Interior Design articles from July 2008

Interior Design archives from July 2008

Guest Appearance.
July 1, 2008... by Edie Cohen When a Los Angeles couple has visitors, they stay in a showstopping pavilion by Aleks Istanbullu No doubt that this pair of green-striped cubes is a folly. With a double-height library cum living room, a galley kitchen,...

Urban Renewal.
July 1, 2008... by Nancy Ganiard Smith Brad Lynch tears down a Chicago bungalow and rebuilds for his most demanding clients, his own family Tidy wood-framed bungalows and brick three-flats line a sleepy residential street on Chicago's North Side....

White On White...On White.
July 1, 2008... by Jen Renzi The palest of the pale prevails at Benjamin Noriega-Ortiz and Brian E. Boyle's house for friends in Sagaponack, New York To hear Benjamin Noriega-Ortiz tell it, the house his friends purchased in Sagaponack, New York, was...

Books.(Namesake)(Restroom: Contemporary Des)(Thomas Hope: Regency Designer)(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Edited by Stanley Abercrombie Thomas Hope: Regency Designer Stanley Abercrombie edited by David Watkin and Philip Hewat-Jaboor New Haven: Yale University Press, $100 520 pages, 460 illustrations (420 color) We are...

O Say Can You See.(Interview)
July 1, 2008... by Aric Chen Exhibitions designed by Jonathan Alger teach us new ways of looking Jonathan Alger designs exhibitions. But you won't find him fretting about how to hang paintings. A founder of C&G Partners, a successor firm to the...

Closeup.(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... Edited by Karen D. Singh Fancy Free Nama Rococo brings a playful spirit to wallpaper painted or screened by hand 1. Sixty-Eight in Pompeii. 2. Random Geometry in blue and white. 3. Serious Bokay in emerald. 4. Tokyo & Vine in...

Contacts.(Directory)
July 1, 2008... by Staff Designers in Special Feature Elliott + Associates Architects ("Dinner for Seven," page 248), 35 Harrison Avenue, Oklahoma City, OK 73104; 405-232-9554; e-e-a.com . Glamorous Co. ("Dinner for Seven," page 248), 7-6...

Suspending Disbelief.
July 1, 2008... by C.C. Sullivan Skidmore, Owings & Merrill accomplishes the incredible at China Poly's colossal Beijing headquarters How do you hang one building inside another? More important, why try? Faced with a prominent client and a prominent...

Designwire.
July 1, 2008... by Annie Block, Mark McMenamin, and Meghan Edwards Formica Forms Annie Block, Mark McMenamin, Meghan Edwards If you're one of the people who think that Formica is just a synonym for plastic laminate, we have a news flash--you...

Pattern Language.(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... by Cindy Allen The July issue has driven our art department (and me) to graphic despair. Most of the time, we do an impeccable job of wrangling and corralling our featured interiors into an equitable, across-the-board visual format. But...

Flooring.
July 1, 2008... by Craig Kellogg Best Foot Forward Craig Kellogg Irreverent Nanimarquina uses a manual loom to weave the playfully tousled plaits of Twister, offered in red, purple, olive, or gray-green. To refresh the waxed cotton, dry cleaning...

Number 2--And Gaining.(Interior Design Giants)(Faulkner Design Group )(Paradigm Design Group )(Company rankings)
July 1, 2008... by Judith Davidsen Once again showing more hustle and bustle than the top 100 Interior Design Giants, the second 100 Giants earned $425,634,285 for our 2008 reporting period, up 25 percent from the previous year--the top group's increase...

Letter From Shanghai.
July 1, 2008... by Catherine Soie A00 Architecture and Studio 1:1 have transformed a post office into the premier property of Urbn Hotels & Resorts Perhaps it was a sense of youthful adventure that compelled Raefer Wallis and Sacha Silva to relocate...

Headliners.(Aleks Istanbullu Architects)(Benjamin Noriega-Ortiz)(Techentin Buckingham Architecture)
July 1, 2008... By Staff Aleks Istanbullu Architects "Guest Appearance," page 264 principal : Aleks Istanbullu. completed projects : Westchester-Loyola Village Branch Library, Biscuit Company Lofts development, an apartment complex, and...

Oh, Baby.
July 1, 2008... by Maria Shollenbarger Import.Export Architecture welcomes with love the office of Fragile, a maternity line in Antwerp, Belgium Hear that someone's pregnant, and certain words will inevitably come to mind. One of them, arguably, is...

