Interior Design articles from January 2007

Interior Design archives from January 2007

Climb Every Mountain.
January 1, 2007... by Fred A. Bernstein Ali Tayar finds his dream project, USM's luxury Omnia hotel in the Swiss Alps. Seven years ago, USM opened a hotel at the base of Switzerland's majestic Matterhorn. If that seems like a surprising move for a...

Bios.
January 1, 2007... by Staff HOK "You've Got Style," page 194 interiors design director : Clay Pendergrast. completed projects : Alschuler Grossman, Discus Dental, Fox, Helio, and McGuire-Woods, all in Los Angeles; Emulex Corporation in Costa...

Books.
January 1, 2007... edited by Stanley Abercrombie Carolands: Ernest Sanson, Achille Duchêne, Willis Polk Stanley Abercrombie by Michael Middleton Dwyer New York: Acanthus Press, the San Mateo County Historical Association, and the...

On the Same Page.
January 1, 2007... by Andrew Yang As president of New York's AIA, Joan Blumenfeld hopes to bring architects and interior designers together When Joan Blumenfeld earned her master's from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 1979, she could...

What's in a Name?
January 1, 2007... by Ian Phillips For a German clothing company called Closed, Carsten Roth designed a Hamburg headquarters that's decidedly open to fresh air and fresh ideas Last year, the German clothing company Closed celebrated the production of...

Designwire.
January 1, 2007... edited by Sheila Kim-Jamet Your hyperlink to interiordesign.net Business Is Back Sheila Kim-Jamet Planned before Hurricane Katrina, the renovation of the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans is now complete. This...

The Stuff of Legends.
January 1, 2007... by Cindy Allen Our banner December issue proved to be positively uncontainable, gushing as it did into real life at our packed-to-the-rafters Hall of Fame gala at the Waldorf, followed by a rousing celebration of the best 2006 projects...

They Just Got Even Bigger.
January 1, 2007... by Judith Davidsen, Wing Leung, and Laura Girmscheid The Top 100 Giants kick off the 75th anniversary of Interior Design with their own numbers to celebrate. To begin with, a tie in earnings increased the actual number of giants to...

Global Groove.
January 1, 2007... by Julie V. Iovine Asian and modern get a humor infusion at a New York loft by Ghislaine Viñas Since time immemorial--or at least since the advent of movies and design magazines--the bachelor pad has represented all that is...

Mirror Image.
January 1, 2007... by Aric Chen With a private spa hotel and a public bathhouse, Ciel Rouge Creation reveals the two faces of beauty on Japan's Shikoku island Known for its rocky coastline, pummeling waves, and thrashing winds, Japan's southern Shikoku...

On Ontario.
January 1, 2007... by Bradley Lincoln Deborah Berke blows into the Windy City with the chic James hotel When Deborah Berke first checked out the building that would eventually become Chicago's James hotel, she had reservations. The 17-story prewar...

Going for Baroque.
January 1, 2007... by Rineke van Duysen "Cottage hotel" doesn't even begin to describe the elaborate experience of the Marcel Wanders-designed Lute Suites outside Amsterdam In 2004, Marcel Wanders took a drive outside Amsterdam's city center to the...

You've Got Style.
January 1, 2007... by Edie Cohen HOK's Los Angeles headquarters for AOL sends out a clear, colorful message One of the original go-to sites, AOL has, over the past 10 years, seen its territory invaded by Yahoo!, Google, YouTube, and, of course,...

Hospitality Products.
January 1, 2007... by Jen DeRose Tribù Jen DeRose Concave Elle and convex Lui, which make up the Twins collection of teak furniture, prove that two really is better than one. With an 18-inch height, they can be used as a side table or a...

Beyond Hans Christian Andersen.
January 1, 2007... by Henrik Most It's fun to be a kid at the innovative Day Care Center Skanderborggade. Because there's areal lack of outdoor space in this crowded part of Copenhagen, Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter transformed what would have been 8,600 square...

A Gem of a House.
January 1, 2007... by Kurt Handlbauer In the narrow streets of Tokyo's residential districts, the tightly packed houses utilize each site to the last available inch, their pragmatic cubes closed off from the sidewalk by screen walls of varying density....

K&B Products.
January 1, 2007... edited by Karen D. Singh Turn on the Rainbow And turn up the gas--sink and tub fittings in the Gas range from Rogerseller bring color back to the bathroom. Powder-coated in an utterly modern red, white, blue, or black as well as...

