Interior Design articles from September 2007

Interior Design archives from September 2007

D&D, PDC, Etc.
September 1, 2007... by Jen Renzi Design-center giant Cohen Brothers shows off its Midtown headquarters by Area Property powerhouse Charles Cohen has snapped up a number of the country's top furnishings hubs over the past 11 years. Starting with New...

World View.
September 1, 2007... by Raul Barreneche Arthur Casas brings an international perspective to the Chelsea penthouse of lighting guru Ira Levy Ira Levy and Arthur Casas became fast friends when they met six years ago. Casas, an Interior Design Hall of Fame...

Bios.
September 1, 2007... by Staff Area Architecture "D&D, PDC, Etc.," page 258 principal : Henry Goldston, AIA. principal : Walt Thomas, AIA. completed projects : CB Richard Ellis Investors, Stone Meyer Genow Smelkinson & Binder, and Bryan Cave,...

Books.
September 1, 2007... Edited by Stanley Abercrombie Contemporary World Interiors Stanley Abercrombie by Susan Yelavich New York: Phaidon Press, $75 512 pages, 1,075 illustrations (1,000 color) This big, beautiful survey of interiors is...

Home Sweet Home.
September 1, 2007... by Julie Taraska The Greenwich Village apartment of Gregory Dufner and Daniel Heighes Wismer is a miniature marvel of space planning and distilled style Gregory Dufner and Daniel Heighes Wismer know all about living large. The Dufner...

Making Landmarc a Landmark.
September 1, 2007... by Craig Kellogg Clodagh helps a low-key TriBeCa bistro colonize high-stakes Columbus Circle Not since Trump Tower debuted, in 1983, has a New York mall wanted so dearly to be anything but. When the mixed-use Time Warner Center opened...

Doing Our Part.
September 1, 2007... by Edie Cohen Designers, photographers, artists-all are helping raise funds for the Design Trust for Public Space What do Willem de Kooning, Nan Goldin, Roxy Paine, Tyler Hays, and Sheila Metzner have in common? Besides talent and...

Designwire.
September 1, 2007... Edited by Mark McMenamin Gift Wrap Mark McMenamin Ultramodern sparred with avant-naturalism when the summer edition of the biannual New York International Gift Fair commandeered the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center and Passenger...

Why I Really ♥ NY.
September 1, 2007... by Cindy Allen I call it NY7, my seventh annual glimpse, as editor in chief, inside New York's engine of perpetual creative motion. With designers' rpm gauges all flirting with the red mark, tracking the industry's antics in and around the...

Green Machine.
September 1, 2007... by C.C. Sullivan Street cred meets LEED credits at Gensler in Rockefeller Center Before Gensler moved to a new office in Rockefeller Center, that Midtown mecca's greenest feature was the nine-story Tannenbaum that upstages the plaza's...

Streets of New York.
September 1, 2007... by Karen D. Singh and Jen DeRose Let the city be your hardware store 1. Ergo Heroic pull in stainless steel by Martin Pierce Hardware. 1. Watercolors Scroll pull in garnet acrylic by Liberty Hardware Mfg. Corp. 2. Watercolors...

View Finder.
September 1, 2007... by Edie Cohen In the four years he's lived in New York, British photographer Adrian Wilson has shot projects by Interior Design Giants and emerging studios alike-and that means pointing his Cambo Wide DS at the inside of the city's...

K&B Bios.
September 1, 2007... by Staff Designers Kostow Greenwood Architects ("Better Than Brown-Bagging It," page S44), 560 Broadway, New York, NY 10012; 212-334-0116; kostowgreenwood.com . Lettuce Office ("Salad Days," page S38), 453 South Spring Street,...

Spin Cycle.
September 1, 2007... by Elizabeth Blish Hughes Much of San Francisco's Mission District hops to a hip-and-happening beat. But on the blocks where that vibe has yet to resonate, the gritty scene feels less Web 2.0, more SoHo, circa 1970. It's here that John Lum...

Better Than Brown-Bagging It.
September 1, 2007... by Judith Davidsen Get off the elevator at Mad River Post by Kostow Greenwood Architects, and the first thing you see is a well stocked kitchen. The first thing you smell could be ribs, chicken parmigiana, or grilled shrimp. And right...

It All Adds Up.
September 1, 2007... by Kimberly Goad When does one plus one equal one? When two apartments are converted into a single residence. A New York fund manager was determined to conquer one of design's trickiest equations when she purchased two adjacent...

Salad Days.
September 1, 2007... by Edie Cohen Judging from the name of Lettuce Office, the design think tank where Chet Callahan serves as the studio director, you might assume that he would be the chef in his household. But you would be completely wrong. The chef role...

K&B Products.
September 1, 2007... by Karen D. Singh and Jen DeRose Light as a Feather Karen D. Singh, Jen DeRose The look may be airy, but that doesn't mean the Pli sink by Burg isn't weighty. As with any successful design object, the grace belies the effort...

Market.
September 1, 2007... Edited by Karen D. Singh Pickup Lines Karen D. Singh A lightweight bar stool that's not the least bit tipsy? Meet Flod. Designed by Azúamoline for Mobles 114 Barcelona, the stool has a seat pitched to keep the sitter in the...

In Memoriam.(Obituary)
September 1, 2007... by Fred A. Bernstein Philippe Starck's Royalton lobby, gone from Midtown, will always remain a landmark in our minds The lobby of the Royalton Hotel has been dismantled, robbing the world of an iconic interior. The cause of death was...

