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Discovering the new, what’s now, being the fi rst to feature the best has always been Interior Design’s stock in trade. And I’m proud of the rewards we reap—and get to share with you. Recently, though, I have been itching to offer projects not necessarily on today’s radar, a treasure perhaps forgotten that’s of import nonetheless. Call me crazy, but not before you listen to the following story. One day late last year, designer Brad Ford sent me an effusive e-mail about something I “just had to see,” a modernist house nestled in the forest in Accord, New York, near the weekend getaway he

had recently bought. (Side note: Of all the ways we score projects, hearsay always ranks high on the list. Thanks, Brad!) A bit of research revealed a spaceship meets Frank Lloyd Wright–style house designed by an architect, Nancy Copley, who still resided there though, in her 80’s, she reluctantly needed to sell. Recognizing that this might be my last chance to experience the project, I jumped at the opportunity, and it proved a rare treat indeed to get to know Nancy and photo-graph her extraordinary home, truly a Living Treasure. Yes, it looked a bit tired around the edges when I arrived, but adding vintage furnishings and tidying it up brought back its spirit and Nancy’s, too.

In a note of irony and sadness, she didn’t live to see her treasure featured in our pages. She passed away, just as we were going to press, from a heart attack. Personally, I believe her heart was broken at the idea of leaving her masterwork. But I am certain—be it karma or whatever—

that I was meant to rediscover this forgotten architect, proving that her vision mattered and helping it inspire others. As the headlines mourn the loss of two other extraordinary women, Andrée Putman and Ada Louise Huxtable, I’d like to add Nancy Copley to that list. Never famous, she was unique all the same, and she dedicated every waking moment to what we all so lovingly share: design.—Cindy

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192 THE BEACH HOUSE RULES

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182 ON LOCATION

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As it evolved over the last four decades, architect Nancy Copley’s own house drew inspiration from its wooded setting in Accord, New York.

172 A FORCE OF NATURE

by Larry Weinberg

164 UNDER THE HILL

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Denieuwegeneratie, a young Dutch architecture firm, builds an experimental, super-sustainable house just outside of Amsterdam.

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ON THE COVER A 1980’s Daimler Double-Six hangs on a wall in the kitchen of a house outside Amsterdam designed by Denieuwegeneratie. Photography: Robert Holden/Photofoyer.

Rottet Studio produces a blockbuster of an office for United Talent Agency in Los Angeles.

These establishments meet our unabashed approval.202 NO RESERVATIONS

by Deborah Wilk

Faced with numerous building restrictions in Sagaponack, New York, Bates Masi Architects conjures residential luxury out of programmatic restraint.

The 19th and 21st centuries meet in the Roundhouse at Beacon Falls, a hospitality complex in New York by Rockwell Group.

212 FALLING WATER

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69 GAME ON

by Edie Cohen

221 CONTACTS

128 MATTERS OF DESIGN

by Joseph Giovannini

220 BOOKS

by Stanley Abercrombie

A PERFECT STORM

Chris Klapper and Patrick Gallagher bring on thunder and lightning at a Philadelphia gallery.

133 CENTERFOLD

by Craig Kellogg

28 HEADLINERS 33 DESIGNWIRE

by Annie Block, Mark McMenamin, and Matthew Powell

60 CLOSE-UP

by Athena Waligore

53 CROSSLINES

by C.C. Sullivan

THE SUM OF THEIR PARTS

Professional and personal partners, Nancy Ruddy and John Cetra design holistically, currently focusing on preservation.

87 MARKET

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233 SNAPS 235 INTERVENTION

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101 FLOORING

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75 ALL GROWN UP

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KEEPING UP APPEARANCES

With an unparalleled stock of modernist houses, Los Angeles is taking preservation seriously.

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Spanish ceramics.

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1. 10 Questions With. . .Hitoshi Abe of Atelier Hitoshi Abe. . . interiordesign.net/abe13.2. Zermani Associati Studio di Architettura’s Cappella nel Bosco, a chapel in Varano de Marchesi, Italy, among our roundup of contemporary religious spaces. . .interiordesign.net/religious13.3. Our outdoor-product survey, with specifying data on such manufacturers as Paola Lenti, which produced the Patricia Urquiola furniture in this rooftop garden, an Interior Design Best of Year honoree project by Barlis Wedlick Architects. . .interiordesign.net/outdoor13.4. Bunny and Lucy, in powder-coated iron, by Bend’s Gaurav Nanda, profiled in our Ones to Watch series. . .interiordesign.net/OTWfeb13.5. Video studio visit of Tillett Lighting Design, which chose the inground LEDs illuminating the allée of lindens at Louis I. Kahn’s Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park in New York. . .interiordesign.net/videofeb13.

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PRINCIPAL: Harry Bates.PRINCIPAL: Paul Masi.COMPLETED PROJECTS: Houses on Long Island, New York, and Cape Cod, Massachusetts. CURRENT PROJECTS: An apartment and Tessa restaurant in New York; houses in Matinecock, New York, and Pirogova Pond, Russia. HONORS: Interior Design Best of Year awards; AIA regional, state, and na-tional honors.GENERATIONS: The age difference between Bates and Masi is 46 years.MODERN MENTORS: Bates worked at Skidmore, Ow-ings & Merrill in the 1950’s and early ’60’s, Masi at Richard Meier & Partners Architects in the 1990’s.

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PRINCIPAL: Thomas Dieben. PRINCIPAL: Sanne Oomen. PRINCIPAL: Oscar Vos. COMPLETED PROJECTS: Appel Arts Centre, Kleine Komedie theater, and Het Depot office, all in Am-sterdam; Bab Al Bahrain public square in Manama, Bahrain.CURRENT PROJECTS: Residences in Amsterdam; Singer Laren mixed-use complex in the Nether-lands; a visitor center in Flevoland, Netherlands. PAST: Dieben, 33, Oomen, 32, and Vos, 33, met in 1998 as architecture stu-dents at Delft University of Technology. PRESENT: They founded Denieuwegeneratie in 2008.

137-3 Tolstraat, 1074 VJ Amsterdam, Netherlands; 31-20-820-2284; denieuwegeneratie.nu.

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FOUNDING PRINCIPAL: Lauren Rottet, FAIA.PRINCIPAL: Richard Riveire, AIA.COMPLETED PROJECTS: Presidential Bungalows at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles; Morrison & Foerster offices in San Francisco; the Surrey hotel in New York. CURRENT PROJECTS: Gaslamp Hotel in San Diego; Paul Hastings of-fices in Atlanta, Tokyo, and Seoul, South Korea. HONORS: Interior Design Best of Year Awards; Na-tional AIA Awards; Gold Key awards. ACTRESS: Rottet’s cinematic role models are Goldie Hawn and Meryl Streep.ACTOR: Riveire’s are Johnny Depp and Cary Grant.

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PRINCIPAL: David Rockwell, AIA.COMPLETED PROJECTS: Nobu Caesars Palace in Las Vegas; Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center at Lincoln Center and the Library at the Public in New York.CURRENT PROJECTS: Nobu Doha in Qatar; Hudson Yards residential tower and cultural center in New York; National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta.HONORS: Interior Design Best of Year Awards; Emmy Award; AIA national, state, and local awards.SENIOR ASSOCIATE: David Zaccheo.COMPLETED PROJECTS: MiMA apartment building in New York; Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles; Marina Bay Sands Casino in Sin-gapore.CURRENT PROJECTS: Steeplechase Plaza at Coney Island in New York; restaurant at the Lang-ham, Chicago.COUNTRY: Rockwell en-joys cooking at his week-end house in New Palz, New York.TOWN: Zaccheo likes to gallery-hop on Saturdays in the city.

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Clockwise from top right: Ricky Swallow’s Come Together, in laminated jelutong, appears in “Against the Grain: Wood in Contemporary Art, Craft and Design” at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York. Enignum in ash by Joseph Walsh. Laurel Roth’s Food #3-Sheep in verawood, gold leaf, and Swarovski crystal. Christopher Kurtz’s (A)Typical Windsor Form in ash, oak, pine, and milk paint. Nest in birch and cotton by Nina Bruun.

See a well-worn medium in a whole new light in “Against the Grain: Wood in Contemporary

Art, Craft and Design” at New York’s Museum of Arts and Design, March 19 to July 7. The show ex-plores cutting-edge conceptual and technical trends in woodworking via more than 75 installa-tions, sculptures, objects, and furniture pieces by 57 global artists and designers, including Martin Puryear, Maarten Baas, and Ai Weiwei.

The exhibition premiered at the Mint Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina, last September, but several works have been added specifi cally for the New York run. Among them are: Nina Bru-un’s ethereal ribbonlike perch, a dramatic split and cantilevered shelf by Joseph Walsh, Laurel Roth’s sheep skull blinged out with gold leaf and Swarovski crystal, Siamese twin–style Windsor chairs by Christopher Kurtz, and Ricky Swallow’s sculpture that, amazingly, looks just like a beanbag.

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Final boarding call: We asked, “If you could get away this winter, what would be your ultimate design destination?”

“Sri Lanka, where I could observe the tropical modernist architecture of the late Geoffrey Bawa while taking in the is-land’s warm winds, blue waters, and quiet beaches.” —Sharron van der Meulen of ZGF Architects

“Zermatt, an incredible village in Switzer-land, and I would stay at the Omnia, perched on a mountain above it all, with rooms, views, and cuisine to match.” —Doug West of HOK

“Asmara, Eritrea—a practically unknown cosmopolitan Shangri-La in East Africa. The climate is similar to San Diego year-round, but most extraordinary is the con-centration of modernist architecture and interiors built in the 1930’s by the Ital-ians who ruled there until WWII.” —Jane Smith of Spacesmith

“We’re heading to a Bozeman, Montana, fabrication shop for a week-long think-tank-with-tools with our artist, designer, architect, and fabricator friends.” —Robert Stansell and Tim Welsh of Emporium Design

“Machu Picchu, Peru, so I could hike up the Inca Trail for a few days.” —Cassandra Adams of Cassandra Adams Architect

“Art Across America,” a collaboration between the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Philadel-phia Museum of Art; and the Terra Foundation for American Art in Chicago, brings the first survey of historical American art to the Na-tional Museum of Korea in Seoul through May 19. None of the more than 100 paintings and pieces of furniture and decorative art from the four institutions has been shown before

Foreign Exchange

Clockwise from top: Included in “Art Across America” at the National Museum of Korea in Seoul is Lorser Feitelson’s oil on canvas, which comes from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Earthenware candlesticks by Malcolm Leland. A Helen Lundeberg oil on canvas.

Thumbing through fashion magazines, fine-art photographer Michael Eastman developed a fascination—not for the models or clothes, but for the frequent use of melancholic historical settings. The faded facades and threadbare upholstery of such backdrops sparked in him a love of architectural decay. Which explains the focus of his current exhibit at London’s Michael Hoppen Gallery: Havana. A colorful mix of crumbling exteriors and antiquated interiors dating to the late 19th century, the series of 20 large-scale digital C-prints was begun in 1999, when East-man first gained access to the Communist country through a cultural exchange. The show runs through March 29.

Aging Beauty

From left: “Michael Eastman: Havana,” on view at the Michael Hoppen Gallery, London, includes Blue Facade, a digital C-print. Portrait Havana, an interior dating to the early 20th century.

in the Asian nation. Come spring 2014, the NMK reciprocates by sending 120 Korean paintings, ceramics, costumes, and furniture to the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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In Paris for a 1979 exhibit of my textiles at the Musée du Louvre, I was being interviewed by a heavy-set, middle-aged editor when Andrée’s name came up: “She and I were in school together,” the editor said. “Andrée was the plainest, most ungainly girl in class. But now, when she enters a room, every head turns!”

I had known Andrée much earlier as the tall, engaging Madame Putman who lived in a spacious Left Bank apartment full of her husband’s collections. Then, after a divorce and a job with a stellar branding agency, she announced, “Jacques, I will become a grande décoratrice!” Her muse was Eileen Gray, the Irish champion of modern who worked until age 96.

Andrée began by producing re-editions of Gray and Antoni Gaudí’s costly furnishings, and then started designing limited editions of her own. When I was returning through Paris with my fi rst Thai silk collection—a riot of color—Andrée, tall in beige, asked: “Don’t you know that color is over?” She was

right; soon I would be designing cool jacquards without color or texture.Andrée’s magic leapt the Atlantic Ocean when she designed interiors for the Morgans Hotel and the Palladium

nightclub in Manhattan. When she began collaborating with us, our board would fl y her in on the Concorde for meetings. Seated next to Andrée at a dinner for MoMA’s 1980 Eileen Grey exhibit, I chided, “Color is back!” She replied: “Oui, Jacques. And it’s black.” New York City has been black ever since. —Jack Lenor Larsen

Andrée Putman, 1925–2013

Proper, even prim, especially in her mink jacket on a winter day, the petite, tidy Ada Louise Huxtable regularly tossed hand grenades at developers and compromised architects during her 40 years as an architecture critic. She was fearless. Even Leona Helmsley couldn’t show her face in polite society after Ms. Huxtable got through with her husband, Harry, during her New York Times reviews of the Helmsley Palace Hotel in the late ’70’s. She was arguably the most visible and powerful critic in the nation, her fury fueled by righteous indignation politely camoufl aged by her epigrammatic style. She won the fi rst-ever Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1970, and a MacArthur Fellowship in 1981. Her victories were hard won: She once said that every article at the Times was a struggle.

Born in Manhattan and educated at Hunter College and New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts, Huxtable worked as an assistant curator under Philip John-son in MoMA’s architecture and design department from 1946 to 1950. She came of intellectual age when modernism was the theology of social progressives. Her modernist formation never really waivered, but, unlike that world-class dabbler Johnson, she folded politics, context, fi nance, structure, and history into her thinking. She opened her architecture columns to urbanism and historic preserva-tion. Her career at the Times virtually began with her spirited defense of, and re-quiem for, McKim, Mead & White’s Pennsylvania Station, and, by a symmetry of fate, she closed her career a month before her death in January by defending the beaux arts New York Public Library in The Wall Street Journal from what she con-sidered the depredations of “Modernization.” She launched the grenade even though she was dying of cancer, registering her opinion before she couldn’t. Her courage, integrity, and bite never abandoned her. —Joseph Giovannini

Ada Louise Huxtable, 1921–2013

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When Salasstudio embarked on the renovation of a wine cellar for Vega-Sicilia vineyard in Valbuena de Duero, Spain, the fi rm knew the materials had to meet stringent bacterial requirements for the proper

aging of wine. Conveniently, the solution came from the wine barrels themselves—specifi cally, the oak used to create them. Slats of the wood form undulat-ing ceilings on both levels of the 20,000-square-foot building while simultaneously concealing the essen-tial climate-control system. They reappear as treads on the steel staircase, which is bordered by a bam-boolike stainless-steel rail, its up-lit “branches” pen-etrating both fl oors. Ceramic tile, known for its sani-tary properties, clads the walls while echoing the ex-isting fl ooring in the same material.

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Clockwise from top left: Oak slats line the ceiling and ceramic tiles the wall of the Vega-Sicilia wine cellar in Valbuena de Duero, Spain, by Salasstudio. The stairway’s stainless-steel latticework. The 20,000-square-foot two-story building. Ceramic-tile fl ooring.

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For its new offi ces in downtown Montreal, multiplatform interactive ad agency Blue Communications ordered an environment that encouraged creativity and communication. Designers Jean Guy Chabauty and Anne Sophie Goneau began with a 2,750-square-foot blank canvas: white-painted walls and exposed pipes 30 feet above warmly varnished con-crete fl ooring. In the open offi ce area, wide expanses of space surround 36-foot-long benching systems, the adjacent conference room and its Charles and Ray Eames table dis-creetly demarcated by 10-foot-high glass walls. Generously proportioned fenestration provides natural light and panoramic city views throughout. And while the deep-sea taxidermy in the clinically austere kitchen could symbolize swimming with sharks, it’s actually a metaphor for fl oating in a basin of innovation.

Their Blue Heaven

Clockwise from top: Neon signage signals the entry to Montreal’s Blue Communications, an interactive ad agency with headquarters by Jean Guy Chabauty and Anne Sophie Goneau. A taxidermy hammerhead shark and a 16-foot long island in the kitchen. Custom benching workstations of solid-surface tops on steel bases. Floor lamps by Michele De Lucchi and Giancarlo Fassina and custom sofas on concrete fl ooring in the lounge.


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Classic ukiyo-e, or “pictures of the floating world,” join contemporary versions in “Edo Pop: The Graphic Im-

pact of Japa-nese Prints,” at the Japan Society Gal-lery, New York, March 9 to June 9. The show’s 92 woodblock prints are a mix of old—from the 18th and 19th cen-turies, during Japan’s Edo period—and new—from the 21st cen-tury, aka “pop.” Debuting at the Minne ap-olis Institute of Arts, the Manhattan

run adds 30 pieces to the exhibit, including Utagawa Hiroshige’s Eight Shadow Figures, circa 1842.

A Michael Thonet chair missing a leg. A 19th-century coatrack minus a hook. Such misshapen and injured pieces are the unsus-pecting stars of “City of Broken Furniture,” at Vienna’s Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, March 20

to May 26. Young photographer and sculptor Kerstin von Gabain was in-

vited by the museum to curate an ex-hibit; she responded by visiting local

antiques shops, purchasing damaged items, and re-suscitating them with what resembles sa-distic medical inter-ventions. Her gauze applications shed new light on the show’s dozen piec-es, which are ac-companied by six of her photographs.

