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treasures to cherish Discovering the new, what’s now, being the first 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 photograph 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.

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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.

features CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: ERIC LAIGNEL (2); ROBERT HOLDEN/PHOTOFOYER; ERIC LAIGNEL; JOSÉ CAMPOS; MICHAEL MORAN/OTTO

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THE BEACH HOUSE RULES by Raul Barreneche

FALLING WATER by Dan Shaw

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

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

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UNDER THE HILL by Maria Shollenbarger

A FORCE OF NATURE by Larry Weinberg

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

ON LOCATION by Edie Cohen

Faced with numerous building restrictions in Sagaponack, New York, Bates Masi Architects conjures residential luxury out of programmatic restraint. NO RESERVATIONS by Deborah Wilk

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

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A POINT OF VIEW by Raul Barreneche

DESIGNWIRE by Annie Block, Mark McMenamin, and Matthew Powell

THE SUM OF THEIR PARTS

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

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KEEPING UP APPEARANCES

MATTERS OF DESIGN by Joseph Giovannini

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

A PERFECT STORM

Chris Klapper and Patrick Gallagher bring on thunder and lightning at a Philadelphia gallery. BOOKS by Stanley Abercrombie

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Elena Kornbluth

DEPUTY EDITOR

Edie Cohen (West/Southwest)

ARTICLES EDITOR

Annie Block

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Technology and style are the symbiotic forces behind innovations in Spanish ceramics. Advancements like skinny tile – tile so thin it can be installed directly over existing tiles in renovations, saving time and money. Smart nano-technologies pair the high thermal mass of ceramics with radiant heat to create luxuriously warm

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“On Location,” page 182

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Harry Bates.

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Paul Masi. COMPLETED PROJECTS:

Houses on Long Island, New York, and Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

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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 national honors. GENERATIONS: The age difference between Bates and Masi is 46 years. MODERN MENTORS: Bates worked at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in the 1950’s and early ’60’s, Masi at Richard Meier & Partners Architects in the 1990’s. 138 Main Street, P.O. Box 510, Sag Harbor, NY 11963; 631725-0229; batesmasi.com.

“Under the Hill,” page 164 PRINCIPAL: PRINCIPAL:

Sanne Oomen. PRINCIPAL:

Oscar Vos. COMPLETED PROJECTS:

Appel Arts Centre, Kleine Komedie theater, and Het Depot office, all in Amsterdam; Bab Al Bahrain public square in Manama, Bahrain. CURRENT PROJECTS:

Residences in Amsterdam; Singer Laren mixed-use complex in the Netherlands; a visitor center in Flevoland, Netherlands. PAST : Dieben, 33, Oomen, 32, and Vos, 33, met in 1998 as architecture students at Delft University of Technology. PRESENT : They founded Denieuwegeneratie in 2008. 137-3 Tolstraat, 1074 VJ Amsterdam, Netherlands; 31-20-820-2284; denieuwegeneratie.nu.

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 Singapore. CURRENT PROJECTS:

Steeplechase Plaza at Coney Island in New York; restaurant at the Langham, Chicago. COUNTRY : Rockwell enjoys cooking at his weekend house in New Palz, New York. TOWN: Zaccheo likes to gallery-hop on Saturdays in the city. 5 Union Square West, New York, NY 10003; 212-4630334; rockwellgroup.com.

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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 offices in Atlanta, Tokyo, and Seoul, South Korea. HONORS: Interior Design Best of Year Awards; National 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. 555 South Flower Street, Suite 700, Los Angeles, CA 90071; 213-612-4585; rottetstudio.com.

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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 explores cutting-edge conceptual and technical trends in woodworking via more than 75 installations, 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 specifically for the New York run. Among them are: Nina Bruun’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. 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. FEB.13 INTERIORDESIGN.NET

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Foreign Exchange 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 island’s warm winds, blue waters, and quiet beaches.” —Sharron van der Meulen

“Art Across America,” a collaboration between the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; and the Terra Foundation for American Art in Chicago, brings the first survey of historical American art to the National 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 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.

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.

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“Zermatt, an incredible village in Switzerland, 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

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“We’re heading to a Bozeman, Montana, fabrication shop for a week-long thinktank-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

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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 Eastman first gained access to the Communist country through a cultural exchange. The show runs through March 29.

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.

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Andrée Putman, 1925–2013 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 first 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 fly 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

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 camouflaged by her epigrammatic style. She won the first-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 Johnson 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, finance, structure, and history into her thinking. She opened her architecture columns to urbanism and historic preservation. Her career at the Times virtually began with her spirited defense of, and requiem 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 considered 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

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

aging of wine. Conveniently, the solution came from the wine barrels themselves—specifically, the oak used to create them. Slats of the wood form undulating ceilings on both levels of the 20,000-square-foot building while simultaneously concealing the essential climate-control system. They reappear as treads on the steel staircase, which is bordered by a bamboolike stainless-steel rail, its up-lit “branches” penetrating both floors. Ceramic tile, known for its sanitary properties, clads the walls while echoing the existing flooring 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 twostory building. Ceramic-tile flooring.

