needed time off. This devotion to his practice has also served as a form of permission.

What’s next?

MM: I’ll be working with Peter Haarz at Petrichor Press in Philadelphia, and Harlan & Weaver, a print shop in Manhattan, invited me to collaborate in 2023. That’s when my Crinoid Sceptre, a large-scale bronze work, will be installed in the sculpture park near Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art. —Anna Gaissert

Has your work shifted since relocating from New York to Arizona?

MM: Finally having time has become the most important factor since leaving New York with its constant distractions. In the desert studio, I’m able to completely focus on my work. CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: COURTESY OF MATT MAGEE; LOGAN BELLEW/COURTESY OF TAMARIND INSTITUTE; AIRI KATSUTA/COURTESY OF PHOENIX ART MUSEUM; SCOTT FARENCE AND CARLOS MANDELAVEITIA/COURTESY OF STANDARD SPACE

I often give paintings two to three coats of paint now, which enlivens and deepens the activity on the surface. I’m able to work carefully and thoughtfully, creating paintings, prints, and objects that resonate. Is printmaking an important part of your practice?

MM: Lithographs, aquatints, etchings, and other forms of printmaking make owning an artist’s work more accessible for a wider audience of collectors. There are no prints in this show, but, since 2011, I’ve done 70 editions with print shops across the country and in Europe.

Opposite, clockwise from top left: Small Green Seven, an oil on card; the op art oil on panel Margin; and Blue Hanger, in plastic bottles, wire, and steel rod, all part of “It’s All About You,” Magee’s current exhibition at Standard Space gallery in Sharon, Connecticut. Paintings on panel and aluminum at the Phoenix Art Museum in 2018. A keystone of the Standard Space show, 99 UUU in found objects on paper. Clockwise from top: Composed of painted rocks and wood blocks, Collection, an ongoing work begun in 2016. Tamarind Grapheme, a mural in acrylic and pencil commissioned by Tamarind Institute in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Curtains of detergent bottle fragments suspended on wire from the Phoenix Art Museum exhibition. Green Grapheme, an oil on card at Standard Space.

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Clockwise from top left: Steel-framed catwalks overlook the atrium of the double-height gallery. A mural of a Weegee photograph from 1944 New York is visible through the glass facade. The facade is 55 feet high. In the lobby, Baltic birch-plywood backs the check-in desk, then con tinues on to form built-in dis plays for the store. Poured concrete flooring and blackened-steel passageway trim are throughout.

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Famed fashion photographer William Klein once said: “The camera can surprise us. We must help it do so.” Over the summer, the recently departed legend’s handiwork could be seen up close at International Center of Photography, the nearly 50-yearold New York institution dedicated to visual culture that just wrapped a Klein retrospective, as could Gensler’s. The firm was tasked with combining the ICP School, also by Gensler, and the ICP Museum— two separate spaces in different neighborhoods— into one hub with both downtown edge and 21stcentury polish. The team transformed several floors of two interconnected buildings at Essex Crossing, a Lower East Side mixed-use development built in 2018 by SHoP Architects that spans half a city block, into a 40,000-square-foot center housing a café and store on the ground level, galleries and a library on two, and classrooms, labs, darkrooms, and a student lounge above. ICP has two entrances, one on Ludlow Street, the other on Essex. The latter is the main one, and it features a loftlike stairwell that provides access to both the museum and the school. “The stairwell connects it all together,” Gensler principal and design director Mark Morton says, further noting

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the visibility of the neighborhood’s historic tenement buildings through a wall of glass as visitors and students make their descent. The two entities also share a cohesive, industrial palette—gray poured concrete floors, white walls, blackenedsteel finishes, exposed pipes and columns. Past the lobby, where paneling of Baltic birchplywood lends warmth to the urban surrounds, the stair leads up to the second-floor library, itself

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a work of art—two stories and fitted with extensive built-in stacks and state-of-the-art AV equipment. “A lot of our planning studies centered around making the library an important space for lectures,” Morton adds. The atrium of the neighboring gallery is doubleheight, too, and ringed by a catwalk, inviting visitors to get a different perspective. Unlike traditional galleries, Gensler designed ICP’s to be as varied as the exhibitions mounted, from intimate vestibules for vintage photographs to expansive swaths of wall for film projections. “They encourage the staging of a new type of image-making that is very much about our time,” ICP executive director David E. Little explains. Of course, when it comes to all aspects of photo graphy (and interiors), lighting is paramount. The

w a l k through Clockwise from top: The double-height library houses 22,000 volumes. “Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop” kicked off the opening of ICP’s new location. A custom bench is white oak. Walls up to 39 feet wide by 10 high are for projection works.

galleries are illuminated by overhead fixtures tucked behind a veil of expanded galvanized sheet metal. “It’s flexible,” Morton shares, “ICP can turn the lights off above and the whole character changes.” Similarly ever-changing is the Essex facade’s triple-height glass facade. It fills the center with light while, like a camera lens, capturing happenings both within and beyond in its frame. —Carlene Olsen FROM FRONT IGUZZINI: LINEAR FIXTURE (HALL). CAESARSTONE: DESK MATERIAL (LOBBY). LG: DIGITAL SCREENS. FERN: CUSTOM BENCH (GALLERY). MECHO SHADE SYSTEMS: MOTORIZED SHADES. EPSON: PROJECTOR. THROUGHOUT LINDNER: CEILING SYSTEM. CREE LIGHTING: SPOTLIGHTS. USG: WALL MATERIAL. BENJAMIN MOORE & CO.: PAINT. PENTAGRAM: GRAPHICS CONSULTANT. BURO MEP. TOBIN WOODWORKING: WOODWORK. RICHTER + RATNER: GENERAL CONTRACTOR.

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“One wonders if the structure has stood for a year or a century”

Shim-Sutcliffe Architects, with Atelier Ace project Ace Hotel. site Toronto.

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standout Although the boutique chain’s first Canadian property is ground-up construction, its materials, like the massive concrete structural beams set in wood forms for a grainy texture, then edged in steel, were chosen to match the vintage feel of the brick-and-beam factories in the surrounding Garment District.

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Cole Martinez Curtis and Associates project Luma. site San Francisco.

“It’s a gateway for locals and visitors to feel one with the neighborhood”

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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: NOMADIC PEOPLE (2); COURTESY OF LUMA

standout The first-ever hotel in the city’s industrial turned tech-centric Mission Bay area includes the triple-height lobby’s Jim Campbell installation, which consists of 4,000 individual wires each ending in a single LED—fitting considering that luma is video lingo for brightness.

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“We strove for a heartwarming, friendly, eye-catching interior for the brand”

Studio Shoo project Ibis Budget. site Tbilisi, Georgia.

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standout Inspired by the surrounding nightlife district’s street art, Georgian alphabet letters compose the custom graphics on tabletops and restroom walls while the cassettelike front desk and vintage record selection nod to the local music scene at this 3,400-square-foot property that elevates the typical budget concept. —Wilson Barlow

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lucky charm Most manufacturers are still striving to achieve carbon neutral. That makes it even more impressive that the current favorite material of design practice Grain is carbon negative, i.e. climate positive. Cork, rapidly renewable and totally biodegradable, sequesters carbon from the air as it grows. It’s what is used to make Clover, a series of side and coffee tables produced at Grain’s studio in Bainbridge Island, Washington. The pieces are inspired by a four-leaf clover, a shape favored by cofounders Chelsea and James Minola for its organic simplicity. They use both premium cork, the familiar light-colored kind, and a rarer chocolate-brown version, which has been saved from the waste stream by toasting it to hide imperfections. Through Colony. goodcolony.com

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Our latest product finds, all made in the U.S.A.

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Alberto Vélez and Angie West of Refractory

Stephanie Eventov of Society of Wonderland

Tracy Glover of Tracy Glover Studio

Courtney Krug of At300Nelson

product Loma. standout The Chicago studio cofounders made the underside of this cast-bronze console as intriguing as the top, its textured profiles referencing mountainous terrain. refractory.studio

product Equilibrium Pink. standout Statement wallpaper from the digital artist based in Brooklyn, New York, channels the vibe of nu-disco: ’70’s disco made contemporary with EDM beats. societyofwonderland.com

product Rondel Pair. standout The Pawtucket, Rhode Island, designer’s glass double sconce (originally created for her own powder room) casts evocative patterns on the wall. tracygloverstudio.com

product Fabrics. standout The Floridian founder of the new fiber and dry-goods line prints a linen-cotton blend with artistic black-and-white motifs, many of them architectural. at300nelson.com

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Mark Warren of Haand

Jeremy Graef and Matthew Noll of Connate Home

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Roberto Gil of Casa Kids

product Ripple. standout The lead-free porcelain dishware’s new Turmeric glaze celebrates 10 years of the pottery studio cofounder making all pieces in a Burlington, North Carolina, former mill. haand.us

product Grant. standout The Los Angeles natives and cofounders’ West Hollywood– made swivel chair with a tailored seat and down-filled cushions comes in several wood and upholstery options. connatehome.com

product Marella. standout The New York designer and hospitality guru offers up a ceiling-mounted light fixture celebrating the tension between sparkling glass and loops of casual rattan. robertmckinley.com

product Capsule. standout A Baltic birch-plywood bunk bed by the Argentine-born, Brooklyn-based company founder features portholes that complement its playful space-age shape. casakids.com

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sphere of influence company Elyse Graham Studio. product Parallax. recap Take a trip to outer space via this simple side table with an unexpected planetary surprise.

Inspired by the way in which astronomers measure the distance between celestial bodies, Parallax, a side table by Los Angeles creative Elyse Graham, pairs walnut, maple, or ebony (not shown) with a carved sphere similar to the orbs that first put her on the design map. The colorful globe is made of her own MetaMaterial, a resin composite marked by unique, non-repeating patterns. The marbled and graphically charged shapes decorating these “planets” resemble galaxies-in-miniature, a groovy intervention in the other wise straightforward and refined timber structure. elysegraham.com

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“It’s meant to evoke the feeling of a family summer house with multiple generations coexisting”

FRANCES MERRILL, JOHANN PAUWEN, MICHAELE SIMMERING

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chintz charming Rugosa, a smash-hit 2020 seating collection made of planks of Western sugar pine from Johann Pauwen and Michaele Simmering of Kalon Studios, gets a new point of view courtesy of interior designer Frances Merrill of Reath Design. Her custom upholstery for the clean-lined sofa, daybed, and chair draw from the Warner Textile Archive (the largest collection of publicly owned textiles in the U.K.) and the catalogs of icons Rose Cumming and Alexander Girard. “A combination of patterns from the late 1800’s to the 1960’s evokes the sense of a generational accu mulation of textiles, colors, and perspectives—much like a house accumulates naturally over time,” Merrill says. “You might not immediately think that a chintz from the ’30’s would work in this simple collection, but they are both pure examples of their own form.” Against the austerity of the spare pine planes, the mash-up of florals, stripes, and checks imparts a sense of eccentricity and nostalgia. kalonstudios.com

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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: LAURE JOLIET; COURTESY OF KALON STUDIOS (3)

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Next Chair by Piergiorgio Cazzaniga Solid Conference Table by Estudio Andreu

“I was looking to reinterpret Dumais Made’s sculptural forms with a distinctly colorful edge”

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Fresh from designer Elena Frampton of Frampton Co, in collaboration with Charlie and Kevin Dumais of Litchfield, Connecticut, pottery studio Dumais Made, is Verdant, a capsule collection of six limited-edition handmade ceramic floor and table lamps inspired by the scenery on Long Island’s East End (where Frampton has a gallery in Bridgehampton called the Barn). At Dumais’s studio, slabs of white stoneware clay are stacked like children’s building blocks to form the pedestals. Next, layers of chartreuse and bottle-green glazes are handpoured over the clay to create an intentionally incomplete watercolor finish. Off-white string shades, brass fittings, and twisted green cloth cords complete the look. framptonco.com

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Join the Jet Set Experience Soleil de Mer – our first collection of Axminster carpet, at BDNY, Booth 1455. Let your senses take you on a journey to a place of discovery, mystery, and refuge. C’est belle, C’est chic. VISIT SHAWCONTRACT.COM FOR MORE DESIGN INSPIRATION.

