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VOLUME 91 NUMBER 1

ON THE COVER Our annual feature on the past year's best images includes John Gerrard's Western Flag (Spindletop, Texas) 2017, a digital simulation on a frameless LED wall of billowing smoke at a now-barren oil field, which appeared in the 2019 Desert X, a public art biennial in California's Coachella Valley. Photography: Lance Gerber/courtesy of Desert X.

feature 104 A YEAR IN REFLECTION by Wilson Barlow and Colleen Curry

Explore our annual compilation of aweinspiring architecture, interiors, fashion, and art.

walk-through 51 CHI CHECKUP by Wilson Barlow

interior design giants 77 VIEW FROM THE TOP by Mike Zimmerman and T hinkLab

hospitality supplement 146 CONCRETE FOUNDATION by Elissaveta M. Brandon

A 1970’s office building is transformed into the Standard London, a hotel by Orms, Shawn Hausman Design, and Archer Humphryes Architects. 156 RESTORING THE PAST by Winifred Bird

Emre Arolat Architecture takes the Museum Hotel in southern Turkey back to the future.

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departments 25 DESIGNWIRE by Annie Block 34 BLIPS by Annie Block 36 SNAPS by Wilson Barlow 42 GREATER GOOD by Athena Waligore 44 PINUPS/MATERIAL BANK by Wilson Barlow 59 MARKET by Rebecca Thienes, Mark McMenamin, and Edie Cohen 99 CENTERFOLD by Colleen Curry Coming Up Rosy 25

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2020 vision!

With family and friends, toasting and partying the night away, or simply getting a good night’s sleep, we crossed over into the new year, ringing in 2020! It seems only a moment ago I was sending to press our December “Best of Year” issue; now, here I am adding the last touches to our February volume. What? you ask. No, January didn’t become a myth ical lost issue or a fabled collector’s item. After decades of our monthly issues being fashionably tardy, arriving in your mailbox at the very end of the month, the engines of industry absolutely required we reset the dial a month ahead. And so—presto!—we did, vox populi and all that. (Don’t stress: The issues are just being labeled more accurately. We are still producing 12 annually!) It being February notwithstanding, I still get to send best wishes for all your new year’s endeavors, particularly because there’s something positively magical about 2020. Its exceptionality seems a banner flying above all our most demanding res olutions and leading us ahead to our finest achieve ments. We, for one, are following it by densely packing rather nontraditional new year’s features into our pages—all designed to start you out of the gate fast! Our yearly report on the powerful 100 Giants, a roundup of hot hospitality projects (check out the Standard’s not-so-standard red lift), our annual pictorial gallery of the arts, and all the rest are offered for your information, expansion, and, most of all, inspiration! Here’s to your own vision for 2020,

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Le Corbusier’s Marie Cuttoli, woven from wool and silk in 1936 in Aubusson, France, appears at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia from February 23 to May 10.

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She didn’t just collect paintings by Joan Miró and Pablo Picasso. She also befriended and even persuaded them, as well as Le Corbusier and Fernand Léger, into working in a different medium: tapestry. “Marie Cuttoli: The Modern Thread from Miró to Man Ray,” at the Barnes Foundation, explores the trajectory of Cuttoli’s entrepreneurial spirit in relation to the revival of the French tapestry industry. Cuttoli was born in 1879 in France but moved to Algeria, and was originally interested in restoring the African country’s carpet production, teaching the trade to local women and selling their works to haute couture houses abroad. But with residences in Philippeville and Paris, she was also drawn to modernism and the Aubusson tapestry world. In 1927, she commissioned tapestries from her avant-garde artist friends and eventually went on to partner with Parisian galleries to sell them. For the exhibition, the Barnes has amassed some 40 large-scale tapestries and paintings, drawings, photographs, and archival material by those artists.

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James Turrell is known as one of the most important artists of the Southern California Light and Space movement. But perhaps less known is that he studied mathematics, perceptual psychology, and astronomy while attending Pomona College. “My work is more about your seeing than it is about my seeing, although it is a product of my seeing,” he says. Nearly two dozen of these works are in “Pasajes de Luz,” or Passages of Light, which spans two floors of the Museo Jumex. Among the highlights are four room-size installations in which light is formed into and experienced as saturated fields of color. These are accom panied by other exhibition areas displaying his prints, models, holograms, and photo graphs, such as aerial views of Roden Crater, Turrell’s immersive project in the Painted Desert region of Northern Arizona.

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Clockwise from bottom: Gathas by James Turrell, from his 2019 Elliptical Glass series, is on view at the Museo Jumex in Mexico City until March 29. Squat Blue from his 1968 Projection Piece series. Amesha Spentas from his 2019 Ganzfeld series.

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pink ladies Clockwise from top left: Sonia Boyajian poses in her self-named jewelry store and workshop in L.A. by Studio Shamshiri. Boyajian’s custom sconce adapted from one of her earring designs. Residential touches in the retail space. Hand-carved display niches, inspired by Georgia O’Keeffe’s home and studio and coated in Farrow & Ball’s Setting Plaster.

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Accessories and interiors can have a sympathetic relationship. Witness Sonia Boyajian, the new eponymously named jewelry boutique and workshop in Los Angeles by Studio Shamshiri. The genesis of the relationship between Boyajian and Pamela Shamshiri was a dinner party years ago. When the jewelry designer recently outgrew her studio and decided to open a retail space, she turned to now-friend Shamshiri, and the two headed to Georgia O’Keeffe’s home and studio in New Mexico for inspiration. The resulting 5,000-square-foot “pink palace,” as Boyajian calls it, is awash blushpainted plaster, some of it hand-carved into shapely niches displaying her statement necklaces, earrings, and bracelets, all of which she crafts in her ceramic studio downstairs and lofted workspace. That’s also where she made the store’s pendant fixtures and sconces, the latter available for special order. “Pam helped me create things I would have never imagined.”

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hanging with the stars In December, some 1,200 dignitaries from the A&D community gathered at the River Pavilion at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York for the 35th annual Interior Design Hall of Fame to celebrate six global industry titans. This year’s Great Hall entry installation by Tsao & McKown Architects was particularly dramatic, with ceiling-strung lengths of yarn illustrating warping, part of the fabric-making process by Sunbrella, the gala’s premiere sponsor. Once guests went inside the waterfront-facing dining room and sat for dinner, editor in chief Cindy Allen took to the stage to induct Rick Joy, India Mahdavi, SCAD president Paula Wallace, and LTL Architects’s David J. Lewis, Marc Tsurumaki, and Paul Lewis.

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1. The Great Hall installation designed by Tsao & McKown Architects with Sunbrella and Sunbrella Contract. 2. Centerpieces by Hubbardton Forge on the event’s more than 100 tables. 3. Inductees Marc Tsurumaki, David J. Lewis, and Paul Lewis of LTL Architects. 4. Mojgan Hariri and Gisue Hariri, 2005 inductees. 5. Special Leadership Award winner and SCAD president Paula Wallace. 6. Patrick Tighe, a 2018 inductee. 7. Inductee Rick Joy. 8. Inductee India Mahdavi with Cindy Allen. 9. Hagy Belzberg, a 2014 inductee, and his wife, Jane. 10. Roger Thomas and Alexandra Champalimaud, 2015 and 2012 inductees, respectively.

