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ON THE COVER The molded and painted glass-reinforced concrete facade lifts like a curtain at the Imprint, an arts and entertainment complex in Incheon, South Korea, by MVRDV. Photography: Ossip van Duivenbode.
feature 120 IN THE SPOTLIGHT by Wilson Barlow and Athena Waligore
Focus on the past year’s most illuminating architecture, interiors, fashion, and art.
walk-through 57 SOJOURN IN SONOMA by Edie Cohen
interior design giants 87 RISING TO THE TOP by Mike Zimmerman and Wing Leung
hospitality supplement 170 A HOUSTON HOMECOMING by Edie Cohen
The Alessandra is Lauren Rottet’s first hotel project in her headquarters city. 180 WRITING ON THE WALL by Judy Fayard
Artistry is on full display at the Drawing Hotel in Paris by Nido Architecture.
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Hey, all! Look: New spine...it reads 2019! Woo hoo! Out with the old and in with the new, then, which may be a bit of a duh, ‘cause all I do is propose innovative stuff—and all you do is make it! Yes, it’s a brand-new beginning, the first issue on the calendar, and I just wanna hawk our 40+ page photo-essay extravaganza. What’s that, you ask? Oh, come on. All year long I hear that this is the feature you swoon for! It’s our jump start, an anthology of the most evocative images from the past 12 months, diligently stacked to build the perfect blast-off platform for your future creative challenges. As a new year launchpad ought to, this collection really, really packs the design-architecture-art-fashion punch! And trust me, we all really, really need the thrust, so to speak. Don’t take my word for it, however. Find out everything about 2019 opportunities, shared ideas, market directions, and even competitive threats—heck, all about the biz—in the forecast of our 100 Giants annual survey, captained by Mike Zimmerman (his words are a mandatory read, BTW). For the design-stats junkie, it’s a veritable haven; for the firm partner, it’s the indispensable tool to building a successful year ahead. And if all that wasn’t enough, along with our regular (yet always sparkling-fresh) departments and two showstopping hospitality stories, we greet the new year with NEW! As in, two new sections: ShopTalk, in which industry leaders sound off on an industry topic (this first is hospitality), and HotShots, rising stars you need to know about. Meet us there to get informed and inspired. At the end of the day, and at the beginning of the new year, that’s what it’s all about, isn’t it?! I love you in 2019,
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“I’m seeing a lot more retail-style open closets in hotel rooms. You unpack, and then you ‘merch’— displaying your clothes as you do at home or in a luxury boutique. But it’s obvious that no one thought of other important guest amenities, like where to put the ironing board.”
“Some designers have had success reducing their fee in exchange for equity, but we’ve taken a different tack: investing cash in the project to get back more creative control.” —Matthew Rosenberg of M-Rad, offering an idea for a new fee structure
—Cory Brian Ingram of Dream Hotel Group, dishing about an emerging design phenomenon “Learning psychology should be mandatory for designers.” —Jennifer Johanson of EDG, discussing the role of education in design
“As designers, we’re pressured to move faster and faster, to understand where the future is going. So how do you keep up with all the trends— while keeping your reputation intact?”
“Does technology enhance the guests’ experience—or just frustrate them? It can’t be gimmicky.”
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—Andrew Andrew Cohen of Parts and Labor Design, downplaying the importance of social media “Rather than Instagram ‘likes,’ the success metric should be: What didn’t get Instagrammed, because guests lost themselves in the experience and finally put down their phones?”
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british invasion Last year, it was Grayson Perry. This season, it’s Michael CraigMartin. The works of both of the blue-chip English artists have been the subject of separate solo exhibitions at the Gallery at Windsor, an independent art space set within Windsor, a private residential community in Vero Beach, Florida, designed by Andrés Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk. “Present Sense,” Craig-Martin’s show, which runs through April 25, features more than 35 of his paintings, three
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Founded in 1865 in North Wales, the venerable Wartski is a dealer of antique Russian artwork, particularly those by Carl Fabergé, and the jeweler to the British royal family—the firm made the wedding rings for both Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge. It’s fitting then that architecture studio Waldo Works, which counts Selfridges and Smythson among its clients, centered the design of Wartski’s new London boutique on a time-honored concept: the golden ratio. Flanking the entrance to the sales gallery are orderly, faceted upper walls of ribbed concrete flecked with chips of slate from quarries in North Wales, a nod to Wartski’s origins. Above, the coffered ceiling boasts a classical geometry; below, expansive display cases slide open electronically. Throughout is woven wool carpeting, in Welsh green, of course.
Clockwise from top: Stainless steel trims ribbed concrete walls at Wartski, a London jewelry boutique by Waldo Works. Custom carpeting flowing through the 2,700 square feet. The gold brooch given to Queen Victoria in 1842 by Prince Albert Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
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From top: Masako Miki’s 2018 Mori no Yokai (Shapeshifters of Forest) is on view at the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive through April 28. Her Abumi-guchi (Stirrup Mouth Furry Ghost) and Hitotsume-kozo (One-Eyed Goblin), both in wool, foam, and walnut. Kuchisake-onna (Mouth Tear Woman) in wool, foam, and cherrywood.
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Since launching in 1978 at the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the Matrix series of contemporary art exhibitions has introduced early works by such artists as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Louise Bourgeois, and Eva Hesse to the Bay Area and furthered their household-name status. The same is happening with Masako Miki, whose “Masako Miki/MATRIX 273” is at BAMPFA now through April 28. The large-scale felt-covered sculptures grew out of a 2014 artist in residency Miki did in Kamiyama, a small agricultural town marked by myriad cedar trees and the Oawa shrine, associated with centuries-old Japanese folklore. “Even though I’m a Japan native, I was exposed to something new and unfamiliar and able to reconnect with my traditions and cultures,” she says. The resulting work references the folkloric Yokai, aka shapeshifters, in Shinto animism and emphasizes the idea of dissolving boundaries into transitional, nonbinary space. More of her sculptures are on display in a concurrent show at Cult Aimee Friberg Exhibitions in San Francisco.
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When @interiordesignmag launched the #yearindesign2018 campaign for our 1.6 million Instagram followers to share their top images from the past year, the Tianjin Binhai Library in China by MVRDV was the resounding fave, garnering nearly 27,000 likes. But with such celebrity comes a touch of controversy. What appears to be rows upon terraced rows of books in the five-story main hall is actually images of books printed on aluminum plates. But that was not MVRDV’s design choice; it was due to a fast-track construction schedule and may be altered in the future. There are still some 200,000 volumes contained in the 362,000-square-foot library, as well as an enormous luminous sphere of an auditorium referred to as the Eye. Some 15,000 people visit the library per weekend.
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8. Elliott + Associates Architects’s Rand Elliott, a 2006 inductee, and wife Jeanette. 9. Gensler design director and 2013 inductee Collin Burry. 10. Inductees Lisa Iwamoto and Craig Scott. 11. Inductee Patrick Tighe. 12. Margo Grant Walsh, a 1987 inductee, and Kenneth P. Baker, Gensler regional managing principal. 13. The Hall of Fame awards designed by the late Ali Tayar. 14. Inductee Marcel Wanders and Allen.
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Held for the second year at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York, the 34th annual Interior Design Hall of Fame gala was once again where the design community gathered to celebrate the exceptional careers of five luminaries. Editor in chief Cindy Allen inducted IwamotoScott’s Lisa Iwamoto and Craig Scott, Kengo Kuma, Patrick Tighe, and Marcel Wanders. The evening’s 1,200-plus guests entered the center’s River Pavilion via Tsao & McKown’s Sunbrella-festooned entry hall. Many past inductees such as Clodagh, Lauren Rottet, and Debra Lehman-Smith were in attendance. . .and likely some future ones, too.
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only the best The night after the Hall of Fame, many returned to the River Pavilion, where editor in chief Cindy Allen and publisher Carol Cisco hosted the Best of Year Awards. Over 1,000 members of the A&D community came from around the world to celebrate the best projects and products of 2018. The 13th annual BoY drew additional impressive numbers: 2,000 entries, 586 finalists, 133 design categories.
1. Angie Lee, principal and design director-interiors at FXCollaborative, which was an honoree in the Outdoor category for 85 Broad Street. 2. Jensin Wallace, textile designer at Jensin Okunishi Studio, and Rachel Brand, design and media manager at Astek, winner for Contract Wall Covering for Ukiyo. 3. The Tabletop category winner Brad Ascalon with wife Amy Helmus Ascalon. 4. Hall of Fame member Lee Mindel of SheltonMindel, which won for Large Apartment. 5. Nick Chacona and Shanan Campanaro of Eskayel, a Rug category honoree. 6. Stephen Apking of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, which won the Hardware category with Alina by Valli & Valli. 7. The Best of Year Awards by Harry Allen Design. 8. Gray Davis and Will Meyer of Meyer Davis, winner of Coworking Space, flanking Allen and their studio director Elizabeth Curry.
