Interior Design articles from February 2007

Interior Design archives from February 2007

Bios.
February 1, 2007... By Staff Jesús Aparicio "What 'Forever' Looks Like," page 138 principal : Jesús Aparicio. completed projects : An architectural archive and lecture hall and a pavilion for a Giuseppe Terragni exhibition in...

Men of Steel.
February 1, 2007... by Lanie Goodman A sculptor's minimalist estate in southern France now embraces a private gallery by Llamata + Berthier. Glimpsed from the opposite bank of France's Nartuby river, artist Bernar Venet's private gallery exhibits an...

Books.
February 1, 2007... edited by Stanley Abercrombie Eliot Noyes Stanley Abercrombie by Gordon Bruce New York: Phaidon Press, $75 240 pages, 550 illustrations (350 color) This thorough study of the life and work of architect Eliot Noyes is...

Master Class.
February 1, 2007... by Edie Cohen Architect David Martin passes on his furniture-design prowess to University of Southern California undergrads A third-generation principal of A.C. Martin Partners, David Martin is an architect by profession, a...

Frank Lloyd Wright Returns.
February 1, 2007... by Edie Cohen With municipal buildings in central Japan, Kengo Kuma pays homage to a local stone and a foreign master Frank Lloyd Wright's Imperial Hotel in Tokyo was demolished almost four decades ago, but the building lives on in...

The Motion of the Ocean.
February 1, 2007... by Edie Cohen At the Clive Wilkinson-designed Los Angeles headquarters of Maguire Properties, the tide has truly turned. For the past 40 years, developer Robert Maguire has been a prime mover and shaker in Los Angeles, building I.M....

Mix, Don't Match.
February 1, 2007... by Dan Shaw A New York town house by D'Aquino Monaco pays homage to a fashion plate's playful attitude. It may sound like a backhanded compliment to say that the most exhilarating space in a New York town house renovated by D'Aquino...

Designwire.
February 1, 2007... edited by Sheila Kim-Jamet Your hyperlink to interiordesign.net Green Is the Word Sheila Kim-Jamet Not to be confused with New York's River House apartments by Bottomley, Wagner & White, the Riverhouse condominium by Polshek...

The Skinny on Skins.
February 1, 2007... by Cindy Allen Squarely in the throes of assembling not only this issue but also Interior Design's 75th-anniversary March celebration, the most all-consuming portfolio I've ever had the "pleasure" to work on, I might be reasonably...

Flooring.
February 1, 2007... by Mark McMenamin Hello, Dotty Mark McMenamin Part of the Wiltonian series from Saxony Carpet Company, Jump explodes in a whiteout grid of dots set against either a black or tan ground. All 12 patterns are woven on 12-foot...

A Healthy Dose of Green.
February 1, 2007... by Jane Margolies When students of the Promise Academy in New York need an ice pack or have a toothache, Maya Angelou, Serena Williams, and Oprah Winfrey are part of the healing process. These prominent African-Americans appear in a...

Health Care Products.
February 1, 2007... by Elizabeth Wine Get Out Your Passport Elizabeth Wine Pack your suitcase, and see the world with Crypton patterns from Douglass Industries's Passport Collection. Calling to mind towels on sandy beaches, Aruba's subtle...

Whitening Treatment.
February 1, 2007... by Annie Block Jonathan Levine, DMD, takes a lifestyle approach to oral care. Consider his product line, GoSmile. Among the aromatherapy fluoride toothpastes are an energizing citrus for the morning, a soothing chamomile for nighttime....

Looking Backward.
February 1, 2007... by Craig Kellogg Bauhaus meets gingerbread house. That's one way to describe Rear-View Mirror, Amy Yoes's playful installation integrating architectural construction with video projection. One potential explanation for her long-standing...

What "Forever" Looks Like.
February 1, 2007... by Raul Barreneche Jesús Aparicio gazed deep into the arid Spanish landscape--and envisioned a house inspired by ancient history With its big skies and rocky flatness, the Meseta Castellana is the arid center of Spain--not...