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EwingCole (26) 35%Rockwell Group (27) 3%ZGF Architects (31) 38%Flad Architects (32) 35%Corgan Associates (33) 4%DWP (37) 5%Shepley Bulfi nch (39) 35%Vocon (40) 3%VOA Associates (41) 11%Little (42) 1%RTKL Associates (44) 6%Gresham, Smith and Partners (49) 49%Elkus Manfredi Architects (51) 8%DBI Architects (52) 5%Lawrence Group (55) 40%Ware Malcomb (56) 21%FKP Architects (58) 90%Environetics (60) 9%Ballinger (61) 31%

HMC Architects (63) 42%Stonehill & Taylor Architects (65) 15%RSP Architects (66) 13%OTJ Architects (67) 20%VeenendaalCave (69) 7%Kasian (70) 2%Harley Ellis Devereaux (73) 8%Staff elbach (74) 2%Huntsman Architectural Group (75) 15%Cooper Carry (76) 3%LS3P Associates (77) 9%Aedifi ca (79) 1%Baskervill (80) 6%Francis Cauff man (82) 50%Swanke Hayden Connell Architects (86) 40%H. Chambers Company (88) 1%Switzer Group (89) 3%JPC Architects (92) 10%FXFowle Architects (99) 5%

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46% OF GOVERNMENT PROJECTS WERE HEALTH-CARE PROJECTS

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In 1987—the year The Simp-sons hit the airways, Whitney Houston just wanted to dance with somebody, and Prozac was first prescribed—the buzz in the design community included the professional partnership of architect John Cetra and interior designer Nancy Ruddy, a married pair of New York insiders who’d worked at Perkins+Will and Eli Attia Architects. They’d already collaborated and wanted to pursue what to them was a fairly obvious concept: designing entire projects—from inside out and outside in. A mere quarter century later, the combined firms of CetraRuddy and Cetra/CRI Architecture are 60 staffers strong and inte-grated design is still the sole focus. The namesakes spend most of the day at a round table in the center of their studio, working in tandem on everything from parti to finish and flavor. After two recessions, restoring many iconic buildings, and furnish-ing dozens of memorable interiors , it’s still all about John plus Nancy, which cur-rently equals adaptive reuse.

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Professional and personal partners, Nancy Ruddy and John Cetra design holistically, currently focusing on preservation

Clockwise from top: A computer rendering of Walker Tower, a 1929 New York building being restored and converted to condominiums. The founders of CetraRuddy and Cetra/CRI Architecture. A custom velvet-covered headboard against hand-screened Manila hemp wall covering in a Walker Tower model guest bedroom.

What was the impetus for this latest focus on converting large New York buildings? Nancy Ruddy: From our beginnings, we’ve done adaptive reuse of historic buildings, and we’ve had a passion about inspired hous-ing. They’re each central to our perception of life in the city, so we love projects that combine both.

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radically different from the cookie -cutter apartments in white-brick buildings going up at the time. We’ve converted the Barbizon Hotel and many of the cast-iron and stone classics in the Ladies’ Mile Historic District, with their 12-foot ceilings and huge double-hung windows. Inside they may be little more than floor slabs and columns, but, like novelists, we romanti-cize their heyday and try to evoke those memories into the buildings’ new lives.

So the interiors reference and interpret history? NR: Yes, that’s part of our inspi-ration. Our research often leads

us to the original quarries and descendants of the craftsmen who worked on the landmark, like those involved with what’s now a Cipriani in Midtown. So history informs the contemporary vocabulary of our interiors through this increasingly rare

Clockwise from top right: A French 1940’s side table and a Marco Zanuso chair in a Walker Tower model master bedroom. A computer render-ing imagining the penthouse of 141 Fifth Avenue, a condominium conversion. A custom mahogany desk in the sales center at the Barbizon/63, another New York condominium conversion. The brick facade of the former Barbizon Hotel for Women, originally built in 1929. Cipriani 42nd Street, which had formerly been the Bowery Savings Bank.

craft and level of detail. But our love of loft-style living means adaptive reuse is about creating better and more inspiring housing.

How did those ideas work for Walker Tower? JC: It was designed by Ralph Walker for New York Telephone in 1929 and we’ve made signifi-cant changes to make it work as condominiums. The interior and exterior details are a culmination of everything we’ve learned from historic projects in general. On the exterior, for example, we in-corporated glass-and-bronzed-steel paneling into the existing brick facade. It looks art deco—like it was always there.

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like West Coast art deco, which works with the proportions and verticality of the 23-story building.

What about the common spaces? NR: The lobby sequence is curated and sophisticated, with an 8-foot-tall chandelier and a new terrazzo floor inspired by the new façade paneling. We installed a new mural and a sculpted frieze, and wrapped them all in a classic art-deco interior to recreate a sense of the era. The clubroom is also quite beautiful in this way. In the model apartments, we went for eclectic wall coverings and carpets. Furnishings range from art deco to mid-century modern.

Your 2009 tower, One Madison Park, is unique on the skyline. What’s your next new building? JC: Just opening now is Lincoln Square Synagogue, what we be-lieve is the first ground-up syna-gogue in Manhattan in the last 50 years. The facade has five curving ribbons of glass that symbolize the five books of the Torah, with stone pillars patterned to suggest a Jew-ish prayer shawl. It’s the congrega-tion’s shul or sanctuary—literally their spiritual house. We enjoyed the challenge of trying to express Modern Orthodox Judiasm in a contemporary vocabulary.

Is integrating interiors and architecture your biggest design challenge? NR: That’s what our clients come to us for. John is design principal and I direct all the interior-design work. And we work together on our sole interest: the best solution.

JC: It’s great to discuss design ideas, but you also need to see what those ideas mean. So we draw them. With us, there are no sacred ideas, no politics, just col-laboration and tracing paper. We have a shared passion for problem solving. —C.C. Sullivan

From top: LEDs in the ceiling of Lincoln Square Synagogue. The 50-story One Madison Square Park.

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Kixeye. Kick-ass. The for-mer is the name of a San Francisco online gaming com-pany. The latter was its CEO’s vision for a new headquarters for his staff of 300. Kixeye had leased three high-rise fl oors totaling 50,00 square feet in the Financial District, “so their landlord was initially terrifi ed of the gamers in hoodies,” reports David Galullo, CEO and design principal of Rapt Studio, the fi rm hired to make the virtual idea a reality.

Since intimidation looms large in Kixeye games—Battle Pirates and Backyard Monsters

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In reception at Kixeye, an online gaming company, painted acrylic and an LED eye form the logo.

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are examples—Rapt suggested evoking it from the start. Blood-red light columns, rem-iniscent of full-body scanners, mark the entry, on the top fl oor. Next comes a vintage steel security desk where guests sign a nondisclosure agreement. Only then can they leave this anteroom for recep-tion, where they’re greeted by a 7 ½-foot-tall rendering of Kixeye’s logo: A scary stylized unicorn fi tted with a single red

LED eye, it alludes to gaming cultures, ancient and modern.

All fl oors are rectilinear in plan: Open workstations line the perimeter, meeting rooms sit at each corner, and private offi ces are near the core. Each of the two lower fl oors has a conference room; the board-room and canteen are on the top fl oor along with reception.

The palette is predominantly white and gray with occa-sional shocks of color. Fur-

nishings are a sleek mix of contemporary and classic: seating by Charles and Ray Eames, Don Chadwick, and Yves Béhar; pendant fi xtures by Enrico Franzolini and Vi-cente Garcia Jiménez; fl ooring of glossy epoxy, checkerboard linoleum, or pixilated carpet tiles. Rapt makes movie refer-ences, too: The boardroom’s imposing steel light ring above a huge rectangular ta-ble channels the situation


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Clockwise from top left: Before proceeding to reception, guests sign in at the vintage steel desk in the anteroom staff dubs the “security bun-ker.” Chairs by Studio 7.5 stand beneath a blackened-steel ring fi tted with fl uorescents in the boardroom. Reception’s seat-ing area features a pendant fi xture by Enrico Franzolini and Vicente Garcia Jiménez and chairs by Charles and Ray Eames. The desk is Corian and painted oriented strand board.


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From top: Yves Béhar chairs and whiteboard-painted panels furnish a meeting room. In the offi ce area, benching workstations seating eight are topped with plastic laminate. Linoleum fl ooring, fl uorescent pendant fi xtures, and a cardboard cutout from a Kixeye game outfi t the canteen.

room in Dr. Strangelove, while the canteen’s exposed ceiling was in-spired by the Ministry of Informa-tion in Terry Gilliam’s Brazil. —Edie Cohen

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all grown upThe two-story, 1,000-square-foot addition is surrounded by a palisade of 18-foot-high Douglas fi r structural beams.

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When we last encountered Frank Clementi and Julie Smith-Clementi, they had up-dated their 1920’s Venice bun-galow and added a second fl oor, doubling its size to 1,200 square feet. Their daughter Emilia was 2; she’s now 16. Their second daughter, Nina, is 10, and the architects, coprin-cipals at Rios Clementi Hale Studios, have expanded anew.

They have built a three-car garage and capped it with a proper master suite, complete with an en suite bathroom, a walk-in closet, and sus-pended fi replace that swivels

to warm both the room and its adjoining deck. “The girls were sharing a bedroom, and we all shared the one bath-room,” Smith-Clementi says of what necessitated the ad-dition, which brings the cur-rent total square footage to 2,200. The garage and kitchen are joined by a breezeway, which is topped by part of the family room and a whole new bedroom.

In terms of scale and reces-sive color palette, the addi-tion’s interior continues the modernist aesthetic of the original bungalow. Yet its ex-

terior is eye-popping to say the least. The couple sur-rounded three of its second-fl oor facades with a palisade of 34 18-foot-long Douglas fi r structural beams that are downright sculptural. “It’s my tree fort,” states Clementi.

Acquiring the adjacent lot, the Clementis also tweaked the open-plan ground fl oor to capitalize on the expanded setting. Moving the front door and pulling back the stairway opened sight lines. The kitchen, once central, was relocated to a rear corner, freeing space for a breakfast UN

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Opposite, from top: Although the living-area portion of the house was existing, the concrete fl oor tile and fi replace’s folded blackened-steel cladding are new. Surrounding the master suite on the second fl oor, the custom 4-by-12-inch beams are bolted to the concrete framework.

Clockwise from top: Acquisition of an adjacent lot allows for lush landscaping that includes lemon, apricot, and plum trees; artichoke, fava-bean, and tomato plants; and a custom cedar picket fence. Furnished with woven-cane pendant fi xtures, Charles and Ray Eames chairs, and a custom table topped in maple veneer, the breakfast area is new, thanks to the kitchen being repositioned. The custom plywood storage unit incorporates the stairs.

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nook, a full-height storage unit that incorporates the staircase, and sliding glass doors behind the living-area fi replace, newly clad in black-ened steel. Speaking of clad-ding, the maple fl ooring is now concrete tile. It carries through to the three new patios for a cohesive ground plane. —Edie Cohen

Clockwise from top left: The addition’s ground fl oor includes a three-car garage. Above the breezeway, a corridor and family room connect the master suite to the existing house, all with maple fl ooring. During the day, the 34 beams double as a sun trellis; at dusk, they look like an art installation. Cork-tile fl ooring, a swiveling steel fi replace, and a custom 7-foot-high plywood headboard appoint the master bedroom.

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From top: Larch shingles clad Hotel Refugia, which is raised on concrete piers, a riff on the region’s traditional dwellings on stilts. The lobby is paneled in slats of indigenous wood.

fi rms: mobil arquitectos; ignacio irarrázaval site: chiloé island, chile

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Opposite, from top: Sited on 25 acres, the hotel overlooks the Gulf of Corcovado. The lounge, on the ground fl oor, is appointed with custom furniture made by local artisans, textured-concrete surfaces, and fl ooring of ulmo, an indigenous wood. From top: The cantilevering second story helps protect the low-E glass wrapping the ground fl oor from the area’s frequent yet brief gusty rain storms. All 12 guest rooms have Andes mountain and gulf views. The lounge centers on a blackened-steel fi replace.

Commanding a verdant prom-ontory on Chiloé Island, part of an ar-chipelago near Chile’s southern tip, Hotel Refugia is all about the view. You can gaze across the Gulf of Corcovado, studded with tiny islands, toward the Chilean mainland, the snow-covered peaks of the Andes in the distance. Preserving these vistas from every vantage point was Mobil Arquitectos’s guiding principle in de-signing the 13,500-square-foot lodge.

Mobil’s design sits lightly on the landscape: Four giant concrete pillars support the upper guest-room and spa level, cantilevered out toward the Pacifi c Ocean. That overhanging sec-ond fl oor not only allowed for the ground-level public areas beneath to be wrapped entirely in glass, but also protects them from the area’s fre-quent wind-driven rain. Partner Patri-cio Browne describes the building as “a structural composition perched on a hilltop, rather than an opaque edi-fi ce growing out of it. It’s about maxi-mizing light, space, sky, and perspec-tive.” Indeed, every one of the dozen guest rooms has a water view.

Though aggressively angular in profi le, Mobil’s design draws inspira-tion from the island’s timber churches and waterfront wooden houses


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raised on stilts. The exterior is clad in larch shingles; the interior, with an air of Alpine-chalet style by way of Scandinavian modernism, boasts textured concrete surfaces and fl oor-ing and walls lined in indigenous woods. Most of the latter were har-vested from Chiloé’s forests and cured in nearby Puerto Montt. As for furnishings, interior designer Ignacio Irarrázaval assembled a showcase of furniture, textiles, and baskets made by locals that nod to the rustic envi-rons. “I spent a year looking for and working with the artisans to make them part of the project,” he says.

Clockwise from top left: A soaking pool is tucked in the spa on the second fl oor. An angled larch canopy precedes the glass entry, at left. An ulmo stair leads to the guest rooms and spa. Guest-room windows are 12-feet wide.

FROM FRONT DAVID JOLLY: FLOOR LAMPS (LOUNGE). THROUGHOUT VMB: STRUCTURAL ENGINEER. RUBEN PAREDES: GENERAL CONTRACTOR.

Continuing the sustainable agenda, Mobil placed north-facing windows (keeping in mind the southern hemisphere’s antipodean exposure) to capture passive solar heat in winter; stored in the fl oors by day, the warmth radiates back at night. Deep eaves shade the win-dows from the high summer sun. Luckily, the best views are to the south. —Raul Barreneche


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Hanging OutEvery now and then, you need an escape. A nearby escape. Dedon designer Daniel Pouzet happily facilitates such a fancy with Swingrest, which takes the classic porch standard to new dimensions—76 ¾ inches in diameter, to be exact. The suspended lounger’s basketlike bottom is woven from proprietary synthetic resin, while the circular aluminum frame hangs from UV-resistant ropes that support up to 770 pounds. High-pressure laminate forms the top of the super-convenient table, which rotates 180 degrees on its post of powder-coated aluminum, and the base cushion comes covered in waterproof acrylic, in a choice of 24 colors, or three colors of poly-urethane vinyl. (Decorative pil-lows not included.) Terra-fi rma types, never fear: Swingrest also comes in a standing version that swivels. 877-693-3366; dedon.us. circle 402

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Ever eager to leverage world-class design to its A&D clients, Landscape Forms just became the exclusive U.S. and Canadian representative of Escofet, the Barcelona, Spain, authority on exterior appointments. Since 1886, the company has collaborated with such bold-face names as artist Joan Miró and architect Jean Nouvel, and its benches, bollards, and fi xtures enliven major cities across the globe.

The inaugural 14-item package consists of seating, tables, and a planter, all in Escofet’s signature cast stone. Aggressive geometry rules backless Flor, an abstracted asterisk shape intended for individual or communal seating, and Milenio, a modular system of straight and angled pieces destined for multiple confi gurations. Things turn sinuous in Hebi, as curved components create snakelike footprints of practi-cally any length, and Lungo Mare, the undulating surface of which references the sea, like its moniker does. More familiar in function is Sillarga, the chair’s ergonomically shaped back echoing its fl owing profi le, and Prima Marina, the teak-slatted bench. While no color is added to the stone, it is either acid-etched or polished, then waterproofed to boost durability. 800-430-6209; landscapeforms.com. circle 403

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Past and present join hands in the latest seasonal selections from Brown Jordan. The past: Cricket II, a reissue of the 1979 folding chair by Henry Glass, fl aunts a frame of powder-coated aluminum that collapses to less than 1 inch tall. The sling seat is Suncloth, a proprietary textile incorporating Sunbrella solution-dyed acrylic. The present: Richard Frinier’s Sway series in powder-coated aluminum. Seating is inset with UV-resistant thermoplastic-polyester mesh; aluminum or glass tops the tables. Some-where in between: Kattan II, designed in 1956 by Tadao Inouye and refreshed by Frinier with machine-formed brass and Suncloth straps. Frames of the rocking and lounge chairs, ottoman, and tables develop a rich patina or retain their original sheen through occasional polishing. 800-743-4252; brownjordan.com. circle 405

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Patricia Urquiola unearths the natural connec-tion between architecture and industrial design with Cottage, a daybed for Kettal. The Interior Design Hall of Fame member calls it “the defi nitive refuge in which to enjoy the outdoors.” Indeed, it’s a retreat suitable for the tropics as well as the mountains. The 8-foot-high alu-minum frame is offered in 27 powder-coated colors, including Texture White. The slatted “elevations” can be specifi ed in aluminum or me-ranti, a hardwood indigenous to Southeast Asia. Inside, a shelf of the same wood serves the 83-inch-wide cushion, which has an adjustable backrest for two. Woven-PVC fl aps can roll down and the sheer polyester curtains drawn to shield the sun or wind. 34-93-487-9090; kettal .es. circle 404

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Skim the artful opus that is the Janus et Cie catalog, and the imprint of Janice Feldman is unmistak-able. But everyone needs to collaborate now and then. So, the president and CEO shares the spotlight this

season with some kindred talents. In Fibonacci, Interior Design Hall of Fame member Michael Gabellini and partner Kimberly Sheppard capture the voluptuous-ness of supple materials draped over structure—in this case, handwoven JanusFiber or rattan over powder-coated galvanized steel. Seating options in the nine-piece collection include the asymmetrical Avanda recamier , its high back gradually sloping to meet the seat. The Landa lounger’s bowed front points to the ground, giving rear legs a slight reveal. Ava boldly bears its legs beneath an upright seat. Conversly, cir-cular Alba envelopes the body, balancing on tripod legs. Finally , the gentle curves of the Vantana day-bed naturally follow the reclining human form. 800-245-2687; janusetcie.com. circle 406

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Hue to the Rescue1. Palecek, 800-274-7730; palecek.com.