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Classic ukiyo-e, or “pictures of the floating world,” join contemporary versions in “Edo Pop: The Graphic Impact of Japanese Prints,” at the Japan Society Gallery, New York, March 9 to June 9. The show’s 92 woodblock prints are a mix of old— from the 18th and 19th centuries, during Japan’s Edo period—and new—from the 21st century, aka “pop.” Debuting at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Manhattan run adds 30 pieces to the exhibit, including Utagawa Hiroshige’s Eight Shadow Figures, circa 1842.

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A Michael Thonet chair missing a leg. A 19th-century coatrack minus a hook. Such misshapen and injured pieces are the unsuspecting 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 invited by the museum to curate an exhibit; she responded by visiting local antiques shops, purchasing damaged items, and resuscitating them with what resembles sadistic medical interventions. Her gauze applications shed new light on the show’s dozen pieces, which are accompanied by six of her photographs.

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12 HKS designed the Children’s of Alabama Benjamin Russell Hospital for Children in Birmingham.

Gensler (1) Jacobs*(2) HOK (3) Perkins+Will (4) Cannon Design (6) Leo A Daly (7) Callison (8) Interior Architects (9) NBBJ (10) HKS (12) AECOM (13) Perkins Eastman (16) SmithGroupJJR (17) PageSoutherlandPage (18) Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (19) HDR (20) Fentress Architects (22) TPG Architecture (24) DLR Group (25) * including KlingStubbins

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EwingCole (26) Rockwell Group (27) ZGF Architects (31) Flad Architects (32) Corgan Associates (33) DWP (37) Shepley Bulfinch (39) Vocon (40) VOA Associates (41) Little (42) RTKL Associates (44) Gresham, Smith and Partners (49) Elkus Manfredi Architects (51) DBI Architects (52) Lawrence Group (55) Ware Malcomb (56) FKP Architects (58) Environetics (60) Ballinger (61)

35% 3% 38% 35% 4% 5% 35% 3% 11% 1% 6% 49% 8% 5% 40% 21% 90% 9% 31%

HMC Architects (63) Stonehill & Taylor Architects (65) RSP Architects (66) OTJ Architects (67) VeenendaalCave (69) Kasian (70) Harley Ellis Devereaux (73) Staffelbach (74) Huntsman Architectural Group (75) Cooper Carry (76) LS3P Associates (77) Aedifica (79) Baskervill (80) Francis Cauffman (82) Swanke Hayden Connell Architects (86) H. Chambers Company (88) Switzer Group (89) JPC Architects (92) FXFowle Architects (99)

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FEES GENERATED FROM HEALTH-CARE PROJECTS REPRESENTED 14% OF ALL DESIGN FEES EARNED IN 2012

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Data in this section derives from the first installment of the two-part annual business survey of Interior Design Giants, comprising the 100 largest firms ranked by interior-design fees for the 12-month period ending December 31, 2012. Interior-design fees include those attributed to: 1. All types of interiors work, including commercial and residential. 2. All aspects of a firm’s interior-design practice, from strategic planning and programming to design and project management. 3. Fees paid to a firm for work performed by employees and independent contractors who are full-time staff equivalent. Interior-design fees do not include revenues paid to a firm and remitted to subcontractors who are not considered full-time staff equivalent. For example, certain firms attract work that is subcontracted to a local firm. The originating firm may collect all the fees and retain a management or generation fee, paying the remainder to the performing firm. The amounts paid to the latter are not included in fees of the collecting firm when determining its ranking. Ties are broken by the dollar value of products installed. The data was compiled and analyzed by the Interior Design market research staff in New York, led by Wing Leung, research director.

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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: COURTESY OF CETRARUDDY; ALAN SCHINDLER; THOMAS LOOF

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.

In 1987—the year The Simpsons 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 integrated 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 furnishing dozens of memorable interiors, it’s still all about John plus Nancy, which currently equals adaptive reuse.

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

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 housing. They’re each central to our perception of life in the city, so we love projects that combine both. The firm’s work is so contemporary, yet old buildings inspire you? John Cetra: In college, I

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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 romanticize 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

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 significant 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 incorporated glass-and-bronzedsteel paneling into the existing brick facade. It looks art deco— like it was always there.