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best in class The following night, editor in chief Cindy Allen and publisher Carol Cisco returned to the River Pavilion to present the magazine’s annual Best of Year Awards. This time, the awards featured six new categories: Sustainable Design, Product Innovation, Project Innovation, Building Facade, Coworking Space, and Environmental Impact. The winners, representing 14 countries, were selected from 2,638 entries, a new record. 1 2

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Building on millenniums of wisdom, ancient Chinese medicine tends to the human body’s vital energy, or chi, using herbs, acupuncture, and massage. The Aqua Health Clinic in Bejing’s trendy Sanlitun district builds on that antiquity, but is contemporary and cutting-edge in appearance, courtesy of Waterfrom Design. The 3,000-square-foot center, which is part wellness clinic, part cosmetic spa, and the firm share a fascination with water—their names even contain the same Chinese characters. So, naturally, Waterfrom principal Nic Lee infused the project with a clean style, one that runs counter to expectations about eastern medicine. “It couldn’t just be old cabinets smelling of aged herbs,” he says. Instead, he and project manager Richard Kuo tasked botanical artist Lee Chi to arrange nearly 100 kinds of medicinal herbs and minerals, such as angelica and amethyst, in grids of acrylic display boxes illuminated by LEDs in one of the treatment rooms as well as in a restroom. Similarly, in reception, moss and more minerals are housed in a clear acrylic bench. “Trans parency was an important idea for us,” Kuo adds. Acrylic, glass, and clean lines continue throughout Aqua Health. The glassed-in hair-care room, for example, would look right at home in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Of course, water references are everywhere, too. The corridor off

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Clockwise from top left: The paint color was selected for its soothing effect. A frosted acrylic partition delineates reception. Hiroshi Sugimoto photographs inspired an installation of acrylic cubes filled with dyed water. A grid of acrylic-enclosed herbs appoints a treatment room. Clients sip herbal tea seated before a collage of tinted acrylic rods evoking a frozen landscape.

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which the nine treatment rooms are has an archway clad in sheet metal, the result suggestive of a sea cave. Elsewhere, walls are either lined with myriad clear cubes filled with blue liquid or fitted with thousands of slender blue rods. Both were inspired by Hiroshi Sugimoto’s seascape photography, which “freezes water in time,” Kuo notes. The idea of preserving nature is present throughout the project, just as clients hope the healing treatments do for their health and beauty. —Wilson Barlow THROUGHOUT MAISON DADA: CHAIRS. PANDOMO: FLOORING. ATHENE TECH; LG LIGHTING: LIGHTING. FLUGGER: PAINT.

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Clockwise from top left: The sheet-metal archway suggests a sea cave. The corridor leads to nine treatment rooms. Additional botanicals meet a punched copper screen in a restroom. LEDs illuminate a glass-enclosed hair-care room.

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making waves Pattern-design agency Patternity marked its 10th anniversary last year while forging a partnership with Cosentino. For Liquid, co-founders Anna Murray and Grace Winteringham explore water as a rapidly depleting resource, rendered in Dekton, the company’s proprietary compressed quartz, glass, and porcelain composite. Varieties include graymarbled Liquid Sky and Liquid Shell, a pearlescent simulation of the rippling ocean floor. The designers swirled oil-based inks in water before photographing and printing the high-resolution images onto the surfacing. Appropriately enough, the collaboration debuted just beyond the beach, at Design Miami, and its manufacture is sympathetically produced with reduced water. cosentino.com

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Boosting production capacity and sharpening operations were clear goals for Wetstyle when plotting its new headquarters, a two-story, 11,600-square-foot building in Montreal. Of equal importance was a generous showroom to occupy the entire ground level. “We created a forest of floating walls that zigzag through it,” says Jean-Guy Chabauty, president of Atelier Moderno, which designed the project. The partitions establish vignettes to showcase products such as Pierre Bélanger’s Mood tub, fabricated in the manufacturer’s eco-friendly soymineral composite, his Lab collection of beveled basins and tubs, and the Feel shower tray. Corporate spaces are accessed by a spiraling walnut staircase framed in gold-finished stainless steel, and a skywalk leads to the adjacent 30,000-square-foot factory. wetstyle.ca

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Mark Zeff for Watermark Designs

Vincent Van Duysen of Dada

Caroline Grant and Dolores Suarez for Villa Lagoon Tile

Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby for Mutina

product Rainey. standout The kitchen and bath fittings collection has industrial details like knurling, derived from the Interior Design Hall of Fame member’s residential interiors for 70 Rainey in Austin, Texas. watermark-designs.com

product Ratio. standout For the architect and company creative director’s second kitchen line, an island of bog oak planks is topped by a sink and counter in creamy Rapolano travertine.

product Ischia. standout Similar details at New York’s Claudette and Roey’s can be re-created with these hand-painted cement tiles, the inaugural line of the Dekar Design founders and restaurant designers. villalagoontile.com

product Primavera. standout The Barber Osgerby founders’ third product for the company is an unglazed porcelain stoneware slab that incorporates ceramic chips and is suitable for use indoors or out. Through Stone Source. stonesource.com

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parting gift The annual tile show in Bologna, Italy, offers much to smile about. This year, the widest grin came from seeing Puntini, a Ceramica Francesco De Maio collection and one of the last works by Milanese architect Alessandro Mendini, who died last year. The tiles are hand-painted in clear, bright glaze colors in a choice of eight patterns inspired by the playful ceramics found in Vietri sul Mare, a small town on the Amalfi Coast. Each square is almost 8 inches and less than ½ inch thick. Through Artemest. artemest.com

“Inspiration came from the tradition of Vietri’s materials, brushstrokes, and Mediterranean colors”

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Bespoke Wall KnollTextiles introduces Bespoke Wall, a made-to-measure Type II wallcovering featuring a non-repeating 5-color ombre pattern that is custom printed to meet the specification of each project.Â Available in 10 impactful color options. May we send you a sample? knolltextiles.com

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warming trend Sun-soaked hues can enliven the kitchen 1. 30-inch refrigerator column in Saffron by

True Residential. 2. Box Clever’s nontoxic, nonstick ceramic

cookware set in Perracotta by Caraway. 3. Paprica full-body porcelain stoneware floor

and wall tiles by Marca Corona. 4. 36-inch Platinum Series range in Eric Cohler

Design’s Salmon Pink by Bluestar. 5. Sister Parish Design’s Albert and Burmese glazed

ceramic wall tiles by Country Floors. See page 74 for sources.

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full tilt manufacturer Theia Creative Tiles product Tâmega. standout Dimensional wall tiles in a 1960’s-inspired palette play with light and shadow. Portugal has a long-standing tradition of ceramic production. Ana Ladeiro and Claudia Melo’s handmade tile builds on that tradition, adding to it a surface that slants gently upward before swooping down into a wavelike cove (which explains the product’s name, borrowed from a river that flows through the northern part of the country). Orientation in a single direction creates a uniform, repeating pattern; a random rotation offers a more chaotic plane. The 30 colors in matte, glossy, crackled, or luster finishes include Yellow Sun and Fire. theiatiles.com

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time traveler It’s unlikely that Pietta Donovan remembers the psychedelic trappings of the swinging ’70’s—she was born in the decade. But subliminal forces must be at work as the principal of her namesake design firm unveils her handmade tile collection for Walker Zanger. She embraces the kaleidoscopic palettes and exuberant geometry of the period in a series sparked by tessellation. The tiles combine versatile shapes designed to be connected, flipped, turned, or repeated into custom configurations. Curvy Buderim is among the matte cement options; ceramic varieties include trapezoidal Bronte, argyle Maroubra, and the mosaic maze of Zed.

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Lex Pott for Ann Sacks

Karen Williams of St. Charles New York

Giuseppe Pezzano and Andrea Parisio Michele De Lucchi of Ceramica Cielo for Alessi

product Figurati. standout The industrial designer’s gently retro, 6-inch hexagonal porcelain tiles come in three standard color combinations of subdued pastels, plus four shimmering premium metallics. annsacks.com

product STC No.1. standout Cabinetry by the company creative director is composed of painted uppers and quartered eucalyptus bases, with hardware integrated into the polished nickel molding. stcharlesnewyork.com

product Elle Ovale. standout The oval sink by the brand’s co-art directors is surrounded by a painted steel–edged, squaredoff ceramic basin, in 16 colors including Canapa, Italian for hemp.

product Plissé. standout The decorative pleats of the architect’s matte thermoplastic-resin electric kettle, now available in the U.S., pair with practical winding-cord storage in the power-supply base.

