Interior Design articles from June 2007

Interior Design archives from June 2007

Fashion Statement.
June 1, 2007... by Edie Cohen Trina Turk tries out a very different look for her Los Angeles showroom-tailored by Bestor Architecture Had she not become a fashion designer, Trina Turk might have turned her talents to interiors. Even at the breakneck...

Bios.
June 1, 2007... by Staff Bestor Architecture "Fashion Statement," page 186 principal : Barbara Bestor. completed projects : Lou wine bar, Union clothing shop, and residences, all in Los Angeles; XLarge clothing shop in New York. current...

Books.
June 1, 2007... Edited by Stanley Abercrombie Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years Stanley Abercrombie by Kynaston McShine, Lynne Cooke, John Rajchman, and Benjamin H.D. Buchloh New York: Museum of Modern Art, $75 420 pages, 381...

Iron Curtain, Concrete Wall.
June 1, 2007... by Aric Chen Looking back 75 years, Barry Bergdoll brings revolutionary design to New York's Museum of Modern Art. The last time Barry Bergdoll delved into early 20th-century avant-garde architecture in the Soviet Union, he was...

Growing Season.
June 1, 2007... by Howard Halle Summer brings Roxy Paine's stainless-steel trees to a New York park. A patch of green hemmed in by stone, steel, and glass, New York's Madison Square Park seems a particularly apt setting for the stainless-steel trees...

Now You See It.
June 1, 2007... by Judy Fayard David Ling's Paris shop for Episode hatched a few experimental ideas. "It's a blend of East and West, ancient and modern, natural and man-made," David Ling says of his Paris boutique for Episode, a fashion label based...

Designwire.
June 1, 2007... Edited by Sheila Kim-Jamet Your hyperlink to interiordesign.net Acing It Sheila Kim-Jamet The Ace Hotel Portland aspires to be neither boutique nor old-world. Rather, the 79-room Oregon property regards itself as a...

Ever Green.
June 1, 2007... by Cindy Allen June is green month, as in eco. Come to think of it, though, so are July and August and so on and so on and so on. 'Bout time, too. Sustainability is here to stay. (Stick around long enough, and who knows? Maybe someone will...

He'll Always Have Paris.
June 1, 2007... by Jay Pridmore A Francophile's collection of art moderne furniture comes home to a Chicago house designed with architect Paul Florian Collector-designer John Mark Horton admits that he's "over-domiciled." His homes in Chicago,...

In the Beginning...
June 1, 2007... by C.C. Sullivan Benjamin Noriega-Ortiz went all the way back to Genesis to reinvent an Arizona resort as the Mondrian Scottsdale Benjamin Noriega-Ortiz doesn't just design spaces. He tells stories. With materials and mass, furnishings...

Asian Fusion.
June 1, 2007... by Andrew Yang Japanese and Chinese flavors merge at Beijing's Shangri-La Hotel, with its Nishimura restaurant by CL3 Architects Japanese restaurants in the U.S. have definitely raised the design bar, with such heavy-hitters as Tadao...

Getting Better All the Time.
June 1, 2007... by Sheila Kim-Jamet Sophisticated health-care design is sending a message of wellness Dentistry Minami-Nagano Dental Clinic, Japan DESIGN Hiro Design Studio. STANDOUT Principal Hiroki Tanabe artfully fashioned a polygonal...

Be Our Guest.
June 1, 2007... Edited by Karen D. Singh Welcome to the HD Expo & Conference in Las Vegas Rockwell Rocks Karen D. Singh Amid the socialites coming out with lines of handbags and the like, architects who turn their attention to product design...

Garden of Earthly Delights.
June 1, 2007... by Stephen Treffinger Amid the visual overload that is the Salone Internazionale del Mobile, the L-Finesse Invisible Garden was that rare place where Product could go almost unnoticed. Designed around the new Lexus hybrid LS 600h, the...

Market.
June 1, 2007... Edited by Karen D. Singh Green Grow the Rushes Karen D. Singh The medieval English tradition of rush flooring is alive and well. Woven, sewed, and bound by hand, rugs by Rushmatters are made of rushes harvested from the banks of...