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Clockwise from top left: Pine clads the exterior of the groundup house by Rieder Architektur. A custom alabaster sconce lights the way to the mudroom. Larch slats enclose the staircase. Calacatta marble lines a shower. Opposite, from top: Velvet
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In 2005, Frenchman Emil Humbert was fresh out of Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris-Belleville and living in Monaco, designing, under his namesake firm, what would be the first of several Beefbar restaurants. But, being young and green, he felt it would be more productive and interesting if he wasn’t working alone. When a decorator friend introduced him to Monegasque Christophe Poyet, who’d just earned his interior architecture degree from Académie Charpentier, the two jumped at the chance to collaborate, establishing Humbert & Poyet in 2008. “In the creative process, it’s great to have someone who’s your equal next to you,” Humbert, now 38, says. Their first joint venture, a Monaco apartment, was a smash. Today, with multiple residences, as well as another Beefbar in Paris and an Aquazzura shop in New York, their first stateside project, under their belt, Humbert & Poyet is 20-strong with a main office in Monaco, a satellite in Paris, and high-end commercial and residential commissions all over the map, including in Mexico City and Hong Kong. Humbert and Poyet have designed ground-up houses but prefer focusing on interiors, often entering projects when the shell is done but the inside is still raw. There’s nothing raw about their completed work, however, which 36-year-old Poyet describes as “like a movie set, the perfect environment for the perfect place for one particular moment that makes people feel beautiful and good about themselves.” Although their commercial projects tilt toward the glamorous, Humbert and Poyet love combining the rough with the refined in their residences.
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HOT shots From left: Leather and brass compose a bedroom’s custom headboard. Custom oak bunkbeds cozy up to walls covered in tartan cashmere.
That contrast can be seen in a recent home, a three-story ski chalet in the Swiss Alps. The architects situated the public spaces on the top floor, to take best advantage of the mountain views, and paneled nearly the entire 7,000-square-foot interior in rustic reclaimed barnwood. But then luxe slabs of veined marble appoint bathrooms and even the mudroom, where ski gear is stowed. Further, upholstery materials include cashmere and royal-blue velvet, shower fittings have an antique gold finish, and alabaster light fixtures are everywhere. The latter are among the house’s myriad custom pieces. Artisan-made creations feature prominently in all the firm’s projects, and it just launched a limited-edition lighting and furniture line last year. Word of Humbert & Poyet’s talent is spreading fast. In process now are the interiors of a 19-story apartment tower in Monaco. Two tenants admire the public spaces so much they’ve already hired the firm to furnish their apartments. —Jane Margolies FROM FRONT LEFROY BROOKS: SHOWER FITTINGS (BATHROOM). THROUGH L’ATELIER 55: CHAIRS (DINING AREA, BEDROOM), LAMP (LIVING AREA), NIGHTSTAND (BEDROOM). CASAMANCE: SOFA FABRIC, PILLOWS (LIVING AREA). NOBILIS: PILLOWS. PHILIPPE HIQUILY: GILDED SIDE TABLE. NORKI DÉCORACION: FUR THROW (LIVING AREA), BEDSPREAD (BEDROOM). LORO PIANA: PLAID PILLOWS (LIVING AREA), PILLOWS, BED BASE FABRIC (BEDROOM), WALL COVERING (BUNK ROOM). CENTRE VALAISAN DE LA LITERIE: CUSTOM BEDS (BEDROOMS). THROUGHOUT ZATTI ARREDANENTI: WOODWORK.
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incredible Argentine meat and rich history—it was the fashionista place to be in the 1990’s. Monaco restaurant : Song Qi is like having dinner in a jewelry box. (Full disclosure: We designed it!) Monaco museum : Villa Sauber and Villa Paloma for their meticulously curated contemporary exhibitions and their incredible architecture. Paris shop : Laffanour Galerie Downtown, François’s selection of 20th-century furniture is iconic. Furniture era: Mid-century modern for the lines. Furniture designer : Gio Ponti, a humanist and a genius who had a unique, joyful vision of the world.
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singular vessels A former dancer, sculptor Babs Haenen choreographs one-of-a-kind ceramics 1. Flow beakers, big vase, and medium
bowl in glazed porcelain through Hesperios. hesperios.com
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WA L K through firms: mork ulnes architects; office of charles de lisle site: glen ellen, california
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sojourn in sonoma Behind the guesthouse stretches a 56-foot lap pool.
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A self-proclaimed “diplo-brat,” Casper Mork-Ulnes was born in Norway, moved to Italy at age 2, and came to San Francisco at 16. He also lived in Scotland and studied architecture at California College of the Arts and Columbia University before establishing Mork Ulnes Architects back in San Francisco. He now has an Oslo office, too. That’s an unusually lengthy introduction, granted, to an unusual small project in the Sonoma Valley town of Glen Ellen. Mork-Ulnes had remodeled the property’s original house for its previous owners. The new ones, a family of five, brought him back for a guesthouse. At 840 square feet, it comprises three volumes, each of which contains a bedroom and a bathroom. They’re arranged in a stepped configuration, sharing party walls and a canted roof but no internal corridor. Roof overhangs shelter three terraces. As for where the guesthouse would sit on the heavily wooded ridgeline property, he had no choice. Only one spot was flat enough to install a lap pool alongside. He did make the choice to build in concrete, due to its “performative nature for structural integrity and thermal massing,” MorkUlnes explains, and the ability to withstand the area’s all too prevalent wildfires. Clockwise from top left: Bedrooms have Charles de Lisle’s custom beds in knotty pine, paired with his brass lamps set on custom nightstands in plywood and linoleum by Doug McCollough. Glass walls face north and east. A breezeway wraps around to a bedroom’s covered terrace. Before the 2017 wildfire, Douglas fir and knobcone pine trees and manzanita evergreen shrubs dominated the 18 acres. BRUCE DAMONTE
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FROM FRONT CRATE AND BARREL: CHAISE LOUNGES (POOL AREA). JOHNSON POOL & SPA: POOL. OFFICE OF CHARLES DE LISLE: CUSTOM BEDS, TABLE LAMPS, BEDDING, DRAPES (BEDROOMS). DOUG MC COLLOUGH: CUSTOM NIGHTSTANDS. I-VESTA: DRAPERY HARDWARE. CURTIS & SONS DOOR: CUSTOM WOOD DOOR, CUSTOM HANDLE. PERFORMANCE IN LIGHTING: SCONCE. MARTINO GAMPER: CHAIR, SIDE TABLE. MAHARAM: CUSTOM RUG. BOHEMIAN STONEWORKS: CUSTOM SINK (BATHROOM). VOLA: SINK FITTINGS. DURAVIT: TOILET. AXO LIGHT: CUSTOM PENDANT FIXTURES. KLUS: MIRROR BACKLIGHTING. DOUG MOCKETT & COMPANY: CUSTOM TOWEL BAR. THROUGHOUT VITROCSA: SLIDING GLASS DOORS. D E FAUW DESIGN + FABRICATION: CUSTOM GUARDRAILS. B&L GLASS COMPANY: FIXED GLAZING. SURFACEDESIGN: LANDSCAPE DESIGN. REVOLVER DESIGN: LIGHTING CONSULTANT. ZFA STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS: STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS. INTERFACE ENGINEERING: MEP. ADOBE ASSOCIATES: CIVIL ENGINEER. PARTNERS CONTRACTING: CONCRETE CONTRACTOR. NORDBY SIGNATURE HOMES: GENERAL CONTRACTOR.
Clockwise from top: Martino Gamper designed the chair and stool in each bedroom. A troweled concrete roof ties the three volumes together. Sink fittings are powder-coated. Vanities are concrete.
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The concrete roof is smooth-troweled, and exterior walls are board-formed concrete. “Inside, we got more refined, using large panels,” Mork-Ulnes says. Concrete flooring is radiant-heated. Even the bathrooms’ sink vanities are concrete. Furnishings show the hand of the Office of Charles de Lisle. “I’ve known Casper since our 20s, so it’s cool to come full circle,” Charles de Lisle says. His interpretation of the architecture’s minimal Scandi look takes the form of headboardless platform beds with bedcovers in “a ’70’s burnt orange,” he continues, also noting Martino Gamper’s pine side chairs. “They add a toasty and familiar quality to these bunkers.” That’s surely appreciated by guests as well as by the owners. They’ve been camping out here lately, as the main house has been demolished to make way for a new, larger one by Mork-Ulnes. —Edie Cohen
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FACETED MIRRORED GLASS COLUMNS PROJECT: FLY CONDOS, TORONTO, ON // DESIGN: STUDIO MUNGE // ARCHITECT: GRAZIANI + CORAZZA ARCHITECTS DEVELOPER/GENERAL CONTRACTOR: EMPIRE COMMUNITIES // BUILT BY: EVENTSCAPE // SEE MORE AT EVENTSCAPE.COM
THE ESSENCE OF LIVING. Jaan Living. Cosmopolitan elegance for a modern lifestyle. This sofa is a dream come true thanks to its softness that you could literally sink into for ever and ever. Casual – the look of the upholstery, practical – the matching boards. For short spells of daydreaming or long reading sessions. Design: EOOS. This product is available at the following dealers: USA: In-Ex, Los Angeles · Luminaire, Chicago, Miami, Los Angeles · DZINE, San Francisco | CANADA: studio b home, Toronto MEXICO: IHO Espacios, Mexico Walter K. Brand Space, 1140 Broadway Suite 504, New York, NY 10001, www.walter-k.com USA: New York · Philadelphia · Atlanta · Miami · Chicago · Dallas · Austin · Jackson Hole · Houston · Beverly Hills · San Francisco Seattle · Wyoming · Denver · Little Rock | CANADA: Toronto · Vancouver · Calgary · Edmonton | MEXICO: Mexico City · Monterrey
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gather round Victor Vasilev has earned renown as an industrial designer but he actually began in architecture. He revisits the discipline in Eccentrico, a freestanding washbasin for Falper that employs off-set circular forms as building blocks, cresting in a provocative cantilever. Options abound for the 351â „2-inch-high fixture. The acacia veneer of the tubular pedestal comes in a natural or dark finish, and its circular towel bar in five metallic offerings. The basin on top is available in Cristalplant, a polyesterbioresin composite, or five varieties of marble. The basin can also be separately specified for countertop installation. falper.it
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product Undertow. standout Flat glass tiles with a metallic glint give the illusion of convex dimensionality in an homage to the glass-block facade of Maison de Verre in Paris.
