Interior Design articles from July 2006

Interior Design archives from July 2006

Bios.
July 1, 2006... by Staff Laura Bohn Design Associates "All in the Family," page 186 principal : Laura Bohn. completed projects : A loft in a converted bank in New York; a carriage house conversion in Brooklyn, New York; a house at the Trump...

Books.
July 1, 2006... edited by Stanley Abercrombie Pietre Dure: The Art of Semiprecious Stonework Stanley Abercrombie by Annamaria Giusti Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, $85 264 pages, 204 color illustrations Pietre dure. In the U.S.,...

Style Therapy.
July 1, 2006... by Tom Beer Tropical heat meets an elegant cool front at the Ritz-Carlton, Grand Cayman, home to the Silver Rain spa by D'Aquino Monaco Its name evokes the purity of nature, the fantasy of wealth. However that name, Silver Rain, was...

Nature and Nurture.
July 1, 2006... by Marisa Bartolucci The landscape is the star of Vladimir Djurovic's architecture A suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, seems an unlikely base for one of the world's most forward-thinking landscape architects. But then again, why not? Before...

A Matter of Faith.
July 1, 2006... by Laura Fisher Kaiser At the U.S. Naval Academy, a Jewish chapel by Boggs & Partners shines with a heavenly light In 1834, the U.S. Navy's first Jewish commodore bought Thomas Jefferson's Virginia home, Monticello, and saved it from...

Aman State of Mind.
July 1, 2006... by Edie Cohen Subtlety and luxury--Jean-Michel Gathy does it again at Amanyara in the Turks and Caicos "You don't go to an Aman to party," Jean-Michel Gathy proclaims. He should know. As founding principal of Denniston International...

Designwire.
July 1, 2006... edited by Sheila Kim-Jamet Your hyperlink to interiordesign.net eWalk-Through Sheila Kim-Jamet At London Heathrow Airport, Softroom has completed a swank two-phase redesign and expansion of Virgin Atlantic Airways's...

Can You Feel It?
July 1, 2006... by Cindy Allen Spread open up any feature story in this month's issue, and you won't fail to notice skillfully crafted projects that go beyond mere problem-solving. And to rescue myself quickly from your giant-size duh, I invite you, our...

Flooring.
July 1, 2006... edited by Karen D. Singh Norguet Nouveau Karen D. Singh Patrick Norguet has already scored a place in the permanent collection of New York's Museum of Modern Art and boasts blue-chip corporate clients such as Renault and...

The Inside Story.
July 1, 2006... by Craig Kellogg Outside, it's a classic farmhouse--but the interior of this residence in Bridgehampton, New York, is an industrial experiment by Guillermo Gomez Architect Set on a quiet lane near the beach in Bridgehampton, New York,...

Doing More With Less.
July 1, 2006... by Judith Davidsen After a rebound in last year's ranking, the second 100 Interior Design Giants for 2006 continued to make strides. This group earned a total of $309,890,091 in 2005, up from $307,879,526 in the previous study...

Author, Author.
July 1, 2006... by Raul Barreneche For two married writers, David Hu designed a New York loft that balances color and pattern, openness and privacy. Rick Marin has a no-metal policy. So when the time came to renovate and expand his family's New York...

Sit and Stay Awhile.
July 1, 2006... by J. Michael Welton The first colonial capital of North Carolina, picturesque Edenton became a mill town in the 19th century. An 1898 brick cotton mill there is currently being converted into 51 condominiums by Clearscapes, a firm...

K&B Bios.
July 1, 2006... by Staff Designers in kitchen & bath West Chin Architect ("The Great White Way," page 91), 423 West 14th Street, Suite 3R, New York, NY 10014; 212-242-4945; wcarchitect.com . EDG ("Fortune Cookie Not Included," page 98), 1201...

Fortune Cookie Not Included.
July 1, 2006... by James Nestor "Wow, that was really interesting!" is not an exclamation often heard from patrons exiting a lavatory. But animated, half-giggled remarks are exactly what echo in the hall outside the restrooms at Sino, a restaurant and...

The Great White Way.
July 1, 2006... by Wanda Jankowski "Our specialty is white. The way the light comes in and reflects off surfaces is beautiful. But we always make a white space comfortable by offsetting it," says the namesake principal of West Chin Architect. In many...

All In One.
July 1, 2006... by Rineke van Duysen The Dutch have never been short on outsize aspirations. Witness the globe-spanning trade routes of the 17th century, the monumental presence of Rembrandt van Rijn's The Night Watch, and the brick-size hunk of apple...