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While furnishing her first home, Birchbox alumna Nidhi Kapur was dismayed by the generic styles and shoddy craftsmanship offered by bigbox retailers. Harnessing her tech background, Kapur decided to fill the gap in the home-decor market, launching Maiden Home in 2017. The DTC brand sells pieces from North Carolina artisans, democratizing access to sophisticated yet reasonably priced furnishings. This summer, the online retailer launched Tribeca House, a New York pop-up. “It gave clients a fresh perspective on how to bring our collected home mindset into their own spaces,” Kapur recalls. The two-story, 2,500-square-foot loft displayed pieces from the summer 2022 collection, including the minimalist Mulberry ottoman, ash Kenmare chair upholstered in white tweed, and the Vestry nesting tables, a pair of asymmetrical forms shaped from domestically sourced red oak. Tribeca House may have been temporary, but Maiden Home’s furniture is all about longevity. maidenhome.com

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Roman and Williams Buildings and Interiors, the firm founded by Robin Standefer and Stephen Alesch that’s well-known for global projects for such clients as Ace, Freehand, Goop, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. But Roman and Williams Guild, the New York housewares store purveying many of the couple’s own designs, is just 5 years old. That’s where Seed, a new bronze pendant fixture crafted with the lost-wax process, comes from. Each chain link is individually cast and assembled, with the drop length made to order. The “seed,” an elongated glass pod handblown by Brooklyn artisans, has a gradiating opacity starting from its bronze cap. rwguild.com

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The results for the 2022 Interior Design Hospitality Giants, our survey of the top 75 firms working in the sector, are somewhat like taking a construction elevator in an unfinished hotel project: It may be uncomfortable, but it will still get you where you want to go. Predictions say we will, and results are better than expected, but there’s still post-pandemic corporate pain. Business has been down, but data points to a rebound. Let’s have a look. Overall fees for the group fell from $576 million in 2020 to $423 million in 2021, a 27 percent drop. But the group forecasts a recovery in 2023 to $491 million. The latest Hot Market Growth Report from ThinkLab, the research division of Sandow Design Group, lists the usual pandemic suspects as reasons for the headwinds: lack of corporate travel, supply-chain issues, rising costs, employment challenges. The good news: Like the pandemic, these issues are predicted to gradually resolve soon. Where did the hospitality firms take these hits? Right in the moneymaker: hotels. Always bringing in the lion’s share of fees, hotel work fell from 57 percent of fees to 47, coming in at $208 million. Furthermore, luxury hotel work, source of some of the biggest earnings, has been responsible for nearly a third of hotel fees the past two years; now it’s just 25 percent. But nearly every business segment was down in 2021. Hotels are just the most glaring and devastating to the overall bottom line. There are bright spots, however, such as resorts and restaurants now making up more than 22 percent of fees, from 17 percent. Growth is definitely happening. International projects are down with only 17 percent of firms doing that work, from 24 percent last year (in 2015, it was about a third of firms). But the Caribbean is clocking in with 60 percent of international firms taking projects—that’s up from 52 percent in 2020. This dovetails with what we’re seeing up and down the U.S. Eastern Seaboard, as approximately 20 percent more Hospitality Giants see the Southeast as a growth hotbed, and nearly half are looking toward the Northeast. But biggest growth region is the Southwest, where 73 percent of respondents see an uptick. ThinkLab’s report breaks regions down even further, highlighting Texas, Arkansas, Florida, and New York as states ready to grow. And yes, let’s talk about optimism for a second. Because that’s the word here. Here’s some sunshine: —When looking at the U.S regions primed for growth, the Hospitality Giants’s overall enthusiasm is much higher this year: Over a quarter are more bullish than a year ago. —Firms are using their experience and skills to bring hospitality know-how to other segments. Example: “We’ve made a strong and concerted move into residential, parlaying our hospitality experience into shared spaces and amenities,” CHIL Interior Design senior principal Paul Morissette says. —Hotel work, luxe and boutique in particular, is expected to rebound starting in 2023. Same for multiuse, as well as resorts, spas, and country clubs. —Meanwhile, a report from Dodge Data & Analytics shows lodging construction to be one of the most robust growth areas not just next year, but through 2026. In short: A solid business is still there, and it’s very possible the worst is over. —Mike Zimmerman

“Though we saw a small, two-month dip in business when the pandemic hit, we were incredibly fortunate to take on new international work shortly after. As the pandemic has stabilized, the domestic markets have made a comeback and the international work has remained consistent.” —David Rockwell, Rockwell Group

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WORK INSTALLED

HOSPITALITY FEES

VALUE

SQ. FT.

(in millions)

DESIGN STAFF

RANK 2021

1 Cheng Chung Design Shenzhen, CN, ccd.com.hk

$109.6

2 HBA International Santa Monica, CA, hba.com

$103.5

6,210.7

1355

new 1

3 Gold Mantis Construction Decoration Co. Suzhou, CN, goldmantis.com

$56.9

4 Rockwell Group New York, rockwellgroup.com

$22.9

5 Perkins Eastman New York, perkinseastman.com

$20.3

295

6 Gensler San Francisco, gensler.com

$19.9

3073

7 Populous Kansas City, MO, populous.com

$19.8

20 13

8 AvroKO New York, avroko.com

$13.7

0.6

1.2

9 Gettys Group Companies Chicago, gettys.com

$13.3

200.0

10 DLR Group Minneapolis, dlrgroup.com

$12.1

49.5

110

11 Wimberly Interiors New York, wimberlyinteriors.com

$12.0

12 JCJ Architecture Hartford, Connecticut, jcj.com

$11.6

13 ICRAVE New York, icrave.com

$10.1

14 HKS Dallas, hksinc.com

$9.3

143

15 Yabu Pushelberg New York, yabupushelberg.com

$9.0

16 Baskervill Richmond, VA, baskervill.com

$9.0

81.7

17 Chambers Baltimore, chambersusa.com

$8.8

103.0

18 Daroff Design + DDI Archtiects Philadelphia, daroffdesign.com

$8.7

180.0

19 Aria Group Architects Oak Park, IL, ariainc.com

$8.5

120.0

1.1

109

20 Stonehill Taylor New York, stonehilltaylor.com

$7.3

1,788.9

1.0

21 DiLeonardo International Warwick, RI, dileonardo.com

$6.6

new

22 Steelman Partners Las Vegas, steelmanpartners.com

$6.2

2,400.0

2.5

109

23 Rottet Studio Houston, rottetstudio.com

$5.9

24 Meyer Davis New York, meyerdavis.com

$5.8

25 Space Matrix Design Consultants Singapore, spacematrix.com

$5.7

365

26 EDG Interior Architecture and Design Novato, CA, edgdesign.com

$5.6

81.3

0.4

27 Looney and Associates Dallas, looney-associates.com

$5.5

199.5

31.0

28 Champalimaud Design New York, champalimaud.design

$5.5

29 CHIL Interior Design Vancouver, BC, childesign.com

$5.3

20.0

30 DesignAgency Toronto, thedesignagency.ca

$4.5

31 Studio Dado Coral Gables, FL, studiodado.com

$4.4

32 KTGY Simeone Deary Design Group Irvine, CA, ktgy.com

$4.3

173

33 HBG Design Memphis, Tennessee, hbg.design

$4.2

34 NicoleHollis San Francisco, nicolehollis.com

$4.1

0.2

35 Shea Minneapolis, sheadesign.com

$4.1

70.0

0.2

new

36 Bar Napkin Studios Phoenix, bnp-llc.com

$4.0

50.0

1.0

37 46

37 C2 Limited Design Associates Norwalk, CT, c2limited.com

$3.7

64.0

38 Leo A Daly Omaha, Nebraska, leoadaly.com

$3.4

120.0

114

39 IndiDesign Los Angeles, indidesign.com

$3.2

200.0

40 HOK New York, hok.com

$3.0

830.0

290

41 Mancini Duffy New York, manciniduffy.com

$3.0

73.0

42 Hatch Design Group/Ikonik Supply Co Costa Mesa, CA, hatchdesign.com

$2.8

117.7

43 Parker-Torres Design Sudbury, MA, parkertorresdesign.com

$2.8

44 Nelson Worldwide Minneapolis, nelsonworldwide.com

$2.7

45 Cooper Carry Atlanta, coopercarry.com

$2.5

53.1

0.8

new

46 Dawson Design Associates Seattle, dawsondesignassociates.com

$2.5

35.0

47 Flick Mars Dallas, flickmars.com

$2.5

80.0

48 PGAL Houston, pgal.com

$2.4

new 35

49 Smallwood Atlanta, smallwood-us.com

$2.3

50 Studio 11 Design Dallas, studio11design.com

$2.1

51 Architecture, Incorporated Reston, VA, archinc.com

$2.1

30.4

0.3

52 BraytonHughes Design Studio San Francisco, bhdstudios.com

$2.1

53 INC Architecture & Design New York, inc.nyc

$2.1

284.9

new

54 //3877 Washington, 3877.design

$2.0

80.0

3.6

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Abstract Artistry From our collaboration with ArtLifting, an organization that champions artists impacted by housing insecurity or disabilities: Abstract Artistry puts the work of artists Eve Hennessa and Marc into conversation, building a sophisticated and versatile range of aesthetics for hospitality interiors. Learn more at mohawkgroup.com/hospitality

h o s p i t a l i t y giants WORK INSTALLED

HOSPITALITY FEES

VALUE

SQ. FT.