We interpreted the studied majesty of art deco in living spaces that are less formal, more downtown, with a bespoke, crafted quality that recalls 1930’s Paris. Everything you touch is like a jewel: The ebonized 8-foot-high doors and custom antique bronze hardware, French herringbone floors, and stepped ceilings. With more expansive windows and doors out to Walker’s terraces and setbacks, the feel is more

crosslines Clockwise from top right: A French 1940’s side table and a Marco Zanuso chair in a Walker Tower model master bedroom. A computer rendering 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.

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What about the common spaces? NR: The lobby sequence is curated

and sophisticated, with an 8-foottall 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.

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 collaboration and tracing paper. We have a shared passion for problem solving. —C.C. Sullivan

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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 believe is the first ground-up synagogue 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 Jewish prayer shawl. It’s the congregation’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

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are examples—Rapt suggested evoking it from the start. Blood-red light columns, reminiscent of full-body scanners, mark the entry, on the top floor. Next comes a vintage steel security desk where guests sign a nondisclosure agreement. Only then can they leave this anteroom for reception, where they’re greeted by a 7 ½-foot-tall rendering of Kixeye’s logo: A scary stylized unicorn fitted with a single red 70


LED eye, it alludes to gaming cultures, ancient and modern. All floors are rectilinear in plan: Open workstations line the perimeter, meeting rooms sit at each corner, and private offices are near the core. Each of the two lower floors has a conference room; the boardroom and canteen are on the top floor along with reception. The palette is predominantly white and gray with occasional 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 fixtures by Enrico Franzolini and Vicente Garcia Jiménez; flooring of glossy epoxy, checkerboard linoleum, or pixilated carpet tiles. Rapt makes movie references, too: The boardroom’s imposing steel light ring above a huge rectangular table 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 bunker.” Chairs by Studio 7.5 stand beneath a blackened-steel ring fitted with fluorescents in the boardroom. Reception’s seating area features a pendant fixture 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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room in Dr. Strangelove, while the canteen’s exposed ceiling was inspired by the Ministry of Information in Terry Gilliam’s Brazil. —Edie Cohen

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ORATORIES: FLOORING (RECEPTION, MEETING ROOM). CB2: TABLES (RECEPTION), WHITE CHAIRS (CANTEEN). FOSCARINI: PENDANT FIXTURE (RECEPTION). BLUE POND SIGNS: CUSTOM SIGNAGE. ACUITY BRANDS: RECESSED FIXTURES. DUPONT: DESK MATERIAL (RECEPTION), COUNTER MATERIAL (CANTEEN). ORIGINAL CAST LIGHTING: PENDANT FIXTURES (MEETING ROOM, OFFICE AREA). IDEAPAINT: WHITEBOARD PAINT. ALLSTEEL: FILING CABINETS (OFFICE AREA). TECTUM: CEILING SYSTEM. KNOLL: COLORED CHAIRS (CANTEEN). ABET: CABINETRY. THROUGHOUT SHERWIN-WILLIAMS COMPANY: PAINT. TOLLGRAPHICS: CUSTOM GRAPHICS. NABIH YOUSSEF ASSOCIATES: STRUCTURAL ENGINEER. RANDALL LAMB: MEP. TAMALPAIS COMMERCIAL CABINETRY: WOODWORK. DOME CONSTRUCTION CORPORATION: GENERAL CONTRACTOR.

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all grown up The two-story, 1,000-square-foot addition is surrounded by a palisade of 18-foot-high Douglas fir structural beams.

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When we last encountered Frank Clementi and Julie Smith-Clementi, they had updated their 1920’s Venice bungalow and added a second floor, 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, coprincipals 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 suspended fireplace that swivels 76


to warm both the room and its adjoining deck. “The girls were sharing a bedroom, and we all shared the one bathroom,” Smith-Clementi says of what necessitated the addition, which brings the current 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 recessive color palette, the addition’s interior continues the modernist aesthetic of the original bungalow. Yet its ex-

terior is eye-popping to say the least. The couple surrounded three of its secondfloor facades with a palisade of 34 18-foot-long Douglas fir 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 floor 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

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Opposite, from top: Although the living-area portion of the house was existing, the concrete floor tile and fireplace’s folded blackened-steel cladding are new. Surrounding the master suite on the second floor, 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 fixtures, 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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Clockwise from top left: The addition’s ground floor includes a three-car garage. Above the breezeway, a corridor and family room connect the master suite to the existing house, all with maple flooring. During the day, the 34 beams double as a sun trellis; at dusk, they look like an art installation. Cork-tile flooring, a swiveling steel fireplace, 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.

