Interior Design articles from August 2006

Interior Design archives from August 2006

Bios.
August 1, 2006... by Staff Vance Burke Design "Vision Quest," page 180 principal : Vance Burke. principal : Todd Peter. completed projects : Ellen DeGeneres's bungalow compound and a Rudolph Schindler house in Los Angeles; Tom Ford's...

Books.
August 1, 2006... edited by Stanley Abercrombie Il Modo Italiano: Italian Design and Avant-Garde in the 20th Century Stanley Abercrombie edited by Giampiero Bosoni Milan: Gruppo Editoriale Skira, distributed by Rizzoli International...

Essential Oil.
August 1, 2006... by Edie Cohen By any criteria, Robert Greene ranks as a bona fide artist. His paintings are in the collections of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and Whitney Museum of American Art, and he's participated in the "Whitney Biennial."...

Little Dome on the Prairie.
August 1, 2006... by Ruth Lopez No log cabin, Christine Tarkowski's installation for an Illinois university artfully investigates utopian living Out of a pool of 10 contenders, Christine Tarkowski was one of three artists commissioned to create a...

Designwire.
August 1, 2006... edited by Sheila Kim-Jamet Your hyperlink to interiordesign.net Happy 100th! Sheila Kim-Jamet Copenhagen's New Carlsberg Glyptotek recently toasted the centenary of its Kampmann Building, the second-oldest edifice of the...

For All.
August 1, 2006... by Cindy Allen Confronted by an unfamiliar object in our breathless lives, the common though erroneous reaction is simply to cast the damn thing aside. When the problem is an intellectual one, we nonchalantly reject it and leave it...

When Kelly Met Gursky.
August 1, 2006... by Craig Kellogg Walls on wheels create surprising juxtapositions of blue-chip art at a Gluckman Mayner loft in New York Designing museums dedicated to Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, and Georgia O'Keeffe--along with dozens of commercial...

Heart of Palm.
August 1, 2006... by Edie Cohen Sustainable wood and sensational art define George Yu's addition to a 1920's Los Angeles bungalow Before they met, Michael O. and Sirje Helder Gold had each been buying art. They made their first purchase as a couple in...

Queen of the Hill.
August 1, 2006... by Howard Halle Although Maya Lin is best known as the designer behind the acclaimed Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., she's also a landscape artist who describes a natural world being reshaped by unnatural forces as never...

Lighting 85 Candles for Boyd.
August 1, 2006... by Staff According to Nobel Prize-winning novelist Gunter Grass, recollecting means selecting. We asked Boyd Lighting president Jay Sweet to do some selective recollecting about his family-owned company--which marked its 85th birthday at...

Market.
August 1, 2006... edited by Karen D. Singh Circle of Light Karen D. Singh The Bolo lamp by Modiss Illuminación is far from square. Designed to rest directly on a table surface, the smooth sphere of handblown glass surrounds a...

Focus on Focus.
August 1, 2006... by Staff "Lighting is the unwavering partner of architecture. It's what adds the theatricality," says Focus Lighting president Paul Gregory, the firm's principal designer, as he sits to spill a few illuminating thoughts from his bag of...

Forging a New Identity.
August 1, 2006... by Ian Phillips At the Ecole Superieure des Beaux-Arts, a former steelmaker's headquarters in Valenciennes, France, it's hard to tell where the art ends and Louis Paillard's redesign begins Valenciennes is a place where the 42,000...

Street Modern.
August 1, 2006... by Laura Fisher Kaiser Seen from the new Lehman Smith McLeish office, Washington, D.C., has started to look like a capital of progressive design After 13 years among the policy wonks and lobbyists in downtown Washington, D.C., Lehman...

Vision Quest.
August 1, 2006... by Edie Cohen A Los Angeles house by Wayne McAllister channels its mid-century roots, thanks to a thoughtful update by Marmol Radziner and Vance Burke Eugenio López Alonso's sublime Los Angeles spread has enough stellar...

Through the Roof.
August 1, 2006... by Linda Lee As art prices rise, so does Miami's Wynwood district When Miami optimistically declared one of its many decrepit neighborhoods the Wynwood Arts District in 2003, the question on everyone's mind was: "What?" Then it was:...

Talking to...Lori Weitzner.
August 1, 2006... By Staff Ethereal cyanotype photographs, produced by arranging plant specimens on paper and exposing them to sunlight, are what inspired Lori Weitzner's latest textile collection for Pallas. Based on images from Zeva Oelbaum's book, Blue...

Show Daily 4.
August 1, 2006... edited by Karen D. Singh and Sheila Kim-Jamet Interfaceflor Commercial Karen D. Singh, Sheila Kim-Jamet Go for baroque with Formal Gardens nylon carpet tile. The four ornate cut-and-loop designs come in 16 colorways, from...

Talking to...Luisa Cevese for Maharam.
August 1, 2006... By Staff When Luisa Cevese was the research director for a silk mill in Como, Italy, she was shocked by the quantity of waste generated by textile production. Some of those industrial remnants--from damaged yarns to cut garments--now...