(in millions)

DESIGN STAFF

55 HVS Design Rockville, MD, hvsdesign.com

$2.0

50.0

3.3

56 BWM Architekten Vienna, bwm.at

$2.0

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57 J. Banks Design Group Hilton Head Island, SC, jbanksdesign.com

$2.0

2.8

58 Design Directions International Marietta, GA, ddi.cc

$2.0

29.0

2.8

59 Premier Design to Completion Dallas, premierpm.com

$1.9

60 AECOM Dallas, aecom.com

$1.8

1.8

459

61 K2M Design Key West, FL, k2mdesign.com

$1.7

38.3

62 DAS Architects Philadelphia, dasarchitects.com

$1.7

275.0

63 api(+) Tampa, FL, apiplus.com

$1.6

64 Rule Joy Trammell Rubio Atlanta, rjtrdesign.com

$1.4

new

65 Cuningham Denver, cuningham.com

$1.4

46.1

0.7

179

new

66 Denton House Design Studio Salt Lake City, dentonhouse.com

$1.3

29.7

67 JOI-Design Hamburg, DE, joi-design.com

$1.3

new

68 Waldrop+Nichols Studio Dallas, waldropnichols.com

$1.2

53.3

1.0

69 Thomas Hamilton & Associates Richmond, VA, thomashamiltonassociates.com

$1.2

279.5

70 R.D. Jones & Associates Baltimore, rdjones.com

$1.2

new

71 Testani Design Troupe Scottsdale, AZ, testanidesigntroupe.com

$1.2

10.0

new

72 Hord Coplan Macht Baltimore, hcm2.com

$1.1

19.6

0.1

73 Murphy Cramer Design Dallas, mcdesign.com

$1.1

150.0

new

74 C+TC Design Studio Atlanta, ctcdesignstudio.com

$1.1

75 Elkus Manfredi Architects Boston, elkus-manfredi.com

$1.0

122

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firms with largest increase in fees

AvroKO

2020 Gold Mantis Construction Decoration Co.

$56,940,000

$7,666,072

Populous

$19,815,523

$11,960,000

Rockwell Group

$22,927,898

$7,350,000

JCJ Architecture

$11,600,000

$5,250,000

Aria Group Architects

$8,500,000

$7,100,000

ICrave

$10,118,000

$2,407,672

CHIL Interior Design

$5,271,340

$11,007,278

AvroKO

$13,728,837

$3,000,000

Studio Dado

$4,398,255

$2,090,000

IndiDesign

$3,200,000

$37,425,000

Yabu Pushelberg Rockwell Group 74

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The Banyan Tree Nanjing Garden Expo in China is by Cheng Chung Design [1].

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“Projects in the Middle East are picking up as well as those projects that may have gone on hold over the pandemic. Leisure is hot in Latin America and Mexico. Renovation is still strong. Globally, hospitality is driving city building. A hotel tower is often the anchor experience in a new mixed-use development. This has been driven by the need for new cities to market themselves as open and desirable tourism.” —Tom Ito, Gensler

“The market has seen an increase in demand for more experiential stays for a more sophisticated and discerning guest. It’s not just enough to be Insta-worthy; we need to think site-specific. Complying with a quality standard is not enough. The trend is toward a solution that gives a unique story and edge.” —Ryan Schommer, Gettys Group Companies “Our firm is growing exponentially—we just hired 14 new people. Year-over-year, we increased our revenue 30 percent and are looking to do four times the amount of business we engaged in pre-pandemic, which is a great sign for the hospitality and travel industry. As people rush back out into the world for personal and business travel, 2023 is projected to be a recordbreaking year for us.” —Kellie Sirna, Studio 11 Design

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h o s p i t a l i t y giants

global growth potential for next 2 years international

Southwest

73%

Southeast

71%

Middle East

26%

Northeast

47%

Caribbean

25%

Midsouth

44%

Mexico

19%

Mid-Atlantic

41%

Europe

18%

Midwest

30%

China

16%

Northwest

22%

Asia/Australia/New Zealand

11%

Canada

10%

Central/South America

10%

India

Africa

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47% 48%

hotels (luxury)

30% 25%

hotels (boutique)

13% 14%

hotels (mid/economy)

12% 9%

hotels (micro)

0% 1%

resorts

11% 12%

spas

2% 1%

country clubs

3% 4%

gaming

4% 3%

restaurants

7% 11%

bars/lounges/nightclubs

3% 2%

cruise ships

2% 1%

other

2% 2%

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From top: The Ritz-Carlton, St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands is by Premier Design to Completion [59]. The Hyatt Centric Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee, is by HBG Design [39].

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during the next 2 years, do firms expect to see more or fewer projects in these segments?

no fewer change projects

hotels (luxury)

56%

28%

hotels (boutique)

63%

21%

hotels (mid/economy)

41%

35%

micro hotels

16%

30%

condo-hotels/timeshare

22%

35%

multiuse (hospitality/retail/residential)

62%

16%

restaurants/bars/ lounges/nightclubs

58%

21%

resorts/spas/country clubs

62%

21%

gaming

26%

cruise ships

31%

other

27%

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The Hotel Gilbert in Vienna is by BWM Architekten [56].

renovation/retrofit 44%

refresh previously completed projects 8%

new construction 48%

hospitality project categories

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, 2021 through December 31, 2021. 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, the research division of Sandow Design Group.

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coda awards

it takes two For 10 years, the annual CODAawards has proven that combining design with commissioned art yields stellar results

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: RAYMOND LAN; MARC CRAMER; KEVIN M. KENNEDY

After combing through over 400 entries from 27 countries, an esteemed jury recently announced the winners of the annual CODAawards recognizing outstanding examples of commissioned artworks in interior, architectural, or public spaces. The decade-old Collaboration of Design + Art program is coordinated by the Wisconsin-based CODAworx but has a global reach, honoring projects from Canada to Kosovo. The judges themselves work around the world, including two Interior Design Hall of Fame members, Iran-born architect Gisue Hariri and Ireland-born designer Clodagh, as well as artists Guy Kemper, Patrick Marold, and Catherine Clockwise from top left: Sited on a lake in Kaohsiung, Widgery, all former winners, Taiwan, James Tapscott’s Arc and our very own editor in chief, ZERO: Eclipse, a stainless-steel Cindy Allen, as Interior Design ring 30 feet in diameter incor continues its role as national porating mist, won the landscape category. Linda Covit’s Raindrops, media partner of the awards. Selections were made in 11 catthe healthcare winner, is a trio of egories, representing a range tall stainless-steel sculptures in a courtyard at Montreal’s Hôpital of concepts and mediums. For Maisonneuve-Rosemount. In St. 10 days in June, the public voted Mary’s City, Maryland, From online for two people’s choice Absence to Presence, Commem awards. After all, CODA’s ethos is orating Contributions of Enslaved that art should touch everyone. Peoples, the public spaces winner, is a structure clad in ipe clapboard and mirror-polished stainless steel including lines from Quenton Baker poems in memory of the slaves who once lived and worked on the grounds of St. Mary’s College.

—Athena Waligore

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Clockwise from top left: Synchronicity of Color for Kosovo, a merit recipient in the institutional category, is a 9-by-15-foot spiral in stained-glass panels by Sawyer Studio for the U.S. Embassy in Pristina. Nick Cave’s Each One, Every One, Equal All, a 4,600-square-foot mosaic enlivening New York’s Times Square subway station, is the transportation winner. A cast-glass installation at an archeological site in Poznan̄, Poland, Spirit of Palatium by Archiglass, won the liturgical category. The commercial winner, the mixed-media Digital Phyllotaxy by Jason Bruges Studio, surrounds the escalators at Hankook Tire’s corporate headquarters in Seoul, South Korea. The stained-glass Cellular at University Health in Kansas City, Missouri, earned Monarch Glass Studio a healthcare merit. Dialogue 38’s custom printed mosaic fronting a counter at Toronto’s Konjiki Ramen and Saryo Cafe is one of two people’s choice awards winners.

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the italian job The W Rome, a hotel by Meyer Davis, is a cinematic interpretation of the Eternal City text: edie cohen photography: eric laignel

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The W Rome is like nothing we’ve ever seen. Nor is the hotel like anything in the vast and far-reaching hospitality portfolio of Meyer Davis co-principals Will Meyer and Gray Davis, soon-to-be inductees into Interior Design’s Hall of Fame. “We’re known as masters of editing,” Meyer begins. “But this project turns the speakers up to 11.” He, Davis, and Zoe Pinfold, senior associate and co-director of the firm’s Los Angeles studio, nixed any trace of minimalism in favor of exuberance and flat-out cinematic glamour. “By peeling back layers we discovered the reason Rome is so special, it’s where civilizations and cultures were layered on top of each other,” Meyer continues. “That amazing collage drove our narrative.” Jumping in, Davis adds, “We used the phrase We got lost in the city.” Yet when guests stroll the Ludovisi district and branch off from Via Veneto, its main corridor, to find their way to Via Liguria high above the Spanish Steps, they are indeed promised la dolce vita upon passing through the W’s portals. While the hotel boasts three points of entry, the main one’s glazed cube is not only the showpiece but also Meyer Davis’s ingenious introduction to a tricky site, composed of two buildings dating to 1889. The property was first a hotel, with shops on the ground floor and a restaurant added in 1914. During the ’40’s, the story takes an unsavory turn, the buildings reportedly commandeered by Nazi troops. From the ’60’s to 2002 they were offices, and then empty when purchased by Omnam Group and King Street Capital Management. The cube or “gasket,” as the team calls it, solves the immediate problem of tying together the buildings, one six stories high and the other four, for a total of 150,000 square feet. Then, organization assures a unified experience. Guest quarters, 162 keys including 13 suites, populate both—as do amenities. Establishing

Previous spread: At the W Rome, a hotel by Meyer Davis, every bit of the bar-lounge, from the velvetupholstered sofas to the chairs, rugs, lighting, and architectural elements, is custom, while floor ing is composed of three Italian marbles. It’s all backdropped by Galleria Dei Candelabri, a photo graph on mirror by Florentine artist Massimo Listri. Left: Flooring switches to dif ferent Italian marbles in the lobby, where the glass end wall is framed with bronzed steel in a W pattern. Top, from left: Costanza Alvarez de Castro’s mural backdrops pol ished stainless-steel kiosks at check-in. Two empty 19th-century buildings totaling 150,000 square feet and offering 162 guest rooms make up the hotel. Bottom: The lobby’s rosewood-paneled oval lounge within a lounge is an homage to the Pantheon.