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If the Interior Design survey of the 100 Giants was an armada of tall ships, and we had to pick the perfect nautical cliché to describe their past year’s journey, it would have to be: steady as she goes. Business is good—has been for years now. But what phrase should we pick for the year ahead? Storm clouds on the horizon? Choppy waters? Well, before we look at the data points forecasting 2020’s course, let’s first parse this year’s tally. Total design fees came in at $4.87 billion. That’s an 11 percent jump from last year— the highest total we’ve ever recorded. That’s excellent all around. However, that number did fall short of last year’s forecast of over $5 billion. This year’s prediction for total design fees is perhaps more realistic: $4.79 billion. But that’s the first negative forecast from the group since 2011. Corporate work remains by far the biggest moneymaker for these Giants, with 77 firms working in that sector accounting for nearly 40 percent of all revenue ($1.87 billion). Sector breakdowns remained mostly steady compared to last year, with the next highest-performing being hospitality (15 percent of total fees, $708 million) and healthcare (13 percent, $598 million). Retail, government, residential, and educational remain in the single digits percentage-wise, but generally more than half of the firms work in each of those areas. Furniture & fixtures and construction products also had a massive year, with $85 billion installed. That’s $10 billion more than last year. In case it was a fluke, the 100 Giants are forecasting $76 billion next year. As with total fees, this is the first projected decline for F&F since 2011. Let’s talk volume. The Giants finished 1.2 billion square feet from 70,000 projects last year. Firms earned $137 per square foot, up from $120 last year and the second-highest total ever. But again, next year’s forecast is modest: 1.22 billion in square footage. It’s accompanied, however, by healthy jump in projects (82,000). The location of all this work hasn’t budged much from previous years: 77 percent of the work is still in the U.S. (that number has trended between 76 and 80 the last few years). Of those firms working outside the U.S., half do work in Canada, 65 percent in China/ Pacific Rim, and 57 percent in Europe. These regions supply the most Giant business by far, so it’s no surprise that the group believes they’ll do so again next year. Still, you can’t beat the U.S. here: 93 percent of the Giants say the states will produce the most business heat next year, particularly in the Northeast, South, and West. As for who’s doing the work, the 100 Giants predict they’ll hire 1,900 new design staffers next year. However, the group has forecasted at least 1,000 new hires every year since 2013, but only in 2014 and 2017 did they come through with that many. Which all leads into the news that total design staff fell last year by 38 percent to 19,923, the first negative result in four years. Yet the number of project managers/directors leaped by 500 to 3,752. That may explain why fees per employee rose to $337,000, up from $291,000—the highest total ever recorded, which means fewer designers working more projects. Their hours are maxed out, as well. Billable time came in at 87 percent, the highest in a decade, after averaging 80 percent the past five years. Meanwhile, salaries remained steady or dropped, particularly for designers. Principals/partners earned $177,000, project managers $106,000, and designers $70,000, down from $74,000 (with a corresponding drop in hourly rates from $147 to $133). It’s no surprise then that more of these Giants than ever say their biggest business challenge is recruiting and retaining qualified staff (90 and 60 percent, respectively). Compare that with the fact than only 42 percent of the firms see creating new business as a priority. And the number of Giants concerned with earning appropriate fees dropped to 66 percent (this number has been as high as 80 in years past). With all this business, the lines for design trends continue to blur. “In workplace design, the space itself needs to do multiple things,” SmithGroup corporate director of interiors Rob Moylan says. “Successful projects are more than just traditional office areas and support spaces. They need to also tell the story of the company and its ethos for staff and visitors.” An HOK spokesperson concurs: “As the lines between work, life, and play blur more and more, we’re seeing design elements from previously siloed sectors blur as well. Hospitality, healthcare, retail, and education are influencing the corporate workplace and vice versa.” So the 100 Giants sail on bravely into uncertain forecasts. Here’s hoping for sunny skies. —Mike Zimmerman

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DESIGN FEES

VALUE

SQ. FT.

(in millions)

DESIGN STAFF

RANK 2019

GENSLER San Francisco / gensler.com

$680.849

3,230

JACOBS Dallas / jacobs.com

$215.874

$5,396.85

35.98

843

PERKINS AND WILL Chicago / perkinswill.com

$215.800

$6,800.00

60.00

470

AECOM Los Angeles / aecom.com

$206.700

$7,948.71

79.37

470

HOK St. Louis / hok.com

$162.042

$5,306.00

60.00

371

IA INTERIOR ARCHITECTS San Francisco / interiorarchitects.com

$160.500

$4,600.00

41.30

616

NELSON WORLDWIDE Minneapolis / nelsonworldwide.com

$140.000

55.00

423

HIRSCH BEDNER ASSOCIATES (HBA) Los AngelesÂ / hba.com

$132.045

$7,922.69

75.45

1,600

STANTEC Edmonton, Alberta / stantec.com

$101.230

686

PERKINS EASTMAN New York / perkinseastman.com

$96.804

$1,557.60

309

HKS Dallas / hksinc.com

$92.868

184

CANNONDESIGN New York / cannondesign.com

$92.000

32.00

210

CALLISONRTKL Baltimore / callisonrtkl.com

$89.749

0.03

306

CORGAN Dallas / corgan.com

$87.290

$1,630.00

21.82

143

HDR Omaha / hdrinc.com

$86.785

175

DLR GROUP Minneapolis / dlrgroup.com

$81.090

142

SMITHGROUP Detroit / smithgroup.com

$77.104

CHENGCHUNG+DESIGN Hong Kong / ccd.com.hk

$74.858

$281.47

495

M MOSER ASSOCIATES Hong Kong / mmoser.com

$73.805

$744.11

14.21

799

STEVE LEUNG DESIGN GROUP Hong Kong / sldgroup.com

$70.299

5.59

448

SKIDMORE, OWINGS & MERRILL New York / som.com

$66.500

136

WARE MALCOMB Irvine, CA / waremalcomb.com

$53.760

$2,064.89

26.88

227

HGA Minneapolis / hga.com

$53.422

49.58

106

TPG ARCHITECTURE New York / tpgarchitecture.com

$50.600

$2,000.00

10.00

142

LEO A DALY Omaha / leodaly.com

$49.500

NBBJ Seattle / nbbj.com

$48.000

177

EYP Albany / eypae.com

$47.100

$1,105.58

65.00

111

ZGF ARCHITECTS Portland, OR / zgf.com

$46.907

108

SPACE MATRIX DESIGN CONSULTANTS Singapore / spacematrix.com

$46.770

$657.00

12.20

372

21 44

FLAD ARCHITECTS Madison, WI / flad.com

$46.463

$2,711.59

15.49

275

WILSON ASSOCIATES Dallas / wilsonassociates.com

$45.000

290

SHENZHEN MATRIX INTERIOR DESIGN Shenzhen, China / matrixdesign.cn

$44.600

$17.80

0.86

219

ROCKWELL GROUP New York / rockwellgroup.com

$42.994

198

PAGE Washington / pagethink.com

$42.000

$726.00

7.00

184

STUDIOS ARCHITECTURE San Francisco / studios.com

$40.621

$330.00

16.00

261

DSP DESIGN ASSOCIATES Mumbai, India / dspdesign.co.in

$37.714

$385.71

6.56

267

TED MOUDIS ASSOCIATES New York / tedmoudis.com

$36.000

$36.00

7.60

102

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LITTLE Charlotte, NC / littleonline.com

$34.667

$418.95

13.92

157

RSP ARCHITECTS Minneapolis / rsparch.com

$32.001

$755.00

4.50

102

SARGENTI ARCHITECTS Paramus, NJ / sargarch.com

$31.150

$480.00

9.25

155

HLW INTERNATIONAL New York / hlw.design

$31.000

VOCON Cleveland / vocon.com

$30.360

$554.40

5.28

186

RICKY WONG DESIGNERS Hong Kong / rwd.hk

$29.842

$6.46

5.42

157

ASD/SKY Atlanta / asdsky.com

$28.415

168

SHLEMMER+ALGAZE+ASSOCIATES INTERIORS & ARCHITECTURE Culver City, CA / saaia.com

$26.974

$2.42

32.00

116

JCJ ARCHITECTURE Hartford / jcj.com

$26.505

EWINGCOLE Philadelphia / ewingcole.com

$26.000

$950.00

2.00

POPULOUS Kansas City, MO / populous.com

$25.979

MARC-MICHAELS INTERIOR DESIGN Winter Park, FL / marc-michaels.com

$25.943

CDC DESIGNS Costa Mesa, CA / cdcdesigns.com

$25.450

$14.50

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VALUE

SQ. FT.