Sweet and Lowdown.
September 1, 2007... by Mark McMenamin Hipster status is coming at a hefty price in Brooklyn, New York. Developers plotting high-rises and superstores on its industrial waterfront have landed the borough on the National Trust for Historic Preservation's annual...

On the Town.
September 1, 2007... by Mark McMenamin Thomas Juul-Hansen Mark McMenamin It's pennies from heaven at Centro Vinoteca as sequins of glass and stainless steel rain down from the Herve Descottes chandelier above the boomerang bar on the ground level of...

High Camping.
September 1, 2007... by Mark McMenamin The bidding could top $1 million as Chicago's Wright auctions a 1951 Marcel Breuer trailer house in upstate New York. This is no Airstream. Breuer took a 1948 aluminum-clad Spartan trailer and built around it, resulting...

Cool, Retooled.
September 1, 2007... by Mark McMenamin Temperament, not temperature, is celebrated in "Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design and Culture at Mid-century" at the Orange County Museum of Art. The exhibition showcases more than 150 objects from the realms of...

Lin in Indiana.
September 1, 2007... by Mark McMenamin A tribute to Indiana's underground river system, Maya Lin's site-specific sculpture of aluminum tubing, Above and Below, will visually connect the Indianapolis Museum of Art with the Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature...

For Fallen Heroes.
September 1, 2007... by Mark McMenamin The National Park Service has given final approval to Paul Murdoch Architects's concept for the Flight 93 National Memorial, which will honor the 40 people who lost their lives when a United Airlines plane crashed into a...

All In A Day's Work.
September 1, 2007... by Mark McMenamin Four Manhattan designers welcome us to their offices Alan Tanksley Mark McMenamin A century-plus after Western Union opened a branch in what is now the Flatiron district, the Henry J. Hardenbergh-designed gem...

The Fashion Equation.
September 1, 2007... by Alejandro Saralegui Three stellar firms plus one East Hampton landmark-they all add up to Elie Tahari's flagship Enter any Elie Tahari shop or showroom, and you'll be welcomed by Granny Smith apples and roasted almonds heaped in a...

Pinups.
September 1, 2007... by Karen D. Singh and Jen DeRose Park-bench picnic Just grab a coffee and a bagel 1. Pool 420-B1744 bench in natural matte maple by Brayton International. 2. Mongolian lamb in natural by Dualoy Leather. 3. Splinter chairs in teak...

Happy Birthday, Charles.
September 1, 2007... by Staff Herman Miller celebrated the centennial of Charles Eames's birth by challenging designers and manufacturers to make over the LCW, the 1945 plywood "potato chip" chair designed by him and his wife, Ray. Auctioning the...

Beach House In The Big City.
September 1, 2007... by Jane Margolies For a Chelsea triplex nowhere near the sea, Eric Gartner and Charles Allem played with sand tones and sunlight Eric Gartner has never been the white-on-white type. A partner at SPG Architects, he's wont to describe...

Update.
September 1, 2007... Edited by Meghan Edwards Catch these events in October and November 1. No true New Yorkers can deny it-they love to shop. Now devotees of the Guild's catalog and Web site can get their fill of artist-made furniture, home accessories,...

A Touch of Tokyo.
September 1, 2007... by Amy Young Most city types don't bat an eyelash when offered spicy Brazilian-style nigiri rolls or Beethoven set to house music. A home, on the other hand, is thought to be an escape from dissonance. It's a rare urbanite who actually...

The Scent of Success.
September 1, 2007... by Jeannie Rosenfeld When the breeze blows in just the right direction, you can still get a whiff of the industry that gave the meatpacking district its name. Banchet Flowers, an airy corner atelier by De-Spec, infuses the neighborhood...

Fit For A Lady.
September 1, 2007... by Rebecca Flint Marx More commonly associated with stilettos than sirloin, the cobblestoned streets of the meatpacking district are now lined with slick drinking and dining venues. Few establishments fuse the neighborhood's past and...

Light and Bright.
September 1, 2007... by Marc Kristal If you live in New York, chances are you love a good challenge. Fiction writer Lee Day and multimedia artist Ursula Endlicher definitely confronted one when they set out to renovate the 1,000-square-foot lower floor of...

A Tale Of Two Companies.
September 1, 2007... by Stephen Treffinger "People would kill for this light, this space," says Donghia/Bergamo Fabrics president and CEO Rosencrans Baldwin, going on to refer to his headquarters as "the SoHo of Mount Vernon." Bergamo had already occupied most...

Moving On Down.
September 1, 2007... by Craig Kellogg What Park Avenue family would aspire to life in a Midtown high-rise? Tom Puls and Donna Ricco, the husband-wife team behind her namesake women's fashion label, used to live with their three children in a stately prewar...

On Cloud Nine.
September 1, 2007... by Charlotte Druckman Asked to renovate a penthouse in Cesar Pelli & Associates Architects's Bloomberg building, Decorati CEO Shane Reilly faced one of design's toughest foes. No, not budget. Time. She had just 90 days to overhaul 3,900...

High Gloss.
September 1, 2007... by Rineke van Duysen Coty. The very name evokes an era when eye shadow shimmered, mascara was thick, and lipstick went on glossy. Of course, the beauty world has changed, and the Coty empire now includes luxury fragrances, posh French...

Time and Space.
September 1, 2007... by Howard Halle When Creative Time, a feisty nonprofit sponsor of public-art projects, got its start in 1974, the husband-wife principals of Work Architecture Company were barely out of diapers, and New York was a very different, much more...