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see-and-be-seen scenes, they include a knockout reception and lobby, a jazzy bar-lounge, Giano restaurant, Zucchero café, and a pool and bar on the rooftop. A fitness center and meeting rooms figure into the mix, as does a clandestine sculpture garden located at the rear of the property. “There are no dead ends,” Davis notes. “Visitors can wander all over and never get stuck.” Meyer Davis created the entry experience as a procession of see-through spaces, starting with reception. It’s a fantastical Roman garden, simultaneously classical and irreverent, composed of a verdant mural by Constanza Alvarez de Castro surrounding a trio of shiny stainless-steel check-in kiosks. Next comes the lobby, its carved stone walls surrounding a sweep of black-and-white marble flooring, the stonework nodding to that of nearby churches. The standout here, however, is what really ties site to city: an oval enclave, a lounge within a lounge, with luxe rosewood paneling and a gilt ceiling, that’s an undisputed homage to the Pantheon. It all anchors a lively mishmash of furnishings, most of which are custom, as are many elements throughout. “We designed more than 200 pieces made by Italian companies,” Pinfold says. Lively is an understatement for the hotel barlounge, a generous space Meyer Davis utterly transformed from bland to bellissimo with arches, moldings, and three heavily veined types of Italian marble for the floor, creating a setting evocative of ancient Rome. Large rectangular light fixtures with a Colosseum-like vibe cast an attractive glow on guests enjoying apertivo on ample curvaceous seating, upholstered in sunset orange, periwinkle blue, or an op art–esque peach/brown. It’s all amplified by surrounding mirrors, including Florence photographer Massimo Listri’s image of a classical statue-filled gallery mounted on mirror, a kind of Italian trompe l’oeil. Come 8:00 p.m., all thoughts in Rome turn to dinner. At W, that’s at Giano, helmed by acclaimed chef Ciccio Sultano, who helped create yet another series of rooms. In addition to private dining, three rooms are arrayed in an enfilade with dining spaces on each side of a main axis. It’s a dense environment, buzzy with disco music reverberating off stone and brass surfaces as the evening progresses. Meanwhile, copious walnut millwork has niches

Top: A Charlotte Perriand lacquered cocktail table joins Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni’s floor lamp in the presidential suite. Bottom: The rooftop pool is 30 feet long. Top, from left: Painted drywall in the meeting-room corridor. A travertine vessel alluding to Italian churches in the hidden sculpture garden. A Fornasetti vase and custom pendant fixture in the presidential suite. Center, from left: A Laufen tub in a presidential suite bathroom. Custom wool corridor carpets extending up the walls for protection from luggage. The bar face’s antiqued mirror. Bottom, from left: A close-up of reception’s mural. Giano restaurant’s blackened-steel grill inset with glass and fronted by an acrylic diffuser. A custom powder-coated pendant fixture in Zucchero, the hotel’s café.

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“References to Italy’s design legends abound, from Scarpa to Memphis”

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In a junior suite, the leathercovered headboard and brassfinished shelving units, the near one containing a cobalt Pumo bud symbolic of good luck, are all custom.

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inset with layers of backlit acrylic and glass behind blackened steel for a prismatic effect. Arguably most striking is the supreme approach to color. Chairs and banquettes are upholstered in deep green, cobalt, and terra-cotta mohair, settees in calming blush. “’Collage it up’ was our approach,” Davis notes. Collage reaches its pinnacle in the guest quarters, which range from 215 square feet to 850 in the presidential suite. Each room feels unique. “We tried to do something that hasn’t been seen before,” Pinfold explains, “starting with the background color, a light gray leaning to blue.” References to Italy’s legends abound. Channeled leather headboards, for example, “are inspired by Carlo Scarpa,” she adds. Tables reference Memphis. Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni’s iconic Arco lamp illuminates the presidential suite. Seating on the terraces is covered in a pattern derived from an archival Hermès textile. The design was hand-painted, then printed on outdoor fabric—by a decades-old Roman fabricator, of course. PROJECT TEAM STEPHANIE SCHREIBER: MEYER DAVIS. LOMBARDINI22: ARCHITECT OF RECORD. LIGHTING DESIGN COLLECTIVE: LIGHTING CONSULTANT. EXTRA ORDINARIO; MOBIL PROJECT: CUSTOM FURNITURE WORKSHOPS. PRODUCT SOURCES FROM FRONT CC-TAPIS: CUSTOM RUGS (BAR). ARTEMEST: STOOL. CASSINA: ARMCHAIRS (LOBBY), COCKTAIL TABLE (PRESIDENTIAL SUITE). GIOVANNOZZI: WALL COVERING (LOBBY STAIR). FLOS: LAMP (PRESIDENTIAL SUITE). TUUCI: UMBRELLAS (POOL). SILHOUETTE OUTDOOR: CUSTOM CHAIRS, CUSTOM TABLES (POOL), CUSTOM SECTIONAL (TERRACE). ARTE 2000: CUSTOM FOUNTAIN (COURTYARD). CONTARDI: SCONCES (SUITE BATHROOM), LANTERNS (TERRACE). LAUFEN: TUBS (SUITES). PICTALAB: CUSTOM MURAL (CAFÉ). BERT FRANK: FLOOR LAMP (JUNIOR SUITE). DOOQ: DINING CHAIRS (DUPLEX). GRUPO ARCA: CUSTOM VANITY, CUSTOM FLOOR TILE (RESTROOM). ITALPOLTRONE: CUSTOM BENCH. THROUGHOUT VEN GLOBAL: CUSTOM LIGHTING. LOLOEY: CUSTOM RUGS, CUSTOM CARPET. CLASS DESIGN: CUSTOM PILLOWS, CUSTOM CUSHIONS, CUSTOM DRAPERY.

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Left: The downstairs dining area of the duplex suite features Dooq chairs and a bar topped with statuary marble. Top, from left: Its bedroom is upstairs. The pattern of the presidential suite’s terrace seating comes from an archival Hermès fabric. Bottom: Two types of Italian marbles meet in the lobby restroom.

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garden party Outdoor entertaining was a client priority for Casa Bento, a house in São Paulo by FCstudio text: marisa bartolucci photography: andré mortatti

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If you live in São Paulo, a city with a subtropical climate, you want to be outdoors as much as possible. Which is exactly why Casa Bento was commissioned. Its owners, a fortysomething couple who also work to gether, were frustrated by the limitations of their previous residence. A traditional house with conventional rooms, there was no flow between the various domestic spaces, much less with the surrounding garden. The couple, who have two young daughters, now 10 and 6 years old, dreamed of a home where they could indulge their love of entertaining family and friends—indoors and out. Enter architect Flavio Castro, who founded his firm FCstudio with the conviction that architecture should be responsive to the ways people live—and that those ways are always changing. The clients had acquired a lot for their dream house on Rua Bento de Andrade—hence the name Casa Bento—the very street where both had grown up, in the highly de sirable Jardim Paulista neighborhood. It’s a verdant section of the city, but also a busy and crowded one. So chief among Castro’s initial concerns was to conceive a plan that would exclude the bustle of the street and views of adjacent neighbors, while still feeling open, airy, and fully inte grated into a lushly landscaped property.

The architect’s solution, a 4,560-square-foot, two-story structure that sits in the middle of the walled lot, resembles a metal box perched on thick board-formed concrete sidewalls. The ground-floor end facades are fully glazed, a transparency that visually links the entry hall with the parking courtyard in the front and merges the indoor and outdoor living areas in the back. The second story, by contrast, is clad in folded steel lamina—the same material used for the street fence, a large part of which pivots upward like a giant garage door to admit cars—and topped with a narrow clerestory. During the day, the upper level presents a blank face 100

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Previous spread: Large Cor-Ten steel shutters form a dramatic brise-soleil enclosing the main bedroom of a house in São Paulo by FCstudio. Opposite: The dining area’s table in Brazilian jatoba wood and steel and the living area’s two-piece cocktail table, in Cor-Ten and marble, are custom. Top, from left: The galley kitchen is almost entirely clad in pau ferro, also known as Bolivian rosewood. The cantilevered second story shelters the patio and outdoor kitchen from sun and rain. Concrete — board-formed on the walls, polished on the floors — adds to the subtle play of different textures throughout the ground level. Bottom: The garden features a firepit and perforatedmetal benches, all custom, and a spalike dipping pool.

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to passersby, but at night it’s crowned by a halolike band of light. The metal box opens up at the back, however, where a continuous ribbon of sliding glass windows runs across most of the rear facade before turning the corner to extend along part of the sidewall. The glazing encloses the main bedroom, admitting abundant natural light along with views of the green garden oasis below. The windows are fitted with enormous shutters that form a striking brise-soleil, which not only deflects the often-intense sun but also provides complete privacy and quiet when fully closed. The structure’s pivoting vanes are made of Cor-Ten steel—as is the front door—a favorite material of Castro’s since it’s honest, weathers well in the local climate, and has a handsome texture and color that harmonize with the house’s concrete, steel, and surrounding greenery. The ground level is all about entertaining. Located in the back of the house, the social gathering zone comprises a large living-dining area flanked by a spacious patio and the garden on one side and a galley kitchen on the other. Essentially an elegant box clad inside and out with sumptuous pau ferro wood, the kitchen features a wide, proscenium-like passthrough that allows cook, family, and guests to converse freely while meals are being prepared. A row of simple Fernando Prado pendant fixtures hanging above a custom jatoba wood table defines the

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Top: The glazed ground-floor front facade integrates the entry hall with the parking courtyard. Center: A floating concrete stair with LED up-lights leads to the basement playroom. Bottom: A custom painted-steel canopy in the shape of a gable brings whimsy to a child’s bedroom. Opposite: The 4,560-square-foot house comprises a concrete-and-glass ground floor containing social spaces, topped by boxlike volume clad in folded steel lamina for bedrooms and family areas.

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dining area, while a sofa, an armchair by Sérgio Rodrigues, and a bench by Claudia Moreira Salles form a seating group. Sheltered by the second-floor overhang, the patio is outfitted with a long concrete dining table by Matthias Ambros von Holleben and an outdoor kitchen, also made of concrete, with distinctive teak doors. The patio’s cement pavers extend into the garden to frame a small dipping pool; a metal firepit and pair of perforated-metal benches incorporating clever built-in side tables and cachepots—all by FCstudio—sit nearby on the lush green lawn. A dramatic blackened-steel staircase, suspended like a Donald Judd sculpture from the entry hall ceiling, rises to the family bedrooms on the second floor. The open landing at the top of the stair runs the full width of the house and is deep enough to double as a home theater. The window walls at each end of the long space can be darkened with curtains and steel lamina shutters, but the clerestory overhead provides soft natural light during the day. A long corridor down the side of the house leads to the daughters’ bedrooms and the main suite beyond. Each of the girls’ rooms features

a platform bed playfully enclosed by a painted-steel frame in the form of a gable roof; built-in storage closets and drawers line the opposite wall. The children also have a play area in the basement, which is reached by a floating concrete stair as strikingly sculptural as its steel counterpart on the floor above. Staff quarters, service areas, and storage spaces are also found on this level. Casa Bento may have been named for its street address, but the house has more than a little in common with the traditional Japanese lunch box its moniker evokes. Both achieve a masterful balance of the functional and the aesthetic—each a microcosm in which every element has its perfectly judged place. 104

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Opposite: In addition to the house and interiors, FCstudio designed the exterior lighting and landscaping to ensure the seamless integration of indoor and outdoor entertaining spaces, a client priority. Top, from left: A suspended welded-steel stair provides access to the second-floor family zones. The steel lamina fence pivots up for access to the parking court; otherwise, the street facade is blank, except for a lanternlike clerestory. The second-floor stair landing doubles as a home theater. Bottom: When the windows and brise-soleil panels are opened, tropical greenery envelops the main bedroom, where flooring is cumaru, a Brazilian hardwood used throughout the home’s second level. PROJECT TEAM JOÃO FELIPE FALQUETO; LEONARDO ROSA; ERICA MIRANDA: FCSTUDIO. CREATTO: WOODWORK. PRODUCT SOURCES FROM FRONT MEZAS: TABLE (PATIO). INDIODACOSTA: CHAIRS. LUMINI: PENDANT FIXTURES (DINING AREA). DPOT: CHAIRS (DINING AREA), BENCH (LIVING AREA). BY KAMI: RUG (LIVING AREA). CASUAL MÓVEIS: TABLE LAMP (KITCHEN), SIDE TABLE (GARDEN), FLOOR LAMP (THEATER). CASUAL EXTERIORES: LOUNGES (GARDEN). VITRA: ELEPHANT STOOL (CHILD’S ROOM). TAPETAH: RUGS (CHILD’S ROOM, THEATER). ESTÚDIO LÍDER DESIGN: ARMCHAIR, OTTOMAN (MAIN BEDROOM). THROUGHOUT BRASTON: CEMENT FLOOR TILE. TAÚNA: WOOD FLOORING. SUVINIL: PAINT. ESQUADRALUM: WINDOWS.