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Opposite, from top: Sited on 25 acres, the hotel overlooks the Gulf of Corcovado. The lounge, on the ground floor, is appointed with custom furniture made by local artisans, texturedconcrete surfaces, and flooring of ulmo, an indigenous wood. From top: The cantilevering second story helps protect the low-E glass wrapping the ground floor 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 fireplace.

walkthrough Commanding a verdant promontory on Chiloé Island, part of an archipelago 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 designing 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 Pacific Ocean. That overhanging second floor not only allowed for the ground-level public areas beneath to be wrapped entirely in glass, but also protects them from the area’s frequent wind-driven rain. Partner Patricio Browne describes the building as “a structural composition perched on a hilltop, rather than an opaque edifice growing out of it. It’s about maximizing light, space, sky, and perspective.” Indeed, every one of the dozen guest rooms has a water view. Though aggressively angular in profile, Mobil’s design draws inspiration from the island’s timber churches and waterfront wooden houses

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Clockwise from top left: A soaking pool is tucked in the spa on the second floor. 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.

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 flooring and walls lined in indigenous woods. Most of the latter were harvested 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 environs. “I spent a year looking for and working with the artisans to make them part of the project,” he says.

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 floors by day, the warmth radiates back at night. Deep eaves shade the windows from the high summer sun. Luckily, the best views are to the south. —Raul Barreneche

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

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Hanging Out Every 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 polyurethane vinyl. (Decorative pillows not included.) Terra-firma 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 fixtures 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 configurations. Things turn sinuous in Hebi, as curved components create snakelike footprints of practically 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 flowing profile, and Prima Marina, the teak-slatted bench. While no color is added to the stone, it is either acidetched or polished, then waterproofed to boost durability. 800-430-6209; landscapeforms.com. circle 403

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Patricia Urquiola unearths the natural connection between architecture and industrial design with Cottage, a daybed for Kettal. The Interior Design Hall of Fame member calls it “the definitive 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 aluminum frame is offered in 27 powdercoated colors, including Texture White. The slatted “elevations” can be specified in aluminum or meranti, 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 flaps 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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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, flaunts a frame of powdercoated aluminum that collapses SWAY 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 thermoplasticpolyester mesh; aluminum or glass tops the tables. Somewhere in between: Kattan II, designed in 1956 by Tadao CRICKET II 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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Open Party 1. 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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Beauty Without the Thorns 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; topfloorrugs.com. circle 421


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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

product Canevas. standout Wool felt doubles as a scratchpad for the young Belgian designer’s imagination, the rug’s supertextural surface supplied by cross-stitch construction. 212-421-6701; gan-rugs.com. circle 424

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 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 collection. 512-264-1148; kylebunting.com.

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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 exhibitionlevel 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 flat-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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Proving once again that social responsibility and design consciousness aren’t mutually exclusive, Arzu Studio Hope unveils the Masters Collection: limited-edition patterns conceived by six internationally renowned architects, each of whom donated their talents to support Arzu’s mission of empowering the Afghan women who handcraft their rugs. Leading the roster are five Interior Design Hall of Fame members. Frank Gehry interpolates the dynamism of 3-D objects onto surfaces with Puzz, ARABESQUE based on models his team created ZH ZH for a pop-up store. In Arabesque, Michael Graves offers an organic configuration 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 fluid 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 dwellings 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 certificate of authenticity. The launch coincides with Arzu’s new alliance with Coalesse. 866-645-6952; coalesse.com. circle 443

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A Material Change 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 first assortment in wool. As it turns out, the transition took more than a quick call to a new supplier—think five 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 flat-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 STRATO

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Azulej, Patricia Urquiola’s glazed porcelain 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, pontificated on creating the collection. “We’ve worked on sizes, blends, opacities, and textures, and processing on the borders,” she said. “We have defined colors, noncolors, and interconnected effects.” Her words translate to Bianco, Grigio, and Nero, her three-piece line, their names referring to the BIANCO GRIGIO

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tiles’ base colors. Each is digitally printed with 27 patterns meant to be combined randomly as intricate patchwork. From these, nine compositions were selected to work singularly, in combinations with each other, or with unpatterned tile. Despite high-technology production, Azulej recalls handcrafted majolica tiles because its colors are a bit irregular and may seep around the edges. But filtered through Urquiola’s sensibility, the overall look is contemporary. Approximately 8 inches square, the tiles are resistant to temperature changes and chemicals, making them suitable for exterior and interior applications. Technically 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 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 eventually located small enclaves where aged craftsmen keep the art of felt making alive. Peace Industry was born soon after, firmly rooting the pair in the rug business. Designed in the Raissnias’ San Francisco studio, the patterns 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 figure prominently in the latest releases, including the jaunty honeycomb of Hive and the cellular composure of Screen. Jupiter sports a cyclic crisscross, Lace superimposes circular and linear forms, and Fuller resembles 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

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

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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 nonprofit, Friends of the Schindler House, which now owns and protects it. Word of this special kind of residence spread, and movie industry figures bought and restored trophy houses, often with the help of specialized realtors and architects. Owning 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 Architecture, 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, frozenin-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 restoration 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.”