product System. standout These customizable sink fittings stack howlite and brass components, the latter available in more than 40 finishes, including bronze brown matte PVD.
product Metal Patchwork. standout An artisanal exhaust hood composed of hand-cut German silver trimmed in silicon bronze gives a handmade touch to the workhorse appliance.
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product Savor the Seasons. standout Seasonal palettes curated by the interior designer bring a freshness to the kitchen when applied to such appliances as the 36-inch Built-In refrigerator and Platinum range. bluestarcooking.com
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After more than a century of trade, La Cornue is still cooking up a storm. To mark its 110th anniversary, the French brand enlisted Parisian street artist Cyril Phan, aka Kongo, to transform six Château 150 ranges into oneof-a-kind masterpieces inspired by the regions where the bestselling appliance is sold. In the Middle East version, for example, he evokes a sunset over the desert, with raised droplets of enamel simulating grains of sand. But there was a steep learning curve in trading spray paint for enamel, since colors change as the steel surfaces bake. “You’re essentially working blind,” Phan explains. While this collaboration was commemorative, it’s a reminder that La Cornue ranges can be customized in any color. lacornueusa.com
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HANI CHAOUECH, FRANCESCA ZALLA, ALBERTO CORRADO
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Unlike standard rectilinear cabinet runs, Archetipo “is defined by an arc, one of architecture’s archetypal forms,” explains Alberto Corrado, co-principal of design studio Aris with Hani Chaouech and Francesca Zalla. The system for Polarislife has more in common with freestanding furniture than conventional kitchen built-ins. The modular storage units, which can also integrate appliances, fare just as well in the living room, bedroom, or bathroom. Wood species on offer include oak—oiled, gray, dark, knotted, natural-sawn, or heat-treated—plus elm or walnut. The curved system’s natural juxtaposition is a squared-off island perched on matte-lacquered iron legs, its body fabricated from Venetian terrazzo made of Carrara marble dust. polarislife.it
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and LEDs by Falmec. 3. Color Box Square shelving unit in walnut, colored plywood, and PaperStone paper composite by Henrybuilt. 4. Icona Classic sink fittings in chrome by Fantini. 5. Cold Control System refrigeration unit in stainless steel by Abimis. 6. Mobile Evo food-service cart with cold storage in powder-coated aluminum and stainless steel by Brown Jordan Outdoor Kitchens. 7. Modernist 36-inch All-Gas Pro range in stainless steel with graphite finish and LCD touch screen by Dacor.
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in the flow Contemporary melds with tradition in fittings, fixtures, and decor 1. Posidonia wall covering in water-resistant
fiberglass composite by Wall&Decò. 2. Benitier sink in Meridian solid surfacing
by Le Projet. 3. Trentamillimetri shower tray in Solytex
mineral composite by Scarabeo. 4. Descanso sink fittings in burnished brass
by California Faucets. 5. Dorrance 2980 sink fittings in brass with
Flat Black finish by Newport Brass. 6. Incanto floor-mounted tub filler in polished
chrome by Graff. 7. Z316 faucet in steel by Zazzeri. See page 78 for sources.
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Cesar, cesarnyc.com. Falmec, falmecnorthamerica.com. Henrybuilt, henrybuilt.com. Fantini, fantiniusa.com. Abimis, abimis.com. Brown Jordan Outdoor Kitchens, brownjordanoutdoorkitchens.com. 7. Dacor, dacor.com. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
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1. Wall&Decò, wallanddeco.com. 2. Le Projet, le-projet-brand.com. 3. Scarabeo, scarabeoceramica.com. 4. California Faucets, calfaucets.com. 5. Newport Brass, newportbrass.com. 6. Graff, graff-designs.com. 7. Zazzeri, zazzeri.co.uk.
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WILLIAMSBURG, THE 50’S & INTARSIO: Cesar’s new project, designed by Garcia Cumini, consists of a structure made up of three, distinct elements that interact with each other: Williamsburg, The 50’s and Intarsio. A complete, innovative kitchen in which each part is in perfect harmony with, and completes, the other while retaining its own unique functions and individuality. Williamsburg is a central working area, an authentic work island and the focus of this arrangement. The project is enhanced by The 50’s, a PDGH RYHU YHUVLRQ RI WKH oIWLHV ERRNFDVH in a modern key. The third novelty in this project is Intarsio. This system has been designed to detract from the geometric shape of the doors, primarily using the direction of the wood grain to change the perception of their dimensions. design by GARCIA CUMINI
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SHARON JOHNSTON, MARK LEE
open to change Voids are central to Mark Lee’s drawings for the Menil Drawing Institute in Houston
We did a series of sketches for this museum, the result meant to acknowledge the art form. My pen-on-paper sketches illustrate the steel roof of the 30,000-square-foot building, how its openings embrace the oak and magnolia trees planted in three courtyards, which we did with Michael Van Valkenburgh. The intent was to create a journey from outside to inside. The eye adjusts to the light levels, the interiors appropriately darkened for the artwork. We’ve been working with artists and art spaces our entire careers, but this 30-acre campus is unique. In the early stages, we kept in mind how our structure would relate to the others, such as Renzo Piano’s main building and Cy Twombly Gallery. The low-slung profile of our project evolved from the surroundings, but we also focused on bringing something new to the environment.”
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“Since the Menil is the first ground-up building designed specifically for the display of works on paper, the client was looking to make the statement that drawings are important. Sometimes they are seen as the midwife to painting and sculpture. But for many modern and contemporary artists, drawing is the final act. At Johnston Marklee, co-principal Sharon and I use the medium to find the essence of a project. It lends an immediacy that distills complex thinking into a simple set of ideas.
