Christopher Interiors Portfolio 2024 by Christopher Architecture & Interiors

Architecture & Interiors

About Us

Our vision is to have a lasting impact on the built environment through inspirational and enduring design.

Christopher Architecture & Interiors is a luxury, high-end design firm specializing in Custom Residential, Boutique Commercial and Estate & Land Planning. It is our mission to inspire, create, nourish and stimulate a broader appreciation for excellence in design and its importance to individuals and societies. We seamlessly blend responsive architecture and thoughtful interiors to create a cohesive environment that complements each client’s specific needs. Design projects range from renovations to new construction in locations nationwide from California to New York.

CAI is committed in excellence in all that we do. Our firm’s ability to provide a unified architectural and interior design approach offers exceptional synergy, extreme efficiency of production and unsurpassed quality of product.

Beyond Christopher Architecture & Interiors, we are a family of brands molded together by vertical integration that allows our employees to engage in a variety of interests and industries including development, retail, furniture design, construction, real estate, and the non-profit sector.

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Our Services

Due to the distinct nature of every project, we can offer a tailored experience to meet each client’s programmatic needs and requests. The following lists below offers insight into our service offerings. Incorporating all services will ultimately create the most unified design, but we can also provide architecture, interior design, decorating and procurement services independently. We are happy to discuss the most appropriate scope of services based on your project’s needs.

Architecture & Interior Design Offerings

• Client Briefing

• Contractual Agreement

• Site Inventory and Analysis

• Regulatory Authority Coordination

Master Planning and Feasibility Studies

Architectural & Interior Programming

Project Scheduling

• Project Phasing

• High Quality Design Presentations

• Design Development Drawings

Code Analysts

Material Selection & Specification

• High-end photo-realistic visualization services (Animations and/or still images)

• Concept & Schematic Design

• Consultant Engagement, Management and Coordination

Project Budget & Cost Analysis

Construction Documentation

• Architectural & Interior Detailing

• Building Information Modeling (BIM)

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Our Approach

Christopher Architecture and Interiors’ approach to design emerged over 30 years ago and has been carefully refined since. Our process begins by acknowledging every project is unique and the design process needs to being with listening to our client’s needs and aspirations.

Following this distillation process, our experience has taught us that the best outcomes are achieved when our team carefully crafts the rest of that process to suit the goals and objectives of each project.

Design Excellence

Our team has been nationally recognized for excellence in design and firmly believes that every project offers unique opportunities to create exceptional creative outcomes.

Delivering Value Through Design

Collaborative design by expects can increase resale value by up to 30%, yet true value lies in home being spaces were memories are created and life is lived, showcasing the transformative power of great design beyond monetary worth.

Client Engagement

Authentic design results from building strong client-design team relationships. By deeply understanding clients’ needs, goals, and lifestyle, we create responsive environments tailored to each individual.

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Client Inspired Design Focused Quality Driven

Professional Collaboration

Our collaborative process involves close teamwork between architects, interior designers, and a network of specialized consultants, ensuring intricate integration and meeting diverse needs in every project.

Harnessing Technology

Our approach integrates groundbreaking technology to streamline routine tasks, empowering designers to focus on creative exploration, utilizing traditional methods while efficiently gather, documenting, and visualizing design.

Iterative Development

Our team is well positioned to explore numerous design solutions in a diligent manner. These studies are constantly evaluated, revised, merged and further developed. This ensures that every idea is scrutinized to the same degree, allowing the best option to rise to the top.

Our Beliefs

It is our mission to inspire, create, nourish, and stimulate a broader appreciation for excellence in design and its importance to individuals and societies. We strive to seamlessly blend responsive architecture and thoughtful interiors to create a cohesive environment that complements each client’s specific needs. There are certain beliefs and ideologies that form the foundation of our approach to achieve this mission.

Contextual

Simply stated, design must address context. It is imperative to understand and incorporate the contextual vernacular in all our designs. For our team, the topography of a site, adjacent structures, sun angles, climate and other contextual nuances are studied before our first concepts are created. This integration is reflected in all aspects of the design; the interiors, landscape responses and building systems, among others, are all blended with the architecture to create complimenting spaces and holistic design compositions. The success of these compositions is realized by a seamless transition from the natural environment to the created space. We rely on the talent of like-minded designers, both internally and externally, to fully execute this integration.

Timelessness

We believe that there is both an objective and subjective component to design. Architecture and design should appeal to subjective sensibilities without compromising objective beauty. Style and trends can evoke different responses in every person. However, within that subjective frame there are objective qualities which transcend individual preferences. We believe that our designs should be beautiful today and for centuries to come. Because of this we try not to associate a definitive style but rather apply classic and objective principles to inspire a truly pleasing design. Materials should weather beautifully. Elements should contain elegant proportions. Designs should respect their natural environment. Great design will speak to subjective preconceptions and thus become objectively beautiful.

Simplicity

It is said that simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication. In many respects the most sophisticated designs are created when beautiful materials create a subtle transition of space or when the simplicity of an elegant form responds to the natural contours of a site. The beauty of an organic stone face or the varied characteristics of a wood grain should be able to express themselves without the forced pronouncement of an ill-conceived design. A project’s site demonstrates the innate complexity found in nature and should be complimented by a design that is responsive and deferential. The sophistication inherent in stone, wood and nature allow us to create simple forms that will highlight materials, space, sunlight and the personality of the occupants.

Elegance

Articulating elegance is as much a challenge in written word as it is in form and composition. A pen in the hand of an artist can manifest a composition that is beautiful in form and appearance. We believe that the motion of design should create a form that silently proclaims elegance. Not easy to define or create, elegance is easily recognizable. The observer may feel compelled to stop in front of a welldesigned structure and just look. Every time we put our pen to paper and design, we are pouring our heart and passion into creating a space that will transfix the observer. Elegance is born of the subtle details and nuances that differentiate good design from great design.

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Our Team

With an award-winning, multi-disciplined staff of architects and interior designers, we are uniquely qualified and passionate about creating transformative spaces. Our design talent is only as good as our ability to develop a product to complement our client’s vision.

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Chris Reebals President & Principal Architect AIA, NCARB, ICAA Mack Braden Vice President & Studio Operations Director AIA, NCARB Ria Neill Vice President & Design Director AIA, NCARB Carleone Posala Director of Commercial Architecture MArch, BAS, NDAT, AIA Associate Whitney Tingle Director of Interiors RID, IIDA, NCIDQ Leigh Ann Harris Director of Product & Procurement RID, IIDA, NCIDQ

Ashley Carroll Project Designer Bella Rizzo Assistant Designer Bailey Founds Project Designer Cristen Cagle Sr. Interior Designer NCIDQ Clara Posala Client Services Director Liz Hyatt Architectural Project Manager Caroline Thomas Director of Special Projects Emily Hurt Sr. Interior Designer RID, NCIDQ Chelsea Braden Sr. Architectural Project Manager Corey Flowers Office Manager Emily Lopez Project Architect, AIA, NCARB Madi Gray Project Designer, ASID Josh Adams Project Architect Chris Cornett Chief Operating Officer Blake Snetman Business Development Kristen Milling, CPA Controller Lauren Bell Graphic Designer Katie Hamlin Procurement Specialist Libby Adams Events & Programming Coordinator Landon Sessions Business Development Manager Lucy Jane Ragsdale Marketing Specialist Mason Cunningham Architectural Project Manager Alex Harvill Architectural Project Designer Isabelle Brown Project Designer