Interior Design articles from September 2006

Interior Design archives from September 2006

Wonder Twin Powers.
September 1, 2006... By Kimberly Goad How the sisters behind 2Michaels designed their way out of a Park Avenue style dilemma Before Jayne and Joan Michaels began work on this Park Avenue pied-a-terre, they followed standard procedure and showed their...

Balancing Act.
September 1, 2006... By C. C. Sullivan New and vintage, casual and elegant--everything hangs together at a West Village town house by Andrew Franz The notion of designer as therapist often rings true, especially when it's a client's first--or...

Bios.
September 1, 2006... By Staff Fox-Nahem Design "Triumph in TriBeCa," page 274 principal: Joe Nahem. completed projects: A McKim, Mead and White town house in New York; a Joe D'Urso oceanfront house in East Hampton, New York; his own oceanfront...

Books.
September 1, 2006... edited by Stanley Abercrombie Donghia: The Artistry of Luxury & Style Stanley Abercrombie by Sherri Donghia New York: Bulfinch Press, $40 192 pages, 175 color illustrations Furniture and textiles manufacturer...

Super Agent Man.
September 1, 2006... By Edie Cohen Keith Granet practices the art of the deal on behalf of interior designers Julia Roberts, Bruce Willis, and Steven Spielberg have Creative Artists Agency. Vince Chase of Entourage has Ari Gold. In the design world,...

Nakashima's Legacy.
September 1, 2006... By Annie Block We're all indebted to our elders--Nathaniel Bisson more than some others. From his grandfather, who lived near George Nakashima in Pennsylvania, Bisson inherited an enviable collection of original furniture. His grandmother...

Upstairs, Downstairs.
September 1, 2006... by Craig Kellogg "My mom was a little creeped out," Harry Allen admits, standing in the buzzing East Village headquarters of Harry Allen & Associates--an 1840's town house that was once a funeral home. "I told her, 'All this needs is a...

A Home For All Seasons.
September 1, 2006... By Rineke van Duysen Mixing the old with the new. Ask any interiors professional: It's one of the trickiest balancing acts in the business. But Michael Johnston Design Group walked that tightrope skillfully in helping a wealthy young...

Light Hearted.
September 1, 2006... By Raul Barreneche Lofts with sought-after square footage and high ceilings often come with one significant shortcoming: windows. They're frequently not only skimpy but also restricted to a single exposure, as far away from the entry as...

Their Architect.
September 1, 2006... By Craig Kellogg Louis Kahn's brilliant (leaky) Yale University Art Gallery is about to put a Polshek Partnership restoration job on display Nothing imperils delicate works of art like the weather. Dampness, fluctuating temperatures,...

A Match Made in Heaven.
September 1, 2006... By Kelly Beamon and Jen Derose In the concrete jungle, power brokers don't just commission a designer--they audition a soul mate In New York, it takes a lot to grab someone's attention. And hold it. So if you're going to build, build...

Let there be Light.
September 1, 2006... By Jessica Dheere To bring sunshine into an Upper East Side duplex, Giovannitti clad a dark rear garden entirely in white Corian--there goes the neighborhood On the Upper East Side, cladding your entire back garden in yacht-white...

Designwire.
September 1, 2006... edited by Sheila Kim-Jamet Your hyperlink to interiordesign.net Looking for more seating? We share additional picks in our online extension of "Market" (page 125). Draped in viscose carpet, GT Design's multifunctional aluminum-framed...

NYC With a Big D.
September 1, 2006... By Cindy Allen I recently spent an afternoon videotaping one of the illustrious inductees for our 2006 Hall of Fame. The interview wasn't only an up-close-and-personal look into the life of a bona fide artist--whose "art" just happens to...

Triumph in TriBeCa.
September 1, 2006... By Craig Kellogg Rave reviews are in for Joe Nahem's retro redesign of a family loft In the video for her smash hit "Be Without You," Mary J. Blige does her breaking up and making up against the backdrop of what appears to be a...

A Tale Of Two Cities.
September 1, 2006... By Howard Halle Sarah Morris makes mesmerizing nonnarrative films and formal, geometric paintings that defy easy explanation. "I'm interested in systems," she says. One might describe her subject matter as the dynamic urban landscape, a...