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Numbers can be fun. They can also be not-so-fun, but given what the latest data from Interior Design’s annual survey of the top 100 Giants firms says, fun gets right to the point. Business is good and looks to stay that way. Total design fees for the past year came in at $4.4 billion, an 8 percent rise from 2018, nailing last year’s forecast. A funny thing, forecasts. The Giants had underestimated theirs for the past several years, so when they predict they’ll hit $5 billion next year, perhaps we should take them seriously. It’s also worth mentioning that annual fees have increased by 62 percent over the past 10 years. How fun is that?! Corporate work remains the top-earning segment, coming in at $1.7 billion, a 14 percent bump from last year. That’s hot, but residential work might be hotter. That fee total rose $63 million to $300 million (it sat at $183 million just two years ago). Some 74 Giants work in residential, and of those firms, eight out of 10 work on new developments (urban residences rank second in project type). Retail was another sector with some heat, rising 8 percent to $307 million. Here’s another fun number: $97.4 billion. That’s the latest total for furniture, fixtures, and new construction products, up from $91 billion. The Giants forecast another $99 billion next year—remarkable numbers, to be sure, but even more so when you consider that five years ago the F&F/construction total was $69 billion. The Giants also logged a total of 1.1 billion square feet in 2018, the second straight year of a billion-plus. This total came from 67,000 total jobs, a nearly 10 percent jump
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“Business is good and looks to stay that way” from last year. The Giants forecast another 70,000 jobs to come; these numbers have been upwardly mobile for years now (annual jobs have tripled since 2010). One number that hasn’t changed much? Where the Giants do business. Five years ago, globalization seemed to be a serious thing, as one in four Giants did work outside the U.S. That number has dropped and hovered around 20 percent with 83 percent of the design workforce currently U.S.-based. Asia and the Pacific Rim are by far the biggest source of international work, with Europe and Canada next in line. The global Giants predict Asia, Canada, and Europe to be the most active locations next year, with one notable exception: Optimism about China has dropped 34 percent this year. Meanwhile, even though most Giants have offices outside the states, nine out of 10 say the U.S. is the most stable market, with the Northeast, South, and West Coast being the most robust right now. Those are the number trends. What about the work itself? It appears that client tastes have been changing to reflect cultural trends. Specifically, embracing diversity (on staff and via design), inclusivity, and creating design that’s as welcoming to as many people as possible. For example, 98 percent of the Giants agree that cross-pollination between hospitality and residential (and even in office spaces) is a definite trend, and 77 percent agree that design now reflects gender sensitivity. For many firms, this is just good business. Says a DLR Group rep: “In the past year, we have deliberately added intellectual and cultural diversity and individuals with diverse professional backgrounds as we critically rethink our approach to design.” Another big trend: adding health and wellness spaces. A total of 97 percent of firms agree that clients are more open to this than they were two years ago (93 percent agreed when we asked last year). As a rep from Sargenti Architects says, “Health and wellness will continue to drive customer decisions in the hotel/hospitality industry, and our team is looking forward to marrying the two in upcoming projects.” The Giants continue to assemble a workforce to keep this growth charging onward. Total design staff has doubled since 2012, now standing at 20,000, up 12 percent from last year, and firms plan to hire 1,700 more in 2019. The Giants received $291,000 in fees per employee this year, the lowest number in four years, which could be the result of more employees on hand. Now the not-so-fun news: With all this work, average salaries haven’t grown. The designer salary is flat at $75,000, while project managers ($107,000, down from $110,000) and principals/partners ($176,000, down from $187,000) took home less money than last year. That has always been the big give-and-take in our Giants data: Lots of work, good hiring, but always with wage pressure. Recruiting and retaining quality staff have been the main business concerns for the Giants since 2013 (before that, everyone just wanted to survive the Great Recession). Meanwhile, on the client side, earning appropriate fees and convincing clients to pay what work is worth remain the biggest challenges. In all, though, the Giants are enjoying an extended run of growth and prosperity. No one sees the party ending anytime soon—91 percent of Giants are bullish for next year. So, here’s to more fun. —Mike Zimmerman
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GENSLER San Francisco, gensler.com
$593.133
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PERKINS+WILL Chicago, perkinswill.com
$214.200
$6,900.00
59.50
458
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AECOM Los Angeles, aecom.com
$188.600
$7,226.10
72.15
428
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4
JACOBS Dallas, jacobs.com
$175.292
NR
29.22
685
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HOK St. Louis, hok.com
$170.000
$5,567.00
63.00
342
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6
IA INTERIOR ARCHITECTS San Francisco, interiorarchitects.com
$137.400
$5,500.00
46.15
560
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HIRSCH BEDNER ASSOCIATES (HBA) Los Angeles, hba.com
$132.047
$7,915.06
75.38
1,614
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8
STANTEC Edmonton, AB, stantec.com
$112.340
NR
NR
747
8
9
NELSON Minneapolis, nelsononline.com
$109.500
NR
NR
604
9
10
HKS Dallas, hksinc.com
$92.527
$21.00
NR
437
10
11
LEO A DALY Omaha, leoadaly.com
$92.476
NR
NR
145
11
12
CALLISONRTKL Baltimore, callisonrtkl.com
$86.671
NR
25.00
351
15
13
PERKINS EASTMAN New York, perkinseastman.com
$82.250
$1,416.00
5.40
301
17
14
DLR GROUP Minneapolis, dlrgroup.com
$78.000
NR
NR
137
12
15
CANNONDESIGN Chicago, CannonDesign.com
$77.200
NR
30.00
200
14
16
SMITHGROUP Detroit, smithgroup.com
$74.017
NR
NR
258
16
17
G-ART DESIGN INTERNATIONAL Shanghai, g-artdesign.com
$65.257
$9,375.00
16.15
256
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M MOSER ASSOCIATES Hong Kong, mmoser.com
$64.341
$775.44
9.96
735
13
19
HDR Omaha, hdrinc.com
$63.924
NR
NR
151
28
20
SKIDMORE, OWINGS & MERRILL New York, som.com
$63.403
NR
NR
150
18
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SPACE MATRIX DESIGN CONSULTANTS Singapore, spacematrix.com
$49.540
$599.91
11.91
281
26
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EYP Albany, eypae.com
$49.114
$35.00
37.00
125
20
23
NBBJ Seattle, nbbj.com
$48.720
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NR
182
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CORGAN Dallas, corgan.com
$48.399
$124.67
16.10
129
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J&A Shenzhen, CN, jaid.cn
$47.868
NR
NR
563
31
26
WARE MALCOMB Irvine, CA, waremalcomb.com
$46.350
$1,877.18
23.18
137
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27
STEVE LEUNG DESIGN GROUP Hong Kong, sldgroup.com
$45.566
$7.61
14.60
449
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28
TPG ARCHITECTURE New York, tpgarchitecture.com
$44.793
NR
11.20
205
29
ROCKWELL GROUP New York, rockwellgroup.com
$41.400
NR
NR
188
29
30
WILSON ASSOCIATES Dallas, wilsonassociates.com
$41.000
NR
NR
234
23
31
PAGE Washington, pagethink.com
$39.000
$660.00
NR
74
30
32
STUDIOS ARCHITECTURE Washington, studios.com
$39.000
$290.00
16.00
268
35
33
ZGF ARCHITECTS Portland, OR, zgf.com
$38.520
$783.33
5.76
103
33
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SHENZHEN MATRIX INTERIOR DESIGN Shenzhen, CN, matrixdesign.cn
$38.000
$29.20
2.50
140
-
35
HLW INTERNATIONAL New York, hlw.com
$36.000
NR
NR
150
36
36
LITTLE Charlotte, NC, littleonline.com
$35.778
$399.00
12.10
261
34
37
TED MOUDIS ASSOCIATES New York, tedmoudis.com
$35.000
$34.00
7.60
99
32
38
POPULOUS Kansas City, MO, populous.com
$29.744
NR
4.20
46
50
39
RSP ARCHITECTS Minneapolis, rsparch.com
$27.493
$755.00
4.50
65
40
40
ASD|SKY Atlanta, asdsky.com
$27.000
NR
NR
149
39
41
VOCON Cleveland, vocon.com
$26.320
$457.00
4.36
156
43
42
SARGENTI ARCHITECTS Paramus, NJ, sargarch.com
$26.145
$450.00
9.00
134
51
43
MARC-MICHAELS INTERIOR DESIGN Winter Park, FL, marc-michaels.com
$25.943
NR
NR
54
42
44
FLAD ARCHITECTS Madison, WI, Flad.com
$25.200
$1,691.25
11.28
238
38
45
SHLEMMER+ALGAZE+ASSOCIATES INTERIORS & ARCHITECTURE Culver City, CA, saaia.com
$24.585
$2.30
35.00
100
46
46
CDC DESIGNS Costa Mesa, CA, cdcdesigns.com
$24.000
$13.10
NR
57
37
47
CBT Boston, cbtarchitects.com
$22.000
NR
NR
68
47
48
FRCH, A NELSON COMPANY Cincinnati, frch.com
$19.800
NR
NR
88
41
49
ELKUS MANFREDI ARCHITECTS Boston, elkus-manfredi.com
$19.800
NR
NR
61
54
50
YITIAN DESIGN Wuhan, CN, ytdesign.cn
$19.342
$654.96
35.95
307
*NR - not reported
90
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DESIGN FEES
VALUE
SQ. FT.
