Interior Design articles from May 2009

Interior Design archives from May 2009

A Pavilion in a Million.(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... Staff The summer pavilions at the Serpentine Gallery just got some competition. To debut at Tent London, a 100% Design satellite event in September, the first Art Fund Pavilion will be the work of Tina Manis Associates, the only U.S. firm...

Chalk It Up to Imagination.(Hickok Cole Architects P.C.)
May 1, 2009... Laura Fisher Kaiser Hickok Cole makes the honor roll for Blackboard in Washington, D.C. Sean Wayne steps into the headquarters of the education-software company Blackboard in Washington, D.C., and is nearly bowled over by several...

The Discovery Process.(HLW International L.L.P.)
May 1, 2009... Judith Davidsen HLW took the time to ascertain a New York law firm's needs What do you do when you don't have all that much experience in the field where your prospective client is active? HLW International faced just that situation...

Leading Lights.(International Interior Design Association competition )(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... Deborah Wilk Key among the judging criteria for the annual International Interior Design Association competition was the appropriateness of solutions for every area of practice, from corporate and institutional to retail and residential....

History in the Making.(East Kong Yick building)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... Craig Kellogg In 1910, after being denied proper accommodations in Seattle, 170 beleaguered Chinese laborers pooled their resources and built themselves a place to live in the Chinatown International District. Fast-forward a century, and...

Young at Heart.(Koko Architecture + Design )(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... Annie Block Ah, Scandinavia. Its very mention evokes serenity, nature, and fuss-free simplicity. Step into the gallery More North, and those characteristics are immediately apparent. "It's a Nordic setting transplanted to the middle of...

Harmony and Understanding.(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... Craig Kellogg Don't be a hater. Four simple words sum up the message at the Museum of Tolerance, operated by the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles. A 34,000-square-foot renovation of the museum by Cannon Design's Yazdani Studio...

God is in the Details.(Craig Hartman )(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... Deborah Wilk Craig Hartman is an architect not prone to hyperbole. While discussing the Cathedral of Christ the Light in Oakland, California, the design partner at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill shies away from words such as soaring or...

See and be Green.(Bluarch Architecture )(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... Craig Kellogg "It's not greenwashing," Bluarch Architecture + Interiors principal Antonio Di Oronzo says of his first LEED-certified project. His client Jon Bakhshi, the owner of the New York nightclubs Home and Guest House, remained...

Leaving Las Vegas.(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... Craig Kellogg As the face of Fornarina, the flirty Italian fashion label, Lindsay Lohan vamps it up in everything from distressed denim to oversize polka dots. Just as attention-grabbing is a futuristic, award-winning Las Vegas flagship...

East Meets East.(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... Craig Kellogg Some renovations are all about the numbers. For the 5,400-square-foot interior of Nishimura, a Japanese restaurant in a Chinese hotel, CL3 Architects assembled a 4-foot-thick divider, 30 feet long, by using nearly 1,000...

Monkey Business.(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... Bethan Ryder Public sculpture is often dislocated from its setting--put on a pedestal for all to admire. But for Alastair Mackie's Mimetes Anon , context was all. Crouched on a wall on the plaza of the Economist Buildings, the lifelike...

A Gold Mine of Ideas.(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... Deborah Wilk The first 10 minutes of There Will Be Blood provide a primer in the hardships of mining for precious metal, as a 19th-century prospector played by Daniel Day-Lewis struggles with his rocky parcel--to the detriment of his own...

Time for the Meeting.(Conference news)
May 1, 2009... Laura Fisher Kaiser Can high-tech and high-style coexist in the conference room? Consider this scene from a marketing spot: A Hollywood-handsome architect shifts impatiently as his black cab lurches through London traffic. His cell...

The View from the Other Side.(architectural services)
May 1, 2009... Edie Cohen Michael White is an architect's developer It's better to be lucky than smart. Or so the saying goes. Michael White is both. A Columbia University--trained architect, he began his professional career at Robert A.M. Stern...

Be Flexible.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Edited by Karen D. Singh, Deborah Wilk, Mark McMenamin, and Yvonne M. Chan Think mixed-use, and it's usually architecture that comes to mind. But think again with Molo Design's Softblock modules. Actually more strip than block, they're...

Hugs and Kisses.
May 1, 2009... Edited by Karen D. Singh, Deborah Wilk, Mark McMenamin, and Yvonne M. Chan Office life is sweet when filled with X's and O's Cricket bench in white high-pressure plastic laminate and chromed steel by Leland International. Lulu...