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Ludwig Godefroy carved the boutique Casa TO hotel into Mexico’s Pacific coast and surrounded it with lush native vegetation text: alyn griffiths photography: jaime navarro

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Hidden away down a quiet side street in La Punta Zicatela, Casa TO is a zen like hotel inspired by the ancient tem ples of surrounding Oaxaca. Designed by French architect Ludwig Godefroy, the 10,000-square-foot property on Mexico’s southern Pacific coast pro vides a tranquil retreat for the surfers and tourists who flock to the area for its stunning beaches and laid-back lifestyle. Casa TO is located just min utes from the ocean, but Godefroy claims some guests feel so comfort able there they rarely venture outside. “People told me they stayed for a week and only went to the beach once,” he says with a grin. Casa TO is the latest project from developer Surreal Estate, which has commissioned Godefroy to design several projects in La Punta Zicatela, a hamlet at the southern reaches of Puerto Escondido. The site was origi nally zoned for three adjoining resi dences, but a tourism boom in the area prompted the client to ask Gode froy if he could adapt the concept into a two-story hotel. “Rather than start

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ing from scratch, I said, ‘Let’s work with what we have and I’m sure I can do something interesting,’” he recalls. The architect’s first idea was to punch circular openings through the walls—which are raw concrete, the project’s dominant material—that were originally intended to separate the three houses, creating a large communal lounge for the hotel’s pool and reception. This bold intervention references thermal baths and historic hydraulic sites like Istanbul’s Basilica Cistern and the Hornsey Wood Reser voir in London’s Finsbury Park, which both feature repeating reticulated forms that yield a dynamic sense of perspective. At Casa TO, the view through the portals instantly became a hit on Instagram, thanks to its gra phic shapes and pleasing symmetry. Taking advantage of Mexico’s yearround warm climate, Casa TO’s public spaces are left open to the elements and utilize little or no air-conditioning. Breezes wafting over the pool’s sur face bring cool air into the lounge, where guests can relax on chairs or

Previous spread: Casa TO, a nine-key, two-story hotel in La Punta Zicatela, Mexico, by Ludwig Godefroy, is arranged around a pool and terraced solarium, all in cast-in-place concrete, inspired by the ancient Mayan pyramids and temples in surrounding Oaxaca. Opposite: From the street, the hotel is hidden behind a concrete loggia populated with native vegetation. Top, from left: A cluster of 65 concrete cubes, also cast in situ, provides a versatile seating area. Sections of the facade are left open to the elements for natural ventilation. Bottom: Reception features a custom desk made from local parota wood and lamps by Mexican studio Natural Urbano.

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floor cushions surrounded by tropical plants. “I like to create an atmosphere of an oasis of shelter from the sun and the rain,” explains Godefroy, who also used native plants and palm trees to form part of the facade, maintaining views and airflow through the hotel. The communal areas extend to the opposite side of the pool, where large steps form a solarium for sunbathing. The massive steps, which are a recurring motif in Godefroy’s projects, are influenced by his fascination with Mexico’s ancient Mayan pyramids and temples, which he first visited shortly after arriving in the country 15 years ago. “Their monumentality and spiri-

“The almost monastic feel helps encourage contemplation and a slower way of living” tual power awoke strong emotions in me,” he says. The hotel’s name, incidentally, is an abbreviation of Templo Oaxaque. Other important influences for Godefroy include heavyweights of 20th-century brutalist architecture, such as Le Corbusier, Louis Kahn, and Carlo Scarpa, all of whom made innovative use of cast-in-place concrete during their careers. At Casa TO, Godefroy left the concrete structure bare and unfinished. The architect says he appreciates how the material looks in the warm Mexican light and complements the lush vegetation. “In an opposite way of thinking from the throwaway mentality of our modern societies, I’m looking for the same authenticity I find in vernacular architecture,” he explains. “This research of simplicity is leading me to create a clean and abstract architecture, composed exclusively of massive materials such as concrete, which gets better looking over time.” The pared-back palette offset by millwork made from local woods like parota is applied throughout the hotel’s nine suites, which are located on the opposite side of the pool from the communal spaces. Rather than looking onto the pool, the rooms favor privacy and protection from the sun. Top: A sloping roof rising 10 feet above the pool draws the eye toward the sky. Center: Circular apertures punched through the concrete walls connect the hotel’s different zones. Bottom: Each suite opens onto private outdoor space, with rooms on the upper floor incorporating an outdoor tub. Opposite: The position of the openings creates a perspective that shifts when viewed from different angles.

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Top, from left: Bathroom vanities are cast from concrete. Staircases evoking the monumentality of Oaxacan temples are a recurring motif in Godefroy’s architecture. A corridor with a sloping ceiling evokes the ancient ruins of Mexican sites like Uxmal or Palenque. Bottom: A first-floor suite has a private garden adjoining the bedroom. Opposite: A chair by Tiago Solís Van Beuren faces the pool area, which was conceived as a reflec tive space reminiscent of a thermal bath.

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The six suites on the first floor have small gardens, while the three on the upper level feature a terrace with an outdoor tub. The baths, sinks, storage, and benches are all cast in situ from concrete, so almost no additional furniture is required. The only freestanding furniture in the hotel was commissioned by Surreal Estate cofounder Daniel Cinta to showcase the creativity of artisans from Puebla, Guadalajara, and Oaxaca. Along with bamboo chairs by local designer Tiago Solís Van Beuren, these items bring warmth and texture to the interiors and can be purchased by guests under a fair-trade model. Bright pops of color are provided by turquoise-finished metal lamps from

Mexican studio Natural Urbano, along with a few carefully chosen decorative items in complementary shades of yellow, green, and blue. The hotel’s relatively spartan décor contributes to its almost monastic feel, which helps encourage contemplation and a slower way of living. A few important creature comforts are provided, including products from Mexican skincare brand For All Folks, which bases its formulas on the regenerative properties of such plants as calendula. For Godefroy, though, the greatest luxury at Casa TO is the sense of pure isolation it offers guests. “We tried to create a cocooning atmosphere,” he says, “so people never want to leave.”

PROJECT TEAM GISELA KENIGSBERG: LANDSCAPING CONSULTANT. OBED MORENO: GENERAL CONTRACTOR. PRODUCT SOURCES FROM FRONT NATURAL URBANO: LAMPS (RECEPTION). AZOTEA: SIDE CHAIR. HABITAT CREATIVO: VASE. BAMBUREN: LOUNGE CHAIRS (RECEPTION, SUITE, POOL). OROZCO TALLER TEXTIL EXPERIMENTAL; TALLER OCHO: RUGS (SUITES).

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Covered with colorful disks, an addition to the National Center for Handcraft, Art and Design in Mindelo, Cape Verde, by Ramos Castellano Arquitectos gives the island nation a jubilant cultural icon

At about $3 per piece, lids from the steel barrels in which many products are shipped to Cape Verde, an archipelago of 10 volcanic islands off West Africa, were the mother of invention for an addition to the National Center for Handcraft, Art and Design (CNAD). Scores of the multicolored lids, configured into a brise-soleil, populate three sides of the addition, which is in Mindelo, the largest town on the island of São Vicente. The adjustable screen blocks the tropical sun while admitting cooling ocean breezes inside. More than a functional sunshade, the polka-dot carapace has become a national icon. It also displays, almost like a billboard, the ingenuity, cultural relevance, and ecological thrift regularly practiced by Ramos Castellano Arquitectos. “Everything that comes onto the island arrives in a container or a barrel,” co-principal Moreno Castellano says. “So we made the addition a container for culture, art, and craft by using a material that’s important for our country.” Working with local labor, Castellano and co-principal Eloisa Ramos produce homegrown designs that are no less sophisticated for often being built from recycled materials, even scrap. At the modest end of the architectural food chain, the firm punches way beyond its weight, achieving a grass-roots architecture of international stature remarkable for its authenticity, invention, and can-do spirit. Castellano, who is also an artist, professes to use architecture and art “as a social revolutionary tool.” Trained in Portugal, where Ramos, a native of Mindelo, and Castellano, a native of Sardinia, met in architecture school, the young architects focus their design literacy on solutions as simple as cross ventilation. Their budgets for eco hotels and walk-up apartments built on in-fill urban lots are, characteristically, slim to meager. But they make the most out of the least as a matter of conviction, and practice financial ecology by avoiding a dependency on imported technologies and materials, preferring, for instance, not to order HVAC systems from Europe, which would rely on parts bought at punishing exchange rates. The architects employed local workshops, most within walking or biking distance of their office, to sand, polish, and spray-paint the lids and fabricate the steel armature for the brise-soleil, which opens and closes like a louver. Speaking of their simple, “common sense” building strategies in an island culture, Ramos says, “Materials are our helpers. They allow us to do what we do where we practice.” What is considered “precious” is a matter of judgment, she continues, and lowly materials like the barrels are treasurable since 116

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Previous spread: Painted lids from the steel barrels in which products are shipped to Cape Verde, an archipelago off West Africa, form a brise-soleil for an addition to the National Center for Handcraft, Art and Design in Mindelo by Ramos Castellano Arquitectos. Opposite top: The firm also renovated the center’s original building, a colonial-era house that sits in front of the addition. Opposite bottom: A walkway runs between the brise-soleil and the building facade. Top, from left: The disks are attached to horizontal elements that pivot individually, allowing for multiple degrees of visual and solar permeability. The recycled lids, all 2 feet in diameter, were sanded, polished, and spray-painted by local craftspeople. Bottom: The ground-floor gallery is outfitted with temporary display scaffolding for an exhibition of Cape Verdean art.

