Interior Design articles from September 2008

Interior Design archives from September 2008

Books.(Le Corbusier Le Grand)(New Garden Design: Inspiring Private Paradises)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... Edited by Stanley Abercrombie Le Corbusier Le Grand Stanley Abercrombie introductions by Jean-Louis Cohen and Tim Benton New York: Phaidon Press, $200 840 pages, 2,795 illustrations (2,227 color) Seldom do our reviews...

Shape-Shifter.(David Rockwell)(Interview)
September 1, 2008... by Raul Barreneche With a slate of vastly different projects, David Rockwell just might be all things to all clients You may think you know David Rockwell. The founder of the New York firm Rockwell Group has made a name designing...

25 Years Strong.(Clodagh)(Interview)
September 1, 2008... by Jen Renzi Clodagh celebrates a quarter century of design with a spate of new projects including the Caledonia, a Chelsea condominium Her Irish eyes smiling devilishly, Clodagh confesses her greatest transgression, sneaking onto the...

Closeup.(Directory)
September 1, 2008... Edited by Karen D. Singh King of the Forest Regal door hardware meets a noble botanical 1. Plum Blossom embroidered silk wall covering in Gecko by Fromental. 2. Lion 72720 polished-brass knocker by P.E. Guerin. 3. Louis XVI 70780...

Contacts.(photographers and designers)(List)
September 1, 2008... by Staff Photographers in Features Monica Castiglioni ("A Walker in the City," page 288), Anthias, 33 Via Fara, 20124 Milan, Italy; 39-02-670-0203; anthias.it . David Joseph ("Extra, Extra! Read All About It," page 304), Hillary...

Down By The Riverside.(Situ Studio)
September 1, 2008... by Edie Cohen A temporary pavilion by Situ Studio welcomed the summer and celebrated the planet Every summer, the annual Citysol arts festival counters New York's steamy streets with a green initiative. The think tank Solar One...

Space Invader.(JWT's office building design by Clive Wilkinson)
September 1, 2008... by C.C. Sullivan Clive Wilkinson takes over five floors of a Midtown tower--with a renovation for ad agency JWT In today's advertising world, top creatives and account executives shun such long-standing buzzwords as image and message...

Designwire.
September 1, 2008... by Annie Block, Mark McMenamin, and Meghan Edwards Good Will Pump Annie Block, Mark McMenamin, Meghan Edwards Wait a spell before hitting up these designers for donations. They already gave at the studio. On July 31, Interior...

Tough Love.
September 1, 2008... by Cindy Allen September. Interior Design is back in Nueva York, with our Park Avenue (South) home a mere stone's throw from almost all of this month's stories. And can I tell you with heartfelt awe--and a tiny speck of sentimentality, if...

A Walker In The City.(Monica Castiglioni)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... by Edie Cohen Monica Castiglioni follows in some very illustrious New Yorkers' footsteps At some point in their frenzied days, inhabitants of the five boroughs look up--whether it be at the colored lights of the Empire State Building...

Extra, Extra! Read All About It.(Renzo Piano)
September 1, 2008... by Craig Kellogg Renzo Piano's home for the newspaper of record also houses a half dozen different offices by Gensler There's Silverstein Properties's glassy new high-rise adjacent to ground zero. There's the Durst Organization's...

Headliners.
September 1, 2008... by Staff Victoria Blau Architect "SoHo So High," page 240 principal : Victoria Blau. completed projects : Apartments and the pediatric in-patient ward at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York; Old Westbury Equestrian Center...

Light As Air.(Gisue and Mojgan Hariri )
September 1, 2008... by Judith Davidsen At an office in Midtown, Gisue and Mojgan Hariri elevate the financial genre Office design is not exactly what Hariri & Hariri Architecture is known for. Retail, yes. Residential, yes. Institutional, yes. Corporate,...

Up With Down Under.(Michael Bellemo and Cat Macleod )
September 1, 2008... by Raul Barreneche Northcote is not one of Melbourne's greener enclaves. At least it wasn't until Australian artist-architects Michael Bellemo and Cat Macleod of Bellemo & Cat built their new family home and office amid the industrial...

Kitchen/Bath Contacts.(Directory)
September 1, 2008... by Staff Designers Jeffrey Beers International ("Home Cooking," page S22), 156 Fifth Avenue, 10th Floor, New York, NY 10010; 212-352-2020; jeffreybeers.com . Bellemo & Cat ("Up With Down Under," page S28), 23A Eastment Street,...

Heads Up!(Ippolito Fleitz Group)
September 1, 2008... by Mairi Beautyman firm : Ippolito Fleitz Group site : Stuttgart, Germany There's nothing unusual about flowers in a home. Unless they're on the ceiling. A lively floral motif swirls across almost the entire overhead surface of...