2. Gloster Furniture, 434-575-1003; gloster.com.

3. Sina Pearson Textiles, 212-366-1146; sinapearson.com.

4. Sina Pearson Textiles, as above.

5. Kannoa, 305-651-9655; kannoa.com.

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Open Party1. Extremis, 32-5-734-60-20; extremis.be.

2. Kannoa, 305-651-9655; kannoa.com.

3. Royal Botania, 212-812-9852; royalbotania.com.

4. Bluecoast, 877-261-9327; bluecoasthospitality.com.

5. Bluecoast, as above.

6. Arclinea Arredamenti, 39-0444-394111; arclinea.it.

7. Gandia Blasco, 212-421-6701; gandiablascousa.

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Opposites do attract—just ask Esti Barnes. Vacationing in Antibes, France, the founder and design director of Top Floor spotted a large round cactus. The sighting sparked Espina, Spanish for “thorn,” an apt label for the spiky tendrils that populate the circular rug. But there are no pricks or barbs to fear, just the luxurious feel of hand-tufted wool. Like the manufacturer’s entire assortment, it’s available in any number of custom sizes and colorations. 44-20-7795-3333; topfl oorrugs.com. circle 421

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Charlotte Lancelot for Gan

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Sandra Espinetfor Aga John Oriental Rugs

product Walk Little Bird.standout Quirky and classical coexist in the Los Angeles designer’s first stab at flooring, as fowl fades into a forest of abstraction across a ground of silk-wool blend. 310-657-0890; agajohncarpets.com. circle 425

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product MUL01. standout Extending his reach from fashion to flooring, the creative director of menswear label Joseph Abboud continues his aesthetic in Mulholland, an ensemble of neutral hand-tufted polyester rugs. 800-223-1110; nourison.com. circle 423

Malene Barnett for Surya

products Destinations 61, Voyages 29, Destinations 71.standout The brain behind Malene B brings her global perspective—and her boldly colored flat-woven and hand-tufted wool rugs—to a wider audience. 877-275-7847; surya.com. circle 422

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product Flow.standout Wavy strips of dyed cowhide simultaneously channel optical art and the architecture of Gio Ponti—and add to this designer’s growing product collec-tion. 512-264-1148; kylebunting.com. circle 428

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product Leaves.standout Typically found frequenting furniture and upholstery showrooms, the Miami designer directs his modern tendencies to the floor with a freeform group of tufted-wool rugs. 336-841-7400; pierpointpacific.com. circle 426

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Picture this: 500 new patterns to peruse. It’s just another season for Jaipur Rugs, as the rug maker unveils a full gallery of exhibition-level entries. The traditional origin of Opus is gently updated through a new dyeing process, which mimics the mottled look of vegetable dyes in hand-knotted wool. Classical damask patterns deconstruct into abstraction in Geode, a blend of hand-knotted wool and silk. And in the vendor’s burgeoning fl at-weave category, Maroc is a reversible wool dhurrie inspired by colorful 1960’s graphics, while the jagged geometry of Feza is executed in hemp. Choose from a range of standard sizes and colorways. 888-676-7330; jaipurrugs.com. circle 430

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Although it’s usually best not to dwell on the past, Timothy Paul Myers makes a career out of it. The Australian-born, New York–based artist assembles early 20th-century ephemera—tattered trading cards, forgotten mail—in mass multiples and then morphs them into large-scale gridded collages. After being introduced to Myers’s works by Todd Masters, co-owner of Masters & Pelavin gallery in New York, Carini Lang creative director Joseph Carini became fascinated with them, partic-ularly Don’t Forget My Name and two untitled pieces, which are composed of early-1900’s post-cards the artist scrawled with pencil and Wite-Out. “I immediately saw it could be translated well into my medium ,” Carini recalls. The ensuing collabora-tion spawned three initial patterns.

Working in this new medium, Myers stays true to his source but modifi es his signature geometric grid. It turns primitive and organic in Bloomfi eld, begins to disintegrate in Eisenhower, and is fi nally reduced to fragments in Henry Hart. Each Good-Weave–certifi ed rug is 6 by 9 feet and hand-knotted in wool and silk using intricate Tibetan knots. 646-613-0497; carinilang.com. circle 431

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1. Somoroff VI hand-spun rug in Himalayan wool in Llama by Stephanie Odegard Collection. circle 4322. Custom hand-tufted rug in bamboo silk by Doris Leslie Blau. circle 4333. Splash Supreme 3 rug in wool and silk in All Natural by Marc Phillips Decorative Rugs. circle 4344. This Moment hand-knotted rug in Tibetan wool and Chi-nese silk by Amy Helfand. circle 4355. Christopher Wool’s New Linen 8 hand-knotted rug in silk by BravinLee Programs. circle 4366. Canopy 1 hand-knotted rug in wool and silk by Mod-ern Nature Design. circle 437 7. River Basin hand-knotted rug in silk by Organic Looms. circle 4388. Bloom rug in silk and hemp in Dune by Jamie Stern. circle 439 9. Synergy rug in silk and hemp in Fire by Jamie Stern. circle 440 10. Desire rug in silk and hemp in Iolite by Jamie Stern. circle 441 11. Boardwalk hand-tufted rug in wool-cotton blend in BWS4635 by Foreign Accents . circle 442See page 126 for sources.

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Bringing the height of luxury to commercial carpeting, the Illumine Collection is a series of rich textures that radiantly appear to be lit-from-within. This timeless grouping incorporates lustrous fibers, subtle textural nuances, high ounce weights, and varying loop and tip shear constructions to create patterns that are subtle yet intriguing, lush and luminescent.

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Proving once again that social re-sponsibility and design conscious-ness aren’t mutually exclusive, Arzu Studio Hope unveils the Masters Collection: limited-edition patterns conceived by six interna-tionally renowned architects, each of whom donated their talents to support Arzu’s mission of empower-ing the Afghan women who hand-craft their rugs.

Leading the roster are fi ve Interior Design Hall of Fame members. Frank Gehry interpolates the dynamism of 3-D objects onto surfaces with Puzz, based on models his team created for a pop-up store. In Arabesque, Michael Graves offers an organic confi guration with no obvious top or bottom, making it properly oriented from any viewpoint. Robert A.M. Stern considers Volute both geometric and botanic, modern and classical, as fl uid arrangements of spirals climb through tidy latticework. From the husband-and-wife principals of Tigerman McCurry Architects, Margaret McCurry imagines faded tribal symbols on ancient dwell-ings in Simeon, while Stanley Tigerman’s Abrahamic Tribal Patterning recalls Moorish traditions. Finally, reigning starchitect Zaha Hadid plays with perspective in ZH, pitting faint sketchbook strokes against a blazing ground.

The numbered rugs are hand-knotted using wool that’s been spun and dyed by hand, and accompanied by a certifi cate of authenticity. The launch coincides with Arzu’s new alliance with Coalesse . 866-645-6952; coalesse.com. circle 443

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1. Pila rug in wool and recycled metallic polyester in Natural Gold by Inigo

Elizalde Rugs. circle 444

2. Amtico’s Cirrus tile in vinyl in Twilight, Dawn, and Air by Mannington

Commercial . circle 445

3. Stacks 2.0 carpet tile in nylon by Milliken & Company. circle 446

4. Embark, Fringe, and Wander carpet tile in nylon by Shaw. circle 447

5. Manoir porcelain tile in Belle Meade and Carnton by Crossville. circle 448

6. Recode broadloom in solution-dyed nylon in Lithium by Tandus Flooring.

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7. Driftwood porcelain tile in light grey by Cancos Tile & Stone. circle 450

8. Mesh rug in mohair in silver and Mushroom Grey by Rosemary Hallgarten.

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There’s a time for everything—especially if it’s timeless. Tai Ping director of design and creative development Yasmina Benazzou pays deference to avant-garde structures, mid-century textiles, and Bauhaus weavings in Epoch, a 17-pattern synthesis of geometry and abstraction. Informed by the angles and contours of modern-ist icons, the rugs are hand-tufted in a variety of fi bers; black and gray serve as prevailing neutrals.

The random stripes of Dissonance I reference 20th-century textile legend Sonia Delaunay, in a blend of wool, wool lace, and dull silk. Architecture is the muse of Archetype I, a network of interrupted lines in wool lace on a dull-silk background. Wool and fl ax inter-mingle in Time I, its rectangular grid subtly streaked in blue. Dia-monds arise from raised wool triangles in Paradigm I, a dynamic take on traditional harlequin motifs. Similarly angular forms also dictate Omission I, a broken zigzag with a textured wool back-ground and accents of dull silk. But the source turns natural in Parody I, a large-scale python skin imagined in wool and dull silk. All sizes are custom. 212-979-2233; taipingcarpets.com. circle 452

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1. Mad for Plaid digitally printed carpet in solution-dyed nylon by Durkan. circle 4532. Mirage porcelain pavers in Chambord by Artistic Tile. circle 4543. Brites vinyl tiles in Citreuse and Shock Me Pink by Centiva. circle 4554. Rose rug in hair-on-hide in Cardinal, Lips, and rose by Kyle Bunting. circle 456 5. Vintage porcelain tile in Red Natural, Blue Natural, Green Natural, Beige Natural, White Natural, and Grey Natural by Apavisa Porcelánico. circle 457 6. Pretty Promise carpet tile in solution-dyed nylon in Palm by Flor. circle 4587. Tsubaki hand-tufted rug in wool and silk in Tuscan by Warp & Weft. circle 459See page 126 for sources.

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For 16 years, the painterly predilections of Janis Provisor and Brad Davis have been singularly served by wild silk. But after numerous requests from clients, the owners and cocreative directors of Fort Street Studio unveil their

fi rst assortment in wool. As it turns out, the transition took more than a quick call to a new supplier—think fi ve weeks in Asia, immersed in the hotbed of rug making. Master artisans were located and entrusted to reinterpret the studio’s watercolor-inspired aesthetic. The focus then turned to perfecting wool technique: knotting, weaving, carving, twisting. Tactility and texture distinguish the eight hand-knotted patterns, most conspicuously in Corrugated, its ridges simulated by high and low piles. Named for its fl at-woven components, Flats references carved motifs on antique jade and ivory. Leaves imagines Chinese oolong tea casting shadows across water. The freeform Strato pays homage to the company’s artful heritage, an approach also evident in the stylized randomness of Texture. But old habits die hard, and so hand-cut Moss achieves its furrowed feel through a mixture of wool and, you guessed it, silk. 212-925-5383; fortstreetstudio.com. circle 460

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Azulej, Patricia Urquiola’s glazed por-celain tiles for Mutina, might make your head spin. Holding court at the company’s stand during Cersaie 2012 in Bologna, the Interior Design Hall of Fame member, who also serves as the company’s creative director, pon-tifi cated on creating the collection. “We’ve worked on sizes, blends, opa -cities, and textures, and processing on the borders,” she said. “We have defi ned colors, noncolors, and in-terconnected effects.”

Her words translate to Bianco, Grigio, and Nero, her three-piece line, their names referring to the

tiles’ base colors. Each is digitally printed with 27 patterns meant to be combined randomly as intricate patchwork. From these, nine compo-sitions were selected to work singu-larly, in combinations with each other, or with unpatterned tile.

Despite high-technology produc-tion, Azulej recalls handcrafted ma-jolica tiles because its colors are a bit irregular and may seep around the edges. But fi ltered through Urquiola’s sensibility, the overall look is contemporary. Approximately 8 inches square, the tiles are resistant to temperature changes and chemi-cals, making them suitable for exte-rior and interior applications. Techni-cally a made-up word, Azulej recalls the tile form azulejo, ubiquitous in its native Portugal. 39-05-36812800; mutina.it. —Edie Cohen circle 461

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The Gift That Keeps Giving

Clockwise from top: The pattern of Lace is felted and dyed by hand. Melina and Dodd Raissnia oversee the construc-tion of Willow in Turkey. A craftsman organizes fi bers in the workshop’s wool room. Sheets of fi nished felt are stored for later use. A basket made from rug remnants rests on Screen, in nutmeg and aqua. Rug edges are fi nished by Dodd Raissnia. Fuller is in charcoal and cream. Jupiter is in camel, aqua, and black. Assorted wool fi bers are stored in plastic bags. Hive is in gray, mint, and indigo.

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When most couples exchange presents, it often ends with, “Where’d ya get that?” But when designer Melina Raissnia received a small felt rug from her husband, Dodd, it

spiked an obsession that would only be sated with an 8,000-mile adventure. Arriving in Tehran, they scoured the main bazaars to no avail. But after

traversing nomadic mountain camps and villages, the couple eventu-ally located small enclaves where aged craftsmen keep the art of

felt making alive. Peace Industry was born soon after, fi rmly rooting the pair in the rug business.

Designed in the Raissnias’ San Francisco studio, the pat-terns are produced in the company’s fair-trade workshop in Turkey, employing the same processes that nomads in Central Asia used for centuries. Spunky shapes in earthy colors fi gure prominently in the latest releases, including the jaunty honeycomb of Hive and the cellular compo-sure of Screen. Jupiter sports a cyclic crisscross, Lace super imposes circular and linear forms, and Fuller re-sembles shadows cast from a stained-glass window. The rugs are handmade in small batches using lamb’s wool and natural dyes, in any custom color and size up to 12 by 14 feet. To eliminate waste, remnants from rug making

are repurposed into hand-sewn baskets and ottomans. 415-255-9940; peaceindustry.com. circle 462


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1. Breeze hand-tufted rug in wool-linen by Helen Yardley Studio. circle 4632. Astronomie collection carpet in nylon in Roadside Attractions in Orange Moose, Oscar Worthy in Extravagant Settings, and Roadside Attractions in Little A Le Inn by Bentley Prince Street. circle 4643. Astronomie collection vinyl tile in Lunar Greystone in Icy Moons, Space Race Leather in Polar Lander, and Galactic Haze in Comet Rendezvous by Bentley Prince Street. circle 465 4. Margao rug in linen in 795 by Niba Rug Collections. circle 466 5. Contemporary Byron rug in bamboo silk in BB-01 Bluestone by Loloi Rugs. circle 467 6. Squaredance 1 hand-knotted rug in wool and silk in China Blue by Reuber Henning. circle 4687. Sultry hand-knotted rug in silk, wool, and hemp by Rug Art International . circle 4698. Ziggy flat-weave rug in natural cotton in light blue and dark blue by Madeline Weinrib. circle 470See page 126 for sources.

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Splotch Test1. Stephanie Odegard Collection, 888-988-1209; stephanieodegard.com.

2. Doris Leslie Blau, 212-586-5511; dorisleslieblau.com.

3. Marc Phillips Rugs, 212-752-4275; marcphillipsrugs.com.

4. Amy Helfand, 718-643-9577; amyhelfand.com.

5. BravinLee Programs, 212-462-4404; bravinlee.com.

6. Modern Nature Design, 561-278-3332; modernnaturedesign.com.

7. Organic Looms, 312-832-0900; organiclooms.com.

8. Jamie Stern, 800-524-1598; jamiesterndesign.com.

9. Jamie Stern, as above.

10. Jamie Stern, as above.

11. Foreign Accents, 800-880-0413; foreignaccentsrugs.com.

Stacked for Success1. Inigo Elizalde Rugs, 917-436-7058; inigoelizalderugs.com.

2. Mannington Commercial, 800-241-2262; manningtoncommercial.com.

3. Milliken & Company, 864-503-2020; milliken.com.

4. Shaw, 800-257-7429; shawcontractgroup.com.

5. Crossville, 931-484-2110; crossvilleinc.com.

6. Tandus Flooring, 800-248-2878; tandus.com.

7. Cancos Tile & Stone, 800-322-6267; cancos.com.

8. Rosemary Hallgarten, 203-259-1003; rosemaryhallgarten.com.

The Loom in Bloom1. Durkan, 800-554-6637; durkan.com.

2. Artistic Tile, 877-528-5401; artistictile.com.

3. Centiva, 800-236-8482; centiva.com.

4. Kyle Bunting, 512-264-1148; kylebunting.com.

5. Apavisa Porcelánico, 34-964-701-120; apavisa.com.

6. Flor, 866-952-0493; flor.com.

7. Warp & Weft, 212-481-4949; warpandweft.com.

Kind of Blue 1. Helen Yardley Studio, 44-20-7403-7114; helenyardley.com.

2. Bentley Prince Street, 800-423-4709; bentleyprincestreet.com.

3. Bentley Prince Street, as above.

4. Niba Rug Collections, 305-573-1355; nibarugs.com.

5. Loloi Rugs, 972-503-5656; loloirugs.com.

6. Reuber Henning, 49-30-32590145; reuberhenning.de.

7. Rug Art International, 877-478-4278; rug-art.net.

8. Madeline Weinrib, 646-602-3780; madelineweinrib.com.

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Already in the 1930’s, studies revealed that greater Los Angeles had the most modernist structures built anywhere in the country. Since then the number of progres-sive buildings in the city has steadily expanded: One-lot, one-house suburbs have proved a petri dish for architectural experimentation. “L.A. was ground zero in innova-tive design,” says Linda Dishman, executive director of the Los Angeles Conservancy, “and not just high-end residential, but also at a level accessible to the middle class.”