Home Grown.
January 1, 2007... by Vernon Mays Glass houses aren't just for the Philip Johnsons of the world, as Robin Dripps and Lucia Phinney can attest. Their 3,500-square-foot farmhouse in Batesville, Virginia--a perpetual work in progress--has suffered the...

Far From the Madding Crowd.
January 1, 2007... By Mario López-Cordero The Spanish island of Ibiza boasts a temperate climate and white-hot nightlife. All that's lacking is reasonable zoning laws: New construction is difficult to finesse, so any fresh enterprise needs to be...

Market.
January 1, 2007... edited by Karen D. Singh Get Lit Karen D. Singh O'Hare & D'Jafer reinvents chandelier styling with a new material: Vegetable-tanned leather, enlivened by crystal-shape dangling cutouts, is stitched together with contrasting...

100 and Counting.
January 1, 2007... by Craig Kellogg Swanke Hayden Connell celebrates its centennial Mega-firms can also be powerful brands, often as not borne aloft on the surnames of founders and partners. One century in the business has seen a parade of principals...

South for the Winter.
January 1, 2007... Edited by Craig Kellogg For those who just can't get enough of the flamboyant fashion sense of the woman who founded Old World Weavers, Rare Bird of Fashion: The Irreverent Iris Apfel has landed at a bookstore near you. Meanwhile, the...

Inside Track.
January 1, 2007... Edited by Craig Kellogg How does Zaha Hadid's Pritzker Prize-winning point of view translate into architecture for health care and hospitality? Quite well, it seems. At cancer-support center Maggie's Fife near Victoria Hospital in...

A Cut Above.
January 1, 2007... Edited by Craig Kellogg Enfant terrible Gordon Matta-Clark would have been 64 years old this year. Instead he died at 35 from cancer, in 1978. A Cornell University-trained architect, though he never practiced, Matta-Clark took a chain...

Pop Up.
January 1, 2007... Edited by Craig Kellogg Rome has its ancient obelisks. Now Seoul, South Korea, has Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen's $4 million Spring, part of downtown's Cheonggyecheon Restoration project. One visitor compared the tall aluminum...

Next Stop, $.
January 1, 2007... Edited by Craig Kellogg The founders of Antenna Design New York--a firm with a portfolio featuring designs for JetBlue's check-in kiosks and MetroCard vending machines--are starting 2007 with a bang. Masamichi Udagawa and Sigi Moeslinger...

Tree/House.
January 1, 2007... Edited by Craig Kellogg Soon, it may take just seeds and water to expand a house. Architects Mitchell Joachim and Javier Arbona, engineer Lara Greden, and horticulture company Plantware make up the green-thinking team that's...

Hooked on Craft.
January 1, 2007... by Jen DeRose Perhaps the winter weather turns our thoughts to craft: Two museums are threading together needlework concepts, past and present. In "Laced With History" at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin,...

Pinups.
January 1, 2007... edited by Karen D. Singh No shrinking violet Paisley patterns on parade 1. Northampton Resist cotton in ebony by Schumacher. 2. Mariba linen-polyester blend in silver by JAB. 3. Tarsia silk in blue by JAB. 4. Farid...

Full Speed Ahead.
January 1, 2007... by Edie Cohen For the Los Angeles headquarters of car-data provider edmunds.com, Studios Architecture kicks into overdrive If you've got James Bond fever, you probably fancy the Aston Martin DBS that 007 drives in Casino Royale....

Live and Let Live.
January 1, 2007... by Raul Barreneche Man and nature flourish together at a Madrid house by Selgascano Glenn Murcutt, the Pritzker Prize-winning Australian architect, preaches a modern-day take on the ancient aboriginal belief about respecting the land...

Snaps.
January 1, 2007... by Staff Record highs Interior Design's 22nd annual Hall of Fame trumped previous years with its record 1,500 in attendance. The crowd filled the grand ballroom of New York's Waldorf-Astoria for dinner, video presentations, and...

Update.
January 1, 2007... Edited by Jen DeRose Catch these events in February and March 1. "California College of the Arts at 100: Innovation by Design," mounted by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, features decorative objects, architectural models, and...

Perfect Vision.
January 1, 2007... by Mairi Beautyman A jaunt to the Schlossplatz in Stuttgart may send you running to have your vision checked. Look up to the second floor of a neoclassical limestone building right on the square, and you'll see an enormous floating eye:...

Tapas on Tap.
January 1, 2007... by Marc Kristal "Could you hang a ham over it?" When Yann de Rochefort engaged Meyer Davis Studio to design Boqueria, his New York tapas restaurant, that was the style barometer he supplied. "The restaurant is meant to re-create the vibe...