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they enabled a practical, affordable, visually effective solution transformed into a cultural symbol. The CNAD commission involved remodeling and restoring a gracious, 5,000-square-foot colonial-era house located on a prominent square. For the addition, Ramos and Castellano conceived a narrow, five-story building that sits on the footprint of a demolished shed in the adjoining backyard lot. Comprising basement archives, two floors of tall galleries, a third-floor library, a workshop and artist’s residence on the fourth level, and offices on the top, the 11,500-square-foot structure is only one-room deep—a mere 22 feet wide,

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All the furniture and built-ins in the third-floor library are custom and locally manufactured, a practice Ramos Castellano follows in all its projects.

balance with nature, and integrate buildings into the ecosystem”

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The space between the addition and the old building has been transformed into a patiolike plaza that also links the streets running on either side of CNAD.

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including the brise-soleil, down its entire 109-foot length. The architects recast the backyard as a patiolike public square linking the old and new buildings and functioning as the museum entry. The 24-inch-diameter barrel lids served as a module on which the dimensions of the concrete-frame building are based. Ramos and Castellano avoided using concrete block— so ubiquitous in “emerging” world construction—because “fabricators often remove sand from beaches,” Castellano explains. “Architecture can amount to a strong force and our philosophy is to keep structures light, to find a balance with nature, and integrate buildings into the ecosystem.” Ramos Castellano designed almost all the center’s furniture, including tables, seating, and shelving in the library, and had it manufactured by neighborhood craftspeople. A steel barrel (cost: $5) was split open to create the flat planes of the multicolor reception desk; with its faded lettering and rusty patina, the construction resembles a Robert Rauschenberg assemblage. The brise-soleil not only allows air to flow through windows punched in the rear wall but also casts rotating patterns on the polished concrete floors, turning them into kinetic art. The lids generate music, too: The architects invited Vasco Martins, a Cape Verdean composer of the John Cage persuasion, into the project, and he ascribed a note to each disk based on its color, creating a sound work of chance and accident. “Music and architecture have a synesthetic relationship; they share a sense of space,” Castellano observes. Could this little museum’s joyous architectural music prove to be Cape Verde’s siren song? “We wanted to achieve a Bilbao Effect,” Castellano acknowledges, “to demonstrate that even on this small island in the middle of the Atlantic, you can build things that spread around the world, to counter the feeling that only the most developed countries with the most developed economies can generate amazing architecture.” Francis Kéré did it with his Gando primary school in Burkina Faso, at the very heart of Africa; Ramos and Castellano’s CNAD addition may well do the same for this tiny nation some 400 miles off the great continent’s coast.

PROJECT TEAM ZICO LOPES; BRUNO KENNY; EDOARDO MENEGHIN; MARVIN DELGADO; DANIL SILVA; MARCO DOS ANJOS: RAMOS CASTELLANO ARQUITECTOS. LOS PROJECT: LIGHTING CONSULTANT. ILIDIO ALEXANDRE: STRUCTURAL ENGINEER. PRODUCT SOURCES THROUGHOUT LINEA LIGHT: TRACK LIGHTING. SITA: LID PAINT.

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Opposite top: Sunlight filtering through the brise-soleil projects animated patterns on the polished concrete flooring. Opposite bottom: Thanks to the addition’s exterior, the building has become an icon in the town and for the nation. Top, from left: Located on a prominent town square, the center’s two buildings are quite different yet create a convincing ensemble. The artist’s residence and workshop on the fourth floor includes built-in sleeping pods and access to the exterior walkway via a wall of sliding doors. Bottom: An exhibition of works by the late Cape Verdean artist Alex da Silva graces the second-floor gallery.

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ebb and flow For the BMW Experience Center in Chengdu, China, Archihope drew inspiration from the carmaker’s global brand identity and the rivers integral to the city’s history text: wilson barlow photography: vincent wu

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In 2016, in celebration of its centennial, German automaker BMW released Vision Next 100, a concept car that looked as if it was dropped from an alien spacecraft. Among its features were autonomous driving, on-board AI, and an exterior aluminum-mesh skin of shape-shifting triangles that could adapt to make the vehicle more aerodynamic mid-ride, something company executives called an “alive geometry.” When they were looking to expand the brand’s presence in China with the equally future-looking BMW Experience Center in Chengdu, they approached Archihope, a local firm founded by chief architect Hihope Zhu that focuses on creating visual innovation and memorable user experiences. Archihope was presented with an existing single-story building that had been built as a workshop for a different car company but never used and eventually abandoned. “It was basically half-baked,” Zhu recalls. An important directive BMW had for him and his team was that the new experience center be visible to passengers on the high-speed rail and highway nearby. So, Zhu turned to the Vision Next 100 for inspiration, translating its repeating exterior triangles into a skin of perforated anodized aluminum panels that wraps the entire structure, expanded by Archihope to five stories, save for a glass curtain wall at the entrance. The facade

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Previous spread: In the showroom at the BMW Experience Center in Chengdu, China, by Archihope, an i8 Roadster is illuminated by LED panels embedded in both the ceramic floor tile and wood-look ceiling installation. Left: Custom furniture appoints a showroom lounge. Top, from left: The installation is actually fiber-cement sheets painted with a woodlike finish. Most of the facade is perforated anodized aluminum, derived from the metal-mesh skin used on the Vision Next 100 concept car. Bottom: A bluestone-slab partition defines the showroom area designated for the X series of SUVs.

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also serves another key function: sustainability. It shades the building in summer and traps heat in the winter, allowing it to use less energy throughout the year. As for the 117,000-square-foot interiors, instead of trying to retrofit its concept into what was left behind, Archihope removed everything except structural beams and columns, leaving a blank slate with which to work. Rather than insert gratuitous details, or create an environment to drop the product into later with little thought, the studio focused on core elements, which in this case are the cars themselves. “We were meticulous in the way we placed every vehicle,” Zhu says. “We thought about how they would look from every angle as customers walk through the space.” After all, BMW is known for design excellence. . .why not let that shine? The showroom occupies the center’s ground floor (the four additional levels contain offices, merchandise areas, tea rooms, and car-maintenance workshops), and Archihope tailored each of the display areas to particular characteristics of each model. For the X series of SUVs, for instance, a giant letter X lit by LEDs is embedded in a partition of bluestone slabs, which Zhu chose to connote the earthiness of an off-road vehicle. That wall serves double duty: A screen on the other side loops promotional videos. For the premium GKL range, an array of car parts

that can be swapped in and out is mounted on the wall, highlighting the vehicle’s customization abilities. The most high-profile display, however, is right beyond the entry. That’s where the i8 Roadster stands on and under illuminated rectangles, a setup that makes it appear teleported in from another dimension. In addition to showcasing this particular model, the overhead lighting “creates a reason for people to look up,” Zhu says, rather than focusing their attention only on what’s at eye level. That mission also drove the ceiling installation in what looks like beech or pine that starts in the entrance and angles up and through the mezzanine customer retail and lounge areas, creating a throughline between them and the showroom. According to Zhu, it took months to get its form just right, which was carried out in lightweight wood-look fiber-cement sheets, their durability an extra boon. Infusing more luxe and additional connection to the mezzanine is a wide stairway of white veined marble, the same material used for the podiums dotting the showroom. But the BMW Experience Center showroom is inspired by place as much as it is by brand. While Chengdu does have four distinct seasons, it lacks abundant sunlight. So, Archihope

Left: LEDs are embedded into the showroom’s fiber-cement ceiling. Center: Painted aluminum marks the carservice exit. Right: Marble stairs connect the showroom with the mezzanine, where the customer retail and lounge areas are. Opposite: The ceiling installation, formulated using CAD, is approximately 20 feet long and symbolic of the Precious Bottleneck rivers that snake through Chengdu. 128

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made calculated use of BMW’s core colors to brighten up the space. “It’s about 70 percent white and silver, 20 burly wood color, and 10 linear black for stability,” Zhu estimates. And then there are the city’s rivers, northern tributaries of the Yangtze together known as the Precious Bottleneck, that snake through urban Chengdu. Those rivers were a constant touchpoint for Zhu and his team, who tracked their perpetual movement as they imagined how customers and salespeople would move through the showroom. Even the ceiling installation has a flowing quality. But as it comes to a point in the lobby, it takes another shape: an arrow pointing to the future. PROJECT TEAM JANE FANG; CHANG XU; MENGJUN HE; TENG GONG; CHUANLI TAN; QING ZHAO; XIN’AN DONG; KUN LU; GUOJUN LAN; GUOAN LAN; HONGMEI FENG; JINGMAO YANG; GUANYING DENG; JINPENG LIAO: ARCHIHOPE. SIAD DESIGN (SHENZHEN) CO.: INTERIOR DESIGN FIRM. FLAWLESS: CUSTOM FURNITURE WORKSHOP. PRODUCT SOURCES THROUGHOUT ETERPAN: FIBER-CEMENT SHEETS. TECHSIZE: MARBLE FLOORING. OSRAM: LIGHTING.

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Left: For the GKL series display, a wall installation signals the luxury model’s customization capabilities and flooring changes to wood-look ceramic tile. Below: LEDs are also recessed into the ceiling installation. Bottom, from left: The installation rises to 20 feet. A glass curtain wall fronts the showroom.

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Five fabulous international resorts from the Greek islands to the South China Sea make most ofmuseum, From a Jewish education center to anthe Asian art stunning natural vistasacross three continents shed light institutional projects

framing the view everything is illuminated on history, religion, and culture

text: peter webster

See page 140 for GS Design’s Sumei Skyline Coast Boutique Hotel—a property defined by elegant arches—on Hainan Island, China. Photography: Ao Xiang.

text: annie block

See page 140 for the Church of Beatified Restituta in Brno, Czech Republic, by Atelier Štěpán. Photography: BoysPlayNice.

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“Materials such as glass, concrete, stone, and wood blur the delineation of the constructed and the natural”

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BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group project Hôtel des Horlogers, Le Brassus, Switzerland. standout Following its Interior Design Best of Year– winning museum for Audemars Piguet, BIG now gives the Swiss watchmaker an equally striking hotel right next door. The 56-room boutique property, a collaboration with local firm CCHE, comprises five slablike levels arranged as a continuous ramp that zigzags down the hillside, a program that embraces the Vallée de Joux’s breathtaking topography while also evoking the winding route of the region’s famous watchmakers’ trail. photography Maris Metzulis.

“Diffuse light and shadow fall inside but the source is veiled, representing the existence and

“Ocean-facing guest rooms have huge floor-to-ceiling windows that eliminate the boundaries of the space and invite the natural scenery in” 136

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Fusion Design project Sanyea Sjór Seaside Resort, Shenzhen, China. standout Right from the rich hue of its exterior— a deep red based on the color of the local soil—this 14-room, two-story resort draws on the tones, textures, and shapes of nature to conjure an atmosphere of quiet remove. Beach sand inspired the palette of the interior, where brick gridwork casts dappled light on the floor of reception, the check-in desk looks like a block of rough-hewn granite, and a sculptural spiral stair painted Yves Klein blue suggests the coiled power of the ocean. photography Ouyang Yun.

mystery of God”

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Hirsch Bedner Associates project Conrad Tulum Riviera Maya, Mexico. standout From the lobby’s pivoting-shutter walls and undulating rope ceiling installation to the spa’s cenotelike spaces, each centered on a circular pool beneath an oculus open to the sky, this 349-room resort—the brand’s debut property in the Mexican Caribbean—is infused with modern takes on Yucatan handcrafts, traditions, and materials. Even the guest rooms’ dark granite floors evoke volcanic rock while live-edge tzalam, often referred to as Mayan walnut, forms the handsome headboards. photography Noah Webb.

