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ON THE COVER In the Francigena suite at Monteverdi Tuscany hotel in Italy, Ilaria Miani paired ancient plasterwork techniques with a vintage chair covered in Sequana linen, all in a palette drawn from the colors of Val d’Orcia. The shower head is by Sphera Docce. Photography: Bernard Touillon.
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FEATURES 118 THE NEXT WAVE by Jeff Book
Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos brings a fresh modernist perspective to Mexican resort design with the Solaz Los Cabos in Baja California. 126 SOUTHERN BELLE by Laura Itzkowitz
AvroKO channels Savannah’s culture of gracious hospitality at the Perry Lane Hotel in Georgia. 134 WINNING HANDS by Judy Fayard
Jouin Manku’s pair of Alain Ducasse restaurants inside a Macau casino resort hit the jackpot.
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144 INTERNATIONAL IDYLLS by Nicholas Tamarin
Hotels on both sides of the Atlantic embrace their enchanting environs. 154 A READER’S PARADISE by Rebecca Lo
Truly heavenly—that’s the Chinese bookstore chain Zhongshuge’s Xi’an location by Wutopia Lab. 162 REFLECTIONS ON MODERNISM by Edie Cohen
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hospitality supplement 85 HOTSHOTS by Georgina McWhirter 92 MIXED MESSAGES by Alexandra Cheney 101 DREAMS OF THE PAST by Colleen Curry
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113 CENTERFOLD by Georgina McWhirter City of Light
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midsummer’s hospitality dream Just as the headline says, summer is in the name and hospitality is the game! For this hospitable midsummer issue, we laser-focus on the best examples of design-with-gusto and offer the greatest amenities that publishing can buy. And although these stories are only virtual—drat, wish we could be there in the flesh—because of our quality, verve, and élan, they are just as exciting and rewarding as the globe-hopping we endeavored. And, if you happen to be out of town and rooming in a swanky hotel, or simply dining out—it’s your summertime, too, after all—we are ready for the challenge of stacking our stories against your digs. Where style and originality are concerned, the designers in our issue can best anyone, anywhere (yes, we feel that strongly about them and their work)! There’s no need to accept our gauntlet but do deep dive and see for yourself. From a Baja California dreamwork by Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos that transcends time to the fabled tables of a pair of Ducasse restaurants in Macau by Jouin Manku, our pages deliver what truly matters right now in hospitality design, and what and who will lead the way in the future. Speaking of which: One of our stories takes us down south to the new Perry Lane Hotel in Savannah, Georgia. Designed by our talented friends at AvroKO, it is, sure enough, the quintessence of Southern Hospitality+. The plus stands for super-cool, super-hip, and super-close-to the Savannah College of Art and Design, aka SCAD. Recently, I had a few welcome opportunities to enjoy my favorite treat, meeting and speaking to students just starting a future in our trade. Earlier this year I had a rewarding gathering at the New York School of Interior Design (NYSID), then got in thick with our pals at Pratt in Brooklyn (which I plan to visit more often), and then hit SCAD. I have to admit, every time I visit I’m amazed by the freshness, joie de vivre, and creativity on display at that renowned Southern design enclave. Heck, they even took this portrait of me for an ad campaign to celebrate the school’s 40th anniversary! And my quote about them? Easy: SCAD is rad! As is this issue—so, dive in!
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h e a d l i n e rs principal: William Harris. principal: Kristina O’Neal. principal: Adam Farmerie. principal: Greg Bradshaw. firm site: New York. firm size: 35 designers. current projects: Eaton Workshop hotel in San Francisco; Six Senses spa in London; Standard hotel in Phuket, Thailand. honors: Interior Design Best of Year Honoree; James Beard Foundation Design Award finalist. role model: Psychologist Abraham Maslow for his hierarchy of needs theory that can lead to self-actualization. students: The four principals met as undergraduates at Carnegie Mellon University. homeowners: Farmerie, Harris, and O’Neal each have a weekend cottage in the Hudson Valley, in which Bradshaw, based in San Francisco, always has a room. avroko.com
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“A Reader’s Paradise,” page 154 founder and chief architect: Yu Ting. firm site: Shanghai. firm size: 20 architects and designers. current projects: An architectural model museum and poetry bookstores in Shanghai; foreign language bookstore in Wuhan. honors: Interior Design Best of Year Award; Iconic Award; IF Design Award. role model: Mathematician Kurt Gödel for his incompleteness theorems, which re-envisioned classical arithmetic. food: Ting is a gourmand whose favorite cuisine is French. fodder: He also writes a monthly column for local newspapers on the history and gastronomy of Shanghai. @wutopialab_sh
Magni Kalman Design “Reflections on Modernism,” page 162 principal: James Magni. principal: Jason Kalman. firm site: Los Angeles. firm size: Six interior designers. current projects: Residences in L.A. and Kilauea, Hawaii. honors: Interior Design Best of Year Award; Luxe Red Awards. role model: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, who took it all back to basics. love: With family in Sicily, Magni travels to Italy as often as possible. passion: Kalman buys and modifies vintage cars and is developing an automotive marketplace app. magnikalmandesign.com
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partner: Russell Shubin, AIA. partner: Robin Donaldson, AIA. office site: Los Angeles. office size: 32 architects. current projects: Residences in L.A. and Montecito, California. honors: AIA Los Angeles and Orange County Honor Awards. role model: Peter Zumthor, whose materiality and detailing create complete works of architecture. explorer: This summer’s architectural pilgrimage for Shubin and his family is to Spain to see the mosque in Córdoba and the Alhambra in Granada. curator: Donaldson, trained in studio art, organized a Santa Barbara exhibition of silk screens and lithographs. shubindonaldson.com
architecture director: Javier Sordo Madaleno de Haro. firm site: Mexico City. firm size: 145 architects and designers. current projects: Reforma Colón mixed-use complex in Mexico City; Amelia Tulum apartment building in Riviera Maya and SOHL mixed-use tower in Monterrey, both in Mexico. honors: Prix Versailles North America Special Prize; IIDA Latin America Design Award. role model: My father and president of our firm, architect Javier Sordo Madaleno Bringas, for his contributions to the transformation of Mexican cities. sight: Madaleno de Haro has always liked contemporary art and is gradually becoming a collector. sound: He also enjoys listening to music, discovering new artists, and learning what inspires them. sordomadaleno.com
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“I love the idea that a farmer in the field could look up and see this mirrored sculpture float by.” That’s multimedia artist and filmmaker Doug Aitken referring to New Horizon, his nomadic installation that’s set to roam the Massachusetts skies this July. Commissioned by the Trustees of Reservations, a nonprofit focused on preserving 25,000 acres of the state’s natural sites, Aitken has created an oversize hot-air balloon from 70-denier high-tenacity nylon coated in mylar laminate. It will be fueled by propane, which burns cleaner than gas or diesel, and include a gondola accommodating eight people for sunrise rides. When not airborne, the balloon will be tethered at various noteworthy properties—Long Point Wildlife Refuge in West Tisbury and deCordova Sculpture Park in Lincoln among them—where farm-to-table dinners, live music performances, and talks with such luminaries as Lord Norman Foster will take place beneath the shiny orb.
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cookie heaven If it’s dreamy at Chip, that’s intentional. In addition to the aroma of the freshly baked, famously gooey cookies wafting through the tidy Long Island City bakery, the setting employs blond millwork, creamy marble, curved forms, and ethereal lighting. It’s conceived by the New Design Project, the studio that also runs Brooklyn co-working space the New Work Project. For Chip, the designers co-worked with Saint Urbain, which handled branding, to carry the aesthetic through the interiors. The clouds sprinkled across the cookie tins were translated into a cluster of paper lanterns and rounded arches in the partition separating front and back of house. The nostalgic orange of the logo came to life as Benjamin Moore & Co.’s Fire Glow on the feature wall and Kravet’s microsuede upholstering the built-in banquettes. The same team is in the mix for Chip West Village, scheduled to open this fall. interiordesign.net/newworkproject19 for more images of Chip
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Clockwise from bottom: The interior of Chip, a 500-squarefoot bakery in Long Island City, Queens, is by the New Design Project. Branding and packa ging by Saint Urbain. Birch stool-tables and built-in ash banquettes. The countertop’s Imperial Danby marble.
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From top: Fabric strips from the Velum acrylic range of the Sunbrella European Window Fabrics collection formed Fleurs du Vent, an installation of fixed and spinning pin wheels at Salone del Mobile in Milan last April. The installation’s designer, Élise Fouin.