Power Couples Unite.
June 1, 2007... by Edie Cohen For a celebrity chef and a media executive, Minarc's husband-wife team expanded and reinvented this Los Angeles house As the saying goes, things aren't always as they seem. That's especially true for a Los Angeles house...

Behind the Velvet Rope.
June 1, 2007... by Craig Kellogg Curators have rediscovered the art of showing objects in context Peter Marino believes that "pieces of furniture were not designed to be looked at with a magnifying glass, all by themselves. It's not very nice to the...

Favorable Winds.
June 1, 2007... by Mark McMenamin Just as sailboats on California's Santa Monica Bay rely on the wind, so does nearby Broadway Court. Pugh + Scarpa Architects fronted the $8.6 million affordable housing complex with galvanized-aluminum screens that...

Sailing on Empty.
June 1, 2007... by Mark McMenamin Champagne christened Sun21 last December in Spain. By this past May, when the catamaran's maiden voyage ended in New York, not a drop of fuel had been burned, thanks to rooftop photovoltaic panels that store enough...

Superdome.
June 1, 2007... by Mark McMenamin Nearly 30 years after Patrick Marsilli began building his dome dwellings in Europe and Asia, Solaleya brings the environmentally conscious Domespace Homes to the U.S. The first model, in upstate New York, is 90 percent...

The Smart House.
June 1, 2007... by Mark McMenamin Here's a bright idea: a blueprint for builders of energy-efficient houses. That's what's provided by the Ecomagination Homebuilder program, a collaboration between the General Electric Company and a division of Masco...

A Peach of a Project.
June 1, 2007... by Mark McMenamin Located in the century-old Puritan Mill complex, Herman Miller's Atlanta National Design Center-a 15,200-square-foot showroom and sales office-was recently named LEED Gold for Commercial Interiors. Krueck & Sexton...

Baker's Man.
June 1, 2007... by Mark McMenamin A baker, environmentalist, and sculptor, Maury Rubin adds yet another profession to his CV: furniture designer. At his second tiny Birdbath bakeshop in New York, his trunk stools are crafted from fallen trees and topped...

Pinups.
June 1, 2007... Edited by Karen D. Singh It's high time Sustainability stacks up with Climatex Lifecycle Home wool-ramie wovens from Twill Textiles 1. Interlaken in Frogbelly Green. 2. Stockbridge Strie in Straw Multi. 3. Stitch in scarlet. 4....

Snaps.
June 1, 2007... by Staff Star Power It was Hollywood on the Hudson at the annual Leader's Breakfast for the New York chapter of the International Interior Design Association, as director and actor Sydney Pollack and Interior Design editor in chief...

The Tsao Dynasty.
June 1, 2007... by Jen Renzi Three generations of Calvin Tsao's family can gather at this Northern California house by Tsao & McKown and Brian Laczko Wanderlust seems to run in Calvin Tsao's blood. "My entire family has led a very nomadic life," says...

Update.
June 1, 2007... Edited by Meghan Edwards Catch these events in July and August 1. The annual group show at Chicago's Zg Gallery, "Zg Summer" includes University of Pennsylvania professor Jackie Tileston's richly evocative Disembodied (Under Different...

LEED by Example.
June 1, 2007... by Laura Fisher Kaiser Almost nothing is greener than the U.S. Green Building Council headquarters, a Perkins + Will project in Washington, D.C. If schadenfreude were biofuel, Washington, D.C., could crank out enough energy to power...

Orange is the New Green.
June 1, 2007... by Bradley Lincoln Founded five years ago in architect Joe Hamilton's basement in Minneapolis, 20 Below Studio went on to larger digs in the derelict Saint Anthony neighborhood. The firm began to feel growing pains yet again as staff...

Good Neighbors.
June 1, 2007... by J. Michael Welton No one ever accused Omaha of being a hotbed of green design, but a sustainable housing development by Randy Brown Architects is quietly heating up a market no one even knew existed. With 14 lots clustered on a...

A Palate for Pallets.
June 1, 2007... by Annie Block Among the menu offerings at Cheryl's Global Soul in Brooklyn, New York, are a Moroccan vegetable tagine and Thai coconut-curry mussels. Yet ask chef-owner Cheryl Smith what her taste in design is, and she'll say, "Between...