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 “Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture 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 Architecture Initiative to research issues germane to modernist buildings. Its first 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 experimented with new materials: “We try to identify areas that conservators are struggling with—concrete, curtain walls, plastics, flat roofing 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 scientific approach it uses on art restoration, the Getty’s analytical examination 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 fire 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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Clockwise from top: The living room of the 1924 Samuel and Harriet Freeman textileblock 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 first 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 flat roofing system, a modernist preservation challenge.

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 preservation 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 fixing 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 amazing 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 filling a very big void. It’s a game changer.” —Joseph Giovannini 130


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

Left, from top: Acrylic tubes were heated and formed into arcs, which were welded into rings, to form armatures for Symphony in D Minor. Resin sheets were cured in a silicone mold on the floor. A winch raised the resin to cover the acrylic armature. Right, from top: The wrapped sheets were secured with zip ties. Motion sensors were placed inside the cylinders to trigger audio and video. Designed using CAD, the relief patterns on

“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 fill the 7,000-square-foot gallery space with a show that would be “epic in every way.” A bit daunted, Klapper turned to her husband, 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 backprojected from inside the giant forms. Decorative resin endcaps, molded to evoke storm drains, provided the finishing touch. Despite being referred to as clouds, the cylinders, complete with all their technology equipment, weighed 600 pounds apiece. Thus steel pipes were secured by clamps to steel mounts fitted around the gallery’s original ceiling trusses; suspended 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 projections 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 THROUGHOUT NORTHEAST PLASTIC SUPPLY CO.: ACRYLIC. POLYTEK: RESIN. IRON STUDIO: STEEL. ADAFRUIT INDUSTRIES: SENSORS.

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snaps 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 manufacturers 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.

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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

1. 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

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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

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green floorIng Winner: Interface – Urban Retreat Honoree: Chilewich | Sultan – BioFelt

accessorY Winner: Phillips Collection – Square Root Honoree: Big Ass Fans – Haiku ceiling fan bulthaup – b3 drawer organizational system Spark Modern Fires – Vent Free Vu Thru

HarD floorIng Winner: DuChateau Floors – Heritage Timber Edition Honoree: Armstrong World Industries – Striations Biobased Tile Liquid Elements, artfully poured floors – Reflect

offIce accessorY Winner: Haworth – Belong Honoree: Herman Miller – Flo Dynamic Support – Family of Solutions Skyline Design – Cleo Mobile Magnetic Markerglass Steelcase – Victor2

tIle & stone floorIng Winner: Artistic Tile – Estrella Mosaic Honoree: Crossville – Shades by Crossville New Ravenna – Sophie by Giovanni Barbieri New Ravenna Mosaics – Newman Stone Waterjet Mosaic

BatH accessorY anD HarDWare Winner: Tubes Radiatori – Trame Honoree: Boffi S.p.A. – Index Newport Brass – Decorative Square Shower Drain

contract DeskIng Winner: Tuohy Furniture Corporation – Coda Collection Honoree: Bordonabe USA – Most izzy+ – Nemo Bar and Trellis by izzy M2L – Luì

BatH caBInetrY Winner: Lacava – Giulia GA130 Honoree: Porcelanosa – In Robern – Robern Compact Vanity Wetstyle – Frame BatH fIttIng Winner: Dornbracht – Horizontal Shower Honoree: Brizo – Charlotte Electronic Lavatory Faucet with SmartTouchPlus and TempIQ Gessi – Goccia Ceiling-Mount Faucet Graff – Sento BatH fIxture Winner: Laufen – Palomba Solid Surface Bath Tub Honoree: The Bath Works – St. Lyon Bisazza – Counter A Duravit – OpenSpace Hansgrohe USA – Axor Bouroullec Shelf with Integrated SingleHandle Faucet BuIlDIng ProDuct Winner: Architectural Systems – Fusión Wood Panels Honoree: Bendheim – Jelly Bean Glass Collection Joel Berman Glass Studios – Vite Skyline Design – The KnollTextiles Glass Collection BroaDloom Winner: Tandus Flooring – NeedleTech Honoree: Atlas Carpet Mills – Dreamology Collection Bentley Prince Street – So Vintage Durkan, The Mohawk Group – Wild Corners carPet tIle Winner: Interface – Walk the Plank Honoree: J+J/Invision – Paradigm Shift Milliken – Allumé Shaw Contract Group – DyeLab rug Winner: Warp & Weft – Kaleidoscope Honoree: Carini Lang – Barrington David Nosanchuk for Stark – Versus Nanimarquina USA – Chillida Collection Top Floor Rugs – Enwrap