Aisle Or Window?(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... by Mallery Roberts Morgan Chairs with red plastic seats. Chairs with bentwood backs. Chairs with wooden slats or leather padding. Artist Hans Schabus borrowed them from locations around London's Barbican Centre--offices, theaters,...

Kitchen/Bath Products.
July 1, 2008... by Karen D. Singh and Elizabeth Wine Back to Nature Karen D. SIngh, Elizabeth Wine Channeling Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the Axor Massaud collection that Jean-Marie Massaud designed for Hansgrohe's Axor brand pays homage to the...

Sun, Sea, And Stone.
July 1, 2008... by Maria Shollenbarger Houses are often decorated with travel souvenirs: masks from Africa, majolica from Italy--keepsakes with both aesthetic and sentimental value. When the owners of a penthouse in Knokke, a chic seaside resort in...

Triple-Decker Sandwich.
July 1, 2008... by Christy Hobart When it gets a little warm in her new kitchen in Manhattan Beach, California, Carol Madonna, an ad agency office director, cranks open two small corner windows above the sink and lets the Pacific Ocean breeze cool things...

Royal Flush.(Plastik Architects)
July 1, 2008... by Susan Welsh Imagine the scene: Local officials working on a regeneration plan are discussing a new public toilet for a parking lot. "I know!" says one. "Let's devote $590,000 to this toilet and make it a real architectural point of...

Just Add Bordeaux.(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... by Mark McMenamin The painted caves of Lascaux and the fuselage of the Concorde may represent two very different pinnacles of human achievement--but a Francophile will happily point out that both are French. And both influenced Opus...

Market.
July 1, 2008... by Karen D. Singh and Mark McMenamin Cottage Industry Karen D. Singh, Mark McMenamin When spinning straw into gold starts to seem passe, think yarn into china. Novice designer Susanne Feldt got the brain wave to knit forms in pure...

Summer School.(Personal account)
July 1, 2008... by Ann Pyne A McMillen partner's cottage in Southampton, New York, reads like a lesson in modern history In 1938, the Dutch historian Johan Huizinga published the treatise Homo Ludens, which translates as man playing. The concept is...

The Crystal Princess.
July 1, 2008... by Maria Shollenbarger It's Nadja Swarovski who brings the sparkle to her family's manufacturing empire The village of Wattens, in the Austrian Tyrol, may be only 160 miles from Milan. But Nadja Swarovski's journey from her...

It's A Jungle Out There.(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... by Mark McMenamin Right before Vicente Wolf flew to Papua New Guinea's capital, Port Moresby, a friend told him, "That's the world's most dangerous city outside a war zone." Warier types would have rebooked. But the Interior Design Hall of...

Dinner For Seven.
July 1, 2008... by Mark McMenamin From Oklahoma to Singapore, these restaurants serve up a visual feast II by IV Design Associates project Milestones Grill + Bar, Vancouver, British Columbia. standout The rugged and the resplendent compete in...

The House Of Armani.(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... by Staff For those who may not have been at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile to see the latest Armani Casa collection--and couldn't wait until it hit the floor stateside--Interior Design hosted a preview party at the company's store in...

Romancing The Ranch.
July 1, 2008... by Edie Cohen In the hills above Los Angeles, Warren Techentin takes his own 1950's house from dingy to dazzling It was a real-estate gold mine: the worst house on one of the best streets in Los Feliz. Warren Techentin--whose practice,...

A Hamptons Hoedown.
July 1, 2008... by Alejandro Saralegui Barbecue joints north of the Mason-Dixon Line often suffer from authenticity issues. Not so Townline BBQ in Sagaponack, New York. Owner Mark Smith and executive chef Joe Realmuto worked hard to create a roadside...

I Brake For Innovation.
July 1, 2008... by Maria Shollenbarger "I became disillusioned with practicing architecture," Dries Stevens admits. "These days, it's so much about the business side. So I gave it up." Now he drives a truck instead. His professional and personal...

The Desert Blooms.
July 1, 2008... by Debra Scott When former Olympic figure skater Michael Seibert bought this Palm Springs tract house, the kitchen's yellow floral wallpaper was intact. It's gone now, but the tongue-and-groove cathedral ceiling and peaked clerestories...