L.A.’s early-onset modernism now means that those buildings, born to look crisp and new, are old enough to show their age and need preservation. But besides time, the truly seismic force threatening these houses is real estate: A small house on a fancy lot risks becoming a teardown. Judith Sheine, an architect and coauthor of Schindler,

Kings Road, and Southern California Modernism, jokes, “I write all these Schindler books to raise the value of Schindler houses, so people will buy them for Schindler, not for the site.”

Historic preservation started in L.A. in 1970 with the brutish demolition of Irving Gill’s Walter L. Dodge House on Kings Road, an early white, cubist masterpiece built between 1914 and 1916. Just down the street, Rudolph Schindler’s own inventive wood-frame and concrete-slab house, built on a shoestring and a wish in 1922, stood forewarned. The Schindler family and concerned citizens created a nonprofi t, Friends of the Schindler House, which now owns and protects it.

Word of this special kind of residence spread, and movie industry fi gures bought and restored trophy houses, often with the help of specialized realtors and architects. Own-ing one of these properties became a badge of honor, the aura of the celebrity rubbing off on the architecture, and vice versa. An ecosystem of awareness spread, assisted over the last two decades by gathering institutional support.

The University of Southern California acquired and stabilized Frank Lloyd Wright’s 1924 Samuel and Harriet Freeman House, a textile-block beauty in the Hollywood Hills; the USC School of Architecture uses it as a teaching lab. The MAK Center for Art and Ar-chitecture, a think tank funded by the Austrian government and based in the Schindler House, has acquired two other Schindler properties: “We organize events, tours, and fundraisers around these houses, so they’re a living organism, not an exalted, frozen-in-time object,” says MAK Center director Kimberli Meyer. The institutions share ideas about fundraising and different ways of programming. “It’s not just about physical res-toration of an art piece,” says Sarah Lorenzen, resident director of Richard Neutra’s own 1932 VDL Research House in Silver Lake, now owned by California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. “It’s a building; it should have activities in it.”

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Until recently, the Getty Foundation, which one observer says could have bought all L.A.’s Case Study Houses for the price of a van Gogh, was conspicuous by its absence. But this spring the Getty is helping sponsor “Pacifi c Standard Time Presents: Modern Architec-ture in L.A.,” a cluster of shows across the basin dealing with the modernist legacy. And last March, the Getty Conservation Institute inaugurated the Conserving Modern Architec-ture Initiative to research issues germane to modernist buildings. Its fi rst project: Case Study House No. 8, the Eames House, designed by Charles and Ray Eames in 1949.

Modernist buildings present a special preservation challenge because architects experi-mented with new materials: “We try to identify areas that conservators are struggling with—concrete, curtain walls, plastics, fl at roofi ng systems—lessons that can be applied beyond Los Angeles,” says Tim Whalen, director of the Getty Conservation Institute. “We’re trying to lay out research for best practice. We started with the Eames house as a local but superb example.”

With the same scientifi c approach it uses on art restoration, the Getty’s analytical exami-nation of building materials is informing how to conserve the Eames House. “We’ve used all our information to take a more balanced conservation approach,” says Kyle Normandin, senior project specialist at the institute. “The colors of the house, for example, changed

Opposite from left: Rudolph Schindler’s 1922 Los Angeles house, which the MAK Center for Art and Architecture acquired in 1994 to use as its headquarters. The Hylomorphic Project, a 2006 installation by Open Source Architecture at the Schindler House in 2007. Clockwise from top left: The living room in Richard Neutra’s VDL Research House. The exterior of the 1932 house, which was destroyed by fi re in 1963 and rebuilt by Neutra’s son Dion under his father’s supervision. The penthouse of the house, which was donated in 1990 by Neutra’s widow, Dione, to California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, to be used and maintained by the university’s College of Environmental Design.


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over the years they lived in it, so we’re not just aiming at the way it looked in the early images when it was fresh and new.”

The directors of the Eames Foundation decided on a conservation rather than preser-vation strategy. “We liked the history and story of the house, the fact that it was worn lovingly. We like that feeling and want to take it into the future,” says Eames Demetrios, the Eames’s grandson. “We wanted to conserve everything that was still there from the original moment, and avoid doing anything that isn’t reversible. It’s like a work of art: If you’re fi xing the Mona Lisa, you might clean it but you don’t repaint it.”

Escher GuneWardena Architecture is developing the conservation master plan. “The Eames Foundation decided to restore it to 1988, when Ray died, to acknowledge the ongoing tweaking and manipulation of the house after it was built,” says principal Frank Escher, who commends the Getty for its efforts beyond the Eames project. “I can’t overstate the importance of the Getty Conservation Institute. We have this amaz-ing collection of Modernist houses in a city that’s been an architectural laboratory for decades. But the Getty adds the presence of a ministry of culture to the effort. It’s fi ll-ing a very big void. It’s a game changer.” —Joseph Giovannini

Clockwise from top: The living room of the 1924 Samuel and Harriet Freeman textile-block house by Frank Lloyd Wright, now owned and maintained by the University of Southern California. Irving Gill’s 1916 Walter L. Dodge House, its 1970 demolition helping kick-start the L.A. preservation movement. The Eames House, designed by Charles and Ray Eames in 1949, the fi rst project for the Getty Conservation Institute’s Conserving Modern Architecture Initiative. The house’s interior, conserved just as Ray Eames left it at her death in 1988. The fl at roofi ng system, a modernist preservation challenge.


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“Would you be interested in trying something really massive?” That was the question posed by Eileen Tognini, curator at Skybox at 2424 Studios in Philadelphia, to installation artist Chris Klapper, whose largest piece to that point was a mere 8 feet high. Tognini challenged her to fi ll the 7,000-square-foot gallery space with a show that would be “epic in every way.” A bit daunted, Klapper turned to her hus-band, Patrick Gallagher, a fellow installation artist, to collaborate on Symphony in D Minor, a multimedia work inspired by the viscera of thunderstorms. “A storm rolling in, building to a crescendo, and gradually receding, in our minds, closely followed symphonic form,” Klapper says of the title. “We chose D minor since compositions in that key tend to be more dramatic in tone,” adds Gallagher.

The piece comprised a quartet of 22-foot-long translucent cylinders, their shape inspired by long rolling arcus clouds, hung beneath the gallery’s 40-foot-high skylit ceiling. Acrylic tubing was heated, bent into arcs, welded into 5-foot-diameter rings, and spaced at 4-foot intervals to create a circular rib cage for each cylinder. Pliable resin sheets, cast in silicone molds, were wrapped around these armatures, creating a skin upon which storm images—captured on an iPhone by the artists—were back-projected from inside the giant forms. Decorative resin endcaps, molded to evoke storm drains, provided the fi nishing touch.

Despite being referred to as clouds, the cylinders, complete with all their tech-nology equipment, weighed 600 pounds apiece. Thus steel pipes were secured by clamps to steel mounts fi tted around the gallery’s original ceiling trusses; sus-pended from these pipes, the cylinders were free to swing.

When the installation was up last fall, the gallery proctor would surprise visitors by reaching up to give one of the clouds a gentle shove, which caused the projec-tions of a calm blue sky to darken and rumbling sounds to emerge. Viewers were then encouraged to push the suspended cylinders harder themselves and, gazing upward, observe the thunderous results. “When gallery-goers realized they could touch the art, a taboo boundary was broken,” Gallagher says. “That was a beautiful thing to watch.” Over the course of approximately 40 minutes, the basso profondo of a full-blown storm diminished to the pitter-patter of receding rain, only to regroup and thunder again. —Craig Kellogg

a perfect stormChris Klapper and Patrick Gallagher bring on thunder and lightning at a Philadelphia gallery

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Minor. Resin sheets were cured in a silicone mold on the fl oor. A winch

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wrapped sheets were secured with zip ties. Motion sensors were

placed inside the cylinders to trigger audio and video. Designed

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molded from resin. Each of the four cylinders was 22 feet long and

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Arclinea 139

Artistic Tile 140

Concertex 141

Design Within Reach 142

HAlCon 143

Holly HunT 144

Interface 145

JAnus et Cie 146/147

snaps 148/149

Keilhauer 150

lAuFEn 151

KnollTextiles 152/153

legrand 154

M2l 155

nemo Tile Company 156

Rocky Mountain Hardware 157

ultrafabrics 158

Best of year 2012 by the numbers 159

Best of year 2012 Product Winners and Honorees 160


Artusi OutdOOr Kitchen Like every Arclinea product, this truly unique outdoor kitchen is conceived as a real space— a kitchen for living and utilizing. in stainless steel Aisi 316 for high resistance, durability, and hygiene, the Artusi is the ideal outdoor kitchen. it features a recessed handle, “italia” (an exclusive Arclinea patent) and 4cm thick doors with internal isolating foam and magnetic seal to avoid water and insect intrusion. it has an integrated barbecue, thermic storage for food and beverage, as well as an Arclinea faucet and a gas bottle container with secure venting. circle 81

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PortraitHonoree HArD WAll covering

Meticulously hand carved and delicately textured, these beauties can be composed singularly or as a collage. the Portrait Suite is curated in three patterns across two sizes and each piece is crafted individually by a skilled artisan. circle 23

Winner Tile AnD STone Flooring

the show-stopping Estrella is hand crafted in glass mosaic. Estrella’s intuitive use of shape

and color will transform any space.

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ZENUS Zenus is the next evolution of performance fabrics. Stains and spills can be wiped away with just a dry cloth. Multiple layers of skin are applied on top of the textile to create a solid surface preventing moisture, stains, and other materials from entering the textile layer. The industry’s original graffiti-free finish is then incorporated into the skin to become the first ink-erasable fabric. Bleach cleanable, ink-resistant, eco-friendly, and extremely durable, Zenus redefines contract textiles. ciRclE 31

pROduct Zenus

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MILO BAUGHMAN RECLINER 74Designed in 1966, this sleek, inviting recliner is the work of Milo Baughman, recognized as one of the originators of the California modern movement. He began his career as a custom furniture designer and later joined forces with Thayer Coggin, the exclusive manufacturer of his furniture to this day. Opening with a slight seated push, Recliner 74 offers three stages of comfort, from upright to feet up to full recline. It features attractive solid walnut arms and legs, foam and fi ber cushions and choice of leather or fabric upholstery. Custom colors available. Made in U.S.A. CIRCLE 41


MesaMesa pairs integrated technology with a modern design that is entirely uncompromised by the connectivity needs of today’s meeting spaces. Power/data access points have been relocated to deliver a seamless and intuitive interface that is literally at the user’s fingertips. a cantilevered surface & layered edge profile offer a modern aesthetic. The continuous edge reveal allows cables to exit gracefully from a concealed drawer eliminating the typical mess of wires. Freeing the surface from grommet holes also allows surface materials to display cleanly and beautifully. The fully concealed interface ensures the product aesthetic remains classic and timeless. circle 44

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WINNER REsIdENtIal accENt sEatING

HOLLY HUNT

OdeNse cHairThe Odense chair has a structured wood frame that flows beautifully from each joint, perfectly balanced and proportional. Human in scale, this chair is different from oversize lounge chairs with cushioned upholstery that comfortably hugs the body, lovely veneer work, and a clean-cut silhouette. cIRclE 15

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Interface

Walk the Plank taking cues from a love of repurposed materials, Walk the Plank makes proper reference to the eccentric qualities of old timbers with its deeply grooved grain and a bold range of values within each colorway. an inspired tweak on the common carpet tile, Walk the Plank is long and narrow in a 25cm x 1m tile. evoking all the warmth and familiarity of an age-worn wooden floor, this clever shift in format is an instant classic. the “skinny plank” offers new ideas about making pattern on the floor. a herringbone installation brings distinctive scale and movement. ashlar is suddenly made elegant through longer, leaner lines. and mixing with our other sizes gives unlimited possibilities. CIRClE 49pRoduCt Walk the Plank

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BOXWOOD MODULAR COLLECTION HONOREE OUTDOOR FURNISHING

The Boxwood Modular Collection demonstrates detailed craftsmanship and is constructed of hand-woven JANUSfi ber. Boxwood features an open, structured weave with a precise silhouette and includes 15 pieces to be combined in countless confi gurations. This handsome collection blends into any contract or hospitality setting, inside or out. CIRCLE 42

COLLECTION Boxwood Modular

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GREEN SidE ChaiRHoNorEE GrEEN FurNiturE

The GREEN side chair is designed for planet preservation. With a certified Ecodesign, GREEN is constructed from 100% recycled/recyclable materials - polypropylene seat, powder coated aluminum structure, and beech wood legs. The GREEN Side Chair is suitable for interior use and is also available in an exterior version. circlE 42

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It was the best of times—and projects and products, too—as Interior Design presented its 7th annual Best of Year awards. The nominated

design firms and manufac-turers headed to 200 West Street in New York, where they anxiously awaited the

announcement of winners in nearly 100 categories. The lucky victors headed home with their Harry Allen-designed trophies, crowned by molded light bulbs sure to inspire the next bright idea. A portion of the proceeds from this Edelman Leather-sponsored event was donated to Rebuilding Together NYC, the nonprofit organization founded to help repair and rebuild homes damaged by Hurricane Sandy.

snaps1. Best of Year 2012 campaign photographed by Paul Godwin of Paul Godwin Photography.2. The two-level, state-of-the-art auditorium at 200 West Street. 3. Interior Design president Mark Strauss and editor in chief Cindy Allen announce the winners.4. Textile and Wall Covering winners: Audrey Ducas of Weitzner, Echo Mackenzie and Amy Darrah of Edelman Leather, Jane Riback of Robert Allen Contract, Alexander Lamis of Robert A.M. Stern Architects

and John Rowan and Lori Roop of CF Stinson.5. West Chin of West Chin Architect takes the prize for Residential Retreat.6. Strauss and Allen show off this year’s winner and honoree awards.7. And the winner is…Jessica Phillips Penn, VP of sales and hospitality for Phillips Collection, Nancy Jackson, president of Architectural Systems, Benedikt Gorsolke, project sales and marketing for Dornbracht, and Lisa Gold, global projects

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manager for Laufen.8. Allen cheers for Hall of Famer Tom Kundig of Olson Kundig, winner for hardware.9. American Leather VP of specialty and hospitality sales Frank Boardman, Keilhauer VP of sales and marketing Jackie Maze, CSD Studio principal Lynda Chesser, and OFS’s brand manager Doug Shapiro win in various categories for contract seating.10. Studying the BoY project and product finalists. 11. In celebration with Allen,

Phillip Jeffries VP of operations Jeffrey Bershad and president Philip Bershad kiss the trophy.12. Hall of Famer Rand Elliott, whose Elliott + Associates Architects won Education and Designer’s Own Office, with Interior Design managing editor Helene Oberman.13. Double fisted—Randy Brown of Randy Brown Architects wins for his interiors for Workstations and I Pods and in the Green category for River Probe.14. The 350 seated attendees

intently watch the work of the finalists.15. Winners Scott Bodenner, designer for Chella Textiles, and Momentum Textiles senior designer Ellie Moser.16. The coveted BoY trophies designed by Harry Allen.17. Two-time honoree for Health Care Textiles and Green Textiles, Ultrafabrics CEO Clay Rosenberg and president Danielle Boecker.18. The best in flooring includes: Beth Hiscock, director of product development operations

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of Tandus Flooring, Peter Greene, Interface VP of market-ing, Jennifer Busch, VP A&D market development for Interface, Michael Mandapati, founder and creative director of Warp & Weft, and Joshua Levinson, president of Artistic Tile.19. Enjoying the show.20. Hall of Famer Peter Marino, whose Peter Marino Architect was a winner for Retail Luxury.21. More than 400 projects and products were honored.


TalkTalk more, text less! Replace emoticons with actual human emotions.

Talk positions people at a natural angle for face-to-face communication. Elegant high backs, in single or two-seat sizes, provide visual and sound privacy, and low backs create more casual meeting places. Two-seater benches with backs are available in meeting seat height or lounge seat height. Six tables in different sizes and heights complete the series. GREENGUaRD® and level® certified.

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palomba collectionthe beauty of laUFen’s first freestanding solid-surface tub comes from its organic and sensuous shape, a design in keeping with the entire palomba collection. Designed in collaboration with Roberto palomba, the bathtub is the leading protagonist in laUFen’s newest palomba collection. this collection builds on the design language that the palombas describe as a “fingerprint of nature.” the dynamic asymmetrical shape and high back recall a natural water basin carved out of the rocks over the millennia. Roberto palomba cites his inspiration as the interaction between coves and cliffs and the action of the sea against the rocks and the shapes which are formed from the never-ending conflict. circle 60

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VIVID BY TROVEHONOREE GREEN TEXTILE

The Vivid Collection by Trove is the newest partner launch from KnollTextiles. Dorothy Cosonas, Creative Director of KnollTextiles, worked with Trove designers Jee Levin and Randall Buck to create a delicate and dynamic study of color and movement. Available in three richly colored patterns, digitally printed onto an innovative non-vinyl Type II substrate—new to the contract marketplace. CIRCLE 56

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DESIGN Trove and Dorothy Cosonas

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KAMANIWINNER RESIDENTIAL TEXTILE

Kamani upholstery by Dorothy Cosonas marries a modern fl oral with an old-world screen printing technique. Named for the fl ower Kamani, the pattern was inspired by Hindu fl oral patterns. In addition to upholstery, Kamani can also be used for residential drapery, pillows, and headboards. Kamani is made of 100% cotton and comes in fi ve colorways.

COLLECTION Kamani, Knoll Luxe

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STITCH HONOREE CONTRACT TEXTILE

The Stitch Collection by KnollTextiles creative director, Dorothy Cosonas, was inspired by stitching and embroidery techniques as well as fashion. The Collection consists of three upholstery fabrics: Tryst, Marquee and Mod Plaid, and coordinates easily with a wide array of fabrics in the entire KnollTextiles oeuvre for a variety of uses.