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The airy new Full Circle Café in upland Bali blends the Indonesian island’s laid-back lushness with Australia’s passion for flat whites and smashed avocado. The 120seat café-restaurant represents the shared vision of client Expat Roasters, a specialty coffee pro-
ducer, and Sydney’s X+O design firm, led by principal Rebecca Vulic. “The brief,” explains Expat’s Aussie founder Shae Macnamara, “was to create multiple experiences within the one venue.” That played to Vulic’s strengths: As the former senior director of global store design at Kate Spade & Company, she is adept at crafting outposts that channel brand and setting. “We always start by asking who the customer is,” she explains. “Then it’s about how to facilitate the experience they’re hoping for through a bit of storytelling, with elements of surprise and delight.” As its name suggests, the Full Circle Café caters to everyone from casual backpackers to more demanding diners from the adjoining boutique hotel, for which it is the de facto house restaurant; and when it comes to coffee, customers range from day-trippers needing a jolt of caffeine to serious connoisseurs looking for the perfect cup. The café occupies a doubleheight concrete-and-glass building with a barrel-vaulted ceiling. The designer, working with A+A Architecture Interior, carved the lightfilled volume into different zones and levels. Naturally, pride of place goes to the large brew bar—an interactive communal hub where customers can simply enjoy the results of, or actively learn about,
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Clockwise from top left: Fluting embellishes the castconcrete brew bar. A row of teak-lined railway-style booths provides intimacy. Behind the banquettes, a perforated metal partition screens the kitchen. Bleacher seating with built-in tables nods to Bali’s rice terraces.
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Clockwise from top: In the courtyard, seating is cast concrete. Hanging greenery complements a mural inspired by Ubud’s monkey forest preserve. White flecks in the terrazzo floor evoke grains of rice. A cus tom stone sink anchors a restroom.
different brewing processes—its fluted sides formed by pressing bamboo into concrete. A white powder-coated steel frame overhead contains plants that evoke island greenery. Adjacent castconcrete railway-style booths, lined with teak veneer, provide a sense of enclosure, while bleacher seating of the same material echoes Bali’s rice terraces. The neutral palette gives added punch to an end-wall mural, which depicts the nearby monkey forest preserve and vivid red coffee beans; the other end wall is lined
with semicircular banquettes. An outdoor courtyard and upstairs whiskey bar offer other options. “One of many things we had in mind is Instagram culture, which, in this location, with so many travelers, is very active,” Vulic says. Full Circle Café’s design is earning a lot of likes. —Jeff Book THROUGHOUT A+A ARCHITECTURE INTERIOR: ARCHITECT OF RECORD. HANS SETIAWAN: CUSTOM SOFAS, CUSTOM CHAIRS, CUSTOM STOOLS. THROUGH ANUGERAH INTERINDO: UPHOLSTERY. FIO: RUGS. TAZROC: MURAL. THROUGH INDAH ALAM: ARTIFICIAL PLANTS. D’E STUDIO ARCHITECTURE: GENERAL CONTRACTOR.
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Kids can sometimes teach parents new tricks. That’s what happened with Tobias Grau. Returning to Milan with his namesake lighting brand after a six-year absence, he handed design duties to his sons, Timon and Melchior, recent graduates of the University of the Arts Berlin, where they studied under Hito Steyerl and Ai Weiwei. The brothers proposed what amounts to heresy for a fixed-wire specialist: a cablefree lamp. Nodding to Alberto Giacometti’s Walking Man series of sculptures, they hatched Parrot, a slender, height-adjustable floor lamp topped with a rotating, touch-dimmable LED diffuser. Its aluminum composition comes powder-coated orange, light blue, white, or black. As for the cord, it’s been replaced by a battery pack providing 100 hours per charge. tobiasgrau.com
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product Trix. standout The modules forming the Lissoni Associati founder’s iconic convertible chaise longue are bedecked in fabric company Sanderson’s Kew and Chelsea linen-cotton blends and connected via elastic bands. kartell.com
product Sveva. standout Devised by the Italian architect as a scaled-up version of his 2018 armchair, the loveseat’s downy cushions upholstered in cowhide lend comfort to the rigid polyurethane shell. flexform.it
product N.200. standout The lighting master shifts his focus to seating with a wovencane lounge chair, its swooping beech frame drawing on the company's 166 years of steam-bending wood. gebruederthonetvienna.com
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product Bisel. standout Tables by the Interior Design Hall of Fame member and architect in the manufacturer’s glass are rendered multi-chromatic at the edges by laminating ⅕-inch-thin slabs with colored film. glasitalia.com
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manufacturer Made by Choice. product Kolho. standout An artist promises the moon and delivers a giant leap for design. Five decades after Neil Armstrong took that “one small step for man,” multimedia artist Matthew Day Jackson collaborates with the Finnish design brand and Formica Group on a custom surface that replicates, to scale, the surface of the moon. Together they developed custom steel-press plates that imprint texture 80 microns in depth derived from images taken from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft. Jackson then sculpted furniture in the material, most notably a dining chair with a laminate-veneered plywood back and seat supported by a CNC-carved frame. Kolho, by the way, is Finnish for sturdy. madebychoice.com
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for B&B Italia product Up. standout As the anthropomorphic armchair turns 50, the Interior Design Hall of Fame member curates six new colors to cover the polyurethane foam core, including a striped anniversary edition. bebitalia.it
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common ground From left: Unpolished Spanish marble tops custom tables in Opasly Tom, a Warsaw restaurant by Buck.Studio. Co-founders Paweł Buck and Dominika Buck.
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Clockwise from left: The handblown milk-glass pen dant fixtures in the main dining room are custom. Beech chairs and barstools in another dining room are production pieces. The Oasis cabaret that used to occupy the 1900 building now lends its name to a private dining room, its built-in banquette upholstered in polyester velvet. The same fabric covers the corrugated-steel wall panels in a lounge.
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They each have architect parents and preferred Legos over any other toy growing up. Plus, “We’re both detail obsessed!” Paweł Buck states. It’s no surprise, then, that after meeting while studying architecture at Wroclaw University of Technology in Poland, and then cutting their teeth at different firms, he and Dominika Buck decided to launch Buck.Studio together in 2008, the same year they wed. No longer married but in a happy example of “consciously uncoupling,” they still share a surname and run their hospitality-focused interiors and branding firm together. Two years ago, Dominika Buck moved to Warsaw to grow the business, and that’s where Opasly Tom, a restaurant known for its creative twist on Polish cuisine, enters the frame. 86
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The existing eatery was moving to a larger space that spanned two floors of a 1900 building rebuilt after World War II. Faced with a warren of rooms and a split-level layout, Buck.Studio cohered the 2,800 square feet by installing panels of corrugated steel on nearly every wall, and then covering them in sound-dampening velvet in sage or ink blue. There’s a reason that intervention might recall the drapes in old movie theaters: Dominika Buck also art directs feature films and has a host of Polish rom-coms under her belt. “It’s taught me to see physical space through a cinematic lens in terms of light, color, and framing,” she notes. There’s certainly a Wes Anderson vibe to Opasly Tom’s nostalgic, chroma-saturated scheme. “We enjoy following the aesthetic
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Clockwise from top: Cottonviscose in a vintage art nouveau print wraps the upper wall of Oasis. Burled poplar panels clad the lower portion. Ceramic tile lines the restroom. The custom host station is on casters.
trails of the past,” Paweł Buck adds. That might explain the pendant fixtures they designed throughout, their milk-glass composition a nod to the lampshades the designers remember from their parents’ and grandparents’ homes. —Georgina McWhirter FROM FRONT CHORS: CUSTOM PENDANT FIXTURES, CUSTOM SCONCES (MAIN DINING ROOM, LOUNGE). FAMEG: CHAIRS (DIN ING ROOMS), BARSTOOLS (DINING ROOM). ILIV: WALL COVERING (PRIVATE DINING ROOM, LOUNGE). IKER: CHAIRS (PRIVATE DIN ING ROOM, LOUNGE). OMNIRES: SINK FITTINGS (RESTROOM). THROUGHOUT FARGOTEX GROUP: WALL COVERING.
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h o s p i ta l i t y Previous spread, from left: Martin Lejarraga Architecture Office collab orated with painter Ángel Charris to create applied-plaster patterns for the facade of Loop Inn, a hostel in Carta gena, Spain. Protruding balconies and windows are screened with ceramic latticework. Clockwise from top left: The fourthfloor terrace sports artificial turf. Joan Gaspar chairs face the mezzanine common area’s custom pine ban quette. In reception, ceramic floor tiles are juxtaposed with toile de Jouy– covered ceiling and walls. A custom slide hugs the lobby wall. It originates in the mezzanine dining area.
