Interior Design articles from August 2007

Interior Design archives from August 2007

Tom Dixon Square.
August 1, 2007... Edited by Annie Block Furniture-phobic Londoners should make alternative living arrangements during the fifth annual London Design Festival, when designers, manufacturers, and educational and arts institutions join forces to bring more...

What Is Art?(Interview)
August 1, 2007... by Linda Lee A Miami Beach apartment by Luis Pons begs the question The playful condo Luis Pons designed for developer Ricardo Dunin isn't so much a bachelor pad as a launch pad. After a divorce, Dunin needed a place to start his new...

Rocky Mountain High.
August 1, 2007... by Edie Cohen The Lab at Belmar in Lakewood, Colorado, is a peak performance from Hagy Belzberg If you ask Hagy Belzberg about cutting-edge architecture, he can rattle off descriptions of dozens of residences he's completed in and...

Bios.
August 1, 2007... by Staff Belzberg Architects "Rocky Mountain High," page 174 principal : Hagy Belzberg, AIA. completed projects : The Music Center's Ahmanson Theatre Founders Room in Los Angeles; residences in L.A. and Pasadena, California....

Books.
August 1, 2007... Edited by Stanley Abercrombie Charley Harper: An Illustrated Life Deborah Wilk by Todd Oldham Los Angeles: AMMO Books, $200 420 pages, 400 color illustrations It could easily be said that Todd Oldham's designs...

Architect to the Art World.
August 1, 2007... by Craig Kellogg Steven Learner knows how to make art work Few architects have profited more from art-world buzz than Steven Learner. Since leaving the New York office of Gluckman Mayner Architects a decade ago to strike out as Steven...

Hi-Fi Sci-Fi.
August 1, 2007... by David Sokol How Australian students explored the universe of digital architecture-guided by Chris Bosse of PTW When PTW architects associate Chris Bosse was invited to teach a master class in digital architecture at the University...

Hip-Hop and Pop.
August 1, 2007... by Edie Cohen Kanye West's Los Angeles house by Don Stewart is also home to Warhol, Murakami, and friends Here's what we all know about Kanye West: He's a six-time Grammy Award winner, a rapper and producer par excellence, and a...

Designwire.
August 1, 2007... Edited by Mark McMenamin Your hyperlink to interiordesign.net Weighing in on wonder Mark McMenamin Is the Taj Mahal worthier of regard than Stonehenge? Does the throng on Easter Island deserve to play also-ran to Christ the...

The Way Forward.
August 1, 2007... by Edie Cohen Rand Elliott transformed an Oklahoma City tunnel system into the Underground, a walk-in work of art. Leave it to Rand Elliott to take art to a new level: 12 feet under. In a project encompassing public and private...

Between the Lines.
August 1, 2007... by Cindy Allen How many times, in how many of our annual "art issues," have we shown you beautiful spaces with beautiful white walls and beautiful epoxy floors-and on those walls or on those floors a major contemporary painting or...

Nesting Instinct.
August 1, 2007... by Jen Renzi Intelligent Design and sculptor Patrick Dougherty hatch a habitable artwork at Wieden + Kennedy in Portland, Oregon Wieden + Kennedy is not lacking in art cred. Located in the gallery-filled Pearl District of Portland,...

Axel Vervoordt, Doge of Design.
August 1, 2007... by Kathryn Hixson The American art pilgrims are returning from this summer's European tour-and the whispers have started to circulate: "Did you see Axel Vervoordt at the Palazzo Fortuny?" One of the many exhibitions held in conjunction...

Market.
August 1, 2007... Edited by Karen D. Singh Special Lighting Section Out of this World Karen D. Singh Like nothing on earth, the MT-1 magazine table and FL-1 floor lamp belong to the Woojuin-2007 collection, which takes its name from the Korean...

Modern in Motion.
August 1, 2007... By Fred A. Bernstein A performance by Merce Cunningham brought new life to Philip Johnson's Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut When Merce Cunningham presented a series of dances outside Philip Johnson's Glass House in June, it was...

Serenade to an Icon.
August 1, 2007... By Fred A. Bernstein Allies and Morrison has restored the modernist harmony of London's Royal Festival Hall Few modernist buildings can be preserved exactly as constructed. Only the smallest and most esteemed-think Ludwig Mies van der...

Show Daily 4.
August 1, 2007... Edited by Karen D. Singh Fairest of the fair Karen D. Singh Remember when Goldilocks finally found a chair that fit just right? Robin Rizzini's geometric Evesham for Keilhauer accommodates guests of all sizes, thanks to wide...