K&B Products.
July 1, 2006... edited by Sheila Kim-Jamet Decked out for summer Sheila Kim-Jamet If the firm Eoos Design has anything to say about bathtubs, it's that they're not just for bathing anymore. "We figured it must be possible to transform an...

All In The Family.
July 1, 2006... by Aric Chen How do you keep two dozen children and grandchildren happy? Laura Bohn figured it out at an urban beach cottage in Queens, New York Who has a beach house in New York City? A recent client of Laura Bohn Design Associates,...

Market.
July 1, 2006... edited by Karen D. Singh Duck, Duck. . .Goose Karen D. Singh This seating series by Dauphin could quack up even the most stiff-lipped grown-up. The Baby Bobo chair and bench and Baby Otto ottoman are cute enough for home and...

Totally Radical.
July 1, 2006... by Judith Gura California's Art Center Design Conference on "radical craft" stoked the creative fires What can interior designers learn from listening to a designer of outer-space environments, an underwater explorer, a cartoon...

"S" Marks the Spot.
July 1, 2006... by Edie Cohen Zeff Design's Social Hollywood restaurant and private club is it It's not a back-lot film set or a late-night rerun of Casablanca. The current incarnation of Moorish exotica in Los Angeles is Social Hollywood, a...

No Baggage.
July 1, 2006... edited by Craig Kellogg Abandoning the original Aero Studios location in New York, Thomas O'Brien left behind a magical gallery and office interior. Nevertheless, Parisian bag maker Longchamp gutted the space in pursuit of a different...

Schindler's Flats.
July 1, 2006... edited by Craig Kellogg In 1995, the Republic of Austria acquired Rudolph Schindler's Pearl M. Mackey apartments, built in Los Angeles in 1939. Now part of the city's MAK Center for Art & Architecture, a spin-off of Vienna's...

Available on Demand.
July 1, 2006... edited by Craig Kellogg One technological step up from a museum postcard, New York's Museum of Modern Art has introduced a special kiosk that digitally prints images from shows, to order, on archival paper in three sizes. Choose a stock...

Island (Still) Life.
July 1, 2006... edited by Craig Kellogg Following a scouting trip to Honolulu, Ralph Pucci returned to New York and unveiled "Tribute to Noguchi," a collection of earthy Hawaiian masterpieces, at Ralph Pucci International. The showroom's Los Angeles...

British Invasion.
July 1, 2006... edited by Craig Kellogg It's curtains for dated, Bonfire of the Vanities baroque at New York's RIHGA Royal Hotel, a luxe property once managed by Marriott International. The David Collins Studio redesign, which debuts in phases this...

A Growth Industry.
July 1, 2006... edited by Craig Kellogg The California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, gives new meaning to the phrase "grow your own." In planning a reef for the academy's future facility by Renzo Piano Building Workshop, designers could hardly...

ASID at 75.
July 1, 2006... edited by Craig Kellogg The Illinois chapter of the American Society of Interior Designers is celebrating three quarters of a century of success. Amid the economic wreckage of the Great Depression, professional clubs in cities such as...

Pinups.
July 1, 2006... edited by Karen D. Singh Fresh-squeezed Juice up summer, indoors and out 1. Iola linen in 03 by Osborne & Little. 2. Pera cotton-linen in 04 by Osborne & Little. 3. Sarong polyester-acrylic in tangerine by F. Schumacher & Co. 4....

IIDA Olé.
July 1, 2006... by Staff The International Interior Design Association's 33rd annual awards ceremony, aka the Cool gala, attracted a hot list of 500 guests to the Westin Chicago River North during NeoCon. Industry notables and scantily clad models...

Mixed Use, Mixed Media.
July 1, 2006... by Edie Cohen A Los Angeles complex by Studio Pali Fekete Architects is a place to live, work, dine, and appreciate art In Los Angeles, it's rare for architects to make a clean sweep: develop real estate, design, and build. Yet the...

Update.
July 1, 2006... edited by Jen DeRose Catch these events in August and September 1. Aleksandra Mir's solo show lands at the Kunsthaus Zurich. The large-scale cartoonish drawings in "Switzerland and Other Islands" depict the country's history of...

Engineered to Perfection.
July 1, 2006... by Thomas Connors Holabird & Root designed the Technological Institute at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, in 1942. Although Atomic Age-appropriate, the limestone monolith is, to put it kindly, "not an expressive building,"...

Let the Games Begin.
July 1, 2006... by Susan Welsh Anthony Hoete knows a thing or two about the pressures on working parents. The founding partner of WHAT_Architecture steps off the Eurostar in London, returning from a project in France--with his 2-year-old son, Maui, in...