Laser-Sharp.
February 1, 2007... by Edie Cohen In San Francisco's conservative Pacific Heights, a town house by Olle Lundberg and Wendy Tsuji cuts quite a figure. Olle Lundberg wouldn't think to compare himself to Richard Serra. The architect is far too modest....

"Attic" No More.
February 1, 2007... by Vernon Mays Servants' quarters in a John Russell Pope mansion are now an award-winning family zone by Amestudio and Hailey Design A hushed reverence stills the air as Benjamin Ames and Catherine Hailey scale the narrow steps to the...

Newson & Co.
February 1, 2007... edited by Craig Kellogg Rare furniture has an arty new address: New York's Sebastian + Barquet has taken up residence in a 1,200-square-foot street-level Chelsea gallery by TEN Arquitectos. Printed-glass cases and MDF platforms display...

Buried Treasure.
February 1, 2007... edited by Craig Kellogg "A perfectly intact temple on the hill," is Steven Holl Architects senior partner Chris McVoy's description of the neoclassical Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri. The firm started work there in...

Fountain of Youth.
February 1, 2007... edited by Craig Kellogg In Oakland, California, the spectacular recirculating Cleveland Cascade from 1923 had fallen into disrepair by about 1950--when it was turned off, its concrete bowls filled with soil and rosemary bushes....

Helping Hand.
February 1, 2007... by Kelly Beamon NY Designs, a nonprofit design-business incubator launched by the City University of New York Economic Development Corporation and LaGuardia Community College, is accepting tenants at a Long Island City warehouse...

Purple Reign.
February 1, 2007... edited by Craig Kellogg London's Langham Hotel once welcomed Oscar Wilde as a guest--and the mauve decade seems alive and well at David Collins Studio's Artesian lounge in the 1865 hotel. Lavender butterfly shapes, fluttering in-side...

Nontoxic Avenger.
February 1, 2007... edited by Craig Kellogg Who knew that task chairs could be "emissions tested" in a lab? Interior Design eco contributor Penny Bonda's first book, Sustainable Commercial Interiors, addresses that topic--along with daylighting, friendly...

Market.
February 1, 2007... edited by Karen D. Singh Bathing Beauties Karen D. Singh Christian Liaigre's refined style is not restricted to interiors, as evidenced by Hugonet's Atlanta collection of sunny deck chairs. They include one chaise with...

Pinups.
February 1, 2007... edited by Karen D. Singh Looking Well Health-care polyesters exhibit robust patterns and sturdy constitutions 1. Huntington in Pool by Momentum Group. 2. Rx 7004 Trevira CS in Dreamy by Architex International. 3. Rx 7003 Trevira...

Clean, White, and Bright.
February 1, 2007... by Edie Cohen That was Robert D. Henry's prescription for the Obagi Skin Health Institute in Los Angeles. Skin is in. And probably nowhere more so than Beverly Hills. Here, "name" dermatologists pull rank in the star system, facialist...

Snapshots.
February 1, 2007... by Staff Flying High To celebrate its 15th anniversary, Gabellini Sheppard Associates served up cocktails at one of the firm's splashiest projects, New York's Top of the Rock observation deck--which graced the January 2006 cover of...

Meat and Potato.
February 1, 2007... by Kurt Handlbauer A classic American restaurant type meets a not-quite-traditional Japanese aesthetic at Stripsteak, a Super Potato project in Las Vegas. Steak goes perfectly with a potato. Especially when celebrity chef Michael Mina...

Update.
February 1, 2007... edited by Jen DeRose Catch these events in March and April 1. Their personal relationship lasted for nearly 60 years, but the works of Joan Miró and Alexander Calder were only rarely shown together during their lives--most...

A Tango With Mid-Century.
February 1, 2007... by Mario López-Cordero Flexibility--that most modern of design imperatives--can be a particularly keen concern for a new family investing in a home: The expectation of growth requires a resourceful approach. However, versatility...

Little Spa in the Big Woods.
February 1, 2007... by Bradley Lincoln In Greek mythology, Daedalus crafted an elaborate labyrinth under King Minos's palace to house the half-man, half-bull Minotaur borne by the bewitched Queen Pasiphaë. In contemporary Green Lake, Wisconsin, Judith...