INTERIOR
26/03/2019
No.08
Featuring best interior design collection, news, events and products every week Architect Mathias Klotz Creates a Pair of Cottages on a Remote Island in Chile.
French Designer Hubert Le Gall Debuts Retrospective at Twenty First Gallery.
featuring event Gunlocke 2018 Showroom Tour
Chris Cooper, an architect, and Jennifer Hanlin, an interior designer...
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Architect Mathias Klotz
Creates a Pair of Cottages on a Remote Island in Chile.
The Elastic Interior Chris Cooper, an architect, and Jennifer Hanlin, an interior designer...
Hubert Le Gall Debuts Retrospective at Twenty First Gallery.
Gunlocke 2018 Showroom Tour Architects Andreas Fuhrimann and Gabrielle Hächler have amassed
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For Chileans—especially those who live in the frenetic capital, Santiago—a second home is an essential refuge, an escape to the serene beauty of the natural landscape. Architect Mathias Klotz, principal of his eponymous firm, has designed many such houses, characteristically with a cleanlined modernism that nods to one of his heroes, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. For his own family’s retreat on a largely undeveloped
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Lifestyle
Architect Mathias Klotz Creates a Pair of Cottages on a Remote Island in Chile.
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lotz is a passionate sailor, and this two- cottage compound echoes the pared-down elegance of his 40foot Beneteau sloop. The architect wanted a base for family and friends close to the coastal channels and fjords of southern Chile, where he has long cruised and competed in regattas. He found the ideal spot on Coldita Island, in sheltered waters off the southeast coast of the much larger The
island’s infrastructure, however, was less than robust: boat-only access, minimal docking facilities, no roads to speak of, and no utilities. But none of that fazed Klotz, who prized unspoiled nature and knew how to create what “I wanted to build something very simple and essential,” he says. That made practical sense, given that all materials had to be shipped in on a narrow, open mo-
torboat. “The big windows were the hardest things to transport,” he recalls. Which determined the dimensions of the two structures: 18 by 98 feet, with a 26-foot-high roof peak, for the larger house; 18 by 23 feet for the smaller guesthouse. The latter, dubbed Cabaña Coldita, stands a stone’s throw from the water. It was built first as a proof of concept, a kind
Electric power for light and other purposes is supplied by solar panels and a small, seldom-used generator. Photography by Roland Halbe.
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The Elastic Interior Chris Cooper, an architect, and Jennifer Hanlin, an interior designer, were inspired by Japanese design when they renovated their condominium in Cobble
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t’s a common enough dream for those who live in cramped urban spaces: Suddenly you notice a door you never realized was there and beyond it a room you didn’t know you had — or maybe an entire wing of your home, just waiting to be occupied. That’s more or less what happened to Chris Cooper and Jennifer Hanlin last year. Only it wasn’t a dream. Mr. Cooper, 46, an architect, explains their discovery of an additional 325 square feet in their Brooklyn condominium as merely a matter of applying what he calls “reductive simplicity.” He and Ms. Hanlin, 44, an interior designer, were inspired by Japanese design, he said: “In Tokyo, there’s the hustle and bustle, and then you walk into a garden or a tatami room and there’s calm. We wanted our home to be neutral, contemplative and calm.”
True, that always makes a space feel bigger. But it also helps if you actually happen to have a room you had sort of forgotten about — an unused mezzanine, say. To be fair, it wasn’t exactly a mezzanine when the couple bought the apartment in 2005, for $675,000. Most of it was a crawl space that housed the water heater. Mr. Cooper, Ms. Hanlin and their 11-yearold twins, Mia and Felix, live on the fifth and sixth floors of a Cobble Hill building that once housed the School of the Sacred Hearts and was converted into a 34-unit condominium in the 1980s. Before the conversion, their apartment was three separate spaces: a classroom, a boys’ bathroom and a mechanical room. They began their act of reductive simplicity by gutting most of the apartment. To create a soaring living area that would feel bigger than it was, they raised part
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French Designer Hubert Le Gall Debuts Retrospective at Twenty First Gallery. There may be a familiar air in the work of French sculptor and furniture designer Hubert Le Gall. That could be because he cites such surrealists as Jean Cocteau and Salvador Dalí as inspirations. For instance, his debut U.S. retrospective exhibition, “Fabula,” at Twenty First Gallery in New York, includes an arm c hair embroidered and cut out with birdlike silhouettes, another in the shape of a
sanseviera plant, and a sconce embellished with pastel glass bubbles, the whimsical pieces part of a limited edition. The exhibit runs in tandem with the stateside release of Le Gall’s new, same-titled monograph. An objet itself, the hard cover book comes in a slipcase and explores the friendship and collaboration between him and American collector Pa-
mela Mullin, captured in over 150 color photographs of her 17th-century house in Normandy, France.