So Dazzling.
September 1, 2006... Kanae Hasegawa Dining out is a serious affair in Tokyo. Unlike European city dwellers, who make a common practice of inviting friends and family over to dinner at home, Japan's cramped urban dwellers frequently opt for entertaining at...

K&B Bios.
September 1, 2006... Staff Designers Aardvarchitecture ("Park Place," page S20), 100 LaSalle Street, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10027; 212-666-0180; aardvarchi.com . Architetto Barbara Pensa ("Cucina Romana," page S34), 47 Via delle Fornaci, 00185 Rome,...

The New Spain.
September 1, 2006... Mario López-Cordero In Catalonia, there's a typical type of house that's narrowly defined: the casa de cos, roughly translating as fits like a glove. These slender structures, which date from the 19th century, are often less than...

Just Add Water.
September 1, 2006... Joe Carter As renovations often do, this one started with a small idea: better windows for a kitchen previously stingy with both daylight and potentially exquisite views of Long Island Sound. Furthermore, the windows that did exist were...

Park Place.
September 1, 2006... Jeannie Rosenfeld When your client is a retail executive design-savvy enough to wear beautifully tailored suits--with neon pinstripes, no less--not just any apartment will do. And if he collects Asian antiques and contemporary art to...

Cucina Romana.
September 1, 2006... Edie Cohen Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck may never have set foot in a kitchen in Roman Holiday. But for most Italians, home life centers around the kitchen. Barbara Pensa, herself a Roman, makes it a literal center, too. That, at...

K&B Products.
September 1, 2006... edited by Karen D. Singh Meritalia Karen D. Singh Massimiliano Adami's Fosillli Moderni makes negative space positively charming. Polyurethane-foam reverse casts of found objects, such as bottles for water coolers, are...

Hot Property.
September 1, 2006... By Aric Chen The Lehman Smith McLeish--designed Rockefeller Center headquarters of Tishman Speyer is unquestionably class A+ Tishman Speyer has a blue-chip portfolio. Its properties include New York's Chrysler and MetLife Buildings...

Market.
September 1, 2006... edited by Karen D. Singh In the Sling of Things Karen D. Singh The Sedialunga from Art et Maison is an extendable folding chair inspired by a Turkish model that designer Enrico Tonucci found in his attic. The frame of Italian oak...

The Idea Mill.
September 1, 2006... Raul Barreneche While the rest of the Hamptons plays, Robert Wilson's Watermill Center is hard at work on an operatic or theatrical production It's difficult to cast Robert Wilson as a specific kind of artist. The Texas native...

Green Giant.
September 1, 2006... edited by Craig Kellogg In the world of high-stakes commercial real estate, New York's L&L Holding Company has bought the former American Telephone and Telegraph Building, constructed from 1912 to 1916 by William Welles Bosworth. Asked to...

John Hutton.
September 1, 2006... edited by Craig Kellogg John Hutton is one of the most recognized and prolific furniture designers of the past three decades. Donghia was just 12 years old when he joined the company in 1980. As design director, he tempered sleek...

Standing Tall.
September 1, 2006... edited by Craig Kellogg Five years on, the World Trade Center site in New York is still mainly inhabited by ghosts. Among the few architectural survivors, Verizon's 32-story masonry skyscraper, next door to ground zero, somehow survived...

Check-In Time.
September 1, 2006... edited by Craig Kellogg Where will the city that never sleeps be sleeping? As Steven Sclaroff's 90-room 6 Columbus property for Thompson Hotels nears completion, the same investor is working with Dodd Mitchell Design to construct the...

White for Fall.
September 1, 2006... edited by Craig Kellogg It's become the must-have accessory for every high-end New York department store: a chic cafe. The latest is Saks Fifth Avenue's SnAKS, a smart little number that II by IV Design Associates created in the middle of...

Horn & Who?
September 1, 2006... edited by Craig Kellogg The Automats of the early 20th century have disappeared from Gotham's cityscape. Now, New York Design Architects has brought the retro concept roaring back, 24-7, at Bamn! Fronting the kitchen of the 350-square-foot...