Talking to . . .Kevin Stark and Joe Doyle for HBF.
August 1, 2007... Edited by Karen D. Singh John Hutton's creations are synonymous with quiet elegance, whether they're for his own line or for Holly Hunt and Sutherland. When Hutton died last year, he was designing furniture for HBF. Kevin Stark, the...

Talking to...Heather Bush and Mary Holt for Carnegie Fabrics.
August 1, 2007... Edited by Karen D. Singh In an unusual moment of agreement, Heather Bush and Mary Holt conclude that their differences, ironically, are the reason for their success. The two, both now executive vice presidents for "creative" at Carnegie...

Talking to...Edward F. Weller III for the Weller Group USA.
August 1, 2007... Edited by Karen D. Singh Working at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill for 13 years, Edward F. Weller III climbed the ranks to associate partner in charge of interior design. While designing interiors for various financial companies, projects that...

Spotlight on Ingo.
August 1, 2007... Edited by Annie Block Any interior designer will tell you: Light-natural or artificial-is wholly transformative. And no one manipulates lighting and shadow better than the master whose four-decade retrospective, "Provoking Magic: Lighting...

Take Flight.
August 1, 2007... Edited by Annie Block Yes, there are wider seats and larger overhead bins in the cabin, designed by Boeing's interiors responsibility center. But when the 787 Dreamliner commences commercial operations, it will burn 20 percent less fuel...

George Yu.
August 1, 2007... Edited by Annie Block George Yu died from a rare form of lung cancer on July 7 in Los Angeles. An ice-hockey player and a nonsmoker, he was 43. George Yu Architects, founded in 1992, completed more than 65 projects, from L.A. to Shang...

Moving on Down.
August 1, 2007... Edited by Annie Block After 40 years on New York's Upper East Side, Barry Friedman is relocating his namesake gallery to Chelsea-and opening with shows of glass by Toots Zynsky and figurative paintings by Anne-Karin Furunes, a Norwegian...

Museums on the Boards.
August 1, 2007... Edited by Annie Block James Carpenter Design Associates is teaming up with Efrat-Kowalsky Architects for the $80 million redo of Jerusalem's Israel Museum, adding 80,000 square feet to the existing 500,000 just in time for its 45th...

Isamu Times Two.
August 1, 2007... Edited by Annie Block Isamu Noguchi shared more than his given name with designer Isamu Kenmochi. Their mid-century creative confluence lasted less than two years, but it produced an array of furniture, objects, drawings, and photographs...

Chapter Three.
August 1, 2007... by Aric Chen At Philippe Starck's latest Taschen store, a loft space in New York, bookshelves make way for murals by Beatriz Milhazes Irreverent, trendsetting, prolific. Those traits are shared in heaping doses by Taschen and...

Pinups.
August 1, 2007... Edited by Karen D. Singh Make a splash It's easy with Lumicor's acrylic-resin tiles 1. Meander in Mystery. 2. Heatwave in Multi. The ripple effect With Xenia Taler's ceramic tiles, everything changes 1. Bell Flower....

Gensler Rocks.
August 1, 2007... by Craig Kellogg Street art gives New York music marketer Direct Group North America the edge You might have received this offer in the mail: Choose seven free albums today, buy one more in the next year, and get another four free. It...

R&R and R&D.
August 1, 2007... by Staff Upwardly mobile appliance giant Electrolux called on Interior Design editor in chief Cindy Allen to facilitate a dialogue with designers. Of course, this had to occur at a spa: Canyon Ranch in Lenox, Massachusetts. To kick off the...

Update.
August 1, 2007... Edited by Meghan Edwards Catch these events in September and October 1. Need more beach time? The construction of a miniature city, made entirely of sand, is documented in "Pain Is Universal But So Is Hope," an exhibition of Liset...

One From the Heart.
August 1, 2007... by Ian Phillips Filled with high-rise housing projects, the distinctly working-class Paris suburb of Bobigny has only a few claims to fame. Chanteur Jacques Brel died there in 1978; Oscar Niemeyer designed a trade-union headquarters that...

Before the Flood.
August 1, 2007... by Charlotte Vaudrey Walk along the quiet waterways of Schagen, a small town 30 miles north of Amsterdam, and an extraordinary sight sails into view. Moored canal-side is a boat with a bow so distinctive that Old Testament visions flash...