contract taBle Winner: Halcon – Mesa Honoree: Allsteel – Harvest Table Andreu World America – Tao Cindy Rendely Architexture – Sculptural Steel Table green furnIture Winner: Emeco – Broom Chair Honoree: Janus et Cie – Green Side Chair Interior Version Knoll – ReGeneration by Knoll HealtH-care furnIture Winner: Wieland – sleepToo Honoree: Carolina – Reverie Humanscale – ViewPoint V6 Technology Wall Station IoA Healthcare Furniture – Vela + Egg outDoor furnIsHIng Winner: Sutherland – Hoofed Table Honoree: Gloster Furniture – Nomad Janus et Cie – Boxwood Modular Collection Landscape Forms – Parc Lounge outDoor seatIng Winner: Kenneth Cobonpue – Cabaret HIgh Back Sofa Honoree: Dedon – Dala Herman Miller Collection – Medici Offi & Company – Mod Lounger PartItIons anD Wall sYstem Winner: 3form – Edge Honoree: Loftwall – Wave Divider Screen Seeyond Architectural Solutions – Seeyond Movable Walls Teknion – Optos Low Profile Architectural Wall resIDentIal storage Winner: Altura Furniture – Octave 84 Honoree: Karim Rashid – Kaddy Tresserra Collection S.L – Joyero Wren & Cooper – Center City Media Console

resIDentIal taBle Winner: Cliff Young Ltd – 300-RoRo Dining Table Honoree: Federico Delrosso for Henry Timi – FD302 Moebius collection Nico Yektai – Wall Hung Console #1 Studio Tim Campbell – Berlin Console resIDentIal occasIonal taBle anD Desk Winner: Chai Ming Studios at Atelier Gary Lee – Gem Side Table Honoree: Design Within Reach – Risom Desk Holly Hunt – Forsyth Table Stephanie Odegard Collection – Ulta Champa Table HarDWare Winner: Olson Kundig Architects – Tom Kundig Collection Rocky Mountain Hardware – The Mack Collection Honoree: Du Verre Hardware – Arroyo Collection Sargent Manufacturing – Decorative Mortise Lock Thumbturns

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Winner: Fagor America – Fully Integrated Refrigerator Honoree: Best – Best Sorpresa Generation II Collection of Range Hoods U-Line Corporation – Modular 3000 Series Clear Ice Machine Viking Range Corporation – D3 Series from Viking Range Corporation kItcHen caBInetrY Winner: SieMatic Möbelwerke USA – FloatingSpaces Honoree: Arclinea – Artusi Outdoor Kitchen Bradco Kitchens + Baths – Slide N Hide Henrybuilt – Henrybuilt Wine Storage System kItcHen fIttIng Winner: Moen – MotionSense by Moen Honoree: Newport Brass – East Linear Kitchen Faucet kItcHen fIxture Winner: Kohler Co. – Kohler Colors Featuring Jonathan Adler on the Kohler Whitehaven kitchen sink Rohl – Rohl Luxury Copper Stainless Sink Honoree: Blanco – Blanco Crystalline Sink Native Trails – Paragon cHanDelIer Winner: Sand Studios – Rain Honoree: Neidhardt Design by Steven Haulenbeek – Zollstock Vibia – Link XXL WAC Lighting – Vela Oled Chandelier lIgHtIng control Winner: Lutron Electronics – Lutron Maestro occupancy/vacancy sensing switch Honoree: Legrand – adorne Pop-Out Outlet Switch Lighting – Switch60

lamP anD sconce Winner: FontanaArte – Yumi Honoree: CL Sterling & Son – Corona Sconce Rock Crystal Collection Foscarini – Stewie Nosanchuk – N1R Floor Lamp PenDant fIxture Winner: 3M Architectural Markets – Flex by 3M Honoree: Babette Holland – Tin Man Pendant Karim Rashid – Nafir Pendant LZF/Globallighting – Raindrop SG taBle lamP Winner: Kartell – Taj Honoree: Flos – Black D’E-light Holly Hunt – Black Cat Table Lamp Hudson Valley Lighting – Roslyn Studio Van den Akker – Nico Table Lamp by Seguso for Van den Akker contract conference seatIng Winner: Keilhauer – Talk Honoree: American Seating – The Us Chair Family Davis Furniture – Exo HBF – Flight Conference Series

contract guest seatIng Winner: American Leather – Alyssa Honoree: Davis Furniture – Tre Sedia Systems – JumpSeat Stylex – Brooks