Trip the Light Fantastic.
September 1, 2006... edited by Craig Kellogg Everybody's been talking about Work Architecture Company's "stairdelier" at Diane von Furstenberg's DVF Studio, her future New York headquarters. But does anyone know where the sparkle will come from? Installed...

Big Apple Tour.
September 1, 2006... edited by Craig Kellogg Perhaps nobody knows New York like Brooklyn-born Robert A.M. Stern, dean of the Yale School of Architecture, senior partner of his namesake firm, and lead author of a series of comprehensive city histories focusing...

Going, Going.
September 1, 2006... edited by Craig Kellogg Barry Friedman, Partridge Fine Arts, C.M. Wright. New York's Ingrao Gallery joins the list of big-name dealers who've been the subject of a single-owner auction. The 200-lot sale at Sotheby's provides an...

The Tiger Lady.
September 1, 2006... edited by Craig Kellogg Artist and conservationist Rose Corcoran is wild about ferocious felines: leopards, lions, and especially the endangered tiger, of which there are said to be only 4,000 left outside captivity. After returning to her...

RISD Rising.
September 1, 2006... edited by Craig Kellogg The Rhode Island School of Design's Fleet Library marks an $11.2 million homecoming for Office dA's Nader Tehrani, a 1986 RISD graduate. He and fellow principal Monica Ponce de Leon were handed a beaux arts banking...

Pinups.
September 1, 2006... edited by Karen D. Singh Nowhere to Hide Premier Leather & Suede's vibrantly colored skins stand out in a crowd 1. Sanded Stingray in tangerine. 2. Sanded Stingray in pink. 3. Snake pattern on cowhide in brown. 4. Boa pattern on...

The Gang's All Here.
September 1, 2006... By Lisa Selin Davis What do you get when designers team up with a curator and a developer? Blockparty, a model home in Brooklyn When HS Development Partners commissioned Rogers Marvel Architects to transform a block-long parking lot...

Food and Wine.
September 1, 2006... By Kelly Beamon It all started with that elusive urban prize, the spacious kitchen. Having one was crucial to the way that Ron Burke, a human-resources consultant, and his partner, insurance broker Dave Christensen, like to entertain....

Walk the Line.
September 1, 2006... By Marisa Bartolucci Sophisticated enough for contemporary art yet sturdy enough for three children and a dog, this Upper West Side town house by Steven Harris surprises from top to bottom Judging from the outside, you'd probably...

Snapshots.
September 1, 2006... Staff The World According to Lee What did Shelton, Mindel & Associates partner Lee Mindel do on his summer vacation? Took Europe by storm, hobnobbing with Prince Charles, Sting, and assorted design legends. Clearly no typical...

SOM @ WTC.
September 1, 2006... By C.C. Sullivan With the World Trade Center slowly rising, Silverstein Properties fast-tracked a marketing office by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Optimism drives real estate. Without confidence in a brighter future, why build at all?...

Update.
September 1, 2006... edited by Jen DeRose 1. Need an escape from the gray of the concrete jungle? Pop into New York's Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology. "She's Like a Rainbow: Colors in Fashion" presents 150 pieces, among them Mila Schön's...

All Together Now.
September 1, 2006... Julie Taraska Enter the midtown showroom of Poliform, and you might think you've chanced upon the Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut. In one area, there's a kitchen so streamlined it would make Philip Johnson weep. In another, you'll...

Heaven Scent.
September 1, 2006... Rebecca Flint Marx If you could bottle the scent of light, the flacon might look like a pristine "square doughnut." That's Janko Rasic Architects partner Timothy Rasic's term for the defining feature of his New York showroom for Drom...

Out of Africa.
September 1, 2006... Jessica Dheere No matter how finely woven, a Zulu basket is not Africa. Nor is an antique clay pot from Burkina Faso--with a spherical surface perfectly pinched by long-gone fingers to form hundreds of identical nubs. Not even delicate...

All Aboard.
September 1, 2006... Rineke van Duysen "I believe in freedom, creativity, and conversation; and I believe that tourism is the handmaiden of them all." The words are those of the late Lars-Eric Lindblad, the eco-travel pioneer who founded a luxury adventure...