(in millions)
(in millions)
(in millions)
DESIGN STAFF
NR
NR
120
48
$436.43
1.25
13
73
RANK 2019
FIRM headquarters, website
51
YABU PUSHELBERG Toronto, yabupushelberg.com
$19.300
52
SHEPLEY BULFINCH Boston, shepleybulfinch.com
$19.270
RANK 2018
53
DSP DESIGN ASSOCIATES Mumbai, IN, dspdesign.co.in
$19.178
$325.60
4.72
222
-
54
LS3P Charleston, SC, ls3p.com
$18.890
$450.30
9.99
64
53
55
OTJ ARCHITECTS Washington, otj.com
$17.885
NR
NR
86
58
56
AVROKO New York, avroko.com
$17.550
$0.80
0.74
112
67
57
DALTON STEELMAN ARIAS & ANDERSON (DSAA) Las Vegas, dsaainteriors.com
$17.500
$631.76
1.40
43
94
58
CLARK NEXSEN Virginia Beach, clarknexsen.com
$17.480
NR
5.55
11
74
59
GETTYS GROUP Chicago, gettys.com
$17.020
$210.00
NR
90
57
60
WIMBERLY INTERIORS New York, wimberlyinteriors.com
$16.200
NR
NR
76
64 66
61
B+H Toronto, bharchitects.com
$15.400
$98.00
8.18
132
62
HUNTSMAN ARCHITECTURAL GROUP San Francisco, huntsmanag.com
$15.320
$300.00
2.40
93
78
63
LAWRENCE GROUP St. Louis, thelawrencegroup.com
$15.060
$330.00
1.97
68
56
64
CHIPMAN DESIGN ARCHITECTURE Des Plaines, IL, chipman-design.com
$15.000
$250.00
1.30
83
63
65
TRIO Denver, triodesign.com
$15.000
$7.00
5.00
52
-
66
JEFFREY BEERS INTERNATIONAL New York, jeffreybeers.com
$15.000
NR
NR
38
59
67
RICKY WONG DESIGNERS Hong Kong, rickyid.com
$14.792
$4.44
4.52
132
68
68
SWITZER GROUP New York, theswitzergroup.com
$14.576
$598.13
3.63
61
61 70
69
DAROFF DESIGN + DDI ARCHITECTS Philadelphia, daroffdesign.com
$14.150
$300.00
2.75
39
70
DES ARCHITECTS + ENGINEERS Redwood City, CA, des-ae.com
$14.143
NR
3.70
67
69
71
BASKERVILL Richmond, VA, baskervill.com
$13.756
$982.59
19.11
40
77
72
COOPER CARRY Atlanta, coopercarry.com
$13.668
$287.41
4.42
62
71 75
73
ROTTET STUDIO Houston, rottetstudio.com
$13.500
NR
NR
54
74
MANCINI DUFFY New York, manciniduffy.com
$13.350
$160.20
4.06
67
81
75
FOGARTY FINGER ARCHITECTURE New York, fogartyfinger.com
$13.200
$0.95
NR
100
99
76
STONEHILL & TAYLOR ARCHITECTS New York, stonehilltaylor.com
$13.043
$2,200.00
6.00
79
60
77
MILO KLEINBERG DESIGN ASSOCIATES (MKDA) New York, mkda.com
$12.825
$320.00
2.20
56
72
78
STG DESIGN Austin, TX, stgdesign.com
$12.330
$250.00
5.00
34
88
79
PDR Houston, pdrcorp.com
$12.320
$682.00
6.50
76
97
80
RYAN YOUNG INTERIORS National City, CA, ryan-young.com
$11.560
$11.27
0.29
37
90
81
ROBERT A.M. STERN ARCHITECTS New York, ramsa.com
$11.520
$240.00
NR
14
91
82
DENTON HOUSE DESIGN STUDIO Salt Lake City, dentonhouse.com
$11.200
$13.50
0.30
86
-
83
DESIGN REPUBLIC PARTNERS ARCHITECTS New York, designrepublic.us.com
$11.000
$250.00
1.10
43
-
84
ENV New York, env-team.com
$11.000
$237.00
2.60
88
82
85
AP+I DESIGN Mountain View, CA, apidesign.com
$10.730
$325.00
4.20
51
85
86
CID DESIGN Naples, FL, cid-designgroup.com
$10.500
$105.00
8.00
28
-
87
DILEONARDO INTERNATIONAL Warwick, RI, dileonardo.com
$10.500
NR
NR
69
93
88
MARGULIES PERRUZZI ARCHITECTS Boston, mp-architects.com
$10.400
$514.00
1.00
45
-
89
WOLCOTT ARCHITECTURE Culver City, CA, wolcottai.com
$10.125
$300.00
NR
51
87
90
HARTMAN DESIGN GROUP Rockville, MD, hartmandesigngroup.com
$10.000
$10.00
0.80
20
98
91
NICOLEHOLLIS San Francisco, nicolehollis.com
$10.000
$5.00
0.19
48
-
92
ARRAY ARCHITECTS Conshohocken, PA, array-architects.com
$9.600
$427.00
2.70
24
96
93
DYER BROWN ARCHITECTS Boston, dyerbrown.com
$9.506
$330.00
4.60
49
-
94
DESIGN DUNCAN MILLER ULLMANN (DMU) Dallas, designdmu.com
$9.500
$95.00
9.00
76
100
95
PARTNERS BY DESIGN Chicago, pbdinc.com
$9.276
$140.00
1.33
56
89
96
BERGMEYER Boston, bergmeyer.com
$9.270
NR
NR
23
-
97
CHAMBERS Baltimore, chambersusa.com
$9.165
$115.00
2.25
37
-
98
TRICARICO ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN Wayne, NJ, tricarico.com
$9.150
$462.00
2.54
51
83
99
ARIA GROUP ARCHITECTS Oak Park, IL, ariainc.com
$9.100
$130.00
1.30
115
-
100
KASIAN ARCHITECTURE INTERIOR DESIGN AND PLANNING Vancouver, BC, kasian.com
$8.850
NR
NR
72
*NR - not reported
92
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median hourly rate principal/ partner
78% domestic
median annual salary
22% international
100giants
$270
breakdown of projects
$195
$106,500
$147
designer
40% renovation
57% new construction
project manager
$74,250
$55,435
other design staff
3% refresh previously completed projects
$113
most admired firms
Gensler Yabu Pushelberg Perkins+Will (1)
BENNY CHAN/FOTOWORKS
(2)
(3)
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$135
$1,967
$261
other
educational
$297
cultural
government
$333
transportation
residential
retail
healthcare
healthcare
retail
residential
government
educational
cultural
$604
hospitality
$307
corporate office
$304
$553
transportation
other
$287
hospitality
$254
corporate office
$125
$145
$147
$128
$164
$731
fees by project type
$586
*in millions
$427
$1,659
*fees in millions
2019 2018
100giants new to 2019 list
IA Interior Architects [6] designed the ASICS Creation Studio in Boston.
firm rank G-Art Design International 17 Shenzhen Matrix Interior Design 34 YiTian Design 50 DSP Design Associates 53 Trio 65 Denton House Design Studio 82 Design Republic Partners Architects 83 CID Design 86 Margulies Perruzzi Architects 88 NicoleHollis 91 Dyer Brown Architects 93 Bergmeyer 96 Chambers 97 Aria Group Architects 99 Kasian Architecture Interior Design and Planning 100
types of government projects offices
78%
hospitals/medical offices schools
54%
51%
labs/training facilities libraries
51%
36%
courthouses/corrections/public satety military related facilities
20%
15%
residential development
78%
types of residential projects
urban dwellings
53%
second/vacation homes
26%
suburban residences
types of educational projects college/university k-12
59%
INTERIOR DESIGN
23%
87%
other (for-profit/private schools) 96
other
22%
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26%
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other
34%
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africa 8%
mexico 15%
caribbean 15%
india 16%
central/south america 16%
middle east 26%
china 29%
other asia 30%
canada 30%
europe 32%
u.s. midwest 49%
u.s. south 73%
u.s. northeast 74%
u.s. west 74%
expected growth potential in 2019
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From top: The Huawei R&D Center in Wuhan, China, is by J&A [25]. Gensler [1] designed Microsoft’s Dublin office.
firms with most fee growth
HDR
*in millions Gensler
$593.13 $535.86
Perkins+Will
$214.20 $180.00
AECOM
$188.60 $172.00
Jacobs
$175.29 $151.79
2018 2017
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CallisonRTKL
$86.67 $65.27
Perkins Eastman
$82.25 $64.50
Cannon Design
$77.20 $67.00
HDR
$63.92 $39.70
J&A
$47.87 $36.69
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IA Interior Architects $137.40 $120.10
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TOPTEN
giants by sector
*in millions
hospitality
office
firm
design fees
Hirsch Bedner Associates (HBA)
$132.05
firm Gensler
retail
design fees $355.88
firm
design fees
CallisonRTKL
$58.07 $53.38
Gensler
$41.52
IA Interior Architects
$112.67
Gensler
Rockwell Group
$29.81
Nelson
$106.22
J&A
$24.41
Wilson Associates
$29.11
Perkins+Will
$98.53
Sargenti Architects
$20.92
HKS
$19.43
Jacobs
$70.12
RSP Architects
$17.32
Leo A Daly
$17.57
M Moser Associates
$63.05
FRCH, a Nelson company
$15.64
Populous
$16.95
$14.33
AECOM
$56.58
TPG Architecture
Dalton Steelman Arias & Anderson (DSAA) $16.63
HOK
$51.00
Ware Malcomb
$13.91
Perkins Eastman
$16.45
DLR Group
$42.90
Little
$11.45
Wimberly Interiors
$16.20
Space Matrix Design Consultants
$37.16
IA Interior Architects
$10.99
government
healthcare/assisted living
educational
firm
firm
firm
design fees
design fees
design fees
Jacobs
$68.36
Perkins+Will
$68.54
Gensler
$23.73
AECOM
$35.83
Perkins Eastman
$43.59
HOK
$20.40
Gensler
$29.66
CannonDesign
$42.46
CannonDesign
$19.30
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
$24.73
HDR
$39.63
Stantec
$16.85
HOK
$23.80
HKS
$38.86
EYP
$14.24
Leo A Daly
$13.87
AECOM
$37.72
AECOM
$13.20
NBBJ
$12.67
HOK
$28.90
Perkins+Will
$12.85
EYP
$11.79
Stantec
$25.84
DLR Group
$11.70
Page
$9.75
SmithGroup
$25.17
SmithGroup
$8.88
Stantec
$8.99
Leo A Daly
$24.04
Little
$7.87
residential
cultural
firm
design fees
firm
transportation design fees
firm
design fees
Shenzhen Matrix Interior Design
$38.00
Gensler
$41.52
Gensler
$23.73
Steve Leung Design Group
$34.63
AECOM
$18.86
AECOM
$22.63
Marc-Michaels Interior Design
$25.94
HOK
$18.70
HOK
$18.70
CDC Designs
$24.00
HKS
$10.18
Corgan
$14.04 $8.99
Leo A Daly
$13.87
DLR Group
$7.80
Stantec
Trio
$13.50
Stantec
$4.49
Jacobs
$7.01
G-Art Design International
$13.05
Perkins+Will
$4.28
YiTian Design
$6.96
Ricky Wong Designers
$11.83
Populous
$3.87
J&A
$4.79
Wilson Associates
$11.48
SmithGroup
$3.70
Perkins+Will
$4.28
HDR
$2.56
ZGF Architects
$3.08
Ryan Young Interiors 100
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ANTHONY McCALL At Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, New York, the digital projections of Solid Light Works. Photography: Dan Bradica.