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“The property offers layered spaces that stimulate the senses, encourage intuitive exploration, and provide an honest connection to nature”

GS Design project Sumei Skyline Coast Boutique Hotel, Sanya, China. standout Rolling ocean waves were the inspiration for the multi-arch facade of this minimalist haven on Hainan Island in the country’s southernmost province. Inside, the arched windows not only frame an infinite panorama of blue sea and sky but also establish a program of curvi linear forms that includes a serpentine pool surrounded by sinuously shaped furniture in the lobby, ocular skylights above beds with rounded headboards in guest rooms, and colonnaded spaces melding circular and square geometries. photography Ao Xiang.

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“On the roof deck, shallow water mirrors the sky, stone steps and sunken seating express order, and an arch installation provides a photo spot”

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Block722 project Casa Cook Samos, Potokaki, Greece. standout Overlooking the Aegean Sea and surrounded by the forested landscape of Samos, this 128-room, adults-only retreat nods to traditional Greek village houses, melding the earthy tones and textures of local wood, stone, and leather with the sleeker effect of smooth materials like marble and terrazzo. Village life is also emulated, with the property laid out as a series of small neighborhoods each centered around a swimming pool that acts as the town square. photography Ana Santl.

Rooms are modern and minimalist, decorated with unrefined tones and natural, handcrafted elements creating a modern-luxe atmosphere with an authentic Greek feel”

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Yabu Pushelberg’s elegantly informal Rowan lounge chair has a surprisingly small footprint but a comfortable, commodious seat —and an outsize visual presence. nienkamper.com 150

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Ribbons is just one of the quirky-cool prints in the designer’s Heirloom collection of wallpapers that explore the magic of home. kategolding.ca, wynil.com

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No sad desk salads here. The BuzziChip acoustic pendant fixture takes its shape from the curvature of that popular office snack: a potato chip. buzzi.space 152

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Twice as nice! Geometrically pattered Tangram rugs are reversible, plus their round, oblong, and petal shapes can be combined and arranged to form a greater whole, indoors or out. nowcarpets.com

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NOOM

The Lakes mirror takes its name and shape from uneven shorelines and aerial views of stretches of water, contrasting neatly against a straight-lined base offered in myriad materials. noom-home.com

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From the Toronto-based designer’s Editions 04 collection, the lovely-in-lemon Lido sofa, with extra-thick cushions and plush backing, appears to float in midair on a recessed base. paoloferrari.com 156

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Draped on the wall like a necklace, the handblown Czech glass Bead chain sculpture with brass armature derives from co-designer Karen Gilbert’s jewelry design background. sklo.com

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A reissued Italian classic initially conceived in 1970, the Marenco sofa’s modularity and unmistakable rounded cushions make it a must-have for modern-minded spaces. arflex.com 158

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SOELBERG

Use MUTO Texture acoustic panels for walls, ceilings, dividers, or artwork to deliver high impact and high performance courtesy of the formed and molded PET felt fabrication. soelbergi.com

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FORMICA CORPORATION

Sources such as paper and cloth are the genesis of the designs in the SurfaceSet 2022 collection, which channels a handcrafted look and features sought-after colors and textures. formica.com

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KIMBALL

Adaptable EverySpace supports users all throughout the day—and over time as their needs evolve: The customizable modular platform, with abundant storage and shelving configurations, can compose workstations for any situation. kimball.com/everyspace NOV.22

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MILLIKEN

The Revelation collection is, in a word, sophisticated: textured carpet patterns characterized by an artisanal look and rendered in a combination of vibrant jewel tones and faded, patinated hues.

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DESIGNTEX

Encompassing 101 SKUs, from multilayered tweeds to soft chenilles, the Crypton Toolkit provides everything needed to build a complete textile scheme—one capable of withstanding stains, courtesy of a PFASand antimicrobial-free finish. designtexdrop.com

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CARNEGIE FABRICS

Sustainable, plant-derived Biobased Xorel wallcoverings come in four new nostalgia-tinged patterns designed specifically for the hospitality industry, with twisted multicolor yarns and organic weave structures. carnegiefabrics.com 164

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8 COLORS , 40 SKUS MARBLE OR TERRAZZO STAINLESS STEEL OR CHROME BASE

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INDUSTRY WEST

The brand’s new Bath Collection encompasses multiple styles of sinks carved from solid Italian marble or handcrafted terrazzo—their streamlined, serene forms highlighting a raw yet refined sense of materiality. industrywest.com

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HUMANSCALE

With 22 pounds of recycled content, including 10 pounds of ocean plastic, the ultrasustainable Path task chair neatly channels the brand’s philosophy of eco-conscious, ergonomic, and versatile design. humanscale.com

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ATLAS CONCORDE

Marvel Travertine porcelain interprets the iconic, classical stone, creating an extremely realistic and versatile collection; accompanying the series is a grouping of geometric mosaics created in partnership with hospitality leader Hirsch Bedner Associates. atlasconcorde.com

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Ester is a minimalist monolith, a seat that’s soft and sinuous, elegant yet ergonomic—and that comes fully upholstered in fabric or leather, save for the sleek die-cast aluminium feet. pedrali.com/en-us 168

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ART DIRECTION BY STUDIO FM MILANO, PHOTO BY GARUTI ANDREA, STYLING BY STUDIO SALARIS

IDEAL FOR HOSPITALITY AND RESIDENTIAL AS WELL AS WORKSPACES

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STANDOUTS NON - ORTHO PHTHALATE LVT SIMPLE ONLINE CONFIGURATOR U . S . MADE

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MANNINGTON COMMERCIAL

Create a bespoke solution with Amtico Active Lines LVT, the dynamic designs available in customizable, digitally printed accent colors and offered in 112 possible stylistic combinations. manningtoncommercial.com

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6 GEOMETRIC PATTERNS IN TONE ON - TONE NEUTRALS , OR WITH COLOR ACCENTS

CARBON NEUTRAL ACROSS FULL PRODUCT LIFECYCLE

100% RECYCLED CONTENT NYLON

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INTERFACE

Channeling the energy of cities at midnight, the Night Lights carpet tile collection bursts with color and movement, from linear streaks to crosshatch patterning. interface.com 170

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OFFICE

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STANDOUTS CLIP - ON PANELS AVAILABLE IN HUN DREDS OF MATERIALS

B+N INDUSTRIES

WORK SURFACES CONNECT TO WALLS AT ANY POSITION

Rolling Office was designed to serve the ever evolving workplace: the mobile, ultramodular system (on lockable wheels) can be used to create reconfigurable, daisy-chainable workstations and meeting spaces on the fly.

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bnind.com

INTEGRAL POWER PLUGS INTO AN OUTLET

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LEMA

Boasting meticulous craftsmanship and rich materiality, the midcenturyinspired Fred dining chair channels Italian style and Danish minimalism, while its curved solid-ash backrest supports any seating position. lemamobili.com

STANDOUTS DESIGNED BY NORM ARCHITECTS WOOD BONE JOINTS ; BRASS FIXTURES FLEXIBLE UPHOLSTERED SEAT

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12” X 36” CARPET TILE SOLUTION - DYED DURACOLOR TRICOR PREMIUM NYLON LIVING PRODUCT CHALLENGE CERTIFIED

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MOHAWK GROUP

A collaboration with ArtLifting, an organization that champions creatives impacted by disabilities or homelessness, Social Canvas draws on the expressionistic brushwork of artist Charlie French’s canvases to create five designs that convey inclusivity and welcome. mohawkgroup.com

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standouts in solid fsc - certified wood or veneer over mdf core water - based , uv - cured finish

7 species , 40+ finishes

RULON INTERNATIONAL

Talk about options: Linear wood-plank product can be specified with open reveals or closed shiplap, in continuous or panelized format, and in myriad colors, styles, and species—plus custom profiles, too. rulonco.com/launch-linear 174

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10 DESIGNS COLLECTION INCLUDES RECYCLED - CONTENT TEXTILES UPHOLSTERY , DRAPERY , AND WALLCOVERING

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KNOLLTEXTILES

The Nick Cave Collection, conceived in collaboration with the noted artist, educator, and Soundsuit pioneer, encompasses dimensional textiles sparked by the creative process of layering, rearranging, and transforming objects like doilies and sequins. knolltextiles.com NOV.22

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standouts wood , stone , laminate , or solid surface top optional power designed by metrica

TUOHY

The Duende table, ideal for conference rooms and informal meeting areas alike, comes in sitting- and standing-height iterations, the press-curved aluminum bases supporting a self-structural top offered in varied dimensions and materials. tuohyfurniture.com

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FLOR

Zera, the square carpet tile in the biophilic-inspired Beaumont Range collection, leverages the brand's i2 smart design innovation and mimics the random beauty of a forest floor through tile-to-tile variations for dynamic installations. flor.com

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100% RECYCLED CONTENT NYLON

MERGEABLE DYE LOTS FOR THE LIFE OF THE INSTALL FROM THE CARBON NEUTRAL FLOORS PROGRAM

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STANDOUTS POLISHED AND UNPOLISHED FINISHES MOSAICS , TRIMS , AND FIELD TILES UP TO

48” x 48” FOR INTERIOR WALLS AND FLOORS

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CROSSVILLE, INC.