A coastal town roughly 250 miles southeast of Madrid, Cartagena is both ancient and modern. Founded by the Carthaginians, the city boasts fine examples of Roman, Baroque, Neoclassical, and Art Nouveau architecture. But a flourishing maritime economy—it’s a major naval base as well as a passenger and cargo port—keeps it firmly anchored in the 21st century. As a local resident, principal Martín Lejarraga made sure that Loop Inn reflects his hometown’s disparate character. Beginning with the 18,300-square-foot building’s exterior, Lejarraga and his team were careful to respect the neighborhood’s neutral, timeworn palette by incorporating traditional materials in the facade. They collaborated with local painter Ángel Charris to create four applied-plaster patterns—subtle, tone-on-tone stylizations of the sea, sun, wind, and city walls—that run in story-height bands around the trapezium-shape building. Paired with ceramic latticework screens on projecting windows and balconies that evoke Moorish Spain, these broad swaths of plasterwork pay homage to classic Iberian decorative traditions while modernizing both their aesthetics and application. Having worked previously on several similar properties for Madrid-based real-estate developers RYA Residencias, the Lejarraga team knew how to realize the client’s vision for Loop Inn’s interior: “While RYA wanted the most rooms possible, it was also important that space be found for public areas that didn’t just feel random,” team architect José Botí says. “These needed to be approachable spaces, where guests can enjoy and experiment with new sensations and experiences.” A case in point: the double-height lobby, where visitors are greeted by an orange DAVID FRUTOS
A building that blends in yet also disrupts, that caters to tourists yet also serves the local collegiate population—those were the primary directives given Martin Lejarraga Architecture Office for the design of Loop Inn, a six-level, 47-room hostel on a corner site in the historic center of Cartagena, Spain.
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instance, sport zebra-patterned walls; the more common multiperson shared bunk rooms, located on the first three floors, feature a blue polka-dot paper; while the private doubles on the top floor flaunt a jungle-palm motif that nods to the faux grass covering the adjoining terrace. “Playing with the combinations of room types allowed us to flood different colors, textures, and patterns onto every level, which makes manifest the building’s vibrating energy,” Botí notes. All the built-in pine furniture is custom. That includes wraparound banquette seating in the mezzanine common area, wall benches and shelving in the game room, headboards and nightstands in the double rooms, and mezzanine sleeping platforms and ladders in the duplex family suites. Other furnishings are a breezy mix of clean-lined pieces such as Santiago Castaño’s chunky Lagos sofas in the game room, Joan Gaspar’s polypropylene and fiberglass Lisboa chairs in the dining area,
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tubular slide that snakes down the main wall. Emerging from the mezzanine dining area, it is one of two such playful chutes in the hostel. (The other tube descends from the lobby into the basement where the gym, laundry, and game room are located). “For us, one of the trickiest parts of the design was how to connect the public spaces,” Lejarraga reports; these amusing slides, which supplement a conventional elevator and staircase, are the architects’ witty solution. They’re also a major attraction for families, a demographic that usually avoids booking hostel-style accom modation. But Loop Inn caters to such groups with seven ground-floor duplex rooms in which twin or double beds for grown-ups occupy the lower level, while kid-friendly bunks, reached by ladder, are tucked into a mezzanine sleeping loft overhead. Other categories of guest room—each with its own thematic wallpaper—are found on every floor. The ground-floor duplexes, for
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standout Alexandra Champalimaud, an Interior Design Hall of Fame mem ber, has a personal stake in this 250-year-old, three-building former estate—it’s owned by her hotelier son Anthony—where existing ele ments, such as the fireplace in the Century Lodge, are balanced with fresh additions like customized headboards and graphic textiles.
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Bernardes Arquitetura project Hotel Arpoador. site Rio de Janeiro. standout The straw and fiber décor inside this 49-room boutique property designed by a firm led by a descendent of Brazilian modernist luminaries Claudio and Sergio Bernardes echoes the natural elements of nearby Ipanema Beach, while the facade’s acetylated-wood exterior was chosen for its ability to withstand the tropical climate.
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1. The structures composing Les Fontaines des Champs-Élysées, commissioned by the Fonds Pour Paris, a private fund for public arts projects, are covered in a total of 197 linear feet of LEDs. 2. The fountains have been erected in defunct 19th-century basins in the Rond-Point des Champs-Élysées, the avenue’s traffic circle that’s halfway between the Place de la Concorde and the Arc de Triomphe. 3. Each of the structures rotates half a turn per minute around a central mast, to which water is propelled up from the basin before cascading down the cylinders.
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Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos brings a fresh modernist perspective to Mexican resort design with the Solaz Los Cabos in Baja California
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Previous spread: At the Solaz Los Cabos, a 33-acre resort by Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos on Mexico’s Baja California peninsula, a passageway entirely sheathed in travertine marble frames a painterly view of the Sea of Cortés. Top, from left: Mexican artist César López Negrete created the hotel lobby’s sculptural wood furniture and wall relief depicting the Baja peninsula. Cardón Barbón cacti form an allée leading to the entry of the beachfront Mako restaurant. In the lobby, custom check-in and concierge stations feature desks with underlighting. Bottom: By locating many rooms in low-rise, green-roof buildings that step down in curving terraces to the beach, the resort provides all guest accommodations with gulf vistas.
In Baja California, the Sea of Cortés coast from Cabo San Lucas on north is peppered with resort hotels. In style they tend to be either steroidal haciendas or monumental hulks. By contrast, the new Solaz Los Cabos is a refreshing example of Mexican modernismo. No surprise, then, that it is the work of Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos, a firm founded in 1937 by pioneering modernist architect Juan Sordo Madaleno and known since for award-winning hotel design. This one began with thoughtful site planning. “Instead of making the building in back a big wall, we broke it up to bring down the scale and admit more views and breeze,” explains SMA architecture director (and grandson of the founder) Javier Sordo Madaleno de Haro. “But though we broke up the project into different pieces, we treated it as a whole and maintained a similar look throughout the property.” The materials palette, which unifies the design and integrates it with the sere setting, is an organic mix of quarry stone, travertine, granite, and huanacaxtle, a tropical hardwood used to clad much of the exterior. All had to be both attractive and able to weather the elements in a complex with many alfresco areas. Despite its size, the 1,615,000-square-foot resort seems nestled against the oceanfront hillside. Spaced apart and set at angles to each other, the five principal and highest-elevated buildings—six-story volumes that stretch in a broken chain across the top of the property—have an airy, relaxed quality. The low-rise buildings on the slope below—laid out in undulating, wavelike rows—house rooms with private entrance patios (an echo of the courtyards common in Mexican residential architecture) and green roofs landscaped with desert plants, many endemic to Baja. The terraced rows step down the 33-acre site, giving sea views to all accommodations, which include 128 hotel rooms, 147 time-share villas, and 21 full-floor residences, which are in three nine-story towers set to one side. The traditional beachfront-hotel division of rooms—ocean view or garden view—is overturned here: Because of the green roofs, most rooms enjoy both. Diverse and visually striking, the landscaping has been dubbed a “dry jungle.”
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The lobby establishes a grand feeling of arrival with a great sweep of high-ceilinged, open-air space that encompasses sea views and reflecting pools. Throughout the property, clean-lined contemporary furniture complements the architecture. The design deploys a couple of timeless ways of beating the heat south of the border: the large hammocks strung up on room terraces and the woven-reed panels that shade them. Plant-lined walkways doubling as breezeways lead to beachfront facilities. Among the latter are two 165-foot infinity pools and a 10,000-square-foot spa. “For longer stays especially, guests today want more options for dining and recreation,” Madaleno de Haro notes. The property harbors a half-dozen eating venues as well as a fitness center, beach club, kid’s activity center, expansive meeting facilities, and the obligatory swim-up bar. “Looking forward, we see wellness and culture as two key factors in hospitality,” the architect continues. “They are ways to differentiate a property. We’re now creating a culture experience in all our hospitality and mixed-use projects.” For the Solaz, SMA commissioned Mexican artist César López Negrete to create myriad artworks for public spaces and guest rooms, from wall murals and reliefs and metal sculptures to photography and seating fashioned from raw timber. Numbering more than 400 pieces in total, they are all inspired by the artist’s travels in the Baja peninsula and his love of the region’s history and traditions. The other cultural component is El Gabinete del Barco, an informative, fanciful museum-cum-chamber of curiosities. It pays tribute to 18th-century Baja chronicler Miguel del Barco with historical maps and other artifacts, including a 40-foot-long whale skeleton suspended from the ceiling. Water features—another unifying element found throughout the property—are a cooling counterpoint to the desert environment and enhance the sense of the Solaz as an oasis. Each of the resort’s various outdoor swimming pools is lined with butterfly green granite, which turns them into visual extensions of the emerald Sea of Cortés. Many rooms have terraces with private plunge pools, while the beachfront spa offers saltwater thalassotherapy treatments. Viewed from the inland side, the Solaz Los Cabos’s staggered upper volumes have a dynamic appeal, accentuated by sun-screening wooden ribs and bright strips of light at night. “We make each of our hotel designs
Opposite: Rooms in the terraced section enjoy private plunge pools screened by cactus palisades and wovenreed panels and pergolas. Top: Bamboo decking surrounds the pool that tops one of the nine-story residence towers. Center: In the timeshare lobby, floor-to-ceiling fiberglass-clad panels pivot to admit sea breezes and views of the garden. Bottom: Blocks of Himalayan rock salt form a cylindrical cabin in the spa.