Good Looks, Doing Good.
May 1, 2009... Edited by Karen D. Singh, Deborah Wilk, Mark McMenamin, and Yvonne M. Chan It's a natural progression. After people become interested in how a product is made, their focus shifts to those who make the products. Socially responsible...

A Cut Above.
May 1, 2009... Edited by Karen D. Singh, Deborah Wilk, Mark McMenamin, and Yvonne M. Chan Sharp silhouettes meet unexpected shapes Sundance polyethylene chair in white by Sandler Seating. Agatha Flower side chair in yellow laminated beechwood and...

Citterio & Co.
May 1, 2009... Edited by Karen D. Singh, Deborah Wilk, Mark McMenamin, and Yvonne M. Chan In a career spanning nearly four decades, Antonio Citterio has turned multitasking into an art. Ring up the Interior Design Hall of Fame member, and he may be...

May Flowers.
May 1, 2009... Edited by Karen D. Singh, Deborah Wilk, Mark McMenamin, and Yvonne M. Chan Florals are a perennial classic Bigelow Commercial's Botanical Origin nylon carpet in Meadow Grass by Mohawk Industries. Bigelow Commercial's Variegated...

Market Sources.
May 1, 2009... Edited by Karen D. Singh, Deborah Wilk, Mark McMenamin, and Yvonne M. Chan Showing Some Leg Knú , 616-741-9663; getknu.com . Dakota Jackson , 718-889-4705; dakotajackson.com . Loewenstein , 800-327-2548;...

Cradled in Comfort.
May 1, 2009... Edited by Karen D. Singh, Deborah Wilk, Mark McMenamin, and Yvonne M. Chan "It's what Charles Eames used to call 'defining the need,'" Susan Lyons says. She's talking about her collaborations with Herman Miller , which assigned her to...

Digital Magic.
May 1, 2009... Edited by Karen D. Singh, Deborah Wilk, Mark McMenamin, and Yvonne M. Chan Pacify or provoke? Maharam customers favoring the second option will welcome the debut of Maharam Digital Projects, which translates the work of visual artists and...

Showing Some Leg.
May 1, 2009... Edited by Karen D. Singh, Deborah Wilk, Mark McMenamin, and Yvonne M. Chan It's OK to flaunt it at the office Ann chair in black leather, bent plywood, and stainless steel by KnE[bar]. Iko Downs ottoman in cream Luxtan leather and...

Nature Nurtures.
May 1, 2009... Edited by Karen D. Singh, Deborah Wilk, Mark McMenamin, and Yvonne M. Chan When luxury residential designer Campion Platt and HBF Textiles get together, it's something like the intersection of Park Avenue and Main Street. Or perhaps make...

Smart Seat.
May 1, 2009... Edited by Karen D. Singh, Deborah Wilk, Mark McMenamin, and Yvonne M. Chan Knoll calls it holistic ergonomics: complete support of the seated body's fluid state of motion. This concept defines the Generation by Knoll task chair, a...

See-Through and Peekaboo.
May 1, 2009... Edited by Karen D. Singh, Deborah Wilk, Mark McMenamin, and Yvonne M. Chan Take another look at dividers 1. Engaging laser-cut polyester in Nightlife-Smoke, Seaside-Sky, and Maritime-Taupe by Rodolph. Rolmatic Corner sliding door...

Welcome Home.
May 1, 2009... Edited by Karen D. Singh, Deborah Wilk, Mark McMenamin, and Yvonne M. Chan If an office felt more like a living room, might its occupants linger longer Offering an affirmative are Denizen case goods from Coalesse , a Steelcase division...

Clodagh's Continent.
May 1, 2009... Edited by Karen D. Singh, Deborah Wilk, Mark McMenamin, and Yvonne M. Chan Every nomad roams in search of new resources, but it takes a visionary to know what to do with them. After 25 years of traveling across more than 90 countries, one...

Hot Chocolate.
May 1, 2009... Raul Barreneche A Nestle laboratory by Rojkind Arquitectos heats up a historic Mexican city Rojkind Arquitectos caused a big stir with a little building in 2007: a museum of chocolate for Nestle. The pavilion, on the grounds of a...

Shout It Out.
May 1, 2009... Aric Chen Saatchi & Saatchi, designed by Red House China, is the coolest ad agency in Beijing Emblazoned in big blue letters at the entrance of Saatchi & Saatchi's Beijing office is the slogan "Nothing Is Impossible." It's the kind of...