(in millions)

DESIGN STAFF

RANK 2019

OTJ ARCHITECTS Washington / otj.com

$22.000

YITIAN DESIGN Wuhan, China / ytdesign.cn

$21.220

$721.48

40.34

305

CBT Boston / cbtarchitects.com

$20.900

SHEPLEY BULFINCH Boston / shepleybulfinch.com

$20.403

$468.93

1.34

PGAL Houston / pgal.com

$20.000

YABU PUSHELBERG Toronto / yabupushelberg.com

$19.957

BASKERVILL Richmond, VA / baskervill.com

$19.618

$456.50

FAULKNER DESIGN GROUP Dallas / faulknerdesign.com

$19.500

$352.52

1.70

LS3P Charleston, SC / ls3p.com

$18.330

$460.45

100.25

JEFFREY BEERS INTERNATIONAL New York / jeffreybeers.com

$18.000

CLARK NEXSEN Virginia Beach / clarknexsen.com

$17.640

5.75

HUNTSMAN ARCHITECTURAL GROUP San Francisco / huntsmanag.com

$17.500

$3,000.00

2.40

62 70

DES ARCHITECTS + ENGINEERS Redwood City, CA / des-ae.com

$17.100

3.98

WIMBERLY INTERIORS New York / wimberlyinteriors.com

$16.900

107

DALTON STEELMAN ARIAS & ANDERSON (DSAA) Las Vegas / dsaainteriors.com

$16.800

$985.68

2.22

B+H Toronto / bharchictects.com

$16.759

$796.02

8.47

160

TRIO Denver / triodesign.com

$16.569

$12.62

0.59

ROTTET STUDIO Houston / rottetstudio.com

$16.300

MEYER DAVIS STUDIO New York / meyerdavis.com

$15.627

MANCINI DUFFY New York / manciniduffy.com

$15.558

$133.80

3.35

ELKUS MANFREDI ARCHITECTS Boston / elkus-manfredi.com

$15.500

COOPER CARRY Atlanta / coopercarry.com

$15.431

$18.52

CHIPMAN DESIGN ARCHITECTURE Des Plaines, IL / chipman-design.com

$15.390

$270.00

1.56

STG DESIGN Austin, TX / stgdesign.com

$14.850

$301.00

0.60

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GETTYS GROUP Chicago / gettys.com

$14.700

$175.00

FOGARTY FINGER ARCHITECTURE New York / fogartyfinger.com

$14.625

$1.00

101

SWITZER GROUP New York / theswitzergroup.com

$14.467

$59.68

2.88

MILO KLEINBERG DESIGN ASSOCIATES (MKDA) New York / mkda.com

$14.352

$340.00

2.20

AP+I DESIGN Mountain View, CA / apidesign.com

$14.280

$4.00

5.50

STONEHILL & TAYLOR ARCHITECTS New York / stonehilltaylor.com

$14.220

$2,420.00

7.58

ENV New York / env-team.com

$14.155

$287.50

2.46

KASIAN ARCHITECTURE INTERIOR DESIGN AND PLANNING Vancouver, BC / kasian.com

$14.000

100

PDR Houston / pdrcorp.com

$14.000

$660.00

5.50

DAROFF DESIGN + DDI ARCHITECTS Philadelphia / daroffdesign.com

$13.500

$155.00

2.85

RAPT STUDIO San Francisco / raptstudio.com

$13.500

$300.00

1.50

PARTNERS BY DESIGN Chicago / pbdinc.com

$13.300

$280.00

2.00

AVROKO New York / avroko.com

$13.066

$1.03

1.06

HORD COPLAN MACHT Baltimore / hcm2.com

$13.000

$15.00

4.00

HMC ARCHITECTS Ontario, CA / hmcarchitects.com

$12.700

RYAN YOUNG INTERIORS National City, CA / ryan-young.com

$12.600

$12.28

0.51

80 81

ROBERT A.M. STERN ARCHITECTS New York / ramsa.com

$12.300

$255.00

SPECTOR GROUP New York / spectorgroup.com

$12.250

$700.00

2.50

NICOLEHOLLIS San Francisco / nicolehollis.com

$11.600

$7.00

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CHAMPALIMAUD DESIGN New York / champalimaud.design

$11.500

DILEONARDO INTERNATIONAL Warwick, RI / dileonardo.com

$11.305

SHEA Minneapolis / sheadesign.com

$11.050

$130.00

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LAWRENCE GROUP St. Louis / thelawrencegroup.com

$11.035

$510.00

2.55

DENTON HOUSE DESIGN STUDIO Salt Lake City / dentonhouse.com

$10.540

$16.00

0.40

BERGMEYER Boston / bergmeyer.com

$10.500

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TOPTEN

giants by sector

*in millions

hospitality

office

design fees*

firm

retail

design fees

firm

design fees

Gensler

$442.55

Gensler

$47.66

Gensler

$47.66

Jacobs

$116.57

Nelson Worldwide

$19.60

Rockwell Group

$34.83

Nelson Worldwide

$110.60

Sargenti Architects

$18.69

ChengChung+Design

$34.43

Perkins and Will

$105.74

RSP Architects

$17.60

Wilson Associates

$33.75

IA Interior Architects

$86.67

Ware Malcomb

$16.13

Hirsch Bedner Associates (HBA)

$132.05

Perkins Eastman

$29.04

M Moser Associates

$71.59

TPG Architecture

$13.66

Perkins and Will

$19.42

AECOM

$62.01

Chipman Design Architecture

$10.77

Yabu Pushelberg

$19.36

HOK

$51.85

Little

$10.75

JCJ Architecture

$18.55

DLR Group

$44.60

IA Interior Architects

$8.03

Wimberly Interiors

$16.90

Space Matrix Design Consultants

$38.82

Stantec

$5.06

government firm

design fees

Jacobs

$71.24

healthcare/assisted living

education

firm

Perkins and Will

design fees

$60.42

Stantec

$25.31 $23.00

AECOM

$39.27

HDR

$52.07

CannonDesign

Gensler

$27.23

CannonDesign

$50.60

Gensler

$20.43

HOK

$24.31

Perkins Eastman

$41.63

HOK

$16.20

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

$19.29

AECOM

$41.34

AECOM

$14.47

EYP

$11.30

HKS

$36.22

Corgan

$13.97

Page

$10.50

HOK

$29.17

EYP

$13.66

NBBJ

$8.64

SmithGroup

$24.67

SmithGroup

$12.34

Leo A Daly

$7.43

NBBJ

$24.48

DLR Group

$12.16

SmithGroup

$6.94

Stantec

$23.28

Perkins and Will

$10.79

residential firm

cultural design fees

Steve Leung Design Group

firm

transportation design fees $47.66

firm Gensler

design fees

$56.24

Gensler

$27.23

Shenzhen Matrix Interior Design

$43.26

AECOM

$20.67

Corgan

$25.31

CDC Designs

$25.45

HKS

$13.00

AECOM

$24.80 $17.82

Marc-Michaels Interior Design

$24.65

DLR Group

$8.11

HOK

ChengChung+Design

$20.21

HOK

$8.10

ZGF Architects

$8.91

Ricky Wong Designers

$16.41

Populous

$5.20

YiTian Design

$7.00

Trio

$15.74

Stantec

$5.06

Perkins and Will

$6.47

Wilson Associates

$11.25

OTJ Architects

$3.52

Stantec

$6.07

CBT

$10.45

EwingCole

$3.12

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

$2.66

SmithGroup

$3.08

Mancini Duffy

$2.64

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$146

$224

$118

$111

other

$233

cultural

government

$238

transportation

retail

residential

healthcare

$745

educational

fees by project type

hospitality

$708

hospitality

healthcare

residential

retail

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corporate office

$290

corporate office

$285

$598

cultural

transportation

other

$212

educational

$138

government

$175

$471

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$172

$1,869

project location u.s.