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HOUSSEIN JAROUCHE On the concrete counter of his own apartment in São Paulo, Brazil, Andy Warhol’s serigraph Cheddar Cheese. Photography: Filippo Bamberghi/Photofoyer.
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SML and THE CORNERZ Oak-backed display niches at the Punggi Ginseng Cooperative Association in Yeongju, South Korea. Photography: Shinkyungsub.
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ELLSWORTH KELLY and OVERLAND PARTNERS Austin, a limestone and stained-glass building outside the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin. Photography: courtesy of the Ellsworth Kelly Foundation and Blanton Museum of Art, the University of Texas at Austin.
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SEULGI LEE From “Damasese” at Gallery Hyundai in Seoul, South Korea, Spilt Water in Korean silk. Photography: courtesy of Seulgi Lee, ADAGP, and Gallery Hyundai.
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GROUPWORK + AMIN TAHA A patinated brass-wire cage rising up to a skylight in a London town house. Photography: Timothy Soar.
LOUISE BOURGEOIS The cast-bronze Spider I from “Louise Bourgeois Spiders” at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Photography: Katherine Du Tiel/ courtesy of SFMOMA, the Easton Foundation, and VAGA, New York. 126
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TOMÁS SARACENO Algo-r(h)i(y)thms from “On Air” at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris. Photography: Andrea Rossetti/ courtesy of Tomás Saraceno, Andersen’s, Copenhagen, Esther Schipper, Berlin, Pinksummer Contemporary Art, Geneo, Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires, and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York.
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Imprint, an arts and entertainment complex in Incheon, South Korea. Photography: Ossip van Duivenbode.
presentation at New York’s Parsons School of Design. Photography: Monica Feudi.
JIMIN KIM A knotted nylon and Swarovski crystal ensemble, part of the MFA Fashion Design & Society’s “Generation VII”
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ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS Port House, a former fire station topped by an addition in faceted glass and steel for the headquarters of the Antwerp Port Authority in Belgium, from Zaha Hadid Architects: Redefining Architecture & Design by ZHA principal Patrik Schumacher and Images Publishing Group. Photography: Hufton+Crow.
IRIS VAN HERPEN and NORITAKA TATEHANA From “Transforming Fashion” at the Phoenix Art Museum, Hacking Infinity, Shoes in laser-cut leather, 3-D printed photopolymer, and resin. Photography: Noritaka Tatehana.
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GUCCI At the brand’s Milan headquarters for the fall-winter presentation, an operating-room theater where runway models clutched prosthetic heads. Photography: courtesy of Gucci.
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KMD ARCHITECTS The MRI room with color-changing LEDs at Stanford Health Care in Emeryville, California. Photography: David Hodges.
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STUDIO BIPOLAR A custom partition in powder-coated steel and glass at the New Delhi office for men’s media brand Esquire. Photography: Suryan/Dang.
MONCLER The fall/winter collection at Palazzo delle Scintille during Milan Fashion Week. Photography: courtesy of Moncler.
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MORIYUKI OCHIAI ARCHITECTS Constellation of Stargazing Tea Rooms, painted larch-plywood volumes with polygonal apertures in Bisei, Japan. Photography: Fumio Araki.
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TACKLEBOX ARCHITECTURE Soaps and fragrances displayed in a 42-foot-long cork archway at Claus Porto in New York. Photography: Eric Petschek.
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DUFNER HEIGHES Polyester-vinyl wall covering depicting NASA satellite imagery in the master bedroom of a New York apartment. Photography: Eric Laignel.
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MOHAMMED KABBAJ ARCHITECTS Book-matched Brazilian marble slabs in a bathroom at the namesake architect’s home in Casablanca, Morocco. Photography: Younes Bounhar/Doublespace Photography.
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DUTCH INVERTUALS and DAPHNA LAURENS and RAW COLOR Hundreds of curios from the personal archives of more than 40 designers displayed along with their new work in “Fundamentals” at Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven. Photography: Raw Color/Dutch Invertuals.
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YURI SUZUKI Sonic Playground, a site-specific installation of powder-coated steel structures at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. Photography: Michael McElvy.
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ERNESTO NETO GaiaMotherTree, approximately 30,000 feet occupying Zürich Hauptbahnhof, Switzerland’s largest train
of hand-knotted cotton strips temporarily station. Photography: Mark Niedermann.
BACIOCCHI ASSOCIATI The home of the firm’s founder, Roberto Baciocchi, in Arezzo, Italy. Photography: Helenio Barbetta/Living Inside; styling: Chiara Dal Canto.
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PLANO HUMANO ARQUITECTOS The 30-foot-tall Chapel of Our Lady of Fรกtima in zinc and pine at the National Scouts Center in Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal. Photography: Joรฃo Morgano.
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ATELIER TREE Powder-coated iron mesh transitioning into gold-plated stainless-steel rods supporting acrylic display boxes at Poppee jewelry store in Beijing. Photography: Shenme Li.
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SQUIRE AND PARTNERS For the London Design Festival, a balloon installation at the firm’s own studio in the Department Store, a mixed-use complex. Photography: James Jones.
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ANDY MATTERN Average Subject/Medium Distance #4090 (Infinity), Average Subject/ Medium Distance #4085 (See), Average Subject/ Medium Distance #4201 (Appropriate), and Average Subject/Medium Distance #4200 (Correct), archival pigment prints from “Average Subject/Medium Distance” at Elizabeth Houston Gallery in New York. Photography: courtesy of Andy Mattern and Elizabeth Houston Gallery.
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X + LIVING ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN (SHANGHAI) CO. A wrought-iron spiral staircase at Ideas Lab, a Shanghai R&D facility. Photography: Shao Feng.
COMME DES GARÇONS A faux leather, faux fur, and rubber ensemble in the brand’s 18th Century Punk Collection, part of “Pink: The History of a Punk, Pretty, Powerful Color” at New York’s Museum at FIT. Photography: courtesy of the Museum at FIT.
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AECOM and PININFARINA Milled glass-fiber reinforced concrete cladding the 295-foot-tall air control tower at Istanbul New Airport. Photography: courtesy of Pininfarina.
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KATHY BUTTERLY New Space Place, Whirld, Orange Tilt, and Inside Out, in glazed clay, from “Thought Presence” at James Cohan gallery in New York. Photography: courtesy of Kathy Butterly and James Cohan, New York.
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LIZ WEST Colour Transfer, a permanent installation of 30 galvanized-steel frames clad in PVC-coated aluminum along Westway Bridge pedestrian underpass in London. Photography: Daniel Walmsley and Jason Bailey.
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QUINTESSENZ Kagkatika’s Secret, a site-specific installation of 120 spray-painted mesh panels for Paxos Contemporary Art Project in Greece. Photography: courtesy of Quintessenz.
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COZ Y ORTIZ ARQUITECTOS and MARCO POLIDURA ARQUITECTOS and SEBASTIÁN ALVAREZ The reinforced-concrete Teatro al Aire Libre Ruinas de Huanchaca in Chile’s Atacama Desert. Photography: Sergio Pirrone.
SCHEMATA ARCHITECTS The refurbished sleeping capsules at the °C pod hotel in Tokyo. Photography: Atsushi Nakamachi/Nacása & Partners.
SHEILA HICKS Saffron Sentinel in pigmented fiber from “Migdalor” at Magasin III Jaffa in Tel Aviv. Photography: Noam Preisman/courtesy of Magasin III Jaffa.
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MARINA ABRAMOVIĆ and MARCO BRAMBILLA and IRIS VAN HERPEN The sets and costumes for Pelléas et Mélisande at Opera Vlaanderen in Antwerp, Belgium. Photography: courtesy of Marco Brambilla.
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UGO LA PIETRA The 1968 opaline methacrylate Immersione Uomouovosfera from “Home Futures” at the Design Museum in London. Photography: courtesy of the Archivio Ugo La Pietra, Milano.