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This spread: Steel railings and a fiberglass pergola cast shadows on a hotel walkway. Inset top: In a full-floor tower residence, sliding glass doors open the living area to the wraparound balcony. Inset center: A whale skeleton is among many artifacts displayed in El Gabinete del Barco, a chamber of Baja-related historical artifacts and curiosities. Inset bottom: A rope installation hangs above a conversation pit on the dining terrace of Mako restaurant.
distinctive, to reflect the context and conditions,” Madaleno de Haro says. “With this one we wanted to change the game in Baja, to show that visitors can find contemporary design very enjoyable.” PROJECT TEAM JAVIER SORDO MADALENO BRINGAS; ALEJANDRO COETO; BORIS PENA; ALEJANDRO ESPEJEL; CÁNDIDO HERNÁNDEZ; LUIS PUCHETA; IOVANY FUENTES; DAVID PAZOS; MIGUEL BARANDA; MARCO PUCHETA; SANTIAGO GARCÍA DE LETONA; GIORDANA ROJAS; DANIELA CAMARENA; CARLOS NUÑEZ; FRANCISCO BARRERA; NADIA BORRÁS; ENRIQUE RALPH; GUILLERMO MÁRQUEZ; GREG LEINER; PILAR OCEJO; GABRIELA MONDRAGÓN; ANDONI BARCÓN; HÉCTOR GALAZ; MARIPAZ COTO; MELISSA PEÑA; ROSSY LEÓN; LUZ EDITH OSUNA; KESHIN FUHRMANN; INGRID FLORES; FERNANDA PATIÑO; REGINA JARQUE; ALEJANDRO GÓMEZ-MONCADA; MARCIA MEJÍA; MIGUEL GALINDO; CRISTINA RAMOS; ALEJANDRA ANGELES: SORDO MADALENO ARQUITECTOS. GABAYET 101 PAISAJE: LAND SCAPI NG CONSULTANT. LUZ Y FORMA: LIGHTING CONSUL TANT. OMAR SAAD: ACOUSTIC CONSULTANT. ING. JAIME PALACIOS: STRUCTURAL ENGINEER. CIEN ACRES: MEP. AFIBRA DE MÉXICO: WOODWORK. MARMOLES GRUPO ARCA: STONEWORK. QUINTA DEL GOLFO DE CORTÉS S.A. DE C.V.: GENERAL CONTRACTOR. PRODUCT SOURCES FROM FRONT ESRAWE: ARMCHAIRS (HOTEL LOBBY). ATELIER CENTRAL: ROUND COFFEE TABLE. BOZOVICH: FLOORBOARDS. KETTAL: CHAISE LONGUES, SIDE TABLES (ROOFTOP), SOFAS, ROCKING CHAIRS (BALCONY). HUNTER DOUGLAS: DECKING (ROOFTOP), DECKING, CEILING (BALCONY). CUCHARA DISEÑO: ROCKING CHAIRS (TIME-SHARE LOBBY). POINT: MODULAR SOFA. ITECON: CABIN, FILLERS (SPA). PORCELANOSA: CEILING TILES. DUPUIS: ARMCHAIRS, SOFAS, COFFEE TABLE (LIVING AREA). EXPORMIM: SWING CHAIRS (RESTAURANT). ANDREU WORLD: SOFAS. TRICONFORT: DINING CHAIRS, DINING TABLES. VIXI MÉXICO: ROPE INSTALLATION. THROUGHOUT PANORAMAH: GLASS DOORS, GLASS RAILINGS. SHERWIN-WILLIAMS COMPANY: PAINT.
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Previous spread: Panels of glass-fiber reinforced concrete and gray brick form the facades of the Perry Lane Hotel, a 167-key, two-building property in Savannah, Georgia, by Hansen Architects with interiors by AvroKO. Top: Silk wall covering that nods to the city’s indigo-dye production history backs reception’s pair of walnut desks. Bottom: Vintage fur nishings, including the mantel, join a custom pendant fixture in a lounge off reception. Opposite top, from left: A brushed-brass pendant brightens the adjoining parlor. Deborah Brown’s oil portrait of the hotel’s fictional muse Adelaide Harcourt hangs in there, too.
From a distance, it looks like it’s been there for a century. But in reality, the Perry Lane Hotel in Savannah, Georgia, is a new ground-up structure—actually, two structures (more on that later). Its interiors, however, conjure a bygone era, yet still feel fresh and modern. That’s the work of AvroKO principals Greg Bradshaw, Adam Farmerie, William Harris, and Kristina O’Neal, who immersed themselves in Savannah, even invented a muse to guide the project, their first in the Hostess City. But first, the exterior. The hotel occupies two buildings bisected by Perry Street, which runs between the pair of cast-stone facades. (A parking garage and hotel services join the buildings underground.) Because the property is located in the city’s Historic Landmark District, it needed to be approved by the Savannah Historic District Board of Review, a process that was navigated with the help of local firm Hansen Architects, which also specializes in historic preservation. “The street is an integral part of the city plan, which was laid out by General James Oglethorpe in 1733,” 128
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senior principal Patrick L. Phelps says of one of the U.S.’s oldest gridded cities, famous for its charming tree-lined streets and leafy squares. “It was important that we not only maintain the street but also restore it for public use.” As such, it was resurfaced with granite pavers reminiscent of the district’s cobblestones. Notable stonework appears inside the 189,000-square-foot, seven-story hotel, too, which has the main reception, the restaurant, and the rooftop pool and bar in one building, and the Andie Kully Boutique, the bar, and conference and meeting spaces in the other; the 167 guest rooms and suites are split between both structures. It’s in reception that visitors encounter the first instance of checkered flooring—in this case, black-and-white Italian marble. Check-in proper is a pair of wooden desks, rather than the usual hulking mass. It’s AvroKO’s effort to imbue the hotel with a warm, residential vibe inspired by the beautiful homes lining the historic district. To further that effort, the team enlisted an art-consulting firm to source an eclectic
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collection of objects that might appear in the manor of a worldly Southern belle, and the art consultants and designers, in turn, all gave a name to her: Adelaide Harcourt. “We were thinking of Dorothy Draper and other fantastic, powerful, creative women as the general muse,” Harris says. As the story goes, Adelaide is a wealthy heiress with a passion for travel and a penchant for collecting. After jet-setting to New York, Paris, and Istanbul, she returned to Savannah and opened the hotel. A fictional portrait of her graces the groundOpposite top: In the lounge and other public spaces, flooring is oak planks. Opposite bottom: Meanwhile, a sitting area alternates Nero Mar quina and Bianco Statuario marble. Top: Porcelain tile enlivens walnut paneling at the Wayward bar. Bottom: A sitting area’s mixed media on canvas mural is by Marcus Kenney, an alumnus of the Savannah College of Art and Design.
floor parlor opposite a Steinway piano. Built-in bookshelves display curios like Civil War bullets on the shelves and in library-style flat file drawers. In fact, nearly 4,000 artifacts and antiques were sourced from Savannah and beyond with the goal of making the property feel lived in. “Savannah and the surrounding areas being such an antiquing culture, we found great, little gems,” Harris notes. He and his coprincipals also incorporated many pieces brought in by Jon Kully, an architect by training and the managing partner of Flank, which owns the hotel and spent five years bringing it to fruition. Of the 1,200 pieces of art throughout the site, more than 100 were commissioned specifically for the project. Naturally, the Savannah College of Art and Design was a source. There are pieces by 81 artists with ties to SCAD, including large murals by Kyle Millsap and Marcus Kenney by the rooftop bar Peregrin and in a sitting area, respectively. “Some of my favorite pieces are the looser, rougher things, like the sketches and charcoals on paper,” Harris says. “There’s a ton of them in the Wayward.” The Wayward street-level bar is one of three dining and drinking venues on the property and the most casual. A motorcycle hangs above the bar and vintage postcards adorn the walls, lending an upscale-dive vibe. Guests can play pinball, Skee-Ball, JUNE.19
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Top: Custom daybeds and cement tile outfit the rooftop pool deck. Bottom: A custom leather bench separates the beds in a double guest room. Opposite top, from left: The hotel displays thousands of artifacts, including Civil War bullets. Crown moldings embellish a king room. Guest bathrooms feature custom vanities, mirrors, and sconces.