77%

overseas

23%

region growth potential u.s. northeast

78%

u.s. west

77%

u.s. south

75%

u.s. midwest

51%

canada

26%

mexico

17%

central/south america 13% caribbean

18%

europe

34%

middle east 25% china

28%

india

13%

asia (other)

24%

africa

7% IA Interior Architects [6] designed the ASICS Creation Studio in Boston. From top: 55 Broad in New York is by Fogarty Finger Architecture [76]. The Bangalore, India, office of Swiss Re is by DSP Design Associates [36].

new construction 54%

refresh previously completed projects

project type

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types of government projects offices

72%

schools

50%

hospitals/medical offices labs/training facilities

47% 44%

courthouses/corrections/public satety libraries

32%

military facilities

21%

16%

residential development

85%

types of residential projects

urban dwellings

42%

second/vacation homes

26%

suburban residences

types of education projects college/university k-12

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12%

81%

other (for-profit/private schools) 90

other

23%

24%

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other

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annual salary principals/partners

$177,000

project managers

$106,000

designers

$70,000

other id staff

$55,000

100giants hourly rate principals/partners

$273

project managers

$206

designers

$133

other id staff

$115

firms with most projected fee growth *in millions Gensler

$680.85 $593.13

Jacobs

$215.87 $175.29

AECOM

$206.70 $188.60

IA Interior Architects

HDR

Flad Architects

DSP Design Associates

Ricky Wong Designers

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$70.30 $45.57 $46.46 $25.20 $37.71 $19.18 $29.84 $14.79

FROM TOP: TOM SIBLEY; JONATHAN HILLYER

$87.29 $48.40

Steve Leung Design Group

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$160.50 $137.40 $86.79 $63.92

Corgan

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METHODOLOGY The first installment of the two-part annual business survey of Interior Design Giants comprises the 100 largest firms ranked by interior design fees for the 12-month period ending December 31, 2019. The 100 Rising Giants ranking will be published in July. Interior design fees include those attributed to: 1. All types of interiors work, including commercial and residential. 2. All aspects of a firm’s interior design practice, from strategic planning and programming to design and project management. 3. Fees paid to a firm for work performed by employees and independent contractors who are “full-time staff equivalent.” Interior design fees do not include revenues paid to a firm and remitted to subcontractors who are not considered fulltime staff equivalent. For example, certain firms attract work that is subcontracted to a local firm. The originating firm may collect all the fees and retain a management or generation fee, paying the remainder to the performing firm. The amounts paid to the latter are not included in fees of the collecting firm when determining its ranking. Ties are broken by dollar value of products installed, square footage of projects installed, and staff size respectively. Where applicable, all percentages are based on responding Giants, not their total number.

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a year of reflection Explore our annual compilation of awe-inspiring architecture, interiors, fashion, and art text: wilson barlow and colleen curry JOHN GERRARD Western Flag (Spindletop, Texas) 2017, a digital simulation on a frameless LED wall of billowing smoke at a now-barren oil field, stood at the gateway to the Coachella Valley for the second installment of Desert X, the public art biennial in California. Photography: Lance Gerber/courtesy of Desert X.

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WUTOPIA LAB Shrine of Whatslove, a permanent installation thermoplastic-coated carbon fiber filament.

at Fangyukong Guesthouse in Tonglu, China, comprises 4½ miles of Photography: CreatAR Images.

HASLINDA ABDUL RAHIM At San Francisco’s De Young Museum, “Contemporary Muslim Fashions,” an exhibition by Hariri and Hariri Architecture, included the Malaysian designer’s wool and silk ensemble. Photography: Haslinda Abdul Rahim for Blancheur.

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CUN DESIGN A canine Bluetooth speaker and printed paper insect inhabit firm founder Cui Shu’s office in Beijing. Photog raphy: Su Tang/Wang Jin and Wang Ting.

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URS FISCHER At the Brant Foundation in Greenwich, Connecticut, “Error,” a solo exhibition spanning two decades of work, featured Problem Painting, a 2012 mixed medium. Photography: Mats Nordam/courtesy of the artist and Gagosian.

NICOLAS PARTY Still Life, the artist’s 7-by-7-foot mural inset with Jean-Baptiste Perronneau’s 18th-century portrait, both in pastel, is on view in “Nicolas Party: Pastel” at the FLAG Art Foundation in New York. Photography: Steven Probert.

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MAGNUS GJOEN Available through Stowe Gallery, the two colorways of Happy Nations Have No History are mixed media. Photography: Magnus Gjoen/courtesy of Stowe Gallery.

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MARC FORNES/THEVERYMANY Spanning 300 feet across two facades of the Novel Stonewall Station garage in Charlotte, North Carolina, Wonderwall consists of 6,000 aluminum pieces. Photography: Naaro.

TRI-LOX Nest is a reclaimed-cedar playscape located on the rooftop of the Brooklyn Children’s Museum in New York. Photography: Aarion Poerr.

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RUBEN TOLEDO The artist created a portrait of his iconic fashion-designer wife, partner, and collaborator Isabel, who died from breast cancer in August. Photography: courtesy of Ruben Toledo.

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SHANTELL MARTIN For The May Room, a temporary installation, phrases like “May you hear laughter” were drawn on walls with a Krink paint marker in a deconsecrated chapel on Governor’s Island in New York. Photography: Steven Simione.

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CRAIG GREEN Part of the 2019 Moncler Genius collection, the menswear designer’s nylon puffer-coat ensembles can be deflated. Photography: courtesy of Moncler.

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EMMANUELLE MOUREAUX ARCHITECTURE Seats at Imabari City Public Hall were upholstered in 1,000 shades of sail canvas for 1000 Color Waves during the Japanese city’s annual Color Show. Photography: Daisuke Shima.

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ALESSANDRO TRINCONE His men’s ensemble appeared in “Gender Bending Fashion” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Photography: Gioconda & August/courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

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UNIVERSITÄT STUTTGART At the Institute for Computational Design and Construction, 70,000 robotically placed pieces of injection-molded recycled plastic formed a pavilion. Photography: Roland Halbe.

at Rhodes Contemporary Art, London. Photography: courtesy of Nick Smith.

NICK SMITH Da Vinci-Mona Lisa, a collage of hundreds of custom-colored paint chips, was in “Pinched”

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CANNONDESIGN Claire Danes, aka Homeland’s Carrie Mathison, appears on vinyl wall covering in the café at Showtime’s Los Angeles office. Photography: Eric Laignel.

PERKINS and WILL In a corridor of Madison Marquette’s Washington headquarters, imprinted aluminum fins present a photomural of the Wharf, one of the real-estate developer’s local projects. Photography: Eric Laignel.

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LUC DRUEZ Lady V, a synthetic horsehair, silver, and copper tapestry, appeared in “Textiles Revealed: Belgium Is Design” at Unix Gallery during New York Textile Month. Photography: Jeromé Galland.

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DAVID AND ELI HESS At the entrance to Wilmer Park in Chestertown, Maryland, the pair of stainless-steel sculptures composing Broad Reach won the CODAaward in the landscape category. Photography: Geoff T. Graham.