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WUTOPIA LAB Shell-studded walls, solid-surfacing sinks, and custom pendant fixtures in a children’s restroom at Aranya, a resort in Qinhuangdao, China. Photography: CreatAR Images.
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DANIEL RICH Beijing, an acrylic on aluminum composite from “Never Forever” at Peter Blum Gallery in New York. Photography: Etienne Frossard/courtesy of Daniel Rich and Peter Blum Gallery, New York.
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SIXE PAREDES APU, an acrylic-enameled sculpture from “Sixe Paredes: Color, Forma y Materia” at Le Feuvre & Roze, a Paris gallery. Photography: German Rigol/courtesy of Le Feuvre & Roze.
HOK Wool felt with an acoustical substrate lining a niche at the Ronald and Maxine Linde Hall of Mathematics and Physics at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. Photography: Eric Laignel.
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CARLOS CRUZ-DIEZ An installation of 32 digital video projectors for “Carlos Cruz-Diez in the Cistern: Spatial Chromointerference” at Houston’s Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern. Photography: courtesy of Carlos Cruz-Diez, Paul Hester, and ADAGP.
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NIELSEN : SCHUH ARCHITECTS Cast-concrete portals insulating barrels of Sonoma Pinot Noir at Occidental Wines in Bodega, California. Photography: Bruce Damonte.
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NENDO “Escher x Nendo: Between Two Worlds” at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia. Photography: Sean Fennessy.
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Previous spread: At Hotel Alessandra in Houston by Rottet Studio, the reception area is capped by a coffered ceiling, its knife-edged planes fitted with LED strips. Left, from top: Reception flooring is Brazilian slate and furniture is custom. A Reinhard Görner photograph backs the custom desk of brass, myrtle burl, and marble. Right: Though sourced locally, the entry’s antique stained-glass door, one of two, is French. Opposite: Old-world style vaults hover over the butterfly entry staircase in Brazilian marble.
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Rottet Studio has designed hotels all over: New York, Chicago, Miami Beach, Las Vegas, and Bogotá, Colombia, plus a Viking Star ocean liner. But none in Houston, where Lauren Rottet’s roots run deep—her firm has been headquartered there for more than a decade. None, that is, until now. Hotel Alessandra, a 21-story ground-up property done in collaboration with Gensler, is the Interior Design Hall of Fame member’s hospitality debut in the city. “We love to tell stories,” Christopher Evans begins. He and Anja Majkic, both associate principals, led the project with Rottet. Part the stuff of novels, part reality-based, the plot line goes like this. Alessandra is conceived as a woman, an old-world European sophisticate, the older of two sisters who comes to freewheeling Houston from Spain with her dowry and falls in love with an oil man. (The younger sister is alluded to at the Hotel Sorella, another Houston property operated by the same developer client, Valencia Group. The company’s vice president of branding and design Brandi Montgomery loves stories, too.) Typical of Rottet, the project evolves as a hybrid: traditional glamour paired with contemporary implementation—fitting for a locale that’s home to such cultural institutions as the Rothko Chapel and the Menil Collection. In fact, Alessandra could be a doppelgänger for Dominique de Menil, who brought a level of art and culture to the Texan city. Rottet herself even characterizes Houston as simultaneously rough and polished, “like crude oil and yellow diamonds, gardenias and tobacco,” she notes. Narrative aside, the 188,000-square-foot hotel immediately departs from the norm. The entry is merely that, a drop-off for bellman and valet. (City regulation mandated 172
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Top: The bar at Bardot, the hotel’s cocktail lounge, combines walnut, brass, and resin. Bottom: The living room of the 1,600-squarefoot presidential suite centers on a custom sectional sofa upholstered in mohair. Opposite, from left: The vaulted ceiling continues in the guest-room elevator corridor. An acrylic tub outfits the bathroom in a standard guest room.
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a percentage of the narrow area be allotted to retail, but that’s still speculative.) Social spaces, including reception, are one flight up. “So we had to create a vertical pull, architecturally,” Majkic states. Ergo the grand stairway of creamy Brazilian marble and gleaming bronze handrails capped by a stunning cast-plaster vaulted ceiling. To assure guests would make the passage, “We even hid the elevator,” she continues. But sharpeyed visitors appreciating the décor’s unusual art objets can find it tucked behind the stairway, next to one of two centuries-old French stained-glass doors. Another ceiling treatment defines the reception area, it too filled with artwork eye candy. Here it’s coffered, the slots of its knife-edged planes illuminated. “We were looking to recall an arcade of the past without trying to literally re-create one,” Evans explains, “not fake people out.” Rottet adds, “These treatments are like sculpting, making the interiors feel old world. But on second glance, you see that there’s actually not a single old-world or traditional detail.” The space glows golden thanks to its panels of laminated glass sandwiching bronzed mirror and copper-textured fabric. Central is the check-in desk in brass, myrtle burl, and veined white marble. Some seating, sofas upholstered in navy mohair, is semi-concealed in niches. A symmetrical setting of armchairs and loveseats, cozily arranged below the truncated ceiling vaults, is more open. Dare we mention that the swirling blue-gold rug reminds us of an oil spill? “Absolutely,” Rottet laughs of the pattern derived from a photograph and interpreted in shimmering silk and wool. An actual photograph, enormous and installed behind the desk, is by Reinhard Görner, chosen, Rottet says, “because it’s so immersive.” JAN.19
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Nearby is Bardot, the cocktail lounge. It’s an intimate enclave anchored by a brass and walnut bar, its top a reflective resin reminiscent again of oil, this time a black-crude variety. “I channeled the Viennese café culture for the restaurant,” Evans says of the neighboring Lucienne. A ceiling vault bifurcates the long, narrow space, where banquettes line the walls and four-tops run down the center. The half-height window treatments look like traditional toile de Jouy from afar. Upon closer inspection, however, the fabric
H O S P I TA L I T Y Left, from top: A brass chair stands in a corner of the presidential suite bedroom. Another elevator corridor features a custom rug leading up to vinyl wall covering derived from a painting by Maksim Koloskov, a Rottet Studio senior associate. Right, from top: Leather-covered chairs flank a table by Kara Mann in the presidential suite dining room. Bifold mirrored doors reflect a guest room’s custom bed and sofa.
is a playful contemporary version with images of landmarks and people snapping selfies. Green is dominant here—chairs and some upholstery are a minty-seafoam. “Houston is a lush city, so we used the color throughout,” Evans adds. Guest accommodations begin on the fifth floor, also home to the fitness center, spa, and pool deck (conference and service facilities are on floors three and four). “Everything’s bigger in this state,” Rottet says of the 218 guest rooms, “but these are still intimate in scale.” Depending on their positioning, mirrored bifold doors make the bedroom or the bathroom appear larger. Otherwise, 176
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Left: Toilelike window treatments at the restaurant Lucienne are polyester. Right, from top: Porcelain tile flooring flows through the 48-seat eatery. Below: The fifth-floor terrace features a 30-foot pool.
common elements throughout include an oak-framed headboard, a corner sofa, and contemporary photography. But no clever mirror usage is needed to amplify the hotel’s five suites. Offering a large terrace off the bedroom, a dining room that seats eight, and 1,600 square feet, the presidential suite is truly Texas-size.
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When they were commissioned for the interiors of the Drawing Hotel in Paris, Nido Architecture co-founders Chiara Patrassi and Alexandra Bernaudin found them-
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“We knew nothing about contemporary drawing,” Patrassi says. “But the artists were all so enthusiastic, so willing to work with us and mediums they had never used before. Carine chose them well.” Tissot adds, “I was lucky. I got my short list.” The result is five radically different floors, each one packing its own distinctive visual wow. At the top, Swedish painter Thomas Broomé played with perspective grayscale lettering to identify wallpaper images of walls, doors and bookshelves holding his “ideal library” of books like Jane Eyre and Ulysses. Watercolorist Françoise Pétrovitch chose forest green for walls on the fourth floor, simple frames for her sophisticated paintings, and variegated limpid shades for tufted wool carpeting. Down on three, draftsman Clément Bagot embedded his brilliant splashes of abstract color behind glass panes embedded in all-black walls. Muralist Abdelkader Benchamma came in every day for two weeks to hand-draw the trees and plants of his Forest in black ink and acrylic paint on white second-floor walls. And the psychedelic first-level work of graffiti duo Lek & Sowat— blanketing walls, ceiling, and floor—is like falling headfirst after Alice in Wonderland into a cartoon dream.