and help themselves to popcorn from the popcorn machine. Peregrin boasts a deck patterned with gray-and-cream cement tile and fantastic city views, inviting locals and visitors to mingle over cocktails while listening to live music. (The restaurant, Emporium Kitchen & Wine Market, was done by Dash Design.) The rooms and suites have texture and personality, thanks to abundant moldings and custom millwork, unique artwork, and AvroKO-designed bar carts instead of the typical minibars. Beds boast luxurious padded-leather headboards and feminine sconces. Checkered flooring reappears in the guest bathrooms along with custom vanities topped in black marble. Walls are painted in rich colors like deep indigo. “Blue is a big color story here,” Harris explains. “We were riffing off typologies we found in town.” He’s referring to the area porches with traditional “haint” blue ceilings but also to the city’s history as a major producer of indigo dye. Reception’s silk wall covering in the shade beckons guests to come make themselves at home. 132
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PROJECT TEAM HANSEN ARCHITECTS: ARCHITECT OF RECORD. SESCO LIGHTING: LIGHTING CONSULTANT. NINE DOT ARTS: ART CONSULTANT. BRAND BUREAU: CUSTOM GRAPHICS. THARPE ENGINEERING GROUP: STRUCTURAL ENGINEER. RWP ENGINEERING: MEP. COLEMAN COMPANY: CIVIL ENGINEER. CORNERSTONE INTERIOR WOODWORKING; ELEMENTS CONTRACT FURNITURE: WOODWORK. DPR HARDIN CONSTRUCTION: GENERAL CONTRACTOR. PRODUCT SOURCES FROM FRONT WASAU: WINDOWS (EXTERIOR). WILSON COMPOSITES; GENERAL SHALE: FACADE MATERIAL. BEV OLO: LANTERNS. DESIGN COMMUNICATIONS: CUSTOM PLANT TROUGH. SOUTHERN PINE COMPANY OF GEORGIA: PLANTER. PHILIP JEFFRIES: WALL COVERING (RECEP TION). DALTILE: FLOOR TILE (RECEPTION, SITTING AREA, BAR). DECCA CONTRACT: DESKS (RECEPTION), TABLES (PAR LOR, LOBBY), SOFA, COFFEE TABLE, SIDE TABLE (LOUNGE), ARMCHAIRS, SIDE TABLES (SITTING AREA), CUSTOM BANQUETTE, CUSTOM DAYBEDS (POOL DECK). DORIS LESLIE BLAU: RUGS (LOUNGE). GOODSHOP MANUFACT URIES: CUSTOM PENDANT FIXTURES (LOUNGE, PARLOR). RH: SCONCES (LOUNGE, BAR). CIRCA LIGHTING: FLOOR LAMP (LOUNGE). MENU: COFFEE TABLE (SITTING AREA). REJUVENATION: PENDANT FIXTURES (BAR). ROOM & BOARD: OTTOMANS (POOL DECK). DESIGN WITHIN REACH: CHAISE LONGUES. TUUCI: UMBRELLAS. CM HOSPITALITY: CARPET (GUEST ROOMS). MOORE & GILES: HEADB OARD UPHOLSTERY (DOUBLE ROOM). ILLUMINATION LIGHTING: SCONCES. BELSTONE: CUSTOM VANITY. THROUGHOUT BENJAMIN MOORE & CO.: PAINT. JUNCKERS HARDWOOD; TERRAMAI: WOOD FLOORING.
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Jouin Manku’s pair of Alain Ducasse restaurants inside a Macau casino resort hit the jackpot text: judy fayard photography: eric laignel
Every now and then the stars align in a near-perfect constellation. At least that’s what high rollers and tourists alike hope for in Macau, the former Portuguese colony on the south China coast that bills itself as the world’s gambling capital. And it’s what happened with Jouin Manku’s most recent collaboration with Alain Ducasse—their scores of other ventures, large and small, with the chef include the Michelin three-star restaurants in the Dor chester Hotel in London, the Hôtel Plaza Athénée in Paris, and the Louis XV at the Hôtel de Paris Monte-Carlo in Monaco. Interior Design Hall of Fame member Patrick Jouin and copartner Sanjit Manku’s client this time is Lawrence Ho, CEO of Melco Resorts & Entertainment, the son of legendary Macau casino magnate Stanley Ho. The location: the daring 40-story Morpheus hotel designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, one of four in the massive City of Dreams entertainment complex on Macau’s recently developed Cotai island. The project: two new Ducasse restaurants occupying most of the building’s fourth floor—9,000 square feet allotted to the bistroinspired Voyages by Alain Ducasse and 6,000 more for the haute cuisine Alain Ducasse at Morpheus, which has already won two Michelin stars. “There were few limits to Mr. Ho’s ambition,” Manku says. “His goal was to have the very best restaurants in Macau, with different kinds of cuisine, price points, and atmospheres. He wanted all of it.” Budget was seemingly not an issue. The dining room at Voyages by Alain Ducasse features Romain Bernini’s site-specific mural in oil on canvas.
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The two restaurants share the main fourth-floor elevator landing and reception area, a luxurious floor-to-ceiling, wall-to-wall expanse of burnished walnut. A curving corridor to the north leads to Voyages by Alain Ducasse, its entrance anchored by a massive circular bar of heavily veined marble with a glittering armada of backlit bottles arrayed on stainless-steel shelves. “It’s like a central chandelier cage, but sitting on the floor,” Jouin says. “It provides a stage setting for the barman.” In the bar, lounge, and the 116-seat dining room, brilliant hues are the key— an exception for Jouin Manku—with vivid orange flooring and ceiling panels inspired by the persimmons found in local markets. Barstools Jouin designed
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Opposite: Patrick Jouin’s Ella chairs furnish the dining room, where resin flooring runs between custom carpet. Top, from left: In the dining room, a panel displays 100 acrylic tiles printed with food drawings by Léa Maupetit along with notes and recipes handwritten by chef Ducasse. Traditional Chinese lanterns inspired the custom ceiling fixtures. Bottom: Jouin also designed the Ester stools in the bar, where millwork is walnut.
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are covered in emerald velvet, lounge furnishings are golden amber, some banquette upholstery and carpeting are cobalt blue, and a glass-enclosed interior garden overflows with greenery. In the dining room, a wall-size panel in yet more tangerine displays an installation of 100 tiles printed with delightfully playful
food drawings by French illustrator Léa Maupetit, interspersed with brief recipes and notes handwritten on the tiles by Ducasse. Throughout, large rounded-rectangle ceiling fixtures are based on traditional Chinese celestial lanterns. And it’s all presided over by French artist Romain Bernini’s sprawling site-specific painting of a giant octopus swimming in an iridescent blue sea, a reference to one of Asia’s most important foods, that has quickly become the Voyages mascot. PROJECT TEAM AUDE-MARINE BEUZELIN; MARION GUERRY; FILIPPO CANNI; VIOLA TEROZZI; CÉLINE ALLARD; BRUNO PIMPANINI; JULIEN LIZÉ; FRANÇOIS ISONE; ANTOINE DEFOUR: JOUIN MANKU. LEIGH & ORANGE: ARCHITECT OF RECORD. NEVEUX ROUYER: INTERIOR GARDEN CONSULTANT. ISOMETRIX: LIGHTING CONSULTANT. PAT DAVIE: GENERAL CONTRACTOR. PRODUCT SOURCES FROM FRONT PORADA: CHAIRS (DINING ROOM). PYROLAVE: TABLETOP MATERIAL. FIVA CRÉATIONS: CUSTOM PANEL FABRICATION. PEDRALI: STOOLS (BAR). DINES: WALLPAPER. ANTONIO LUPI: SINKS, SINK FITTINGS (RESTROOM). THROUGHOUT KINGWOOD: CUSTOM FURNISHINGS. TAI PING: CUSTOM CARPET. RICARDO LIGHTING: CUSTOM CEILING FIXTURES, CUSTOM RECESSED CEILING FIXTURES.
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Opposite: Asian marble forms the bar. Top: The glassed-in garden contains local tropical plants. Bottom, from left: A restroom’s resin-composite sinks are by Mario Ferrarini Studio. Leather upholsters the custom banquettes.
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The south corridor curves around to the more formal Alain Ducasse at Morpheus, and a return to Jouin Manku’s favored palette of neutral beiges, grays, black, and cream. “And we love glass,” Manku states. “But the question was how to push it further. We were looking for something elegant, but not too tech.” The answer was found in a trip to Prague, purveyor of Bohemian glass, and the result is a stunning other-worldly dreamscape: a translucent forest of LED-lit blown-glass cylinders suspended from the ceiling and walls and reflected in pools of water that meander throughout. It’s a ravishing exploit, a mélange of European savoir faire and Asian sensibility. Clustered in groups of varied
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widths and lengths, the ethereal curtains of light resemble wind chimes, and as the LEDs flicker they sometimes seem to be in motion, but in fact are stationary and silent. “Luxury can be too serious,” Manku says with a grin. “Even beauty can be cold or boring. But we had a lot of fun with this one.” Jouin adds, “It’s rare to have so much room to play.” At the entrance to the kitchen, a multi-level vitrine displays Ducasse’s personal collection of cooking vessels, utensils, and glassware he’s found at antiques shops and flea markets, and they’re actually used to prepare some of the menu items. Mediterranean gamberoni en gelée with gold caviar or crispy suckling pig with morel mushrooms anyone? Jouin classifies this Macau kitchen as “Ducasse’s best ever.” And for the first time the firm also worked within the kitchen
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Opposite: LED-lit blown-glass cylinders are suspended above pools of water in a hall leading to the dining room. Left: In a private waiting alcove off the entrance, a table with layered glass and lasers mimics a night view from beneath the Eiffel Tower. Top: The two restaurants share a main reception area surrounded by polished walnut, with a sculpted glass wall representing a cloudy sky. Bottom: An oak-lined corridor leads from the shared reception area to Alain Ducasse at Morpheus.
