Interior Design articles from January 2009

Interior Design archives from January 2009

Books.(Clodagh: Your Home, Your Sanctuary)(The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs)(A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again)
January 1, 2009... Edited by Stanley Abercrombie Clodagh: Your Home, Your Sanctuary Stanley Abercrombie by Clodagh with Heather Ramsdell New York: Rizzoli New York, $50 224 pages, 225 color illustrations One-named, multitalented Clodagh...

The Secret Of His Success.(Ron Arad)(Interview)
January 1, 2009... by Raul Barreneche For Ron Arad, it's about wearing many, many different hats There are multidisciplinary designers, and then there's Ron Arad. Few have dominated disparate creative fields like this prolific, irreverent Israeli-born...

Closeup.(Directory)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... Edited by Karen D. Singh Folk Song Fabrics flaunt their inner gypsy 1. Maskros 76789 polyester in 1 by Almedahls. 2. Merzouga polyester in Aurore by Pierre Frey. 3. Delancey cotton in vermilion by Designers Guild. 4. Adelaide...

Contacts.
January 1, 2009... by Staff Photographers in Features Roland Halbe Photography ("It Took a Village," page 128; "The Zoo Story," page 152), 45 Böheimstrasse, 70199 Stuttgart, Germany; 49-711-607-4073; rolandhalbe.de . Alan Karchmer Architectural...

Designwire.(Laboratory of Architecture/Fernando Romero exhibition at Carnegie Museum of Art)(exhibition at Norman Rockwell Museum)(LEED certification for William Morris Agency Inc's headquarters)
January 1, 2009... by Annie Block, Mark McMenamin, and Meghan Edwards First Class Annie Block, Mark McMenamin, Meghan Edwards The U.K. offers new hope in the fight against e-mail addiction--courtesy of the Royal Mail, which just gave all...

Can We Talk?
January 1, 2009... by Cindy Allen A very aeronautical Ron Arad, chatting in this issue's "Crosslines" Q&A about how his creative trajectory has been diametrically opposed to current trends, could afford me sundry lofty subjects for this intro note. Or a flip...

Up To The Challenge.
January 1, 2009... by Judith Davidsen, Wing Leung, and Laura Girmscheid This is going to require a little perspective. Interior Design 's current top 100 Giants earned $2,697,678,869 in 2008, an increase of 13 percent over the previous crew and 9 percent more...

Headliners.
January 1, 2009... by Staff Agence Jouin Manku "It Took a Village," page 128 partner : Patrick Jouin. partner : Sanjit Manku. completed projects : Jules Verne restaurant in Paris; Spoon Byblos in Saint-Tropez, France; Alain Ducasse in...

Crossroads Of The World.(Gerner Kronick + Valcarce's Randy Gerner )
January 1, 2009... by Elena Kornbluth High above the Bosporus, Europe and Asia flow together at the Park Hyatt Istanbul by GKV As a boy growing up in New York, Randy Gerner listened enthralled as his grandfather told tales of Istanbul, where he was...

Market.(Directory)
January 1, 2009... by Mark McMenamin Oh So Duquette Mark McMenamin Over nearly six decades, one prolific designer supplied mansionsful of sophisticated exuberance to Hollywood royalty--who jealously guarded his masterpieces. Baker now liberates 19...

What Would Bunshaft Do?(Elie Tahari's contract with Lissoni Associati and Highland Associates)
January 1, 2009... by Aric Chen Lissoni Associati and Highland Associates channel a modernist legend for the Elie Tahari fashion studio in New York For Elie Tahari, fashion and architecture go hand in hand. "They both change with the times," he notes....

Hospitality Products.
January 1, 2009... by Karen D. Singh and Craig Kellogg A Warm Reception Karen D. Singh, Craig Kellogg If not skillfully navigated, the crossroads of residential aesthetics and contract environments can be a multi-pattern pileup of haphazard damasks...

Texas Two-Step.(Adam Tihany)
January 1, 2009... by Edie Cohen First buy a Dallas landmark. Then hire Adam Tihany. And you've got yourself a hotel called the Joule He's worked on six continents, in more cities than he can tally, and his restaurants and hotels regularly scale...