Talking to...Ken Wilson & Diana Horvat for HBF.
August 1, 2006... By Staff This company's Trace collection, the first fabric line by Envision Design principals Ken Wilson and Diana Horvat, comprises six eco-friendly patterns that would add interest to any workstation panel. Crumble is a textured 100...

Talking to...Ruth Simon McRae and Elizabeth Walters for Milliken Carpet.
August 1, 2006... by Staff To develop the Discovery collection of textured carpets, Elizabeth Walters led the Milliken Design Studios team in a collaboration with Ruth Simon McRae of the consulting firm McRae Associates. McRae made her career in textile...

Talking to...Tom Polucci and Natalie Johnson for Lees Carpets.
August 1, 2006... by Staff Crossovers between design and fine art often produce intriguing results. Now, Lees Carpets is drawing on another discipline: fashion. This flooring manufacturer's Menswear collection is the work of a duo from HOK in Chicago....

Fantasy Guggenheim.
August 1, 2006... edited by Craig Kellogg Frank Lloyd Wright's nautilus shell in New York was only the beginning. After Thomas Krens, then director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, commissioned its titanium sister from Frank O. Gehry & Associates, the...

A Clear Winner.
August 1, 2006... edited by Craig Kellogg SANAA's first completed U.S. commission, a $30 million glass pavilion for Ohio's Toledo Museum of Art, seemingly defies the laws of physics. For ultimate transparency on a wooded site across from the main museum...

Antique/Modern.
August 1, 2006... by Raul Barreneche Forget liberte, egalite, fraternite. The French Syndicat National des Antiquaires rules according to authenticite, qualite, honorabilite. Since 1956, the decorative and fine-art dealers' syndicate has organized...

Who's Plugged In?
August 1, 2006... edited by Craig Kellogg If Dan Flavin is the patron saint of sculptures assembled from glowing tubes and bulbs, he has clearly given his blessing to "Artificial Light" at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. The exhibition puts...

Lab Work.
August 1, 2006... edited by Craig Kellogg Among the oddball offerings at the Laboratory of Art and Ideas at Belmar? Lectures pairing unlikely topics such as sausage and T.S. Eliot. Talk about needing flexible space! To establish a physical identity for the...

The Man Who Wasn't There.
August 1, 2006... edited by Craig Kellogg Herr Biedermeier was no one, really. The name was made up, coined from bieder, meaning plain, and the German surname Maier. Objects from the Biedermeier period--roughly the first half of the 19th century--had a...

Lindy Roy Hits a High Note.
August 1, 2006... edited by Craig Kellogg The curtain is about to rise on a gallery at New York's Metropolitan Opera House. Conceived for opera-themed contemporary art, the storefront is the work of Roy Co.'s Lindy Roy, the designer of Andre Balazs's...

Artists in Residence.
August 1, 2006... edited by Craig Kellogg As galleries vie with apartment developers for the last scraps of New York real estate, the Chelsea Arts Tower condominiums--with their HOK-designed facade--are being marketed as "homes" for galleries and...

Gathering Storm.
August 1, 2006... edited by Craig Kellogg Ask 500 students from 84 universities in 24 countries to imagine resorts in the year 2055, and the resulting vision is nothing less than the end of hospitality as we know it. Michael Ward from the University of...

Pinups.
August 1, 2006... edited by Karen D. Singh Installation art With porcelain wall coverings by J. Prichard Design, the medium is the message 1. Push in red. 2. Tea in green tea. 3. Loop in green celadon. 4. Shag in unglazed porcelain. 5. Luna in...

Snapshots.
August 1, 2006... by Staff Square Meal Right before Sicis opened its New York showroom, the tile manufacturer's first freestanding location in the U.S., Interior Design cohosted a lunch there--but, with architect Massimiliano Raggi's...

All Ears.
August 1, 2006... by Rineke van Duysen Listen to the tale of Paul Linse, who started out in textile design--and went on to renovate this sprawling house near the Hague What happens when your boss becomes your client? Such was Paul Linse's situation...

Dream House.
August 1, 2006... by Aric Chen A UN Studio installation at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, "Holiday Home" was a meditation on vacation Commissioned to design a vacation house, UN Studio principals Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos...

Update.
August 1, 2006... edited by Jen DeRose Catch these events in September and October Contemporary-art fairs travel in packs. If it's December, it must be Miami Beach; in March, it's New York. Which is why Helen Allen, whose Pulse fairs recently...

Waited On, Hand and Foot.
August 1, 2006... by Kimberly Goad Tucked away on a New York side street, Jin Soon Natural Hand and Foot Spa occupies the 500-square-foot ground floor of a 19th-century tenement. Yet, for John Coughlan Architect, which was enlisted to transform this...

Let Down Your Hair.
August 1, 2006... by Rebecca Flint Marx If Randy Brown has his way, high design will become as integral to Omaha as steak and prairie grass. Salon Gallerie, a recent project by Randy Brown Architects, brings him a step closer to that goal. "Our client...