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space itself to set up the chef’s table, enclosed in a shell of privacy glass and furnished with a massive oak table that seats 10. The entrance to the chef’s table is via a concealed door that opens into a small private wine reserve stocked with grand crus. Here is where the restaurant’s signature artwork is hidden away for the privileged few: An entire wall is taken over by artist François Houtin’s black-and-white mural of an imaginary composite of French wine regions. More mystery is found in three dining suites among the main tables, each with a hidden private alcove. Guests can repair to their own late-night nook for coffee, brandy, or just plain privacy. Jouin and Manku seem to have a theory that Macau’s good vibes should always have visitors smiling, and one little gimmick of theirs should rightly do the trick. Long ago, when suspicion arose that the earth was round, it was thought that Westerners might drill straight down through the center and pop out on the opposite side in China. Here, in this bit of France on the Pearl River Estuary, they offer a decidedly more Galllic conceit—a pair of high-tech tables in small private waiting alcoves off the entrance play trompe l’oeil with layered glass and lasers that mimic a nocturnal view from beneath the Eiffel Tower. PROJECT TEAM MARION GUERRY; AUDE-MARINE BEUZELIN; TANIA COHEN; AUDREY KRUKOFF; BRUNO PIMPANINI; JULIEN LIZÉ; FRANÇOIS ISONE: JOUIN MANKU. LEIGH & ORANGE: ARCHITECT OF RECORD. ISOMETRIX: LIGHTING CONSULTANT. PAT DAVIE: GENERAL CONTRACTOR. PRODUCT SOURCES FROM FRONT AGENCEMENT PAUL CHAMPS; PHILIPPE DAVID: CUSTOM TABLE (WAITING AREA). TECH NIQUES TRANSPARENTES: CUSTOM GLASS WALL, CUSTOM DESK (RECEPTION). PIERRE-YVES LE FLOC’H: CUSTOM TABLES, CUSTOM BANQUETTES, CUSTOM CHAIRS (DINING ROOM). ÉTAINS DE LYON: CUSTOM TABLE (WINE CELLAR). RINCK: CUSTOM TABLE (PRIVATE DINING). THROUGHOUT LASVIT: CUSTOM GLASS LIGHT FIXTURES. TAI PING: CUSTOM CARPET.
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Left: Custom chairs in the dining room are upholstered in leather. Top: In the kitchen, the custom oak chef’s table is enclosed by privacy glass. Bottom: Spotlights set into ceiling panels of stainless-steel laminate help illuminate the dining room. Opposite: A brushed-ink mural of imaginary vineyards by François Houtin occupies a wall in a private wine cellar.
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Hotels on both sides of the Atlantic embrace their enchanting environs
international idylls text: nicholas tamarin
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Manca Studio project Ai Meastri, Matera, Italy. standout Located in a district of Paleolithic cave dwellings, elements in the four guest rooms and café were either carved directly out of the existing limestone face or constructed in front of it with blocks of the stone that resulted from the excavation. photography Pierangelo Laterza. 146
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Ilaria Miani project Monteverdi Tuscany, Castiglioncello del Trinoro, Italy. standout An entire medieval hilltop village is now a hospitality complex offering a culinary academy in the former schoolhouse, suites outfitted in furniture custom-made on-site, and a jet pool inspired by ancient Roman baths. photography Bernard Touillon.
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“We carefully preserved the romantic and decadent atmosphere”
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OHLab project Can Bordoy, Palma de Mallorca, Spain. standout Combining the original pine floors and limestone main staircase with an era-appropriate materials palette of lime mortar and stucco plaster, a 500-year-old abandoned house is now home to 24 guest rooms and a swimming pool surrounded by primordial jacaranda and citrus trees. photography JosĂŠ Hevia.
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“Rather than conceal or strip away, we dramatized the multiple layers”
Deborah Berke Partners project 21c Museum Hotel, Kansas City, Missouri. standout The latest property in this contemporary art–driven chainlet features Ken and Julia Yonetani’s ultraviolet “chandelier” hanging from the 1888 glass dome in the reception area of the former Savoy Hotel, still replete with its original Victorian and Arts and Crafts details. photography Chris Cooper.
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a reader’s paradise Truly heavenly—that’s the Chinese bookstore chain Zhongshuge’s Xi’an location by Wutopia Lab
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One of the oldest cities in China, Xi’an boasts origins dating to the 11th century BC. Xi’an became the country’s capital in the 3rd century BC under the first emperor, Qin Shi Huang—whose mausoleum there contains an army of thousands of full-size terra-cotta soldiers to guard him well into the afterlife—and soon after attained renown among Europeans as the terminus of the Silk Road. In recent years, the government in Beijing has designated Xi’an for growth, specifically in research and development, national security, and space exploration, firmly propelling ancient heritage into the 21st century. A city considered the cradle of Chinese culture was naturally a place where an ambitious bookstore chain, Zhongshuge, thought it should have a presence. To make just the right statement, creating a literal haven for literature, the company returned to Shanghai-based Wutopia Lab, which had previously designed locations near Shanghai and in Suzhou. Xi’an’s, at more than 20,000 square feet, is the largest to date. “There’s a café, a gift shop, a lecture hall, and a movie-themed gallery,” Wutopia founder and chief architect Yu Ting notes. All this can be found inside a new mixed-use complex with twin office and hotel towers connected by a podium, which houses dining and retail including Zhongshuge. Arrival to the bookstore is from the level below, intended for restaurants. Here, an enclosed entry sets the mood for what’s to come. Bands of 156
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Previous spread: Amid the shelving at Zhongshuge, a bookstore in Xi’an, China, by Wutopia Lab, stands a pavilion clad in laminated wood panels. Opposite top: Bands of lacquered MDF compose the cash-wrap desk. Opposite bottom: An archway dominates each of the pavilion’s four sides. Top: Maple veneers nooks for reading or resting. Bottom: Recessed LEDs snake across the ceiling.
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Top: Painted graphics on the exterior of the children’s reading room depict nature against a city skyline. Bottom: The room beneath the pavilion can host meetings when chairs are brought in. Opposite: Combining powder-coated stainless steel and painted self-leveling concrete, also used for the floor, the main staircase rises from the entry on the level below the bookstore proper.
shelving wrap the glowing walls, while through the center swoops a ribbonlike staircase— initiating a pilgrimage, as in The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri’s 14thcentury epic. Bright red on the floor and the steps establishes the reference to the Inferno from the poem, reinforcing the concept of leaving eternal torment to climb upward to a white Paradise. Another version of heaven, the White Cloud Village from an ancient Chinese fable, was also a source of inspiration. “The white backdrop is purity and light, a contrast with the heaviness of the city’s long history,” Yu says. Western literature and Chinese culture continue to blend as customers progress through the store proper. They’re immediately greeted by serpentine walls of shelving that rise to meet the ceiling, then spread outward as horizontal bands of light, like petals unfurling from stalks. The endless arrays of books, stacked on one another, recall the layers of Xi’an’s past. Near the center of the public reading area stands a square pavilion entered through the wide archways on each side. Yu calls this structure the Pantheon. Its floor of clear glass, intended to resemble water, allows a glimpse down into a book-lined room that can be used for meetings or just for reading. (Access is via 1 ENTRY 2 PAVILION 3 READING AREA 4 CHILDREN’S ROOM 5 CAFÉ 2
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the pavilion’s internal staircase or a door on the level below.) Look up instead and see a mirrored ceiling composed of triangular fractal patterns. Reflected in the ceiling, as a way to draw curious customers from other parts of the store, Zhongshuge’s book of the month is exhibited on a single display stand. White display islands, shaped like giant watersmoothed pebbles, dot the reading area, their bands of open shelving giving customers the opportunity to casually flip through a volume. Breaking up the sea of white, maple-veneered benches sit beneath windows—another place to cozy up with a stack of reading material before committing to a purchase. “The benches address the real behavior of people, to let them sit, lie down,” Yu says. Deeper in is an enclosure designated for children: a room-within-a-room that Yu refers to as the Crystal Castle. Covering the exterior, abstracted trees and animals appear in silhouette against a backdrop of a city skyline. “It’s supposed to be a secret wonderland,” he says. Inside, the PVC floor shows a diagram of the solar system. Beyond the children’s reading room is another compelling reason to visit: the café, scattered with round white tables and maple chairs. That’s part of the company strategy to “attract people, regardless of whether they enjoy reading,” Yu explains. Potential café customers also include patrons of a cinema adjacent to the store. With doors providing direct access between the two, Zhongshuge welcomes bookworms and moviegoers alike. PROJECT TEAM ZILU WANG: LIGHTING CONSULTANT. TOPOS DESIGN CLANS: DESIGN CONSULTANT.
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reflections on modernism With a Los Angeles house, Magni Kalman Design and ShubinDonaldson redefine California’s mid-century legacy
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Previous spread: River rocks line the reflecting pool in the skylit entry of a Los Angeles house with architecture by ShubinDonaldson and interiors by Magni Kalman Design. Photography: Eric Laignel. Top: Sean Scully’s oil on linen dominates the entry. Photography: Eric Laignel. Bottom: A limestone wall conceals the infinity pool. Photography: Fernando Guerra/FG+SG Architectural Photography.