The energy of the corridors contrasts with the relaxed warmth of the rooms behind them, with artist-designed printed-fabric headboards providing a transition. “Excitement in the halls, calm in the rooms,” Bernaudin explains. The 48-key hotel was the almost accidental brainchild of Tissot, whose successful drawing fair is heading into its 13th edition this March. She was hunting for a locale for a small permanent gallery when she learned about a new 18,500-square-foot building close to the Musée du Louvre. The developer had slated it as a hotel, and after much deliberation, Tissot decided to add hotelier to her resume. Patrassi and Bernaudin came into the project in 2016, literally on the ground floor, which was just taking shape. As usual with Parisian hotels, space was a problem from the start: The original plan for the rooms was locked in, with their square footage varying between 194 and 237. But the architects were able to make a few important changes, notably switching the curving frostedglass shower modules to transparent glass and nixing miniscule closets for handsome glassand-steel wardrobes, freeing up enough space for separate toilets. Throughout the project, Nido’s key word was chaleureux, French
Previous spread: At the Drawing Hotel in Paris, Nido Architecture collaborated with contemporary artists in the corridors, including those on the top floor, where a work by painter Thomas Broomé was turned into wallpaper. Opposite top, from left: Stéfane Perraud’s vine sculpture climbs the exterior. The cocktail lounge, with chairs by Neri & Hu, overlooks the courtyard. Opposite bottom: Françoise Pétrovitch’s watercolors appoint the fourth-floor corridors. Top: Custom oak paneling and Florian Brillet sconces flank a headboard covered with Abdelkader Benchamma’s ink and acrylic on cotton. Bottom: A Phillipe Nigro armchair stands in the lobby near the custom reception desk.
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for welcoming. The key component is wood, which appears as tinted oak paneling and in the furnishings throughout. “We’re big believers in custom design,” Patrassi says. Here that includes the lounge’s leather sofas, bedside and console tables, the reception desk, and the bar. Their biggest challenge, Patrassi says, was the ground level, with only 1,900 square feet of public space to accommodate the entrance, reception, retail, and the lounge. Reception is angular, with low shelves displaying books and objets for sale wrapping around the trapezoidal desk. More shelves line up along the window wall. A partition of oak rods that doublefunctions as a library defines the
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adjoining lobby, its seating area composed of a bold black-andwhite rug, a loveseat by Neri & Hu, and a tubular Philippe Nigro chair that resembles contemporary sculpture. Beyond the partition is the cocktail lounge, where a window overlooks a courtyard, its red walls a tribute to Luis Barragán. Stairs lead down to the basement Drawing Lab, the contemporary gallery that started the project rolling. Seen from outside, it all looks much more like a bookstore or an art shop than a hotel. “It was important to achieve a gallery atmosphere,” Patrassi says. “We didn’t want it to look too ‘deco.’” Upstairs, the roof terrace is decked out in season with
H O S P I TA L I T Y Top, from left: The lounge’s custom bar is stained oak and blackened steel. Another guest room’s headboard is upholstered with Lek & Sowat’s printed cotton. Bottom, from left: Broomé’s wallpaper depicts his ideal library. Custom wallpaper printed with another Lek & Sowat pattern covers a guest room door.
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tables, chairs, and umbrellas, so guests can take in the view of the surrounding mansard rooftops. To access the terrace, they can ascend stairs along a corridor. “We keep thinking there might be another artist to tackle those walls someday soon,” Patrassi says. For now, they’re just painted white.
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Daniel Libeskind: Edge of Order by Tim McKeough New York: Clarkson Potter, $80 320 pages, 371 illustrations (256 color)
This is an unconventional book about unconventional buildings—fitting, since Daniel Libeskind had an unconventional childhood. Born to Holocaust survivors in a homeless shelter in Poland, he and his family moved to a kibbutz in Israel, where he developed a passion for music, winning a scholarship to the Israel Conservatory of Music, Tel Aviv by playing Bach on an accordion. His family then moved to the Bronx, New York, and Libeskind studied architecture tuition-free at the Cooper Union, where his professors included architects Peter Eisenman, John Hejduk, and Richard Meier. Meier gave him a job, which he left after two days, finding the office “alarmingly quiet.” Eisenman then hired him, but he left after “about 30 minutes” because he was asked to sweep the floor. Libeskind taught and was the head of architecture at Cranbrook Academy of Art before ever having commissions. When he “Architecture is a strange did they were monumental: high-rises in Singapore and museums in Berlin, Denver, vocation” San Francisco, and Ottawa. Only later would he design a house. His buildings can be difficult and unsettling. Making the pilgrimage to his Holocaust Museum Berlin, I found its zigzag exterior stunning in two ways— beautiful and terrifying. Finding its exhibitions less interesting than its architecture and deciding to leave, I realized that I was totally lost and that the disorientation was deliberate. This is a big and very welcome book, but its design by Rodrigo Corral is aptly obscure. The 18 projects shown are not ordered by date or building type, although the last one is Libeskind’s fairly recent master plan for New York’s World Trade Center. Some pages are blank and some have only a few words, such as “Globe Conflict Fragmentation Understanding.” Chapter headings are oblique: “The Shifting Stones: Memory,” “The Unobserved Unicorn: Site,” “The Round-Cornered Table: Sketch.” References and images include Winston Churchill, James Joyce, René Descartes, Emily Dickinson, and the Marx Brothers. The chief illustrations of the projects are collages of jagged bits of photos and sketches, evocative but not informative. Libeskind resists being fully understood.
AB Concept: A Cultural Journey through Light, Form, and Space by Paola Singer New York: Assouline, $95 280 pages, 250 color illustrations
Interior designer Ed Ng and architect Terence Ngan founded AB Concept in Hong Kong in 1999. In its first decade the firm’s focus was local projects, but then it expanded to Singapore, Shanghai, Tokyo, and Taipei, Taiwan. International success followed with work in the U.K., India, Indonesia, and France, much of it for such top hotel chains as the Mandarin Oriental, Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, W, Shangri-La, and Rosewood Hotels & Resorts. “There appears to be nothing outside AB’s W hotel in Beijing was an Interior Design Best of their compass” Year Award honoree in 2015, and the firm is often among our top 100 Giants and Hospitality Giants listings. Recent commissions include the Paper Moon Giardino restaurant in Milan, the Yun House restaurant in the Four Seasons Kuala Lumpur, and the W hotel in Xi’an, China, all completed in 2018, just in time for inclusion in this book. Generously illustrated, it opens with testimonials from three satisfied clients. The text admits that, “It is hard to believe that Ed and Terence were once minimalists.” Very true, but even in their most richly decorative designs, the décor is disciplined with a sense of symmetry and order. As the book’s introduction concludes, “AB Concept is ready for design stardom.”
Having spent a third of 2018 crisscrossing the world for his interiors projects, including the Interior Design Best of Year Award–winning Shoreline Hotel Waikiki in Hawaii, Dan Mazzarini knows the value of a pageturner. “Sedaris is almost always in my bag for long flights. I remember reading Me Talk Pretty One Day in an airport years ago and laughing out loud so much that people moved away from me,” he recalls. “But his newest book is interestingly more bittersweet, about loss and overcoming adversity. It’s still delivered with his tart and insightful point of view, though, so it was still fun for me—and fuel for the soul is good for design.” The New York–based designer is planning on another serious read in the near future. “I’ve had Aero: Beginning to Now on my table for a while. It’s a beautiful chronology of Thomas O’Brien’s work and shop that I’m definitely looking forward to.” And we’re looking forward to Mazzarini’s upcoming residential and commercial projects in Nashville, Minneapolis, and San Francisco. —Nicholas Tamarin
Calypso by David Sedaris New York: Little, Brown and Company, $28 259 pages 188
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DESIGNERS IN HOSPITALITY Nido Architecture (“Writing on the Wall,” page 180), nido-architecture.com. Rottet Studio (“A Houston Homecoming,” page 170), rottetstudio.com.
PHOTOGRAPHER IN HOSPITALITY Eric Laignel Photography (“A Houston Homecoming,” page 170; “Writing on the Wall,” page 180), ericlaignel.com.
DESIGNER IN HOTSHOTS Humbert & Poyet (“Deux for One,” page 43), humbertpoyet.com.
DESIGNERS IN WALK-THROUGH Mork Ulnes Architects (“Sojourn in Sonoma,” page 57), morkulnes.com. Office of Charles de Lisle (“Sojourn in Sonoma,” page 57), charlesdelisle.com.
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The après-ski scene in Wyoming is livelier than usual these days. For “Glow Nights,” a festival of site-specific installations dotting the snowy grounds of the Jackson Hole Mountain Resort through February 28, CLB Architects has contributed Face Time, an icelike riff on the smart-phone app. The interiors of twin 44square-foot cabins are outfitted with opposing benches, so pairs of people can take shelter and sit in the intimate setting. “They promote heartfelt laughter, awkward silences, and the dying art of authentic eye contact,” principal Eric Logan says. Their simple shape is inspired by references expected and not—think ice-fishing huts and Monopoly houses—and they were designed with sustainability in mind. Lumber for the frames was reclaimed from scaffolding on a former job site. The honeycomb end walls are recycled cardboard tubes that once held rolls of drafting paper. And the structures glow like lanterns, thanks to LEDs shining through the panels of translucent high-density polyethylene—the same recyclable material used for milk jugs. Battling sub-zero temperatures, CLB staffers constructed the huts at a Jackson garage after work and on weekends over a six-week period, then trucked them to the site one at a time, contending with a snow storm en route. —Georgina McWhirter JAN.19
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sas hiko 18” x 36”
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Sashiko is available in 18” x 36” format and 13 colors.
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