The Zoo Story.(Grosser Garten)
January 1, 2009... by Maria Shollenbarger At Heinle, Wischer und Partner's latest project in Dresden, Germany, the clients were real animals The Grosser Garten is Dresden's crown jewel. It became a public garden in 1814, occupying roughly three quarters...

Time And Again.(Ikepod at the annual Design Miami fair.)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... by Craig Kellogg Marc Newson used to show his wristwatches for Ikepod--the company he co-owns with media entrepreneur turned author-collector Adam Lindemann--alongside the vintage and limited-edition furniture at the annual Design Miami...

Bricks Begone.(renovation of Bruges canal house)
January 1, 2009... by Seth Sherwood You can't toss a brick in the venerable Belgian city of Bruges without hitting, well, more bricks. It's a town so quaint, blocky, and angular that it looks snapped together by some Flemish Norman Rockwell with a Lego...

The Mirror Has Two Faces.(Federico Delrosso's work)
January 1, 2009... by Julie Taraska Often a designer's greatest challenges on a renovation project are to develop an understanding of the client and the space to be transformed. Neither of these proved problematic for architect Federico Delrosso on his...

Kitchen Bath Products.(Directory)
January 1, 2009... by Karen D. Singh, Craig Kellogg, and Mark McMenamin Food Fight! Karen D. Singh, Craig Kellogg, Mark McMenamin Alpes Inox scored a KO in 1998 with innovative flip-up hobs for multiple burners. A decade later, lead designer Nico...

Blue, Bluer, Bluest.(Duravit AG's store)
January 1, 2009... by Mark McMenamin Were it not for water, Duravit would be at sea. This critical cause-and-effect wasn't lost on architects Eduard Schmutz and Matthias Mayer as they plotted the 190-year-old German bathroom giant's first stand-alone...

Everything In Its Place.
January 1, 2009... by Jane Margolies Kitty Hawks and her husband's larger New York apartment proves the perfect home for their many furnishings collected over decades Just a day and a half into her husband's retirement, Interior Design Hall of Fame...

Flying Business Class.(father inspired Lee Skolnick's architectural career)(Occupation overview)
January 1, 2009... by C.C. Sullivan Lee Skolnick evokes flight metaphors in designing a Dayton, Ohio, center for training entrepreneurs Lee Skolnick's father inspired his son's architectural career, or at least the driven, entrepreneurial side of it. Not...

Boutique Mentality.(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... by Mark McMenamin Most national retailers cookie-cutter their stores. But Anthropologie, an offshoot of Urban Outfitters, shrewdly camouflages 118 units as one-off regional boutiques. Designing nine nationwide--one of which earned an...

The Modern Mandate.
January 1, 2009... by Laura Fisher Kaiser Saving significant mid-century buildings has united preservationists and environmentalists With money tight and ice caps melting, preservation and sustainability experts have linked arms in proclaiming that the...

Brand Ambition.(a designer par excellence)(Occupation overview)
January 1, 2009... by Craig Kellogg Between business interests and creative concerns, Denise Korn builds the bridge Denise Korn is not easy to pigeonhole. She studied photography and design at Cornell University and the Parsons School of Design. Her...

It Took A Village.(designing a Malaysian house )
January 1, 2009... by Raul Barreneche Styles old and very new, talents near and very far--all came together in this epic Malaysian house by Agence Jouin Manku Kuala Lumpur is one of the world's more surreal capitals. It's a hypermodern, high-tech Blade...

Grand Illusions.(Herzog and De Meuron Architects.)
January 1, 2009... by Craig Kellogg Shelton, Mindel creates an airy, ephemeral suite in New York to market condominiums in Herzog & De Meuron's first skyscraper Developers of the apartment building at 56 Leonard Street in Manhattan admit that they asked...

Main Squeeze.(Jamba Juice Co. is beautifuly decorated )
January 1, 2009... by Elizabeth Blish Hughes The colors may be bright, the space may be filled with California sunshine, but the strongest first impression made by the Jamba Juice corporate headquarters is the refreshing scent of oranges. For a company...