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CAROL BOVE In various types and polishes of steel, The First Braid was in “Ten Hours” at David Zwirner, Hong Kong. Photography: courtesy of Carol Bove and David Zwirner.

TOWODESIGN At the Dessert Kitchen in Chengdu, China, a cheese slice is rendered in stainless steel. Photography: courtesy of Towodesign.

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NERI & HU RESEARCH OFFICE Aranya Art Center in Qinhuangdao, China, features a skylit amphitheater that can also function as a water feature. Photography: Pedro Pegenaute.

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FAHR0123 Loop, a concrete bench, commemorates the 10th anniversary of the University of Porto’s Science and Technology Park in Portugal. Photography: João Morgado.

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BN ASOCIADOS Thousands of pigmented ceramic half cylinders cover 23,000 square feet of surface area on Biblioteca Central y Archivo Municipal en Leganés in Madrid. Photography: Roland Halbe.

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RE:DESIGN In celebration of its centennial, Bauhaus designs form the number 100 on a poster by Eurydyka Kata & Rafał Szczawziński. Photography: courtesy of Re:design.

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STUDIO INI Anyπakok (Disobedience), an interactive installation of spring-activated CNC-cut recycled plastic, was the Greek pavilion at the London Design Biennale. Photography: Ed Reeve.

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DIMORE STUDIO The cash-wrap desk at One-Off, a luxury womenswear emporium in Brescia, Italy, is fitted with dozens of wigs. Photography: Paola Pansini.

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SATO SUGAMOTO Double Dreams climbs the walls and ceilings in two rooms at the BnA Alter Museum, an art hotel in Kyoto, Japan. Photography: Tomooki Kengaku.

STERLING RUBY The painted aluminum Specter also appeared in this year’s Desert X. Photography: Lance Gerber/courtesy of Desert X.

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NOA Aluminum rods crisscross above a cantilevered pool at Gloriette Guesthouse, a boutique hotel in Soprabolzano, Italy. Photography: Alex Filz.

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HELMICK SCULPTURE The Constellation, winner of the institutional category CODAaward, is an abstract portrait of United Arab Emirates founder Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al Nahyan. Photography: courtesy of the Ministry of Presidential Affairs/Abu Dhabi.

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LORIBELLE SPIROVSKI An acrylic and oil on linen, The Candidate appeared in “Love, Death and the Time I Knew You” at the House of Fine Art, London. Photography: courtesy of Loribelle Spirovski and the House of Fine Art.

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NIALL STAINES The head of art at TBWA\Dublin is also represented by Hang Tough Gallery, for which he created Dublin Quays, an archival pigment print. Photography: Niall Staines.

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Previous spread: The exterior elevator cab to Decimo, the penthouse restaurant at the Standard London, a hotel by Orms, Shawn Hausman Design, and Archer Humphryes Architects, is framed by an archway in the 19th-century landmark across the road. Photography: Timothy Soar. Top: Apart from new windows, the castconcrete panel facade of the 1974 former office building was untouched. Photography: Timothy Soar. Bottom: A 3-D MDF wall wraps Decimoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s host station. Photography: David Cleveland. Opposite top: A Tobias Scarpa sofa and Mario Bellini chairs, all vintage and upholstered in leather, join custom and vintage tables in the Library lounge. Photography: David Cleveland. Opposite bottom: A guest room makes the most of the original curved periphery wall. Photography: Tim Charles.

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Despite its name, there’s not much regular about the Standard London, the American hospitality brand’s first hotel outside the U.S. Housed in the former Camden Town Hall Annexe—a striking 1974 brutalist building—the property injects its own dose of hip into the rapidly gentrifying King’s Cross area. Across the street sits the former Midland Grand Hotel—Sir George Gilbert Scott’s iconic redbrick Gothic Revival frontispiece to St. Pancras railway station, long shuttered but recently reborn as a hotel and apartment complex— behind which lies 67 acres of redeveloped industrial wasteland, now a vibrant mix of repurposed historical structures, contemporary architecture, and green public spaces. The Annexe, an eight-story concrete office slab, might well have joined the ranks of demolished brutalist icons across Britain. “Those buildings were so heavy in their nature,” says Simon Whittaker, associate at Orms, which was responsible for the Standard’s exteriors. “Back then, architects didn’t necessarily think about how to dismantle and demolish structures or how to adapt them for future life—they were really built for just one purpose. But our first approach is always to look at retaining a building.” In true brutalist fashion, the facade—a grid of precast concrete panels framing rectangular windows with rounded corners and tinted glass—forms an integral part of the structure and couldn’t be removed. For a more up-todate look, Orms replaced the aging bronze glazing with double panes of clear glass, which also help combat the noise from the street below. More dramatically, the firm demolished the bulky rooftop mechanical plant to make way for a three-story, steel-and-glass addition comprising two floors of guest rooms and a penthouse restaurant, Decimo. The latter is serviced by an external elevator—a dashing phone booth–red, glass-wall capsule—that provides panoramic views of the city.

The weight of the addition meant that new steel columns had to be threaded through the existing waffle floor slabs, while structural stability was increased further by building a new internal elevator core and shear wall. Otherwise the interiors, a collaboration between Shawn Hausman Design and Archer Humphryes Architects, show no sign of the necessary reinforcements. Rather, they display a ton of personality, prefigured in the oversize blue revolving door that marks the new entrance and also provides the first hint of the swaths of color within. There are rich reds, deep blues, vivid

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Top, from left: A custom ipe wardrobe and leather headboard appoint a guest room located in the building’s core. A glass wall hung with Venetian blinds screens the bathroom. Photography: Tim Charles. Center: Orms was responsible for the three-story, steeland-glass rooftop addition containing guest rooms and Decimo. Photography: Timothy Soar. Bottom: A terraced guest suite in the addition includes a built-in window seat and cork flooring. Photography: Tim Charles.

greens from the many plants dotted through the public areas, and a rainbow of hues on the innumerable books neatly catalogued and shelved in the lobby lounge. “When we took over the property, there was a public library on the ground floor,” Shawn Hausman explains. “What we’ve done is create the library we wish we’d found, rather than the one we did.” Outfitted with custom bookcases, vintage seating by Tobias Scarpa and Mario Bellini, and a woodlattice ceiling, the resulting Library lounge has, as Hausman says, “an elegant, institutional quality.” Upstairs, the 266 guest rooms can be divided into three main—and wildly varying—typologies determined by their location within the building. First are those hugging the original periphery walls, where the emphasis is on the curved windows. “In a lot of hotels, by the time you’re in your room, you have no sense of what’s going on with the outside of the building,” Hausman notes. “With these windows, you really get the feel of the Standard’s exterior from inside the room.”

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Next are the rooms housed in the addition. “Those are a different design vocabulary because the architecture up there is quite different,” reports Hausman, who took advantage of the setback to create terraces with outdoor bathtubs. “Everybody thought I was crazy to do this in London, but I bet they’re going to be very popular.” The third typology comprises windowless rooms located in the core. “The floor plate was previously deep-plan office space, and the dark central area remained a conundrum,” David Archer, of Archer Humphryes Architects, says. “But we saw the conditions as an opportunity.” The team created rooms that are, as Hausman observes, “womblike without being claustrophobic,” thanks to a coup de théâtre: Screened by nothing more than a glass wall hung with wood Venetian blinds, each plant-filled, ipe-floored bathroom is flooded with artificial daylight, so it’s like looking at some tropical outdoor shower. Which is about as far from a standard London view as you can get.