Hitting the High Notes.
May 1, 2009... Annie Block Cultural and spiritual spaces soar above the European landscape Theis and Khan Architects project Lumen United Reformed Church, London. standout A white form, an enclosed skylit space for contemplation,...

Snaps.
May 1, 2009... Staff Author! Author! He's been called a lot of things. Icon. Visionary. Maverick. With The Complete Kagan--Vladimir Kagan: A Lifetime of Avant-Garde Design , a celebration of his work and life published by the Pointed Leaf Press, he...

Special Effects.
May 1, 2009... Edie Cohen At the Moving Picture Company's Los Angeles facility by Patrick Tighe, curves and lights are transformational Ask Tighe Architecture for something different, and you'll get it. In spades. That's what the U.K.'s Moving...

Catch the Wave.
May 1, 2009... Benjamin Budde "Neither residential nor commercial" is how Nendo founder Oki Sato describes his new studio's location in the Meguro district of Tokyo. "Kind of an in-between area." As he speaks about his interior for the studio, it starts...

Garden Party.
May 1, 2009... Edie Cohen Ever wonder where some of those TV reality shows are dreamed up? How about at a site that's refreshingly green as well as efficient and intelligent? That's what Authentic Entertainment--an independent production company that...

In Tune With Zune.
May 1, 2009... Edie Cohen Work by day. Party by night. The motto of prerecession twenty somethings is actually the premise behind Zune L.A., where Microsoft's Zune MP3 player is going mano a mano against the mighty Apple iPod. For added street cred...

Accessories.
May 31, 2009... Staff Undergrowth Design Staff Naughty meets nice with designer Tina Tsang's cheeky and delicious Blaue Blume dessert stand. Where the central stem would be are, instead, a sexy pair of alluring gams wearing gold, white, or...

Building Products.
May 31, 2009... Staff Stone Source Staff Patricia Urquiola leaves an impression with her Dechirer porcelain stoneware. Sporting a patchwork of subtle patterns, the collection is meant to resemble traces of old reliefs and striations left in...

Eco-Friendly.
May 31, 2009... Staff Teragren Staff For use as counters and cutting surfaces, Traditional Bamboo Countertops are a green chef's dream. This flooring, panel, and veneer manufacturer uses sustainably harvested bamboo and a food-safe,...

Fabric & Wall Covering.
May 31, 2009... Staff Loop Staff Join the Global Tribe. The robust collection of five high performance polyester blends takes its cues from ancient civilizations across the earth. Intriguingly, tribes from Africa to the northeastern United...

Flooring.
May 31, 2009... Staff Gandia Blasco Staff It will be hard to keep Jose Gandia's handsome rug a secret. The hand-tufted Codigo , which is Spanish for "code," is alive with a whirl of depressed white dots. Composed of pure New Zealand wool, it...

Furniture.
May 31, 2009... Staff Opinion Ciatti Staff Towers of tomes are destined to rise in Uptown , a vertically minded storage system by Lapo Ciatti. Scratch-resistant, solvent-free MDF is used for the 7A3/4-inch-wide figures, which can stand...

Kitchen Bath.
May 31, 2009... Staff Arwa Staff Flexible taps were created to be functional, but no one ever said they couldn't be fun, too. So proves Zurich-based designer Florin Baeriswyl with his slim, colorful Twinflex faucets. A synthetic hose is encased...

Lighting.
May 31, 2009... Staff Artemide Staff Spiraling toward earth in modish disarray, Giuseppe Maurizio Scutella's Pirce halogen suspension lamp claimed a 2008 Good Design Award from the Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design. The...

Office Furniture.
May 31, 2009... Staff Kinzo Staff Desks that seek to rise above their station just might be inspired by the Air 202 . Taking its lead from space travel, the chiseled piece hovers in white lacquer or laminate with tubular steel, powder-coated leg...

Outdoor.
May 31, 2009... Staff Jane Hamley Wells Staff Lounging two ways is always more fun than one, as demonstrated by the Sun-Rebel lounger by Freeline. The sculptural piece is invertible to offer different seating positions, and is constructed of...

Seating.
May 31, 2009... Staff Moroso Staff Patchwork takes on new meaning in the Karmacoma sofa. Japanese textiles are juxtaposed on a boxy silhouette, lending it a layered yet thoroughly modern look. Part of the new Sushi collection by Edward van...