contract lounge cHaIr Winner: OFS – Madrid Honoree: Bernhardt Design – CP Lounge Collection Davis Furniture – C.R. Lounge Design Within Reach – Milo Baughman Recliner 74 contract lounge seatIng Winner: Knoll – The Lounge Collection by Pierre Beucler and JeanChristophe Poggioli Honoree: Arcadia – Intima Modular Kimball Office – Villa Crescent Paul Brayton Designs – Portofino task cHaIr Winner: OFS – Flexxy Swivel Honoree: Vitra – Pivot resIDentIal accent seatIng Winner: Holly Hunt – Odense Chair Honoree: Craig Van Den Brulle – Riemann Chair Erinn V Maison – London Chair Fritz Hansen – minuscule resIDentIal lounge seatIng Winner: Vitra – Grand Repos Honoree: Baker – Athens Lounge Chair Tufted Esa Vesmanen, Pure Design Finland – Balance Acoustic Chaise Lounge Holly Hunt – Stilt Coupe Lounge Chair resIDentIal sofa Winner: B&B Italia USA – Michel Honoree: Bernhardt Design – Workshop Casadesus – Dali Milano Smart Living – Multibed Castello

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The Netherlands is famous for many things, not least its prodigious output of fine design. Varied topography, 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 deliberate 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 encased in a manmade hillside, which acts as a natural, sustainable—not to mention conversationstarting—form of thermal insulation. “Believe it or not, the house sits in what is, by Dutch standards, a hilly area,” notes principal Thomas Dieben, who, like his two coprincipals, is in his early 30’s. (Denieuwegeneratie, by the way, is Dutch for “new generation.”) “And many of those hills are artificial, having been constructed in the 19th century by

local noblemen so they could survey their land.” Occupying a 1 1/2acre plot in a verdant, governmentprotected area, the new hillside is also a clever response to council authorities’ requirements that the house be contextually appropriate to the landscape. “We really challenged ourselves at several practical levels,” coprincipal 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, advertising 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 firm’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 floor 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 fireplace is flanked 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. 166



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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 reproduction of a 15th-century 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 secondfloor 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 believe 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, opposite these windows, is embedded in the mountainside. “It’s like approaching a bunker,” Vos notes. “People are astonished 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 public 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 earthencased rear of the house. “None of the walls are structural,” says Vos, “so their configuration 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 FEB.13 INTERIORDESIGN.NET

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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 during 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 family. We have an eclectic style. We like surprises. We like details. And we didn’t want to live in an architectonic box. The house can handle all this, which means the design 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 generously sized basement was conceived 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.

Go to interiordesign.net/denieuwegeneratie for more images of the house.

Left, from top: Next to a vintage Charles and Ray Eames rocking chair, the back of the living area’s fireplace 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 summer. Right: The powder room has an antique sink and toilet bought at auction. Opposite: The vintage floor tiles in the bathroom were sourced from France and Belgium. 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. PRODUCT SOURCES FROM FRONT HEMA: CHAIRS (DINING AREA). MINOTTI: SOFA (LIVING AREA). BLOOM: BEDDING (BEDROOM). VUUR & LEEM: STOVE, PIZZA OVEN (KITCHEN). KARTELL: LAMP.

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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 vision, technical capabilities, and sheer moxie to design and build an astonishing and idiosyncratic residence—a testament to organic modernism—on her own time and own dime. A 37year-long labor of love, Copley’s 3,000-squarefoot 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 areas, 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 perhaps foremost. As a woman breaking into a man’s profession in the mid 20th century, she

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encountered a lot of friction—from no ladies restroom at Pratt, where she was the only female 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 architect—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 serenity 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

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 floors. 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 flooring 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. Photography: 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 herself. Using ad-hoc cranes, Copley and her first husband hoisted and hand-set the hewn bluestone blocks that now comprise the 44-foothigh, 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 furniture, handwoven textiles, and pottery; and with plants, music, and people. A relentlessly creative spirit, Copley constantly tinkered with

it and the nearby diamond-shape thatchedroof 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 Interior Design, suggested photographing it with some of the quirky mid-century furniture and objects I deal in, which she felt would be a perfect fit for the singular space. So I took a truckful of my inventory up to the house, where it joined original George Nakashima furniture— including free-edge Minguren and trestle dining 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, Copley’s house adds a spark of drama, even theatricality. 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 living space, complete with a grand piano, 6-foothigh speakers, and a pipe-organ loft. Like a stage, this is a space meant for entertainment and performance as much as for peaceful contemplation. On the day of the shoot, Copley looked on dubiously 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 dining 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 downstairs 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.