The brand’s innovative Stones at Large series pairs the strength of high-tech porcelain with the earthiness of natural stone: the three designs are inspired by—and artfully capture the visual depth of—marble, onyx, and quartzite. crossvilleinc.com

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STANDOUTS GREENGUARD - CERTIFIED TYPE II WALLCOVERING WITH RECYCLED CONTENT DIGITALLY PRINTED TO ORDER CUSTOMIZABLE SCALE , COLOR , AND MATERIAL

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ASTEK

Atmos murals distill the physical landscape into its simplest elements, evoking vast stretches of land and horizon lines via abstract painting techniques and subtle canvas embossing. astek.com NOV.22

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9 STYLES BREEZE AND TIMER FUNCTIONS COMPATIBLE FOR USE WITH MOST SMART HOME DEVICES AND SMARTPHONES ( NO HUB NEEDED )

CRAFTMADE

Controlled via remote or integrated Wi-Fi, the Envy damp-rated indoor/ outdoor ceiling fan features a dimmable LED light and a quiet, energysaving, six-speed reversible DC motor that delivers maximum airflow. craftmade.com

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KITCHEN & BATH

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STANDOUTS U . S . MADE READY TO SHIP WITHIN 5 DAYS

8 COLORS , 3 SHAPES

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FIRECLAY TILE

At a $10 starting price point, Essentials wall tile is budget-friendly and pretty, too, with Pacific Northwest–inspired glazes over a red recycledceramic clay body. fireclaytile.com NOV.22

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STANDOUTS MADE IN NORTH AMERICA FOR RESIDENTIAL FLOORS AND WALLS CAN BE USED AS COMMERCIAL SPACE ACCENTS

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ROCA TILE

Crafted of durable porcelain, Astoria is a restrained, minimalist take on classic white marble, the silvery undertones striking a neutral tone that’s well suited to contemporary spaces. rocatileusa.com

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STANDOUTS INCLUDES ANILINE LEATHER OPTIONS WATER - BASED FORMULA NO SOLVENTS , PFAS , PVC , PHTHALATES , ELASTOMERS , OR HAZARDOUS CHEMICALS CONTROLLED UNDER REACH STANDARDS

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ECHO AND EARL

CORTINA LEATHERS

The company expands its Crypton-protected leathers to encompass 27 lines including aniline leather, totalling 480 SKUs—all boasting unparalleled cleanability and resistance to stains, wear, and fading in high-traffic spaces. cortinaleathers.com/about-crypton.com NOV.22

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CORONA GROUP

The Intersection divider system, not confined or anchored to the wall, can pair with a variety of materials from Acousticor PET felt and porcelain to fabric or glass, creating ultimate flexibility. coronagroupinc.com

standouts anodized or black powder - coated aluminum frames single or double sided can accommodate sliding panels

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MIX

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TARKETT

Tangent is an apropos name for the brand’s latest mosaic collection, a series of midcentury-moderninflected geometric patterns that celebrate the beguiling beauty of natural stone. walkerzanger.com

Designed for education spaces, the two-pattern Discovery series—available as Powerbond hybrid resilient sheet and modular tile—is durable, environmentally responsible, and easy to design, install, and maintain. contract.tarkett.com/discovery

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CARVART

KINGSPAN INSULATED PANELS

Couture I glass collection mimics textures seen in luxury fashion, from mirrored copper with a subtle crosshatch effect to opulent flutes reminiscent of accordion pleats on a flowing gown. carvart.com

KS Series insulated panels are offered in myriad profiles, widths, finishes, and colors and can be customized with trimless ends and pre-formed corners—delivering a clean look and superior thermal performance. kingspanpanels.com NOV.22

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INFINITY DRAIN

SPARK MODERN FIRES

The company’s Next Day Custom Linear Drains program is the first of its kind to enable a perfectly aligned solution for wall-to-wall linear drain installation—without the wait. infinitydrain.com

Among the company’s 28 stainless-steel outdoor fireplace options is the easy-to-install Fire Ribbon Outdoor 4ft gas model, which creates a warm and inviting focal point in any exterior environment. sparkfires.com

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CLARUS

CERTAINTEED ARCHITECTURAL

Surround wraps around the edges of Float writeable glassboard with a sleek eye-catching frame of wood or metal, the latter either plain or vibrantly colored (think: personable purple and energetic red). clarus.com

Techstyle acoustical ceilings are lightweight large-format fiberglass panels that deliver clean visuals, acoustic control, and value in spades.

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certainteed.com/architectural

BENTLEY MILLS Balustrade and Colonnade shown : colonnade in corinthian high - performance lvt mimics concrete and stone

4 neutral colors floorscore certified ; scratch - resistant

bentleymills.com

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MDC INTERIOR SOLUTIONS Nvolve 9 PATTERNS , 166 SKUS PVC - FREE TYPE II NON PHTHALATE VINYL DURABLE , CLEANABLE , 100% PVC - FREE MATERIALS INCORPORATING RECYCLED CONTENT

mdcwall.com

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anodetonyc

Explore the heartbeat of New York with NYCxDESIGN’s annual Ode to NYC poster collection, returning December 2022. View last year’s edition at nycxdesign.org.

NYCxDESIGN is a non-profit organization. Thanks to the supporters of Ode, we’re able to create more equitable opportunities in design and foster a diverse next generation to become New York City’s designers of tomorrow.

b o o k s edited by Stanley Abercrombie Mid-Century Modern Furniture by Dominic Bradbury New York: Thames & Hudson, $75 448 pages, 483 color illustrations Here is a handsome and authoritative compilation of postwar furniture design from the 1940’s, ’50’s, and ’60’s. As the author, the prolific and dependable Dominic Bradbury, notes in his introduction, “…this muchloved aesthetic continues to remain relevant and always rewarding.” Altogether it is a thorough and entertaining record of an important period in design history. Bradbury’s examples are presented in eight categories, from “Chairs” and “Chaises Longues” to “Desks and Storage” and “Beds and Bedsides.” These are followed by “Ways of Making,” a very welcome chapter on furniture materials. Solid wood, of course, continues to dominate but we also see the emergence of exciting new constituents: plywood, plastics, tubular or welded steel, fiberglass, acrylics, polyurethane foam, and air— the last, an element shared by all the other materials, as Harry Bertoia correctly pointed out. Naturally, we see work by the masters, including Marcel Breuer, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Charles and Ray Eames (the husband-and-wife team are, deservedly, given the book’s cover). But there are also a delightful number of designers previously unknown (at least to this reader): Sol Bloom, André Bloc, Luigi Colani, Yngve Ekström, Peter Ghyczy, Junzo Sakakura, and Jorge Zalszupin among them. A directory in the back gives a brief biography of each of the 90 designers; a bibliography and an index are also helpfully included.

Imagine Buildings Floating Like Clouds: Thoughts and Visions on Contemporary Architecture from 101 Key Creatives by Vladimir Belogolovsky Melbourne, Australia: Images Publishing Group, $35 256 pages, 271 illustrations (219 color)

This is a fascinating compendium of interviews with an international roster of important creatives by Ukraine-born Vladimir Belogolovsky, an American architect and a curator and designer of architecture exhibitions. His 101 subjects include architects, designers, artists, photographers, and critics, who provide a wealth of insights and ideas. The fantasy title is from an interview with Wolf Prix of Coop Himmelb(l)au, who further says, “It is not the building environment that should change human beings, but the human beings who should be able to change the environment.” Each interviewee seems to have something illuminating to say. Here is a small sample: Jeanne Gang: “Without an intellectual construct life is boring. It’s important to create tension.” Zaha Hadid: “A project design can change as the research of the site reveals things. An ideal situation is very rare.” Renzo Piano: “The key message of this century is that the world is fragile. We simply can’t build the way we used to.”

Kellie Sirna Cofounder of Studio 11 Design

“I’ve always loved the story of Alice Roosevelt, the oldest daughter of Theodore Roosevelt. She was known for being unconventional and controversial and way ahead of her time. Her rebellious spirit has long piqued my interest, so I was excited to read more about her life, which she spent breaking boundaries long before the “girl boss” of today existed. Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, She grew up in a male-dominated age, yet she unapologetically refused to be contained or cate from White House Princess to gorized in any way. Roosevelt was one of the first women to wear pants at a White House dinner Washington Power Broker party. In these ways and through her very public role as a first daughter, she redefined society’s idea of a woman, from how she dressed to her intellectual capabilities. I identify with her boldness by Stacy A. Cordery and can-do attitude, so it was quite compelling to see how those characteristics were received in New York: Penguin Books, $25 640 pages, 58 black-and-white images a much different time. The design industry is still male-dominated, and so as a founder and leader of a company, I’ve really leaned into those determined qualities Roosevelt possessed. Walking into a room full of male investors or contractors as the only woman present takes a lot of strength and practice. It requires a commitment to one’s self and convictions. To build a successful firm that routinely works with some of the most high-profile chefs and brands in the hospitality industry, it was imperative that I develop this skill set as well as the ability to engage with different audiences, hold difficult conversations, and negotiate deals. One of the things Roosevelt became most known for was the intimate and exclusive gatherings and tea parties she hosted in her drawing room. Far from gossipy women’s affairs, these events were attended by politicians, dignitaries, and the who’s who of Washington. It makes me think of the beautifully designed library at the Thompson Buckhead we just completed in Atlanta. It’s one of my favorite spaces in the hotel and, when creating it, I imagined it as a place where deals would get done.”

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BOTTOM LEFT: JENIFER BAKER

What They’re Reading...

DESIGNERS IN SPECIAL FEATURE BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group (“Framing the View,” page 132), big.dk. Block722 (“Framing the View,” page 132), block722.com. Fusion Design (“Framing the View,” page 132), @fusiondesign_SZ. GS Design (“Framing the View,” page 132), gengshangdesign.com. Hirsch Bedner Associates (“Framing the View,” page 132), hba.com.

c o n ta c t s DESIGNERS IN WALKTHROUGH Cole Martinez Curtis and Associates (“Sense of Place,” page 45), cmcadesign.com. Gensler (“Camera Ready,” page 39), gensler.com. Shim-Sutcliffe Architects (“Sense of Place,” page 45), shim-sutcliffe.com. Studio Shoo (“Sense of Place,” page 45), studioshoo.com.

PHOTOGRAPHERS IN FEATURES

PHOTOGRAPHER IN WALKTHROUGH

Eric Laignel Photography (“The Italian Job,” page 88), ericlaignel.com.

Robert Deitchler (“Camera Ready,” page 39), robertdeitchler.com.

André Mortatti (“Garden Party,” page 98), andremortatti.com.br. Jaime Navarro (“Concrete Jungle,” page 106), @jaimenavarrostudio. Sergio Pirrone (“Dots in the Ocean,” page 114), sergiopirrone.com. Vincent Wu (“Ebb and Flow,” page 124), wujianquan.net.

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Some sites are more difficult to build on than others. But it’s hard to imagine one trickier than the rocky summit of Malý Špičák, a 2,200-foot-tall mountain peak in Czechia. Nevertheless, that’s where Mjölk Architekti cofounders Jan Vondrák and Jan Mach put their Lookout Spike, an observation deck overlooking the northern mountain town of Tanvald. Absent any flat ground to sit on, the 150-square-foot fiberglass platform hovers UFO–like above the rocks on three thin stainless-steel legs, its aerodynamic shape a nod to the bobsled track that used to start here (and inspired the project’s sporty photo shoot). Hikers can ascend a metal ladder through an aperture in the deck to view the surrounding Slavkovský Forest protected area and the valley below. “Our goal was a structure that is small but distinctive,” Vondrák says. “It’s like a delicate dewdrop that barely touches the rock.” “Building in a landscape like this is a different architectural discipline,” Mach adds, noting the way the backdrop is always changing with seasons and weather. “The only lasting context is the starry sky.” The difficulty, of course, is in creating something that adds to the landscape rather than detracts from it. Mjölk, which has completed four other lookouts throughout Czechia in the last decade, addressed this challenge by wrapping the bottom of the Lookout Spike in mirror foil, which abstracts its form when viewed from below. Trees, rocks, and people are reflected on the structure’s underside so that, as is true of the vista from the deck above, you never get the same view twice. —Wilson Barlow NOV.22

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