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The Pacific Palisades holds no shortage of contemporary houses. Stunning, some. Large, many. This collaboration between Magni Kalman Design and ShubinDonaldson is decidedly both. What makes the property a standout, for start ers, is its views of a state park on one side and the Pacific Ocean opposite. The site itself, however, was challenging, a hillside that had never been built on. Regardless, architects Russell Shubin and Robin Donaldson were convinced of its viability. They proposed a plan that responds to the topo graphy, with a 14,500-square-foot main house, plus 2,500 square feet for a separate building containing a gym, sauna, and game room. The owners—he a tech entrepreneur, she in finance—would be moving from a floor-through condo elsewhere in Los Angeles. They had no kids at the project’s inception. There were three by completion, five years later. In broad strokes, the ground level is a U shape, while the upstairs, farther up the hill, gains a fourth
side to form an O. The moment of genius was to embed a six-car garage inside the hill, at the center of the U. A garage at the heart of a floor plan? Yes, since the customary rear motor court would have obstructed views. On top of the garage, the center of the upstairs plan is a courtyard, complete with craned-in olive trees. This solution also made the encircling rooms on both levels relatively shallow, so sunlight easily penetrates. Approaching, past the walls that conceal the infinity pool, deck, and terrace, you get that this house is no monolithic box. The architecture im mediately reads modernist yet organic. “Hand crafted rather than machine-made,” Shubin notes. Donaldson adds, “Creating architectural assem blages that articulate a distinction between mate rials is important to us.” Ergo the way the giant slatted panels outside the window walls can swing back and forth, serving as sunshades. Or the way the entry staircase’s treads float upward over a tri angular reflecting pool lined with river rocks.
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Why opt for hard flooring when a shimmery water feature would be ever so celebratory? That’s design drama. Drama in the medium of painting is represented by the entry’s massive Sean Scully composition of stripes in a saturated color palette. “My art adviser of 35 years—also a friend of the artist—called me on a Sunday morning to tell me of the work’s availability,” James Magni recalls. “Would it be right for a client?” You bet. The owners of the house jumped to make their first significant art acquisition. The word palette of course applies not only to art but also to materials. Magni and Jason Kalman, a trained architect and an interior designer, respectively, made choices that refer to ShubinDonaldson’s architecture. “We brought the exterior inside,” Kalman explains. A limited palette of stone and wood pervades. Exterior walls and terraces are the same limestone as flooring and fireplace surrounds on the ground level, varying only in finishes: splitfaced, honed, or textured. Sapele mahogany, which frames the doors and windows, reappears as the slats of dividers and as the treads of the main staircase. Its dark steel rods recall the outdoor framework’s steel, painted black. Furnishings, meanwhile, are entirely the brainchild of Magni and Kalman. They started their process with a 20-page questionnaire, followed by “hundreds of research books,” Magni says. The goal: to impart comfort and coziness “within a contemporary piece of architecture,” he continues. “Cozy” in a 23-foot-high living room? Sounds like
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an oxymoron. But not for these designers. They mixed it up, careful to avoid a showroom look. Vintage enters the picture in the living room with a pair each of Gio Ponti and Finn Juhl chairs, the former chenille-upholstered and the latter covered in textured leather. A cocktail table in polished bronze and cast glass and a sofa with a rosewood back, both pieces custom-designed for the project, have subsequently been integrated into the Magni Home Collection. Ditto the gridlike chandelier in bronze and glass, conceived to humanize the soaring scale of the room. No less recherché was Magni and Kalman’s approach to the dining room. For a touch of artisanship, they turned to a San Francisco furniture studio known for its work with large slabs of wood. Together, the team crafted a 14-foot-long walnut oval top and an oil-rubbed bronze base for the table. Overhead, a lighting cove surfaced in whitegold leaf casts a glow on family and guests. When the wife cooks dinner—much of the fruit, vegetables, and herbs coming from the terraced garden—the kids watch or draw at the live-edge walnut island. Or everyone can hang out in the corner den, whether sprawled on the sectional or perched on T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings ottomans. (Don’t miss the red, yellow, and green Robert Rauschenberg hanging by the entry.) At night, the kids sometimes drag mattresses into the master suite to bunk down next to the platform bed. The master suite, at 2,000 square feet, is the size of a generous apartment. That’s divided
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“What makes the property a standout, for starters, is its views of a state park on one side and the Pacific Ocean opposite”
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Top, from left: Mature olives shading the upper level’s courtyard are among 200 trees transported to the site; photography: Eric Laignel. A Robert Rauschenberg in oil and acrylic on enameled aluminum intro duces the den, with its ottomans by T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings; photography: Eric Laignel. The Santa Monica Mountains rise beyond the 2-acre property; photography: Fernando Guerra/FG+SG Architectural Photography. Bottom: On the mezzanine, lounge chairs by Hans Hopfer flank a custom glass cocktail table enclosing an alfalfa bale, the last one harvested on the family farm. Photography: Eric Laignel.
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Top: Jens Risom designed the master bedroom’s bench. Photography: Fernando Guerra/FG+SG Architectural Photography. Bottom: A sink vanity in the master bathroom combines limestone, bird’s-eye maple, and bronze. Photography: Eric Laignel.
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between what is actually a small bedroom and a bathroom that practically qualifies as a full-on spa, with two separate sink vanities and WCs, a superglam makeup counter, an immense freestanding shower, and a designated massage space. In addition to the master suite, the upstairs is home to the kids’ own rooms, a playroom, and an office, all encircling the courtyard. Extending in front of all that, connected by a bridge, the oceanfacing mezzanine features a sentimental memento. A glass box, which serves as a cocktail table, encases an alfalfa bale, the last one harvested by the wife’s father, an immigrant from the Basque country of France, on their family’s farm in California. Cool, definitely. Cold, anything but. PROJECT TEAM
PRODUCT SOURCES FROM FRONT H2O PLATINUM POOLS: REFLECTING POOL (ENTRY). CHISTA THROUGH THOMAS LAVIN: COCKTAIL TABLE (LIVING ROOM). MAGNI HOME COLLECTION: CHANDELIER, CUSTOM DAYBED, SOFA, STOOLS, SQUARE COCKTAIL TABLE (LIVING ROOM); LOVESEATS (DIN ING ROOM); SECTIONAL SOFA (DEN); CUSTOM BED, NIGHTSTANDS (BEDROOM). HOLLY HUNT: DAYBED FABRIC (LIVING ROOM). TRAVERS: DAYBED PILLOW FABRIC. COWTAN & TOUT: SOFA FABRIC. CORTINA LEATHERS: STOOL UPHOLSTERY. MANSOUR MODERN: RUG. THROUGH LON HAMAEKERS: BEIGE ARMCHAIRS (LIVING ROOM), OTTOMANS (DEN). CHIVASSO: ARMCHAIR FABR IC (LIVING ROOM). THROUGH HASKELL ANTIQUES: SIDE TABLES. FINN JUHL: RUST LOUNGE CHAIRS. KELEEN LEATHERS: LOUNGE CHAIR UPHOLSTERY. KENNETH COBONPUE: DINING TABLE (TERRACE), OUTDOOR LOUNGE CHAIR (BEDROOM). JANUS ET CIE: DINING CHAIRS (TERR ACE), CHAISE LOUNGES (DECK). MARKSMAN BUILDING & DESIGN: SCREEN (DINING ROOM). LEGRANDE STUDIOS: GOLD LEAF. STUDIO ROEPER: CUSTOM TABLE. BLACKMAN CRUZ: CHAIRS. VILLA NOVA: CHAIR FABRIC. ASHBURY HIDES: LOVE SEAT UPHOLSTERY. ZANETTO: CANDLESTICKS. FINISH RITE CONSTRUC TION: SECTIONAL SOFA (DECK), SCREENS (EXTERIOR). SUMMIT FUR
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B O O K s edited by Stanley Abercrombie Aldo Rossi and the Spirit of Architecture
Interiors: The Greatest Rooms of the Century
by Diane Y. F. Ghirardo New Haven: Yale University Press, $65 280 pages, 140 illustrations (135 color)
edited by William Norwich New York: Phaidon, $80 448 pages, 800 illustrations (720 color)
Aldo Rossi (1931-1997) was an idiosyncratic and singularly important architect, designer, and theorist. When he was given the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1990, only the 13th architect to be so honored and the first Italian, the jury called his work “at once bold and ordinary.” They might also have said revolutionary and reserved or iconoclastic and traditional. Rossi has been called the father of postmodernism, but his work had little in common with the comic-book classicism of that movement. Instead, it was a rational “Rossi deeply believed expression of respect for the continued in the personal aspects strength of such forms as columns and pediof architecture” ments. And his love of strong primary colors, while a departure from the whiteness of modernism, was never close to the pastel mauves of postmodernism. Rossi designed buildings, interiors, and furniture as well as cemeteries, teakettles, watches, and, for the 1979 Biennale di Venezia, a theater that floated around a lagoon. He was also deeply concerned with the proper design of cities. Praising his 1982 book, The Architecture of the City, Ada Louise Huxtable called him “a poet who happens to be an architect.” He also wrote about two earlier architects he admired, Étienne-Louis Boullée and Adolf Loos. And Rossi drew. This book shows almost 40 of his sketches, some preliminaries for buildings, some pure fantasies. The author, a professor of the history and theory of architecture at the University of California, Los Angeles, knew Rossi and his work well and has also translated many of his writings.