PROJECT TEAM JOHN MCRAE; CHRISTIAN NATTERODT; NICK MILTON: ORMS. JESSICA KIMBERLEY; OSKAR KOHEN; AMELIA SHIRLEY: SHAWN HAUSMAN DESIGN. ISOMETRIX: LIGHTING CONSULTANT. NOYAU: CUSTOM LEATHERWORK. MCLAREN: GENERAL CONTRACTOR. PROJECT SOURCES FROM FRONT AXIS ELEVATORS: CUSTOM EXTERNAL ELEVATOR (EXTERIOR). NANIMARQUINA: CUSTOM RUG (LOUNGE). WALLACE SEWELL: CUSTOM BLANKET (CURVED GUEST ROOM). AMES: RUG (ADDITION SUITE) THROUGHOUT A.T. CRONIN WORKSHOP; DISTINCTION HOSPITALITY: CUSTOM FURNITURE. KALMAR: CUSTOM LIGHTING. MIDLAND ALLOY: CUSTOM WINDOWS.

Top, from left: The external elevator was inspired by those in John Portman’s Hyatt Regency San Francisco; photography: Timothy Soar. A single guest room features a raised bed with under-platform storage; photography: Tim Charles. The custom bookcases in the lounge are a nod to its previous function as a public library; photography: David Cleveland. Bottom: The original structure together with the rooftop addition house a total of 266 guest rooms. Photography: Tim Charles.

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restoring the past Emre Arolat Architecture takes the Museum Hotel in southern Turkey back to the future text: winifred bird photography: emre dörter/photofoyer

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Previous spread: Below the lobby terrace at the Museum Hotel in Antakya, Turkey, by Emre Arolat Architecture, an excavated Pegasus mosaic dates to the 2nd or 3rd century. Below: Prefabricated plastered laminate–clad modules forming guest rooms are stacked in a steel superstructure. Opposite top, from left: The module exteriors are also plastered. Teak veneer morphs into Marmara marble in a private Turkish bath. Opposite bottom, from left: A communal Turkish bath includes a heated marble slab. This detail is of the Pegasus mosaic.

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Emre Arolat has always been intrigued by architecture’s potential to “integrate, overlay, and absorb” the traces of history on a given site. The co-founder, with Gonca Pasolar, of Emre Arolat Architecture, which has countless historical-renovation and hospitality projects in its portfolio, as well as a RIBA International Prize and an Aga Kahn Award for Architecture to its credit, has rarely had an opportunity to throw together past and present as dramatically as he did in the Museum Hotel in Antakya, Turkey, however. The facility suspends a boxy 199-room luxury hotel over a sprawling 370,000-square-foot archaeological-dig-turned-museum that spans 13 civilizations and includes several dazzling Roman-era mosaics. “I was fascinated by the memories stored in that endless-looking landscape of remnants,” says the architect, whose Istanbul office (he also has outposts in London and New York) designed both the hotel and the museum. “In this case, I had the privilege to literally make the layers visible to the beholder’s eye.”

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The project began when initial excavations on the site for a Hilton hotel turned up an exquisite 2nd-century marble statuette of Eros. Instead of scrapping the project or forging ahead with construction, as many builders do in relic-laden Antakya—a modern city near the Syrian border built on top of more than two millenniums of history— local investor Necmi Asfuroğlu decided to launch a more massive excavation that soon began to yield more extraordinary finds. The next year, he engaged EAA to bring together two rarely integrated functions, a museum (fittingly the Necmi Asfuroğlu Archaeology Museum) and a hotel (the former financially enabled by the latter). The remains shaped every aspect of the design. Holes for 66 steel-composite columns that form the superstructure of the mod ular design were hand-dug wherever an open spot could be found, with the structural system redesigned each time a new mosaic popped up. Prefabricated plastered laminate modules were lifted

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Top: Custom wallpaper in a guest room replicates one of the site’s most important found relics, a floor mosaic that dates to the 5th century. Center: A worker restores tiles. Bottom: The lobby lounge, furnished with Rodolfo Dordoni sofas, overlooks a Roman-era floor mosaic, once a public meeting place.

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Left, from top: A glazed pavilion contains the only interior part of the Necmi Asfuroğlu Archaeology Museum. The hotel and museum have a canopy but no facade, allowing air to circulate throughout. Right, from top: The opposite side of the lobby lounge provides a view of another marble mosaic. The dining pavilion stands above ancient Roman baths.

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With such bold-face clients as the Four Seasons, Bergdorf Goodman, and Viceroy, a New Yorker profile, and a turn as a judge on Bravo’s Top Design series, Kelly Wearstler hardly needs an introduction. What does need mentioning, however, is that she is as hardworking and glamorous as she was when we first met up with her in 1998. Wearstler had recently moved to Los Angeles from New York and was collaborating with Koning Eizenberg Architecture on the Avalon, her first hotel, running an office of three. Today, she counts seven hotels to her credit and maintains a multidisciplinary studio of 45. Her project range has exploded since then, too. She’s completed residences, retail environments, and restaurants nationwide. Her branded product collections—from lighting and furniture to rugs and wall covering—are sold online and in her L.A. boutique. Among her manufacturer collaborators are the Rug Company, Lee Jofa, Visual Comfort, Ann Sacks, and Georg Jensen. Rizzoli recently released Kelly Wearstler: Evocative Style, her fifth monograph. With her academic training in interior, architectural, and graphic design, Wearstler’s fortes are collage and layering, vibrancy and exuberance. All are apparent in her latest endeavor: Proper Hotels & Residences, a new luxury boutique brand led by Viceroy Hotel Group founders Brad Korzen, Brian De Lowe, and Alex Samek with a nationwide rollout for which Wearstler has been commissioned all the interiors. Properties in San Francisco, Santa Monica, and Austin, Texas, are open, downtown L.A. bows this year, and Portland, Oregon is scheduled for 2022. She tells us all about them.

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From left: The Almont credenza, Minimalist Medium table lamp, Camden column, and Ardent club chair, all Kelly Wearstler designs and available on her website and at her L.A. store. The designer photographed at home in Beverly Hills.

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You’ve been involved with Proper from the get-go. What is the brand’s story? Kelly Wearstler: It’s built on relaxed luxury, individuality, and local talent. We partner with each city’s best in food and beverage, spa operators, and artists. And I got to do all the branding and graphic design, which is my first love.

You’re just back from installing the Austin Proper. What’s that hotel like? KW: Austin is friendly with a cool vibe, in dependent shops, and great restaurants, and the residents are into health. It reminds me of Myrtle Beach, where I grew up. The hotel’s design is not precious. It’s relaxed, even looks a bit haphazard. It’s different from the others in that it’s totally new construction, a 32-story high-rise with 244 rooms and

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Santa Monica Proper entails new construction plus a landmarked building. What’s the vibe? KW: It feels like Modern California. Much of what’s there feels like something you’d find on a beach—patinaed metals, brushed woods, stones. The new building, by Howard Laks Architects, houses reception. In the lobby, there’s a credenza of beautiful Russian birch by local maker Mike Fair, and we skimmed a big column in the middle of the space with tile. The open plan leads to Palma, the lounge. On the roof, there’s a pool and another restaurant, Calabra. The main restaurant, Onda, by renowned local chefs Gabriela Cámara and Jessica Koslow, is in the older building. The 280 guest rooms, spread between the two buildings, are generous, most with floor-to-ceiling windows for amazing light. They’re different for me in that they’re calmer and more subdued than usual.

When it opens this spring, what will Downtown L.A. Proper be like? KW: The site was originally built as a hotel around 1926. But it transitioned to a YWCA in the ’50’s until 2004, then closed. Our design for the 148-room hotel was inspired by early California, Spanish missions, and the Los Angeles Herald Examiner building across the street. Since it’s designated a HistoricCultural Monument, we had to maintain some of the original fabric, like the window casings and exterior brickwork. But other wise it feels contemporary with a lot of pattern, jewel tones, and plasterwork. There will be two destination restaurants, Caldo Verde and Cara Cara, serving the rooftop pool, both in partnership with James Beard Award–winning L.A. duo Suzanne Goin and Caroline Styne.