Home Cooking.(Jeffrey Beers)(Interview)
September 1, 2008... by Stephen Treffinger firm : Jeffrey Beers International site : New York Workplace kitchens can be sad affairs: claustrophobic, hidden rooms with a mini fridge, a sauce-splattered microwave, and pots of burned coffee, all bathed...

A Taste Of Europe.(Daniel Yarom)(Interview)
September 1, 2008... by Aric Chen firm : Caimi & Asnaghi site : New York When your family sells some of the best contemporary interior products around, you'd think that furnishing your apartment would be easy. And in some ways, it is. "In my...

Kitchen/Bath Products.
September 1, 2008... by Staff Let It Drain Staff Dripped on, stepped on. Is it any wonder that drains have an inferiority complex? But when they're finessed by California Faucets, their self-esteem rises like steam. There's even a patent pending on...

A Real Corker.(Joshua Aidlin)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... by Mark McMenamin Given the urban grit of San Francisco's Mission District, Joshua Aidlin says he knew that Bar Bambino would have to b ea "diamond in the rough." Besides, roughness was precisely the look needed to showcase the...

Market.
September 1, 2008... by Karen D. Singh, Alexia Brue, and Sheila Kim-Jamet Da Vinci Mode Karen D. Singh, Alexia Brue, Sheila Kim-Jamet With its smart, fastener-free architectural design and punchy palette, Leonardo by Bross easily earns a wide Mona Lisa...

The Longest Gangplank.(Paris/New York: Design Fashion Culture 1925-1940)
September 1, 2008... by Donald Albrecht, Amy Azzarito, and Liora Cobin Or how the Normandie set sail for the 1939 World's Fair--a tale told at the Museum of the City of New York In April 1939, 98 French chefs, waiters, wine stewards, and others from the...

A Designer's Best Friend.(Veronica Hackett)
September 1, 2008... by Laura Fisher Kaiser In good times and bad, real-estate developer Veronica Hackett is the real deal Veronica Hackett had just returned to New York from Paris, where a visit to the Maison Baccarat gave her a Big Idea. Every building...

Asia Major.(textile designer Suzanne Tick in Asia)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... by Mark McMenamin She did London and Paris in her teens, Russia and Japan in her 20's, and now spends a quarter of her life on the road. So, what's a 20-day, seven-city tour of Asia to textile designer Suzanne Tick? Just another business...

Skid Row No More.(Slade Architecture's Avalon Bowery Place II )
September 1, 2008... by William Bostwick With public spaces by Slade Architecture, the Avalon Bowery Place II gets a hit of luxe appeal James and Hayes Slade came late to the party, but they made a big entrance. When the husband-wife principals of Slade...

Open Hearted.(Heart's Desire silent auction and cocktail party)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... by Staff Charity is serious stuff, but Interior Design and Harter ramped up the revelry while cosponsoring the Heart's Desire silent auction and cocktail party. The office-seating specialist also played host to the participating designers...

It Takes Two.(designer Shamir Shah and artist Malcolm Hill )
September 1, 2008... by Craig Kellogg Designer Shamir Shah and artist Malcolm Hill make their home in a converted Chelsea printing plant Shamir Shah used to be thoroughly delighted with the West Village apartment he'd overhauled to share with his partner,...

SoHo So High.(Victoria Blau)
September 1, 2008... by Gregory Cerio The sky's the limit at a penthouse loft by Victoria Blau Architects--talented and committed ones, at any rate--always seem to have a touch of obsessive-compulsive disorder. They're consumed by rational planning and...

Room Service, Please.(D.B. Kim's apartment)
September 1, 2008... by Aric Chen Some see hotels as homes away from home. For D.B. Kim, it's the other way around. He calls his Chelsea apartment "my New York hotel room." As vice president of design at Sheraton Hotels & Resorts, he's currently overseeing the...

Out With The Old.(Murphy Burnham & Buttrick Architects' town house renovation)
September 1, 2008... by Sophie Donelson A formal parlor with crown moldings and plaster filigree is exactly what most people expect from an 1860's brick town house on a tree-lined Greenwich Village street. Metallic walls are not. But a pearlescent parlor...

Long And Lean.(Martin Raffone Interior Design )
September 1, 2008... by Craig Kellogg It looked "like a bowling alley," Martin Raffone says, describing his first impression of this poorly lit SoHo shoe box 100 feet deep. As with so many lofts, the only three windows were ganged inconveniently at one end....

Cast-Iron Cool.(S. Russell Groves)
September 1, 2008... by Paula Rackow When black-and-white photos of standpipes and street signage greet you on the fifth floor of this 1880 cast-iron building, you know that these particular SoHo dwellers embrace the gritty side of Gotham. Let others mock the...