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Jot, designed by Suzanne Tick, is a drapery fabric inspired by digital binary code strings reminiscent of DNA strands. This pixelated drapery, which comes in four colorways, combines three light neutral ground dots conveying a sense of airy buoyancy. Jot creates a subtle geometric shadow play that works so well against a window or as a room divider. Jot is made of 100% polyester, and is

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adorne™ PoP-out™ outLeta gentle push reveals the genius of this outlet—three places to plug in that elegantly hide away when not in use. Part of a collection of switches, dimmers, and outlets that feature a unique square design and fit flush within distinctive wall plates with no visible screws. CirCLe 61

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LUÌThe Luì desk, made by Gallotti & Radice, has a streamlined design that fl uidly mixes glass with a variety of other materials. Designed by Paolo Maria Fumagalli, the desk features a 12mm glass top that sits on a shelf made of ash (in a natural fi nish, wenge-color stain, or black or white lacquer). Optional features include drawers and a felt covering for the center shelf, in a choice of colors. Available in three sizes, from 55 to 71 inches long, with a matte or polished stainless steel frame. CIRCLE 68

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ATOMRearrange the Atom and open up rooms to countless design possibilities. The stretched hexagon shape of this white-body ceramic wall tile comes in three formats: flat, concave, and convex, to add depth and complexity to a space. Atom is suitable for vertical surfaces in wet and dry areas for residential as well as commercial projects. Tiles come in four colors, from creamy white to ashy grey, and are mounted on mesh for ease of installation. Sheet size is 12½ inches by 14¼ inches. Each individual Atom tile measures 33⁄8 inches. circle 78

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MACK COLLECTIONGeometrically pleasing, the new Mack Collection is characterized by angular, refl ective planes highlighting the artistry of sand-cast bronze. Designed by Jim McLaughlin of McLaughlin & Associates Architects, the inspiration was to create a collection that is modern yet bold enough to make a statement in scale with its surroundings. A choice of 10 hand-applied patinas combined with the broad product offering, this design compliments a variety of architectural styles from large-scale mountain houses to smaller, more contemporary homes. CIRCLE 87

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Rocky Mountain Hardware

COLLECTION Mack

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BRIsA® fRescoBrisa fresco boasts a refreshing new flair as the latest to the “breathable” Brisa collection. While maintaining the spectrum of qualities tantamount to Brisa, including proprietary Takumi™ technology, premium resin quality, impressive durability, and notable softness, Brisa fresco also features antimicrobial technologies plus expanded upholstering capabilities, allowing designers to successfully integrate this surface into any upholstery or wall covering project. Designed to traverse all markets, Brisa fresco incorporates an inspirational color palette and imparts a fresh attitude on a classic grain. circle 105

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Join us for the 8th Annual Best of Year Awards in 2013.Online SubmiSSiOnS open in MAY.Ceremony Held on December 5.

Spearheaded by the industry’s top publication, Interior Design magazine’s Best of Year Awards honor the most innovative and inspiring projects and products from around the globe. The 2012 numbers speak volumes:

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InterIor DesIgn: Best of Year 2012 ProDuct WInners anD Honorees

accessorY Winner: Phillips Collection – Square RootHonoree:Big Ass Fans – Haiku ceiling fanbulthaup – b3 drawer organizational systemSpark Modern Fires – Vent Free Vu Thru

offIce accessorYWinner:Haworth – BelongHonoree:Herman Miller – Flo Dynamic Support – Family of SolutionsSkyline Design – Cleo Mobile Magnetic MarkerglassSteelcase – Victor2

BatH accessorY anD HarDWareWinner: Tubes Radiatori – TrameHonoree:Boffi S.p.A. – IndexNewport Brass – Decorative Square Shower Drain

BatH caBInetrYWinner:Lacava – Giulia GA130Honoree:Porcelanosa – InRobern – Robern Compact VanityWetstyle – Frame

BatH fIttIngWinner:Dornbracht – Horizontal ShowerHonoree:Brizo – Charlotte Electronic Lavatory Faucet with SmartTouchPlus and TempIQGessi – Goccia Ceiling-Mount FaucetGraff – Sento

BatH fIxtureWinner: Laufen – Palomba Solid Surface Bath TubHonoree:The Bath Works – St. LyonBisazza – Counter ADuravit – OpenSpaceHansgrohe USA – Axor Bouroullec Shelf with Integrated Single- Handle Faucet

BuIlDIng ProDuctWinner: Architectural Systems – Fusión Wood Panels Honoree:Bendheim – Jelly Bean Glass CollectionJoel Berman Glass Studios – ViteSkyline Design – The KnollTextiles Glass Collection

BroaDloomWinner: Tandus Flooring – NeedleTechHonoree:Atlas Carpet Mills – Dreamology CollectionBentley Prince Street – So VintageDurkan, The Mohawk Group – Wild Corners

carPet tIleWinner: Interface – Walk the Plank Honoree:J+J/Invision – Paradigm ShiftMilliken – AlluméShaw Contract Group – DyeLab

rugWinner: Warp & Weft – KaleidoscopeHonoree:Carini Lang – BarringtonDavid Nosanchuk for Stark – VersusNanimarquina USA – Chillida CollectionTop Floor Rugs – Enwrap

green floorIngWinner: Interface – Urban Retreat Honoree:Chilewich | Sultan – BioFelt

HarD floorIngWinner: DuChateau Floors – Heritage Timber EditionHonoree:Armstrong World Industries – Striations Biobased TileLiquid Elements, artfully poured floors – Reflect

tIle & stone floorIngWinner: Artistic Tile – Estrella MosaicHonoree:Crossville – Shades by CrossvilleNew Ravenna – Sophie by Giovanni BarbieriNew Ravenna Mosaics – Newman Stone Waterjet Mosaic

contract DeskIngWinner: Tuohy Furniture Corporation – Coda CollectionHonoree:Bordonabe USA – Most izzy+ – Nemo Bar and Trellis by izzyM2L – Luì

contract taBleWinner: Halcon – MesaHonoree:Allsteel – Harvest TableAndreu World America – TaoCindy Rendely Architexture – Sculptural Steel Table

green furnItureWinner: Emeco – Broom ChairHonoree:Janus et Cie – Green Side Chair Interior VersionKnoll – ReGeneration by Knoll

HealtH-care furnItureWinner:Wieland – sleepTooHonoree:Carolina – ReverieHumanscale – ViewPoint V6 Technology Wall StationIoA Healthcare Furniture – Vela + Egg

outDoor furnIsHIngWinner: Sutherland – Hoofed TableHonoree:Gloster Furniture – NomadJanus et Cie – Boxwood Modular CollectionLandscape Forms – Parc Lounge

outDoor seatIngWinner: Kenneth Cobonpue – Cabaret HIgh Back SofaHonoree:Dedon – DalaHerman Miller Collection – MediciOffi & Company – Mod Lounger

PartItIons anD Wall sYstemWinner: 3form – EdgeHonoree:Loftwall – Wave Divider ScreenSeeyond Architectural Solutions – Seeyond Movable WallsTeknion – Optos Low Profile Architectural Wall

resIDentIal storageWinner: Altura Furniture – Octave 84Honoree:Karim Rashid – KaddyTresserra Collection S.L – JoyeroWren & Cooper – Center City Media Console

resIDentIal taBleWinner: Cliff Young Ltd – 300-RoRo Dining TableHonoree:Federico Delrosso for Henry Timi – FD302 Moebius collectionNico Yektai – Wall Hung Console #1Studio Tim Campbell – Berlin Console

resIDentIal occasIonal taBle anD DeskWinner: Chai Ming Studios at Atelier Gary Lee – Gem Side TableHonoree:Design Within Reach – Risom DeskHolly Hunt – Forsyth TableStephanie Odegard Collection – Ulta Champa Table

HarDWareWinner: Olson Kundig Architects – Tom Kundig CollectionRocky Mountain Hardware – The Mack CollectionHonoree:Du Verre Hardware – Arroyo CollectionSargent Manufacturing – Decorative Mortise Lock Thumbturns

kItcHen aPPlIanceWinner: Fagor America – Fully Integrated RefrigeratorHonoree:Best – Best Sorpresa Generation II Collection of Range HoodsU-Line Corporation – Modular 3000 Series Clear Ice MachineViking Range Corporation – D3 Series from Viking Range Corporation

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cHanDelIerWinner: Sand Studios – RainHonoree:Neidhardt Design by Steven Haulenbeek – ZollstockVibia – Link XXLWAC Lighting – Vela Oled Chandelier

lIgHtIng controlWinner: Lutron Electronics – Lutron Maestro occupancy/vacancy sensing switchHonoree:Legrand – adorne Pop-Out OutletSwitch Lighting – Switch60

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PenDant fIxtureWinner: 3M Architectural Markets – Flex by 3MHonoree:Babette Holland – Tin Man PendantKarim Rashid – Nafir Pendant LZF/Globallighting – Raindrop SG

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contract conference seatIngWinner: Keilhauer – TalkHonoree:American Seating – The Us Chair FamilyDavis Furniture – ExoHBF – Flight Conference Series

contract guest seatIngWinner: American Leather – AlyssaHonoree:Davis Furniture – TreSedia Systems – JumpSeatStylex – Brooks

contract lounge cHaIrWinner: OFS – MadridHonoree:Bernhardt Design – CP Lounge CollectionDavis Furniture – C.R. LoungeDesign Within Reach – Milo Baughman Recliner 74

contract lounge seatIngWinner: Knoll – The Lounge Collection by Pierre Beucler and Jean- Christophe PoggioliHonoree:Arcadia – Intima ModularKimball Office – Villa CrescentPaul Brayton Designs – Portofino

task cHaIrWinner: OFS – Flexxy SwivelHonoree:Vitra – Pivot

resIDentIal accent seatIngWinner: Holly Hunt – Odense ChairHonoree:Craig Van Den Brulle – Riemann ChairErinn V Maison – London ChairFritz Hansen – minuscule

resIDentIal lounge seatIngWinner: Vitra – Grand ReposHonoree:Baker – Athens Lounge Chair - TuftedEsa Vesmanen, Pure Design Finland – Balance Acoustic Chaise LoungeHolly Hunt – Stilt Coupe Lounge Chair

resIDentIal sofaWinner: B&B Italia USA – MichelHonoree:Bernhardt Design – WorkshopCasadesus – DaliMilano Smart Living – Multibed Castello

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soft Wall coverIngWinner: Weitzner – CumulusHonoree:Carnegie – Xorel GraphicElitis – Chance/MadoneKarim Rashid – Karim Wallcovering for Marburg

HarD Wall coverIngWinner: Ann Sacks – Ogassian, Japanese GeoHonoree:Artistic Tile – PortraitNemo Tile Company – Atom ceramic wall tilePorcelanosa – Madison Plata

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Denieuwegeneratie, a young Dutch architecture firm, builds an

experimental, super-sustainable house just outside Amsterdam

under the hill

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The Netherlands is famous for many things, not least its prodigious output of fine design. Varied topogra-phy, however, isn’t one of its big signifiers; when people think Holland, chances are they think flat. So Dutch Mountain—the name of the first residential project from Amsterdam firm Denieuwegeneratie—is a deliber-ate contradiction in terms, a sort of tongue-in-cheek oxymoron.

And yet the name accurately describes what the suburban Amsterdam house is: a glass, larch, concrete, and steel structure partially en-cased in a manmade hillside, which acts as a natural, sustain-able—not to mention conversation-starting—form of thermal insula-tion. “Believe it or not, the house sits in what is, by Dutch stan-dards, a hilly area,” notes princi-pal Thomas Dieben, who, like his two coprincipals, is in his early 30’s. (Denieuwegeneratie, by the way, is Dutch for “new genera-tion.”) “And many of those hills are artificial, having been con-structed in the 19th century by

local noblemen so they could sur-vey their land.” Occupying a 1 1/2-acre plot in a verdant, government-protected area, the new hillside is also a clever response to council authorities’ requirements that the house be contextually appro-priate to the landscape.

“We really challenged ourselves at several practical levels,” coprin-cipal Oskar Vos says. “There’s nothing more idiotic than trying to bury a house, since you need to bring in light and air.” Vos and

Dieben—along with third principal, Sanne Oomen, who lives in Dutch Mountain with her husband, advertis-ing executive Lucas Mol, and their two children—began by approaching an engineering and sustainability

Previous spread: A 1980’s Daimler Double-Six hangs on a wall in the kitchen of a sustainably built house outside Amsterdam by Denieuwegeneratie. The chandelier was crafted from vintage teapots by architect Sanne Oomen, one of the fi rm’s three principals, who lives in the house with her family. Left, from top: In the dining area, rectangles of 1-inch-thick glass in the poured-concrete fl oor allow light into the basement, where Oomen’s husband, Lucas Mol, stores his art. The house’s entry is in the manmade hillside, which is composed of compacted soil excavated from the site and planted with ryegrass. Right: The living area’s stucco fi replace is fl anked by Arne Jacobsen–inspired chairs made of metal from old oil cans.Opposite: Oak cabinets, a mix of 19th-century originals and reproductions, were deconstructed and screwed to the wall and ceiling for kitchen storage.


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Left: In use until 2009, the car is now a repository for cookbooks and kitchenware. Opposite top, from left: The wall color was chosen by friend and painter Asmir Ademagic, a former assistant to Sol LeWitt. The stairwell to the entry balcony features artifacts from Africa and a Hendrik Kerstens photograph next to a reproduc-tion of a 15th-cen-tury self-portrait by Jan van Eyck. Opposite bottom, from left: The entrance is formed from plates of recycled steel. In the master bedroom, daylight enters via a well leading from a skylight in the roof, through a second-fl oor bedroom, and down to the ground level.


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consultant to help them conceptualize and build their vision. “Our specific knowledge of the software part of the project wasn’t sufficient to the task,” Dieben admits. “But we be-lieve the sustainable goals can and should mostly be reached with the actual architecture.”

Totaling 7,600 square feet, the house is essentially one large space on three staggered levels. The north side is covered by the mountain of soil, which was excavated from the site and re-constituted around the poured-concrete foundation; the south and southwest facades are glass-enclosed, surrounded by a locally sourced larch frame. “It’s very local,” Dieben jokes, “from a forest less than a half mile from here. The idea was that everywhere there wasn’t mountain, there would be wood and glass. Wood is the intermediary between the earth and the glazing.”

The glass walls leverage the south-southwest exposure to the fullest, pulling light far into the house. The entrance, oppo-site these windows, is embed-ded in the mountainside. “It’s like approaching a bunker,” Vos notes. “People are aston-ished when they walk through the door and they’re facing that transparent facade.” The entrance is on the top level; twin staircases descend to the double-height, split-level pub-lic space: dining and kitchen areas on the upper side; living and den areas on the lower. “Looking down from the entry gives an Alice-in-Wonderland effect. Into a mountain, through a tiny door, into this amazing volume,” says Oomen. The architects used wooden partitions to divvy up the private space in the earth-encased rear of the house. “None of the walls are struc-tural,” says Vos, “so their con-figuration can be easily altered later.” The rooms are stacked in slightly irregular fashion, with a workspace, two bedrooms, and a bathroom at the top; a utility room that connects the garage to the kitchen in the middle; and the master suite on the lowest level.

The envelope is all about austerity: The materials—rough concrete walls, poured concrete flooring, glass, steel, birch plywood—are in full view and undisguised. “It speaks a language that’s honest and clean,” says Dieben. Chandeliers and pendant fixtures throughout are suspended from steel tension rods that traverse the breadth of the space. “The load-bearing structure in the roof is steel,” he explains, “so the rods could be very thin.” As for natural light, “it


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PROJECT TEAM ARUP: SUSTAINABILITY CONSULTANT. ERCO: LIGHTING CONSULTANT. VAN ROSSUM: STRUCTURAL ENGINEER. VAN VELDHUIZEN: MEP. SIENNA PRODUCTIONS: STUCCO WORK. DE KAMPER BOUWBEDRIJF; 13 SPECIAAL: GENERAL CONTRACTORS.

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was tricky to find light sources for the lowest floor,” Vos says. The team solved the problem with what they call a “light chimney,” essentially a well from a skylight in the roof, through a second-floor bedroom, and down to the master bedroom some 13 feet below.

The furnishings stand in cheeky contrast to the surrounding austerity; replete with color, custom designs, and flashes of humor, it’s the collective work of the firm and the couple. “Most of the elements”—reclaimed doors and windows, a chandelier fashioned from second-hand teapots, skateboards repurposed as stair

treads—“found their way in dur-ing the process,” says Ooben. “But this principle of flexibility suits the sustainable story of the house. The interiors adjust to the inhabitants, in this case, my fam-ily. We have an eclectic style. We like surprises. We like details. And we didn’t want to live in an archi-tectonic box. The house can han-dle all this, which means the de-sign succeeded.”

Vos and Diemen also cited Mol’s vast collection of art, relics, and curiosities, amassed on his

extensive travels, as an important design consideration: the gener-ously sized basement was con-ceived to store most of it. One particularly large piece, however, is displayed on a kitchen wall: Mol’s Daimler Double-Six from the late 1980’s. “It retired for the green dream,” jokes Oomen. But it still has a function, holding cookbooks in its seats.

Left, from top: Next to a vintage Charles and Ray Eames rocking chair, the back of the living area’s fi replace is the kitchen’s clay stove and pizza oven, which redirects the heat it produces into a system of channels that circulates it under and throughout the house; all the woodwork is birch plywood. The angles of the overhang maximize natural light in winter and provide shade in sum-mer. Right: The powder room has an antique sink and toilet bought at auction.Opposite: The vintage fl oor tiles in the bathroom were sourced from France and Belgium.