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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: THE INGALLS; COURTESY OF KELLY WEARSTLER; THE INGALLS; COURTESY OF KELLY WEARSTLER (2)

Clockwise from opposite: A lounge at the Santa Monica Proper hotel featuring chairs by Afra and Tobia Scarpa. A custom credenza by local furniture maker Mike Fair in the hotel’s lobby. Wearstler’s Zephyr sofa and Fairfax chair upholstered in her District Tobacco fabric, all winter 2020 introductions. A guest room at the Santa Monica Proper. Mineral wall covering, a wood pulp-polyester blend by Wearstler. Her burnished bronze Classic Legs table.

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Speaking of San Francisco, that Proper opened first. What are its standouts? KW: The site is a full city block in an emerging area on Market Street—it’s like how the Bowery in New York City was. The building, from 1926, is also landmarked, so historic preservation and approvals were a big part of the project. So was art. I sourced contem-

porary and vintage pieces, almost all by San Francisco artists. In the 131 guest rooms, pattern is everywhere. What else are you doing? KW: I’m designing a restaurant in Austin, plus residences in Toronto and New York. We’re also planning Portland’s Proper—it will be new construction in the Pearl District, and have 266 rooms, three restaurants, a spa, and a rooftop bar. With these huge buildings, I want them to not only feel residential, but also have a point of view. —Edie Cohen

C R O S S lines hospitality Clockwise from top left: A guest room at the Downtown L.A. Proper. Wearstler’s Colina credenza, Affinity Medium Dome table lamp, and Monolith side table. Evocative Style, her fifth monograph, published by Rizzoli. Charmaine’s, the rooftop lounge at the San Francisco Proper. Wearstler’s Morro coffee table in limestone.

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BOOKs Brininstool + Lynch: Making Architecture

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by Reed Kroloff New York: Monacelli Press, $50 208 pages, 185 illustrations (155 color)

by Clive Wilkinson Amsterdam: Frame Publishers, $43 280 pages, 330 illustrations (300 color)

David Brininstool and Brad Lynch opened their Chicago office 30 years ago. Since then they have completed 250 buildings and interiors and have garnered more than 50 major design awards, the most recent being named the Chicago AIA’s 2019 Firm of the Year. From this body of work, they have chosen just 12 projects for this handsome book, a perfect example of the simplifying, winnowing, and editing that are at the heart of their design process. The chosen dozen are three residential towers, five single-family houses, two office interiors in existing buildings, an apartment in one of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s North Lake Shore Drive towers, and Wisconsin’s Racine Art Museum. One of the houses is in Florida, but most are in the Midwest. In every case the control, clarity, understatement, “Simple ideas become and lack of excess extend something profound” to the floor plans, materials, furniture, lighting, and stairs; the photography (by Christopher Barrett, Hedrich Blessing, and others) and layouts (by Liska + Associates) quietly follow suit. Everything here is of a piece. This is one of those very rare design books that are so well composed, so successful, and so persuasive that they make readers wishfully imagine themselves as clients.

Designer monographs are almost always picture books. This one, while generously illustrated, also shares with us the intellectual basis for the projects included. Clive Wilkinson, to a rare degree, has constructed for his firm a design vocabulary suited to revolutionary new patterns of communication and work behavior. His book’s first two sections, “How Did We Get Here?” and “What Did We Learn?,” trace the transformations in recent office design, and the third, “Where Are We Going?,” imagines the future. In the margins of the text are pertinent “Work is simply a function of human survival” quotations from furniture designer and theorist Robert Propst, urbanist Kevin Lynch, philosophers Michel Foucault, Walter Benjamin, Alain de Botton, and Wilkinson himself. On this scholarly foundation we are given eye-popping presentations of 13 of the firm’s recent projects—a “Googleplex” for Google along with appropriate headquarters for other creative companies such as Chiat/Day, Disney, and Microsoft. Born in South Africa and educated there and in England, Wilkinson opened his now international studio in Los Angeles in 1991. He was inducted into this magazine’s Hall of Fame in 2005 and given a National Design Award by the Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in 2012. This greatly anticipated book is a clear and important introduction to radically innovative designs for our present workforce and for our future.

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“I have to admit that I really fell in love with design in two distinct ways: As a teenager by watching way too many films of the 1930’s and 40’s, particularly those art directed by Cedric Gibbons; and also through my graduate architectural studies at the City University of New York, discovering Gio Ponti, Carlo Scarpa, and Joseph Urban (the last of whom designed both theater sets and one of my favorite spaces in New York, the auditorium at the New School). Gibbon’s movie work was about the drama of investigating the latest materials available at that time. For instance, I distinctly recall his use of cellophane curtains and table coverings. I love finding new products and materials for our work, like the gallery-residence hybrid we recently completed on Central Park South. It was an exploration of resins, polyurethanes, and metals, all designed and detailed in unique forms and applications.”

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Archer Humphryes Architects (“Concrete Foundation,” page 146), archerhumphryes.com.

Michael K Chen Architecture (“Storybook Ending,” page 42), mkca.com.

Emre Arolat Architecture (“Restoring the Past,” page 156), emrearolat.com.

DESIGNER IN WALK-THROUGH

Shawn Hausman Design (“Concrete Foundation,” page 146), shawnhausmandesign.com.

Waterfrom Design (“Chi Checkup,” page 51), waterfrom.com.

PHOTOGRAPHER IN WALK-THROUGH Kuomin Lee (“Chi Checkup,” page 51), info@lkmimage.info.

Orms (“Concrete Foundation,” page 146), orms.co.uk.

DESIGNER IN CENTERFOLD PHOTOGRAPHERS IN HOSPITALITY Emre Dörter (“Restoring the Past,” page 156), Photofoyer, photofoyer.it. Tim Charles Photography (“Concrete Foundation,” page 146), timcharles.co.uk. David Cleveland (“Concrete Foundation,” page 146), davidcleveland.co.uk. Timothy Soar (“Concrete Foundation,” page 146), timothysoararchive.co.uk.

DVCH De Villar Chacón Arquitectos (“Coming Up Rosy,” page 99), devillarchacon.com.

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Edition Modern Handcrafted in Los Angeles atelier of French modernist devotee Denis de la Mesiere, Edition Modern pays homage to iconic designers Pierre CHAREAU, Jean ROYERE and others with scrupulous attention to detail and materials that are faithful to the timeless spirit of their original masterpieces. editionmodern.com

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The Sunny Chair

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SOLIO a semi-transparent curtain fabric in Trevira CS. The distinctive all-rounder radiates robustness and individuality. The textured yarn was specially developed and has a natural linen-like look. The simple basic generates a natural look in the room. It can be used for wide and varied applications: offices, hotels, clinics, retirement homes and private residences. t. 212.906.0106 e. info.usa@creationbaumann.com creationbaumann.com

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Until recently, those in the market for port, Madeira, muscat, or vinho verde had to use a computer to visit Portugal Vineyards, a 7-year-old online company specializing in Portuguese wines and spirits. But with the help of Ricardo Porto Ferreira, director of Porto Architects, the independent merchant has opened its first bricks-and-mortar shop, fittingly in Porto. Adjacent to the Portugal Vineyards headquarters, the 970-square-foot retail space accommodates approximately 600 bottles as well as a few chairs and tables for tastings. “The scale worked to our advantage,” Porto Ferreira recalls. “All the bottles feel like they’re in reach.” In fact, the shape of the wine bottle itself inspired the shop’s fluid, circular plan. Furthermore, the engineered-wood display shelves are tiered in a manner that references the terraced hillsides of Portuguese vineyards— and bottles are simply lined up along them, allowing staff the flexibility to easily rearrange vintages based on season, trends, or styles. As for the bright white of the store’s envelope—the gypsum ceiling and walls and concrete floor are all color-matched—it was chosen for its purity and neutrality, helping to accentuate the subtle shade variations in the alcohol. “Color is an element of the wine-tasting process,” Ferreira continues. “It made sense to apply that to our concept.” —Wilson Barlow

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