By Annie Block
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At night, the penthouse of Squire’s office in London is Upstairs, a members-only bar and restaurant. By day, it’s the staff canteen, the myriad glass doors opening to a landscaped terrace—outfitted with a very modern-day ping-pong table. This glamping hotspot in Laos is the place to unwind while on vacation. Bill Bensley looked to the area’s famed French-Lao architecture for this paradise on a UNESCO World Heritage Site, featuring six hilltop tents with private dining areas and vast balconies within the rainforest. The architect’s most significant move was building 14 pouredin-place board-formed concrete walls, their color meshing
pleasingly with the surrounding terrain. Both the courtyard and living area survey the Topanga Canyon and the Pacific Ocean. Inspired in part by Chicago’s motto, Urbs en Horto, meaning city in a garden, Heiser and Gannon left space for an intimate courtyard between the street-front sections of the two buildings. Inviting people to gather, a massive copper outdoor fireplace is
Just as this Zhuahi, China building’s environmental impact is minimal, so, too, is its visual impact on the landscape. From afar, supported by treelike columns, it appears to be a natural elevation of the terrain.Animating the stone-paved main courtyard of this Paris building are benches custom-designed by a landscaping consultant. Their organic shapes, swelling to incorporate round planters, are made of locally sourced sustain-
A creek was dammed to form a reservoir of drinkable spring water, but that’s not the only water feature on this property in Pueblo Eden, Uruguay. Arriving visitors traverse a stream by trundling across a bridge newly built of heavy timber. Locally quarried marble blocks became the base of a picnic table. Animating the stone-paved main courtyard of this Paris building are benches custom-designed by a landscaping consultant. Their organic shapes, swelling to incorporate round planters, are made of locally sourced sustainable acacia wood. One bench sits adjacent to an island of greenery, a grassy oasis sprouting trees, shrubs, and LEDs that glow like Interior Magazine
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Events
Gunlocke 2018 Showroom Tour
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rchitects Andreas Fuhrimann and Gabrielle Hächler have amassed quite an artsy clientele since founding their eponymous firm in 1995. The husband-wife design duo is the vision behind a number of exhibition spaces—including early work on the decades-long redevelopment of a Löwenbräu brewery near their Zurich studio into a museum and gallery
Those specialties are leveraged in another multistage project they recently completed: transforming a midcentury-era villa into a combination residence, studio, and exhibition space for an art-world couple. Located just south of Zurich in the village of Küsnacht, and designed in 1956 by local architect Theodor Laubi, the house was purchased exactly 50 years later by gallerist Dami-
The partly subterranean basement-level studio of artist Melanie Grieder-Swarovski (aka Melli Ink) is furnished with her paintings and glass and ceramic works, along
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The second-level living room features an Isamu Noguchi table, a Björn Dahlem Mond art chandelier, and vintage chairs; the artwork is by Ross Chisholm and Gregor
More recently, the homeowners enlisted the firm for a second-round renovation to create a studio for her and a gallery and lounge space for him, along with a workshop, archive area, and storerooms. “Our goal was to add an extension for our art endeavors without losing the character of the house,” says Grieder, who was anxious that its street-front appearance not be altered—no
easy task when, as Hächler notes, “Laubi positioned the L-shape building optimally on the plot, so the proportions and distribution of his design all add up.” The clients also wanted the new wing to be publicly accessible without visitors having any contact with the private residential quarters. Hächler’s solution was to extend the basement level, hiding the
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Andreas Engesvik
’ve never been employed or had a ‘proper’ job,” reveals Andreas Engesvik, who immediately founded Andreas Engesvik, Oslo upon graduating from Norway’s Bergen College of Art and Design with a master’s in 2010. Since then, the Norwegian designer has created products following the Scandinavian principals of simplicity and quality, ranging from furniture to tableware for international manufacturers such as Edsbyn, Fontana Arte, Hay, Muuto, and Tonning & Stryn.
Most recently, at the Stockholm Furniture & Lighting Fair last month, Engesvik launched the Barba collection of upholstered furniture and the Ribbon collection of rugs for Swedish brand Fogia. Here, he shares with Interior Design more about the new collections and the shape-shifting animated family that inspired one of them, why he loves upholstered furniture, and how an urge for discovery and abandoned buildings propelled his path into design.
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Part of our Originals range and the pinnacle of Windsor chair making, the Chairmakers chair is a demonstration of ercol’s chair making skills and a statement piece.
Originals chairmakers Designers: Lucian R. Ercolani
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The Bronze Passoda floor lamp
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nearly sphere of blown glass with a median grove which holds a hand crochet cap. Crocheted in an unique weave texture that always filters the light in various ways. Floor, table and suspended lamp providing diffused light. Diffuser consisting of an externally acid-etched hand blown, flashed opaline white glass. Base in aluminium painted light grey. On request, decorative cap in black or beige.
A nearly sphere of blown glass with a median grove which holds a hand crochet cap. Crocheted in an unique weave texture that always filters the light in various ways. Floor, table and suspended lamp providing diffused light. Diffuser consisting of an externally acid-etched hand blown, flashed opaline white glass. Base in aluminium painted light grey. On request, decorative cap in black or beige.
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