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As it evolved over the last four decades, a force of nature


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Standing outside her largely transparent, diamond-shape house in the forested foothills of Accord, New York, the petite 85-year-old Nancy Copley could easily be mistaken for a wood sprite. That is if the wood sprite had studied architecture and interior design at Pratt Institute and structural engineering at Columbia University and had the aesthetic vi-sion, technical capabilities, and sheer moxie to design and build an astonishing and idiosyn-cratic residence—a testament to organic mod-ernism—on her own time and own dime. A 37-year-long labor of love, Copley’s 3,000-square-foot magnum opus spreads over three levels connected by a large open staircase. The main entry, two bedrooms, and an office occupy the ground floor; the living, dining, and music ar-eas, kitchen, and master suite share the second floor; a spacious balcony, which once housed a pipe organ, sits on top.

Of Copley’s many attributes, tenacity is per-haps foremost. As a woman breaking into a man’s profession in the mid 20th century, she

encountered a lot of friction—from no ladies restroom at Pratt, where she was the only fe-male student in her class, to architectural firms that refused to hire women, or would only assign them menial tasks. “You have to keep fighting the guys to prevent them from giving you some stupid job,” she said at the time. Copley persevered, going on to design the Jewish Institute for Geriatric Care—one of the largest facilities of its kind by a woman ar-chitect—in New Hyde Park in the late 1960’s. Other plan-oriented projects followed from her base in Manhattan. But she ultimately took the road less traveled, moving up to the hills north of New Paltz full-time in 1972. She found seren-ity and inspiration in nature and the specific character of the 50-acre property.

Indeed, any conversation with Copley about her house begins with the natural beauty of the landscape that surrounds it. “It tells me what to do,” she says simply. The fall of the land suggested the three levels of the house; a triangular boulder near the entrance, its


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Previous spread: Begun in the late 1970’s, architect Nancy Copley’s house near Accord, New York, was under construction for 37 years, with much of the work done by Copley herself. Photography: Bruce Buck.Opposite: A wood bridge leads to the upper entrance, which has a pivoting glass door that opens to the kitchen.

Top, from left: The open staircase, which has spalted-maple treads suspended on steel rods, adjoins an indoor garden and connects the house’s three fl oors. In the sitting area under the balcony, a Henry Glass sling chair, a sofa by Johannes Andersen, and George Nakashima ottomans gather around a cocktail table also by Nakashima. Bottom: A pair of Swedish 1950’s armchairs faces the view of the woods in the living area.


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Centered on a tower of bluestone that Copley built herself, the great room—comprising living, dining, and music areas, with a balcony that once housed a pipe organ—has oak posts and beams and fl ooring of reclaimed chestnut planks.


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Top, from left: A 1970’s textile hangs near the stair. A built-in English-walnut cabinet, supported by oak beams, has free edges in the style of Nakashima. Center, from left: The kitchen’s pivot door operates with a system of counterweights. Josef Twirbutt’s 1960’s wood collage hangs above a Nakashima bench. Bottom, from left: A 1980’s copper-and-brass sculpture by Micah Curtis sits on custom walnut cabinetry near a pivoting trapezoid window. A 1970’s wire sculpture by Richard Filipowski rests on the dining table.Opposite: Set amid 50 acres, the house has a bluestone base, copper roof, and angled walls that are predominantly oak-framed glass. Photog-raphy: Bruce Buck.


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faceted shape. Copley may have learned about architectural flow from snow falling off trees, but she learned stonemasonry by doing it her-self. Using ad-hoc cranes, Copley and her first husband hoisted and hand-set the hewn blue-stone blocks that now comprise the 44-foot-high, 30-foot-wide tower at the center of the house, a task that took six years. A scale model shows the main structural components: the tower and its adjoining stone foundation, the oak posts and beams that support the copper roof and upper floors, and the oak ribs that frame the extensive glazing.

Around this architectural skeleton, the house came to life, filled with modern wooden furni-ture, handwoven textiles, and pottery; and with plants, music, and people. A relentlessly creative spirit, Copley constantly tinkered with

it and the nearby diamond-shape thatched-roof barn that sheltered a herd of alpacas. When I asked her what year she completed the house, Copley replied brusquely, “Do you think it’s finished?”

Now retired and planning to head out west to paint, Copley has put her house up for sale. It stands somewhat emptied. To bring back its full vitality, Cindy Allen, editor in chief of Inte-rior Design, suggested photographing it with some of the quirky mid-century furniture and objects I deal in, which she felt would be a per-fect fit for the singular space. So I took a truck-ful of my inventory up to the house, where it joined original George Nakashima furniture—including free-edge Minguren and trestle din-ing tables, Greenrock stools, and a magnificent tortured-wood cocktail table—that Copley


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commissioned directly from Nakashima on trips to his studio in New Hope, Pennsylvania.

No doubt Nakashima helped foster Copley’s reverence for wood, manifest in her home’s oak beams and reclaimed chestnut-plank flooring, diligently amassed and stored for years before installation, as well as the built-in walnut cabinets with their free-edge tops. But whereas Nakashima’s studio channels Zen, Co-pley’s house adds a spark of drama, even theat-ricality. The glass-paneled cathedral ceiling and suspended staircase soar over the great room, opening sight lines to sky and forest, and enclosing a majestic, acoustically balanced liv-ing space, complete with a grand piano, 6-foot-high speakers, and a pipe-organ loft. Like a stage, this is a space meant for entertainment and performance as much as for peaceful con-templation.

On the day of the shoot, Copley looked on du-biously as we dragged in a Johannes Andersen leather sofa, a Clifford Pascoe wood-dowel screen, and a Paul Mayen walnut-and-steel ta-

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ble lamp. But she warmed as room settings took shape and affinities appeared—a Richard Filipowski sculpture atop her Nakashima din-ing table; a Henry Glass sling chair juxtaposed with her Nakashima cocktail table; a Josef Twirbutt wood collage up against the hearth. And she finally lit up on seeing Don Shoemaker cocobolo wood “Sloucher” chairs in the down-stairs studio. These earned a nod and a smile—the ultimate Copley seal of approval.

Postscript: After suffering a heart attack, Nancy Copley died peacefully on January 15, 2013, with her husband, Russel Oliver, by her side, at Vassar Brothers Medical Center in Poughkeepsie, New York.In her Editor’s Welcome on page 5, Cindy Allen writes about our memorable encounter with the architect and her living treasure of a house.


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Opposite: The kitchen, tucked into one corner of the diamond-shape second fl oor, has an oak island and a stainless-steel sink and countertop, all designed by Copley.

Top, from left: A model of the house shows how the oak post-and-beam structure folds around the bluestone tower. Adjacent to the second-fl oor living area, the master bedroom’s bath is inside the bluestone tower. Bottom: Norman Cherner 1950’s tables and a Don Shoemaker sling chair outfi t the ground-fl oor studio, which has oak-plank walls, bluestone fl ooring, and shelves designed by Copley.


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on locationRottet Studio produces a blockbuster of an office for United Talent Agency in Los Angeles


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It’s a known fact. Talent agencies are as much about image as they are about business. Nowhere is this truer than in entertainment’s epicenter, Los Angeles. Two of the city’s big three agencies already had design-statement headquarters. Creative Artists Agency’s, known around town as the mother ship, is an awe-inspiring work of corporate power construed by Gensler. William Morris Endeavor’s building is a paean to Neil M. Denari Architects’s cutting-edge architectural theory. These descriptions come courtesy of Richard Riveire, principal of Rottet Studio, the firm tapped to put United Talent Agency on a design par with its peers.

Riveire’s first task was to differentiate UTA from the competition. “What you guys need,” he told CEO Jeremy Zimmer, “is a place that’s talent-friendly, comfortable, and a little more residential, while still showing the power and prestige of corporate architecture.” Like a film script, this collaboration came with a backstory. Four years ago, Rottet Studio was asked to propose a redesign of UTA’s existing boardroom, part of a cobbled-together Beverly Hills headquarters that evinced the agency’s rapid growth since its 1991 founding. “That’s when we were deciding whether to move or stay,” Zimmer recalls. “The firm’s concept for a conferencing center on top of the building was original and beautiful. My only regret was that we didn’t get a chance to build it.”

Move the agency did, though not out of Beverly Hills. “As a client-service industry, UTA needs to be close to its custom-ers,” founding principal and Interior Design Hall of Famer Lauren Rottet adds. UTA took over the former Hilton hotels headquarters: a pair of buildings that flank a plaza, each with four stories, one of which is below grade. Though the inte-riors, 120,000 square feet in total, accommodating a staff of 350, were badly cut up, some of the innate vocabulary was spot-on. To Riveire, it was like a studio lot; to Zimmer, a campus.

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Previous spread, left: At the Los Angeles headquarters of United Talent Agency, by Rottet Studio, the valet-parking pickup area features custom vinyl wall covering. Previous spread, right: In the adjacent lounge is a John Miller sculpture incorporating hand trucks and bungee cords. Left: A custom leather-upholstered sofa and a wool rug are paired with an enamel and acrylic on canvas by Retna, a graffi ti artist. Right, from top: The 12-foot-long reception desk combines limba, a hardwood, and solid surfacing. A mixed media by

Jacob Hashimoto precedes a conference room, one of seven, furnished with Alberto Meda chairs. The switchback stairway that connects the building’s four fl oors has cerused-oak treads and balustrades of tinted glass.


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directing. “A place where colleagues looked forward to coming,” Zimmer adds, “to have a hospitality feeling—functional, but with buzz.” To be avoided: “Anything that told people how powerful we are.”

Zimmer’s contribution to that “best” rating is his extraordinary art collection, mostly large-scale photography. Andreas Gursky’s hyper-kinetic view of the Kuwaiti Stock Exchange looms just beyond reception. In a corridor, Thomas Struth’s image of a Eugène Delacroix painting in the Tokyo National Museum is a personal Zimmer favorite and among his earliest purchases. One of the newest, an abstract tapestry by Pae White, adapted from her photograph of crushed foil, was com-missioned for a huge swath of wall in reception. But not everything is monumental. “There’s a small oil on canvas by my grandmother in my office,” Zimmer says.

In addition to the art, the quotidian workings of an agency and L.A.’s car culture dictated certain design conditions. Take the valet-parking setup. It has its own small lounge that’s also art-packed. A piece by street artist Retna keeps com-pany with John Miller’s oversize gilded “No,” which, as Zimmer says, “is particularly appropriate since, as agents, that’s what we’re always hearing.”

Weekly all-staff meetings take place in the west, secondary building, where most of the ground floor is dedicated to a divisible multipurpose room. The east building, however, is the primary showpiece. It’s home to UTA’s six board mem-bers, including Zimmer, most of the 21 partners, the majority of the 130 agents, their assistants, and seven conference rooms that are semitransparent and well lit by clerestories.

Its bi-level screening room, on the lowest floors, is the antithesis of a black box. It’s a richly textured volume, with high-low furnishings. At the luxe end of the scale, seating—caramel-colored “Bentley banquettes,” as Riveire calls them—in-sures the room works equally well with sparse or SRO attendance, as was the case for Flight and This Is 40 screenings. But the glowing moiré effect on the ceiling canopy comes from nothing more than folded swaths of inexpensive polyes-ter. Similarly, theater drapes are a low-cost hospitality velvet, glammed up with Fortuny borders.

Rising next to the screening room is Rottet Studio’s main move: a large hole, blasted through all four floors, for a switch-back stair in cerused oak and tinted glass, its floor-through views stretching from side to side and front to back. Off the


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Opposite: Reception features a commissioned

tapestry by Pae White and custom sofas in limba and

leather. Top: Just beyond reception, fl ooring is cerused oak and

the photographic print is by Andreas Gursky. Center: A

wool rug, Florian Maier-Aichen’s chromogenic print,

and a cibachrome photogram by Adam Fuss

appoint an elevator lobby. Bottom: Before Tim

Bavington’s acrylic on canvas, the workstations for agent assistants are custom

compositions of sycamore and plastic laminate.

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Seating 165, the screening room’s custom vinyl-upholstered banquettes stand under a canopy of polyester panels.


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Left, from top: A VIP restroom, one of fi ve, has a marble-topped vanity and James Casebere’s print mounted on aluminum. Weekly all-staff meetings are held in this divisible multipurpose room located in a separate building across the plaza. Rinus Van de Velde’s charcoal on canvas anchors a meeting area furnished with wool-upholstered chairs. Right: Another conference room has a custom table topped with Bardiglio marble and built-in mohair-upholstered seating backed by silk wall covering.

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stair, the 9-foot-wide connecting corridors are more than mere passageways; they also function as meeting spots and galleries, their chiaroscuro-patterned wool rugs adding that aforementioned residential quality. Work areas adhere to the industry standard: Runs of agent offices have assistant workstations within easy visual and aural access. Conference rooms are lined with banquettes to accommodate overflow seating.

Far from standard, though, are the massive conference tables topped in Bardiglio marble and the degree of custom work throughout. In reception, for example, the desk comprises folded planes of black limba, a hardwood, and blizzard-white solid surfacing, and the stairway’s handrail is wrapped in hand-stitched leather. “Take away the decorative elements,” says Riveire, “and the office is actually reductive—just white, black, wood, and glass.” The vocabulary is austerely cine-matic, a mise-en-scène that works equally well for clients as diverse as Johnny Depp, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Judd Apatow.

PROJECT TEAM PATRICIA MCCAUL; HAROUT DEDEYAN; MICHELLE STERLING; JENNIFER MATEO; CHRISTOPHER JONES; JEREMIAH HAHN; JAIME ROVERI; HANY BEHKIT; STEFANIE CHENG; JI IN KIM; JESSICA PELL; BROOKE WALKER: ROTTET STUDIO. SEAN O’CONNOR LIGHTING: LIGHTING CONSULTANT. NEWSON BROWN ACOUSTICS: ACOUSTICAL CONSULTANT. BRANDOW & JOHNSTON: STRUCTURAL ENGINEER. ARC ENGINEERING: MEP. TASLIMI CONSTRUCTION COMPANY: GENERAL CONTRACTOR.

PRODUCT SOURCES FROM FRONT COLLECTIVE LA: CUSTOM WALL COVERING (PARKING). MARTIN BRATTRUD: CUSTOM SIDE TABLE (LOUNGE), CUSTOM SOFAS (LOUNGE, RECEPTION), CUSTOM BANQUETTES, CUSTOM UPHOLSTERY (SCREENING ROOM), ARMCHAIRS (MEETING AREA). BERNHARDT DESIGN: CHAIRS (LOUNGE, RECEPTION). BESPOKE FURNITURE: CUSTOM TABLES (LOUNGE, RE -CEPTION, CONFERENCE ROOM). VITRA: DESK CHAIR (RECEPTION), CHAIRS (CONFERENCE ROOM). KARASTAN: CARPET (CONFERENCE ROOMS). EUROCRAFT ARCHITECTURAL METAL: BALUSTRADE (STAIR). ARTERIORS HOME: WOOD SIDE TABLES (RECEPTION). MILLIKEN & COMPANY: CARPET (OFFICE AREA, MEETING AREA). HALCON: CUSTOM WORKSTATIONS (OFFICE AREA). HERMAN MILLER: CHAIRS. ARMSTRONG: CEILING SYSTEM. TYCO CONSTRUCTION: CANOPY PANELS (SCREENING ROOM). SKOPOS DESIGN: CANOPY PANEL FABRIC. ANN SACKS: TILE (RESTROOM). DESIGNTEX: WALL COVERING. KALLISTA: SINK FITTINGS. SEELEY BROTHERS: CUSTOM VANITY, CUSTOM BASIN. ICF: CHAIRS (MULTIPURPOSE ROOM). JOSEPH NOBLE: ARMCHAIR UPHOLSTERY (MEETING AREA). J. ROBERT SCOTT: BANQUETTE UPHOLSTERY (CONFERENCE ROOM). JIM THOMPSON: WALL COVERING. MASHSTUDIOS: CUSTOM TABLE. ROUIL-LARD: CHAIRS. THROUGHOUT AXIS LIGHTING: LIGHT FIXTURES. TAI PING CARPETS: RUGS.


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the beach house rulesFaced with numerous building restrictions in Sagaponack, New York, Bates Masi Architects conjures residential luxury out of programmatic restraint


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Previous spread: In a Sagaponack, New York, house by Bates Masi Architects, the master bedroom, lined in hand-weathered oak, opens onto a glass-fronted deck overlooking the Atlantic Ocean.Opposite: Visitors may cross the polished-concrete fl oor of the double-height entry hall, framed by walls and ceiling of solid and slatted cedar, to take in the panoramic beachfront view.Left, from top: The living area’s custom game table is oak, blackened steel, and laser-cut leather. Stairs tucked between the foyer’s cedar slats and a wall of

To witness what unregulated development has wrought on the Hamptons, you need only view Fair Field, a mansion built by billionaire Ira Rennert in 1999 on the beachfront in Sagaponack, New York. An Italianate monstrosity with 29 bedrooms and 39 bathrooms, it is reportedly the nation’s largest inhabited private house. Following the building of the 110,000-square-foot compound, the pastoral enclave, which claims one of America’s wealthi-est ZIP codes, elected to assert independence from the town of Southampton and incor-porate as a village—with its own zoning and architectural review boards, of course.

Literally a stone’s throw from the Rennert pile, on a narrow spit of blue-chip real estate nestled between the Atlantic Ocean and a small pond, stands a house designed by Bates Masi Architects that embraces restraint, not ostentation. Bucking prevailing Hamptons real-estate logic, the owners tore down an existing 1980’s eyesore, which principal Harry Bates called “a big white elephant worthy of Austin Powers,” and replaced it with a structure roughly half the size. Due to rigorous beachfront zoning, the firm had to move the new house back 40 feet from the shoreline. Setbacks from the pond on the opposite side could not budge, leaving a much smaller footprint in which to pack an ambitious program of eight bedrooms, two offices, a pool house, and an athletic court. “The design was a process of carving away and integrating the house into the site,” explains coprincipal Paul Masi. “It was about blending materials into the landscape and making things go away.”