This hefty book ably performs a hefty and useful task: presenting 400 interiors from 1901 to the present. The scope is limited to residential design but in many styles, and 27 countries are represented. Each of the rooms is given a page with a large image and text and are arranged alphabetically by designer (from Aalto to Zana). An illustrated timeline shows all 400 again at a smaller scale and chronologically (from Horta to Sultana), and a glossary guides readers from ancien régime to zebra. As an example of the range, designers whose names begin with A include not only Aalto but also Tadao Ando, Laura Ashley, Gunnar Asplund, and Brooke Astor. Brooke Astor? Yes, her “The interior has dining room was designed by Parish-Hadley, become a fluid space” but some rooms are credited to “the arbiter who created and is most associated with the room.” Some results seem odd, such as Fallingwater being listed under Edgar Kaufmann rather than Frank Lloyd Wright, but all designers are in the index, of course, and other rooms by Wright, Parish, and Hadley are credited to them. The obvious question about any such compilation is: Who compiled it? A final page of acknowledgments thanks a list in tiny type; interior-design and fashion editor William Norwich, who wrote the introduction, also seems to have played a major role. In a rare flourish, the book is covered in embossed velvet in a choice of four colors: red, yellow, gray, and blue.
What They’re Reading... Ode to Color by Lori Weitzner New York: Harper Design, $50 254 pages, 223 images (209 color)
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“HarperCollins Publishers executive vice president Larry Nevins sent me this book as a gift after we designed the company’s New York headquarters and Toronto office (we’re still actively working on other U.S. locations). Like many designers, I’m always fascinated by colors, in what they mean, what they can do. The information on each color in the book is rich and refreshing, referenced by different sources, like the author’s personal experiences, quotes from experts, historical and scientific facts, and cultural backgrounds. And the images are inspiring and soothing. For one of our current projects, the headquarters for produce grower Bowery Farming, we’re reflecting on the colors of nature in the workplace. This helped me get perspective, helped me consider how I might represent what surrounds us. For instance, in one of the chapters, Weitzner talks about ‘perfectly imperfect’ in reference to such natural materials as handmade paper panels. Reading Ode to Color allowed me to pause and view my work and life with a different set of eyes. The kind of moment where I take a step back from our precise computer-aided design and back-to-back meetings and think about the overall goals and joy of humans and nature.”
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Lee Jofa will donate a portion of the proceeds from the Groundworks Mary Fisher collection to DIFFA.
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Drawing inspiration from her talent as a visual artist and her activism on behalf of those infected with HIV/AIDS, Mary Fisher has created an exceptional collection for Groundworks at Lee Jofa layered with a variety of organic motifs and intricate artisanal techniques reflecting her mixed media art. Rendered in misty blues and aquas, nuanced mineral shades, sandy neutrals and shimmering metallics, Fisher’s watercolor paintings, hand printed and painted textile collages, and quilted artworks come to life in printed, woven and embroidered fabrics and trimmings. For more information, visit diffa.org or contact Steven Williams, swilliams@diffa.org
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Deborah Berke Partners (“International Idylls,” page 144), dberke.com.
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Manca Studio (“International Idylls,” page 144), mancastudio.it. Ilaria Miani (“International Idylls,” page 144), ilariamiani.com. OHLab (“International Idylls,” page 144), ohlab.net.
PHOTOGRAPHERS IN FEATURES CreatAR Images (“A Reader’s Paradise,” page 154), creatarimages.com. Rafael Gamo (“The Next Wave,” page 118), rafaelgamo.com. Fernando Guerra (“Reflections on Modernism,” page 162), ultimasreportagens.com. Eric Laignel Photography (“Southern Belle,” page 126; “Winning Hands,” page 134; “Reflections on Modernism,” page 162), ericlaignel.com.
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DESIGNER IN HOTSHOTS Buck.Studio (“Common Ground,” page 85), buck.pl.
DESIGNER IN HOSPITALITY Martin Lejarraga Architecture Office (“Mixed Messages,” page 92), lejarraga.com.
PHOTOGRAPHER IN HOSPITALITY David Frutos (“Mixed Messages,” page 92), davidfrutos.com.
DESIGNER IN CENTERFOLD Studio Bouroullec (“City of Light,” page 113), bouroullec.com.
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DESIGN COMPETITION WINNER Spark Modern Fires would like to congratulate John A. Chipman, AIA the Grand Prize Winner of our 10th Anniversary Design Competition. He used a Fire Ribbon Vent Free Vu Thru to create the magnificent focal points in his winning entry. To see all the winners visit www.sparkfires.com or 203.791.2725
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Springboard Launching Q!, a unique line of frameless, mobile working surfaces perfect for office, education or healthcare environments. Q! is made in the USA and crafted from premium low-iron glass for bright whites and crisp colors. To learn more, please visit us online at springboard-us.com
QM DRAIN Supreme revolutionizes the installation of linear drains when the pipe is offcenter. An independent base eliminates the need to relocate existing pipes. Supreme appears centered regardless of existing drainpipe location. Available in various lengths and finishes. Modern, impeccable, supreme. Please call us at 954.773.9450 or visit us online at qmdrain.com
Whiting & Davis Digitally Printed Metal Mesh Made in USA Since 1876. Escape the traditional with digitally printed metal mesh fabric. Your pattern or photograph printed on Whiting & Davis’ Flat Spider mesh fabric will transform your environment with modern and dramatic appeal. Feel the difference. Please contact us at 800.876.MESH or visit wdmesh.com
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Davis Furniture Gingko Wire is an indoor/outdoor line constructed of solid steel rods. Available in standard Davis powder coats plus 5 new color options, Ginkgo Wire includes chairs, lounge seating, barstools, and tables. Please call 336.889.2009 or visit us online at davisfurniture.com
Integrate recycling into your environment with our modular recycling bins. Slide-in panels coordinate with any design. Shown: Double Recycler in Ipe wood w/Zephyr banding. 3Form Resin, Stone, Metals and more. Single-Quad sizes. Planters and benches also available. Lifetime structural warranty. t. 305.857.0466 DeepStreamDesign.com
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Since 1972, Kaswell Flooring Systems has pioneered the use of end grain blocks for flooring and millwork in residential, corporate, hospitality, and healthcare applications. Our Fir Strip Block T & G (available prefinished in oil or unfinished) is a great option if you are looking for a quick and easy installation. Please visit our website to request a sample and more information. Please call 508.881.1520 or visit kaswell.com
Brilliantly fashioned, the Beekman Sectional Sofa is abundant in both length and depth. This bold and sophisticated sectional will beautifully transform any home theater, basement or living room space. Please call 212.371.7107 or visit us online at bespokebylg.com
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Noren (Carrasco Barcelo) and Skin (Josep Llusca) are a seamless combination. Noren is available in round and curvilinear shapes with HPL or glass tops. Skin offers refined and durable seating solutions for guest, desk, and public environments. Please call us at 800.496.0204 x7 or visit peterpepper.com
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i n t er vention Often the garage is an afterthought, if even given any thought, to one’s home. But for a certain luxury-car collector, the opposite was true. Starting with an empty 1-acre parcel in the small town of Águeda, Portugal, and needing a place to store eight auto mobiles, including a beloved BMW M3, as well as three motorcycles and three bicycles, the owner decided to build the ideal ga rage first and think about the rest later. The 1,700-square-foot result, designed by Paulo Martins Arquitectura & Design, is part bunker and part showroom. Inside, seamless epoxy flooring, brightly lit by a 55-foot-long skylight and dozens of 3,000K LED spotlights along the ceiling, gives the impression of a squeaky-clean, hermetically sealed vault. “The client simply requested a place to relax and admire his cars,” Paulo Martins recalls. “So my inspiration came from the machines.” Outside, materials were selected with the future house in mind. Solid, straightforward aluminum siding and a steel framework embrace the idea of the garage as fortress to protect its high-performance inhabitants. And the palette of powder-coated muted grays should complement the facade of the house when it’s ultimately built.
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FALL 2019 SAN FRANCISCO September 6, 2019 Four Seasons San Francisco 757 Market St. San Francisco, CA
LOS ANGELES September 12, 2019 JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE 900 W. Olympic Blvd. Los Angeles, CA
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Speaker: Heather McGhee Distinguished Senior Fellow and Former President of Demos; Expert in Racial Healing
Speaker: Majora Carter Real Estate Developer
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Honoree: Humble Design
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