At 7,500 square feet, the house is hardly small. But it evinces a less-is-more approach. “We kept it as serene as possible and limited the number of materials. You don’t need a lot of design moves when you have the ocean on one side and a pond on the other,” Masi continues. “The idea was for the architecture to take a step back. When you’re on the beach, the house disappears.” Not quite, but there is certainly a light touch.

Brazilian quartzite lead to the second-fl oor bedrooms. Right, from top: Beneath the living area’s oak canopy are sectional sofas by Antonio Citterio; across from it are custom pendant fi xtures by Matt Gagnon Studio. On 2 acres, the house’s facade mixes concrete, cedar, and Cor-Ten steel.


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The plan is disarmingly simple: The main residence is rectangular with large windows and telescoping glass doors on its long flanks open to the ocean and pond, respectively. The house deflects attention from all angles. Exterior materials—natural cedar and steel—were chosen to blend into the landscape. “We love Cor-Ten because it feels of the earth. In some ways, it’s a nonmaterial,” Masi says. The eastern end of the house abuts a freestanding garage that, together with the pool house finished in matching cedar and steel, and a swimming pool tucked against beach dunes, frames a combined basketball and tennis court. “It was like fitting together the pieces of a very complex jigsaw puzzle,” the archi-tect states. Equally complicated was addressing the mandates of four distinct jurisdic-tions: village, town, county, and state.

Most rooms open onto both bodies of water or offer clear views across the width of the house. With the sliding glass doors pushed back, “The house becomes a big screen porch,” says Bates. Ocean breezes waft through the airy interior, which is predominantly oak and polished concrete, rendering the house a giant beach pavilion. Lofty living spaces and a pair of guest rooms are located on the main level; upstairs are the master bedroom, separate bathrooms and offices for the husband-and-wife clients, and five bed-room suites for the couple’s children and guests.

All exterior and interior wood surfaces, except for the oak flooring, were hand-rubbed with steel wool dissolved in vinegar. The solution reacts with tannins in the wood, darkening the material as if weathered over time by salty winds. One synthetic material—Corian—figures prominently in the bathrooms. Slabs of the material form shower floors routed with linear drains and, in the children’s baths, tub fronts carved with nicknames and favor-ite sports teams. (The father’s bathroom exhibits similar verbiage, although his comprises the names of alma maters.) “It’s like something that washed up on the beach,” Masi adds, referring to the artificial stone’s smooth as ocean-glass finish. Such details affirm Bates


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Opposite top: The kitchen’s custom interlocking oak-and-steel tables, surrounded by Lievore Altherr Molina chairs, faces a breakfast bar of the same materials. Opposite bottom: A Citterio table sits before the den’s oak wall, which conceals a TV and bar.Left, from top: Wine bottles cradled in stainless-steel mesh sleeves line a wall of the dining area. The roof deck features a fi replace set into a Brazilian quartzite-clad chimney and a custom mahogany sofa. Open to the ground fl oor below, walkways connecting the master suite to the fi ve children and guest bedrooms wrap around the double-height living area.


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and Masi’s love of refinement and craft, which is also evident in their designs for inter-locking steel-and-oak dining tables, a wall-size wine rack in which bottles are cradled in stainless-steel mesh “hammocks,” and even a trio of tables for backgammon, chess, and Scrabble in laser-cut leather.

The property took a beating during Hurricane Sandy, as the storm surge breached the dune and flowed into the pond on the opposite side, knocking out a walkway and stairs to the beach. Except for a flooded basement, however, the house was unscathed. Bates and Masi imagine the original structure wouldn’t have been so lucky. “That the house weathered the storm so well reaffirms everything authorities have been telling us and everything the code asks for,” Bates says. Like restraint, rules are often a good thing.

Opposite: This guest bedroom, one of two on the ground fl oor, has a retractable glass wall that opens onto the concrete patio. Left, from top: The mudroom is fi tted with custom Corian storage cubbies. One of the children’s bath-rooms has a skylight, walls of pebble tile, and a Corian shower-stall fl oor scored with linear drains.

PROJECT TEAMAARON WEIL; SATOSHI OHKAMI; KERRY SANDOVAL; VICTORIA PRYOR: BATES MASI ARCHITECTS. STEPHEN STIMSON ASSOCIATES, LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS: LANDSCAPING CONSULTANT. ARCHITECTURAL AUDIO & VIDEO: AUDIOVISUAL CONSULTANT. INTER-SCIENCE RESEARCH ASSOCIATES: ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING CONSULTANT. GILSANZ MURRAY STEFICEK: STRUCTURAL ENGINEER. STEVEN L. MARESCA ENGINEER: CIVIL ENGINEER. MOLINA FURNITURE: WOODWORK. WRIGHT CONSTRUCTION COMPANY: GENERAL CONTRACTOR.

PRODUCT SOURCESFROM FRONT FLEXFORM: BED (MASTER BEDROOM), SOFAS (LIVING AREA, DEN), CHAIRS (LIVING AREA, GUEST BEDROOM), COCKTAIL TABLE (DEN). THROUGH LIGHTOLOGY: SCONCE (MASTER BEDROOM). DANSKINA: RUGS (MASTER BEDROOM, DEN). THROUGH KARKULA: CHAIR (DECK). ENVIRONMENT FURNITURE: BENCH (ENTRY). GENERATION BRANDS: RECESSED CEILING FIXTURES. SPINNEYBECK: CUSTOM GAME TABLE (LIVING AREA). LIMITED EDITION: CUSTOM RUG. MATT GAGNON STUDIO: CUSTOM PENDANT FIXTURES. ROTSEN FURNITURE: CUSTOM COCKTAIL TABLE. ELEMENT ARCHITECTURAL LIGHTING DESIGN: RECESSED CEILING FIXTURES. ARPER: CHAIRS (KITCHEN). JAMES DAMATO DESIGN WORKS: CUSTOM TABLES, CUSTOM CEILING FIXTURES (KITCHEN, DINING AREA). THROUGH UNICA HOME: STOOLS (KITCHEN). NATIONAL CATHODE CORPORATION: CUSTOM WINE-STORAGE LIGHTING (DINING AREA). LOVING TOUCHES: CUSTOM SOFA CUSHIONS (ROOF DECK). ELIZABETH DOW MIXED MEDIA: CUSHION UPHOLSTERY. KNOLL: TUFTED CHAISES (LIVING AREA). ROOM & BOARD: BED (GUEST BEDROOM). CASAMIDY: SIDE TABLE. SELUX: CEILING STRIP FIXTURE (MUDROOM). DUPONT: SHOWER FLOOR MATERIAL (BATHROOMS). WESTHAMPTON GLASS & METAL: CUSTOM SURROUNDS. ANN SACKS: TILE (CHILDREN’S BATHROOM). AMERICAN STANDARD: TUB. HANSGROHE: SHOWER FITTINGS (MASTER BATHROOM). STONE SOURCE: TILE. THOUGHOUT GET REAL SURFACES: FLOORING. BENJAMIN MOORE & CO.: PAINT.

Right, from top: The property includes a 50-foot swimming pool and a 200-square-foot pool house in the same materials palette as the main house. His bathroom opens to a shared outdoor spa and shower.

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text: deborah wilk

These establishments meet our

no reservationsunabashed approval

See page 206 for Dittel Architekten’s Breuninger Kantine in Stuttgart, Germany. Photography: Zooey Braun Fotografi e.



project Noir Cuisine, Stuttgart, Germany.

standout Painted walls, a lacquered ceiling, custom MDF tables, and built-in pine seating carry out the Asian-French eatery’s namesake theme, with mis-matched tableware and windows into the kitchen providing morsels of color.

photography Antje Quiram/Aqui Architektur Fotografie.

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project Breuninger Kantine, Stuttgart, Germany.

standout Juxtaposing shapes is the conceit in a department store’s employee cafeteria, where custom

oak tables and benches stand under a constellation of discs in gypsum board and acoustic plaster.

photography Zooey Braun Fotografie.

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project Canalla Bistro, Valencia, Spain.

standout Repurposed shipping crates form the banquette, table tops, ceiling

treatment, and storage, while walls host illustrations by graffiti collective PichiAvo at this Spanish version of a

gastropub—the most casual of Michelin–star chef Ricard Camarena’s

three restaurants.

photography Fernando Alda.

Francesc Rifé Studio



project É Prá Poncha, Porto, Portugal.

standout Named after a cocktail, this boîte has a can-opy of lacquered-MDF ribs that is lit by color-changing LEDs and descends to the floor to create a partition and drink rail.

photography José Campos Architectural Photography.

António Fernandez Architects

Go to interiordesign.net/roundupfeb13 for more images of the projects.



text: dan shawphotography: eric laignel

falling waterThe 19th and 21st centuries meet in the Roundhouse at Beacon Falls, a hospitality complex in up-state New York by Rockwell Group


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The upstate New York landscape is rife with abandoned industrial buildings begging for adaptive reuse. Dia: Beacon, the 10-year-old contemporary art museum on the banks of the Hudson River, 60 miles north of Manhattan, is a paragon of the genre—an obsolete cracker-box factory transformed by OpenOffice and artist Robert Irwin into an architectural attrac-tion and catalyst for the town’s gentrification. Inspired by that example, father-and-son developers McAlpine Construction acquired a cluster of forlorn redbrick mill buildings at the other end of Beacon’s mile-long Main Street. Drama tically situated on Fishkill Creek with cinematic views of Beacon Falls, the neglected 6 ¼-acre com-pound needed to be resuscitated in a way appropriate for a community of working families, second-home owners, and ex-New Yorkers. “Everyone who saw this property fantasized about what to do with it,” says the firm’s general counsel Brendan McAlp-ine. By happenstance, he met Jeffrey Ashey, a longtime Beacon resident and CFO of Rockwell Group. “We asked him if the firm would ever consider taking on a small proj-ect like ours,” he continues. “After several discussions, it was a go.”

McAlpine and his father, Robert, the prin-cipal of the company, both did and didn’t know what they were getting into when they dreamed up the Roundhouse at Beacon Falls, a complex they hoped would draw the inter-national art aficionados who make the pilgrim-age to Dia. The final vision includes Swift, a farm-to-table restaurant; Patio, an alfresco cafe; 2EM, a cocktail lounge perched above the rapids; and a 14-room boutique hotel (with additional rooms and a spa under construction shortly), totaling 42,000 square feet. In a separate building, the

Previous spread: The three red brick mill buildings that now house the Roundhouse at Beacon Falls, a hospitality complex in upstate New York by Rockwell Group, date to the mid-19th century.Top: Chairs covered in wool-nylon pull up to walnut-topped tables, all custom, under original ceiling beams at Swift, the complex’s restaurant. Center: Signage is brushed aluminum. Bottom: Concrete-topped tables juxta pose oak fl ooring and pendants of handblown glass in 2EM, the lounge.Opposite: The restaurant’s 12-foot-high windows, overlooking the falls, are framed in powder-coated aluminum.


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Waterfall Room, a 9,000-square-foot banquet hall suitable for weddings and conferences, creates cash flow while driving traffic to the hotel and restaurant. “The McAlpines were so patient about letting the concept evolve,” notes principal and Interior Design Hall of Fame member David Rockwell. “You’ve heard of the slow-food movement? This project could herald the start of the slow-hotel movement.”

Rockwell Group is, of course, famous for dazzling big-budget projects, so the Roundhouse was atypical not only because of its modest scale, but also because of the restraint required to keep the focus on the historic structures and their natural setting. “We were so seduced by the site,” Rockwell says of both the heart-stopping environment and the dilapidated mill complex, some components of which are nearly 200 years old. “We let the buildings do the loud talking to amplify the drama of the history,” adds senior associate David Zaccheo.

During the six-month planning phase, the architects deferred preservation issues to the developers, who were busy stabi-lizing the buildings before the design was finalized. “The compound had been aban-doned for 50 years,” Brendan McAlpine says. “What’s now the event space had dirt floors and was filled with old cars. We tried very hard to keep as much of the original structures as possible.” When new features such as the 12-foot-tall bay windows in Swift were added, Rockwell Group worked to make them appear inevitable. The de-sign team softened the hard concrete shell of each guest room with tactile furnishings, including walnut headboards, faceted zebrawood side tables, hand-knotted rugs, and oak-plank flooring.

The McAlpine team insisted the project benefit the community. “They were com-mitted to locally sourced and locally made, which we found very appealing,” Zaccheo says. “Beacon is a center for small-batch furniture makers and glassblowers, and we were able to bring those talents to the proj-ect.” The McAlpines introduced Rockwell Group to area vendors and artisans, who created the glass pendants for the dining room, lounge, and penthouse-suite bath-rooms; the lumber for tabletops, wainscot-ing, and bathroom doors; the tile in the public restrooms; and select wool rugs. Even the art is local: The enormous photo-graph over the bar is by Mike and Doug Starn, who created the 2010 rooftop in-stallation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and have a studio in Beacon. “They’re regulars at Swift,” McAlpine says.

The Waterfall Room has an airy, post-industrial feel. “We were determined to save the original wood trusses, but other-wise we had to rebuild the whole thing. We used existing bricks to make sure it didn’t look new,” McAlpine explains. Rockwell Group did create a Vegas-worthy moment, however: In the reception anteroom, a pair

Opposite top: Custom pine barn-style doors open to blackened-steel stairs leading down to the Waterfall Room, the 9,000-square-foot banquet hall. Opposite bottom: Pendant fi xtures by Ernesto Gismondi hang among the building’s original oak trusses, over new fl ooring of the same wood.Above: Alexa Williams’s oil on canvas hangs in the hall’s anteroom, where the fl oor is poured concrete burnished with mica and the furniture is custom.


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PROJECT TEAMEDMOND BAKOS; SHANNIE COHEN; GREGORY STANFORD: ROCKWELL GROUP. ARYEH SIEGEL ARCHITECT: ARCHITECT OF RECORD. ELIZABETH STRIANESE: INTERIOR DESIGN CONSULTANT. RABE & CO.: CUSTOM GRAPHICS. CIVIL ENGINEER: HUDSON LAND DESIGN PROFESSION ENGINEERING. METCONIX: METALWORK. MCALPINE CONSTRUCTION: GENERAL CONTRACTOR.

PRODUCT SOURCESFROM FRONT EMUAMERICAS: CHAIRS, UMBRELLAS (TERRACE). NICHE MODERN LIGHTING: PENDANT FIXTURES (RESTAURANT, LOUNGE). AMERICAN ATELIER: CUSTOM CHAIRS (RESTAURANT). KNOLLTEXTILES: CHAIR FABRIC. WICKHAM SOLID WOOD STUDIO: CUSTOM TABLES (RESTAURANT, ANTEROOM), PANELING (REST-ROOM), CUSTOM BED (SUITE). GET REAL SURFACES: FLOORING (RESTAURANT, ANTEROOM), TABLETOPS (LOUNGE), CUSTOM TROUGH (RESTROOM). LAWSON-FENNING: STOOLS (RESTAU-RANT). HUDSON BEACH GLASS: CUSTOM CEILING FIXTURES. CONCEPTA BARCELONA: CHAIRS (LOUNGE). DWELLSTUDIO: ARMCHAIRS. SIT DOWN NEW YORK: CUSTOM COCKTAIL TABLE. WEST ELM: LAMP. ABC CARPET & HOME: RUG (LOUNGE), SOFA (ANTEROOM), CONSOLE (SUITE). REXHILL FURNITURE: CUSTOM STOOLS (LOUNGE). COOPER INDUSTRIES: TRACK LIGHTING. ARTEMIDE: PENDANT FIXTURES (BANQUET HALL). BENJAMIN MOORE & CO.: PAINT. HIGHTOWER: CHAIRS (BANQUET HALL), COCKTAIL TABLE (SUITE). WESTCHESTER UPHOLSTERY: CHAIRS (ANTEROOM). ROCKY MOUNTAIN HARDWARE: SINK FITTINGS (RESTROOM). TIM LEEFELDT ARCHITECTURE: PENDANT FIXTURES. LIGNE ROSET: FLOOR LAMP (GUEST ROOM). GLOBAL VIEWS: SIDE TABLES. ATLAS INDUSTRIES: CUSTOM BED, CUSTOM DESK. ALIAS DESIGN THROUGH SUITE NEW YORK: CHAIR. FOSCARINI THROUGH SUITE NEW YORK: TABLE LAMP. RELATIVESPACE: FLOORING (GUEST ROOM, SUITE). AREA: BEDDING. SAM KASTEN HANDWEAVER: RUGS. ROLL & HILL: SCONCES. DE PADOVA THROUGH SUITE NEW YORK: PENDANT FIXTURE (SUITE). CB2: SECTIONAL SOFA. AQUATICA PLUMBING GROUP: TUB, TUB FILLER. THROUGHOUT DFB SALES: CURTAINS. ROSE BRAND: CURTAIN FABRIC.

of barn-style doors slides open to reveal a balcony overlooking the ballroom with its soaring open-truss ceiling and 19-foot-high window wall facing the falls.

“Visitors are really affected by the setting,” Zaccheo says. “We brought a bit of urbanity to the country.” To Rockwell, it’s a new vision of luxury: “People are looking for a unique experience,” he says. “Combining industrial structure with contemporary flourishes makes for something pretty unusual.” Those in need of a little more dazzle are invited to take in the view of the falls on a moonlit night.

Top: In the men’s restroom, doors are reclaimed pine and custom pendant fi xtures are fashioned from antique insulators. Center: Thibault Désombre’s fl oor lamp stands in the corner of a guest room, furnished with zebrawood-veneered side tables, a Riccardo Blumer chair, and oak fl ooring that’s been brushed and oiled. Bottom: A Phil Luithlen pendant fi xture and Claesson Koivisto Rune’s cocktail table appoint a suite’s living area.Opposite: The acrylic soaking tub and custom walnut bed soften the building’s original concrete bones.

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Aragonésby Miguel Ángel AragonésNew York: Rizzoli International Publications , $75430 Pages, 250 color illustrations

It is always a delight to come across a book fi lled with images of stunning buildings and interiors, especially when you have never seen any of them be-fore, and most especially when their designer is unknown to you. Where has the talented Señor Aragonés sprung from? Born in 1962 in Mexico City and self-taught, he has lec-tured at a number of international architecture schools and taught at Mexico’s Universidad Anáhuac and the Colegia Ofi cial de Arquitectos Vasco-Navarro in Bilbao, Spain. He also participated in the fi rst Bienal Nacional de Arquitectura Mexicana sponsored in part by his native city’s Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes. The designer’s work comprises white-walled lyrical geometries, selectively open to the sun during the day, illuminated in strong colors at night. In his foreword, Michael Sorkin suggests infl uences from Dan Flavin, Richard Meier, Richard Neutra, Carlo Scarpa, James Turrell, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Robert Venturi. But the Aragonés amalgam, as Sorkin rightly says, “is strikingly his own.”

The book shows 14 Aragonés designs. Most are residential, but perhaps the standout is Hotel Encanto in the Las Brisas section of Acapulco de Juárez. We are treated to 54 mostly single-image pages of the Encanto. It was built “with few resources, economic materials, and local labor,” yet it “is also a great laby-rinth, whose exits open out onto and are completed by the ocean.” The book itself is an enchantment, with fl oor plans, locations, dates, and square footages all relegated to an appendix, leaving much of it uninterrupted by text. When words appear (in both Spanish and English), blocks of type are appropriately arranged in compositions we may soon be calling Aragonian. Let Sorkin have the penultimate word: “A discovery has been made and—seemingly out of no-where—my sense of possible architectures greatly enlarged.” Which leaves the last word to Aragonés himself: “Architecture envelops, blankets us. This is the essence of its nobility and power.”

Designers Abroad: Inside the Vacation Homes of Top Decoratorsby Michele KeithNew York: Monacelli Press, $50224 pages, 200 color illustrations

Seeing what designers have done for their own houses is always interesting; seeing what they have done for their private get-aways can be even more so. Here are the retreats of 26 designers in 15 countries.

Thomas Bartlett’s house in La Peñita de Jaltemba, Mexico, mixes Portuguese chairs, an 18th-century French chest, rugs from Oaxaca and India, and a wealth of talavera pottery on traditional terra-cotta fl oors. Interior Design Hall of Fame

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The Innocence of Objectsby Orhan PamukNew York: Abrams, $35272 pages, 526 color illustrations

Drawn to Istanbul by the traditional textile trade, architect Michael Davis’s interest in Turkey’s cultural capital has grown deeper since discovering the novels of Orhan Pamuk. As the Swedish Academy wrote in awarding Pamuk the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature, “In the quest for the mel-ancholic soul of his native city, [he] has discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures.” Sometimes that quest involves the ex-amination of domestic ephemera, “when his writing draws a connection between the emotions objects provoke and their physical appearance,” Davis says. In fact, the plot of Pamuk’s novel, The Museum of Innocence, was in-spired by an actual collection of everyday items he had assembled. After its publication, the author turned curator and established a house museum for his holdings. The Innocence of Objects, a catalogue of those artifacts, is both emotional and objective—part fiction, part reality. “I’ve read it twice, and it’s still revealing itself to me,” Davis continues. “It’s heartbreakingly deli-cious in every way.” When not engrossed in the literary romance of place, Davis has been working on a restaurant for chef Zakary Pelaccio in Hudson, New York, where he spends weekends. But being housed in a former black-smith shop, the project is sure to benefit from the architect’s meditations on transformation. —Deborah Wilk

member Trisha Wilson escapes from Dallas all the way to Vaalwater, South Africa , where, within sand-colored, hand-plastered walls, she enjoys woven-grass rugs, indigenous masks, and Zulu telephone wire baskets. Fences keep out the lions.

Clodagh, another Hall of Famer, goes back to Ballinspittle in her native Ireland, where she restored a 300-year-old stone cowshed, juxtaposing a steel-faced fi replace with Connemara mountain sheepskins, a collection of old boat propel-lers, and furniture, rugs, and custom lamps by the designer and her children. When Juan Montoya returns to Bogotá, Colombia, he heads to an apartment featuring pre-Columbian sculpture, lambskin-padded closet doors, and elabo-rately carved and gilded (but empty) picture frames.

Juan Pablo Molyneux’s Paris fl at in the Marais boasts walls covered in silk damask, gilt-wood sconces, Russian mahogany chairs, and tall bronze lamps on Louis XV tables. Tapestries, too. Mica Ertegun, another Hall of Fame member, retreats to Bodrum, Turkey, to relax with whitewashed walls, native ceramic tiles, white canvas sailing over an outdoor din-ing area, and a collection of framed calligraphy.

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DESIGNERS IN SPECIAL FEATURE

Dittel Architekten (“No Reservations,” page 202), 100/1 Rotenwaldstrasse, 70197 Stutt-gart, Germany; 49-711-46906550; d-arch.de.

António Fernandez Architects (“No Reser-vations,” page 202), 507 r/c Praça João XXIII, 4490-440 Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal; 351-25-261-6260; antoniofernandezarchitects.com.

Raumspielkunst Architectural Design and Concepts (“No Reservations,” page 202), 41 Talstrasse, 70188 Stuttgart, Germany; 49-711-34225050; raumspielkunst.de.

Francesc Rifé Studio (“No Reservations,” page 202), 25 Escoles Pies, 08017 Barcelona, Spain; 34-93-414-1288; rife-design.com.

PHOTOGRAPHERS IN FEATURES

Bruce Buck (“A Force of Nature,” page 172), 212-645-1022; brucebuck.com.

Robert Holden (“Under the Hill,” page 164), Photofoyer, 39-2-92870390; photofoyer.it.

Eric Laignel (“A Force of Nature,” page 172; “On Location,” page 182; “Falling Water,” page 212), ericlaignel.com.

Michael Moran (“The Beach House Rules,” page 192), Otto, 793 Broadway, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10003; 212-777-0078; ottoarchive.com.

DESIGNER IN CROSSLINES

CetraRuddy, Cetra/CRI Architecture (“The Sum of Their Parts,” page 53), 584 Broadway, New York, NY 10012; 212-941-9801; cetraruddy.com.

DESIGNERS IN WALK-THROUGH

Ignacio Irarrázaval (“A Point of View,” page 81), [email protected].

Mobil Arquitectos (“A Point of View,” page 81), 5885 Avenida Los Militares, Las Condes, Santiago, Chile; 56-2-27857500; mobilarquitectos.cl.

Rapt Studio (“Game On,” page 69), 111 Maiden Lane, Suite 350, San Francisco, CA; 415-788-4400; raptstudio.com.

Rios Clementi Hale Studios (“All Grown Up,” page 75), 639 North Larchmont Boulevard, Suite 100, Los Angeles, CA 90004; 323-785-1800; rchstudios.com.

PHOTOGRAPHERS IN WALK-THROUGH

Eric Laignel (“Game On,” page 69), ericlaignel.com.

Undine Pröhl (“All Grown Up,” page 75), 310-399-5031; undineprohl.com.

Nico Saieh (“A Point of View,” page 81), 56-9-68346711; nicosaieh.cl.

CORRECTION

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Swivel Seating by AcerayCommitted to delivering distinguished styling, Aceray is proud to introduce an array of contemporary & unique seating designs suitable for furnishing hotels, cafés, bars, restaurants, corporate environments, reception areas, health care facilities, schools, store displays, museums, public spaces, private residences & more. Call 303.733.3404 or visit www.aceray.com circle 225

Mayer FabricsEvoking simple pleasures, the Lucia Cassa Environmental Collection features soothing color combinations. All patterns are constructed from recycled polyester. Array features a soft chenille stripe. Botanica is a tightly constructed floral while Sashiko incorporates a stitch pattern. Turnabout is a smart-looking reversible coordinate. Please visit us online at mayerfabrics.com circle 228

Crypton Bumper Bed Bump up your style. Made in the USA with our trademark Super Fabric, this perfor-mance-driven sleep cushion tackles mess and moisture head on. Watch stains, drool and spots wipe easily away as your pooch nestles comfortably in our cushy creation. Transform your space with style-savvy, pet-perfect-patterns that elevate every décor. t. 800.279.7866 or visit cryptonathome.com circle 227

Studio Lilica Custom architectural lighting and fabric sculptures channel light, line and motion to transform conventional spaces into extraordinary environments. Our Lightform Sculp-tures® are available in a wide range of colors and custom options. Please visit us online to view our complete line of lighting, sculpture and custom environmental installa-tions for modern interiors. For more information, please contact us at: t. 626.358.8754, [email protected] or visit studiolilica.com circle 226

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DORMA World of AccessDORMA introduces its design center—a 360° experience in access technology located centrally in NYC. This spacious setting is a center of gravity for architects, designers, planners, and business partners. Interactive displays exhibit the right products for ev-ery project and location, with industry experts on hand to advise on the best possible implementation. t. 646.574.7464 or www.dorma.com circle 230

Pratt & Larson CeramicsCelebrating 30 years of producing the finest in handmade ceramic tile in Portland, Oregon. Our luxurious offering of custom tile is made to order in any color. Visit our website to locate a dealer and order a color catalog. t. 503.231.9464 or visit us online at www.prattandlarson.com circle 229

Avery BoardmanTrust Avery Boardman to create the perfect sectional for your space. Call on the experts to customize your furniture to the most minute detail. From regular to convertible, reclining to theater seating. No limits. Completely hand crafted in the U.S.A. for expedi-ent delivery. Call 212.688.6611 to receive a free copy of our catalog or visit us online at averyboardman.com circle 232

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Infinity DrainMake the drain disappear with TileDrain by Infinity Drain. Incorporate tile or solid sur-face material for a virtually seamless installation. Available in three sizes and works with any type of waterproofing. Visit us online for product specs, authorized dealers and image gallery. t. 516.767.6786 or www.InfinityDrain.com circle 234

Floating Shelf by RakksFinally, a floating shelf that is strong enough to hold books. Our attractive, low profile shelves screw directly to the wall and can hold up to 25 pounds per linear foot. Stocked in clear anodized aluminum, shelves can be ordered in lengths up to 98 inches and shipped by UPS. Visit rakks.com or call 800.826.6006 circle 231

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From Clear Skies to High SeasMotoart’s PBY Catalina Table is made from rescued airframes from one of the most widely used multi-role aircraft of World War II – known as the American Flying Boat. Motoart beautifully transforms these into elegant conference tables or executive desks. t. 310.375.4531 or visit www.motoart.com circle 240

California FaucetsFrom the makers of award-winning StyleDrain®, a drain that virtually disappears. StyleDrain Tile™ allows you to integrate any tile or stone to seamlessly match the rest of the shower. Easy installation compatible with every water-proofing method. Proudly carries the Made in California designation. t. 800.822.8855 or please visit us online at styledrain.com/ID circle 237

O-KERA Ceramic SlabEarth, water and fire make it as light as air. Introducing O-KERA® ceramic slabs - thin (1/4”) and light (2.89 lbs/sf) O-KERA® represents a new surfacing category suitable for wall cladding, building façades and many other applications. Launch in U.S. on 1st quarter 2013. t. 866.654.8397 or visit www.o-kera.com circle 238

WingNut in Rustic Copper from Sonoma ForgeA little urban, a little country, this graceful style enhances kitchen or bath and comple-ments the nicely-appointed restrooms of upscale hospitality venues with elegance and reliable functionality. In rustic copper, rustic nickel, and oil-rubbed bronze. Options include fixed or swivel spout and side spray. sonomaforge.com circle 235

Cascade Coil DraperyMetallic wire mesh drapery panels capture decorative lighting throughout the con-course at the Carrara Stadium located on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia. The wire mesh fabric diffuses and enhances lighting while adding just the right amount of shimmer, shine and definition to the interior. Complement your project using Cascade Coil for space division, window treatment, wall covering, retail display, semi-security, and more. t. 800.999.2645 or visit www.cascadecoil.com circle 239

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Elegant form is the hallmark of our BASYS™ family of hands-free faucets. Designed with modular components for custom specification and easy service. Wall mount design now available. Visit our website to view the complete BASYS™ lineup and download BIM models. t. 800.982.5839 or visit www.sloanvalve.com circle 236

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Architectural Systems, IncBOY 2012 winner Fusión Wood Panels delivers an organic architectural statement, mixing natural materials and reclaimed wine barrels in a range of patterns and species. A leading distributor of interior finishes, ASI's curated product collections offer innova-tion for commercial interiors. t. 212.206.1730 www.archsystems.com circle 241

Juxtaform Juxtaform stretched fabric panels allow designers to easily divide, define, reconfigure and dramatize interior space. The fire-rated and washable forms are available in a wide array of shapes, sizes and colors. Lightweight and playfully malleable, Juxtaforms accommo-date countless configurations and almost any application. t. 888.589.8236 www.Juxtaform.com circle 245

Powell & Bonnell Powell & Bonnell’s newest addi-tion to their statement lighting collection is the Beacon floor lamp. Its extraordinary size belies the carefully hand forged details of this lamp. The large shade conceals a fanciful surprise; a wire “bird’s nest” that cradles the delicate light source and is only visible to those seated under the glow of this simply refined lamp. t. 800.272.2058 www.powellandbonnell.comcircle 243

Magnuson GroupBERTA is a modular bench & planter family constructed of polished aluminum plate with die-cut plant motif. BERTA may be painted on the underside and fit with LED lighting to add a splash of color as pictured here. t. 800.342.5725 or visit us online at www.magnusongroup.com/berta circle 244

The Harmonic Cascade® WaterfallWith its dazzling cascading patterns, vivid programmable illumination system and custom designed water purification, the Harmonic Cascade® is sure to enhance any envi-ronment. These state-of-the-art water features are available exclusively from Harmonic Environments. t. 800.497.3529 or visit HarmonicEnvironments.com circle 242

Vladimir Kagan CoutureVladimir Kagan is one of the most influential and iconic designers of the century. His new Couture Showroom in New York is the highest expression of his genius. Though Vladimir Kagan Couture welcomes the use of C.O.M., a vast line of elegant mohairs, plush velvets, supple leather and the entire ultrasuede collection was personally selectedby Mr. Kagan. t. 212.689.0730 or visit vladimirkagancouture.com circle 246

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Chameleon ReceptacleLike its namesake our newest bins can change graphics to fit any environment. Classic proportions, leak-proof inner bin, rugged but elegant stainless steel top, frame, and leveling feet ensure that it will stand the test of time. 31” X 17”. t. 305.857.0466 DeepStreamDesigns.com circle 250

Corsetto ArmchairVersatile style meets handcrafted sturdiness for a chair that fits in any room of the house, from dining table to living room, and even as a beautiful sidechair in the bedroom. Handcrafted with accents that bring out its clean, classic lines. Available in custom choices of fabrics. t. 877.661.0417 nestcasa.com circle 252

Peter Pepper ProductsTIMO trash and recycling recep-tacles offer the utmost in utilityfor commercial applications. Available in round with top or side openings, or square with a unique ‘tip out’ access door for easy bag removal. Stainless steel & powder coated finishes. 22-38 gallons. t. 800.496.0204 peterpepper.com/timocircle 248

Trinity FurnitureA newly refreshed Twist Collection now has updated arm options and added features; boasting 100% renewable components, a lifetime warranty and made proudly in the USA. Models include both individual and tandem chairs and two place sofas, bariatric seating, with accompanying tables. Certified: BIFMA Level Sustainability Standard. Toll free 855.311.6660 or www.trinityfurniture.com circle 249

OKITE Quartz SurfacingQuite simply, the stuff of dreams. It lights up any residential or commercial project. It’s a unique compound of resin and up to 93% natural quartz, one of the toughest and most naturally attractive of all minerals. t. 866.654.8397, [email protected] or visit www.okite.us circle 251

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EMU® chairs and tables can bring a refreshing element to any outdoor environment. With more than 60 years of manufacturing experience, EMU® furniture is the perfect balance of design and strength for your hospitality project. “Made in Italy” at its best! Call 800.726.0368 or visit www.emuamericas.com circle 247

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For 42 Architects, Hyttgårdsparken presented an unusual challenge—and not just pro-nouncing it correctly. The Swedish skate park, located in Falun, some 150

miles northwest of Stockholm, was to occupy 1 ½ acres in a UNESCO World Heritage site that

includes remnants of a copper-mining operation dat-ing to the 13th century. So, the question was, how to fi t a

decidedly modern, urban activity into a historic landscape.The result represents a dialogue between the contemporary skater culture and the setting’s clearly evident past use. “We took an

archeological approach,” says 42 Architects director Johan Berglund, “creat-ing a park that exists as a series of perceived trenches that have been ‘exposed.’”

Those trenches are, in fact, poured concrete, and, in recently completed phase one, they take the form of typical skate-park features, carefully oriented: Stairs, blocks, and rails are situ-

ated toward the city side; banked, folded, carved, and angular forms, which more closely reference excavation, face the former copper mine.

Phase two, starting construction later this year, will add more skating pits plus green spaces, pedestrian paths, and benches. “I grew up skateboarding on the very spot where the park is now,” Berglund says. “So, of course, I have a

strong personal attachment to the project.” However, there will also be boule pitches for the non-roller set. —Stephen Treffi nger

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