PRODUCT SOURCES FROM FRONT STEPHANIE ODEGARD COLLECTION: RUGS (SITTING AREA, STUDIO). THROUGHOUT BENJAMIN MOORE & CO.: EXTERIOR WOOD STAIN. THROUGH WEINBERG MODERN: VINTAGE FURNITURE. ANTIQUE & VINTAGE WOODS OF AMERICA: WOOD FLOORING.

Opposite: The kitchen, tucked into one corner of the diamond-shape second floor, 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-floor living area, the master bedroom’s bath is inside the bluestone tower. Bottom: Norman Cherner 1950’s tables and a Don Shoemaker sling chair outfit the ground-floor studio, which has oak-plank walls, bluestone flooring, and shelves designed by Copley.


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on location

Rottet 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 customers,” 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 interiors, 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. At this point, Zimmer stepped up to the lead. “I want this to be the best space in Los Angeles,” Riveire recalls him 184


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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 commissioned 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 company 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 members, 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 highlow furnishings. At the luxe end of the scale, seating—caramel-colored “Bentley banquettes,” as Riveire calls them—insures 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 polyester. 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 switchback stair in cerused oak and tinted glass, its floor-through views stretching from side to side and front to back. Off the 186


Opposite: Reception features a commissioned tapestry by Pae White and custom sofas in limba and leather. Top: Just beyond reception, flooring is cerused oak and the photographic print is by Andreas Gursky. Center: A wool rug, Florian MaierAichen’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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Left, from top: A VIP restroom, one of five, has a marble-topped vanity and James Casebere’s print mounted on aluminum. Weekly allstaff 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 blizzardwhite 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 cinematic, 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, RECEPTION, 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. ROUILLARD: CHAIRS. THROUGHOUT AXIS LIGHTING: LIGHT FIXTURES. TAI PING CARPETS: RUGS.


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the beach house rules Faced 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 floor 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

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

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 wealthiest ZIP codes, elected to assert independence from the town of Southampton and incorporate 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 realestate 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.


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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 architect states. Equally complicated was addressing the mandates of four distinct jurisdictions: 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 bedroom 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 favorite 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 196


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

and Masi’s love of refinement and craft, which is also evident in their designs for interlocking 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. PROJECT TEAM AARON 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.

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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These establishments meet our unabashed approval

no reservations

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Raumspielkunst Architectural Design and Concepts 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 mismatched tableware and windows into the kitchen providing morsels of color. photography Antje Quiram/Aqui Architektur

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Dittel Architekten 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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Francesc Rifé Studio 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.


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António Fernandez Architects project É Prá Poncha, Porto, Portugal. standout Named after a cocktail, this boîte has a canopy 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.

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falling water The 19th and 21st centuries meet in the Roundhouse at Beacon Falls, a hospitality complex in upstate 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 attraction 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. Dramatically situated on Fishkill Creek with cinematic views of Beacon Falls, the neglected 6¼-acre compound 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 McAlpine. 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 project like ours,” he continues. “After several discussions, it was a go.” McAlpine and his father, Robert, the principal 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 international art aficionados who make the pilgrimage 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

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Previous spread: The three redbrick 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 woolnylon 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 juxtapose oak flooring and pendants of handblown glass in 2EM, the lounge. Opposite: The restaurant’s 12foot-high windows, overlooking the falls, are framed in powdercoated 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 stabilizing the buildings before the design was finalized. “The compound had been abandoned 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 design 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 committed 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 project.” The McAlpines introduced Rockwell Group to area vendors and artisans, who created the glass pendants for the dining room, lounge, and penthouse-suite bathrooms; the lumber for tabletops, wainscoting, and bathroom doors; the tile in the public restrooms; and select wool rugs. Even the art is local: The enormous photograph over the bar is by Mike and Doug Starn, who created the 2010 rooftop installation 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, postindustrial feel. “We were determined to save the original wood trusses, but otherwise 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 fixtures by Ernesto Gismondi hang among the building’s original oak trusses, over new flooring of the same wood. Above: Alexa Williams’s oil on canvas hangs in the hall’s anteroom, where the floor is poured concrete burnished with mica and the furniture is custom.


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Top: In the men’s restroom, doors are reclaimed pine and custom pendant fixtures are fashioned from antique insulators. Center: Thibault Désombre’s floor lamp stands in the corner of a guest room, furnished with zebrawoodveneered side tables, a Riccardo Blumer chair, and oak flooring that’s been brushed and oiled. Bottom: A Phil Luithlen pendant fixture 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. Go to interiordesign.net/ rockwell13 for more images of the Roundhouse.

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by Miguel Ángel Aragonés New York: Rizzoli International Publications, $75 430 Pages, 250 color illustrations It is always a delight to come across a book filled with images of stunning buildings and interiors, especially when you have never seen any of them before, 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 lectured at a number of international architecture schools and taught at Mexico’s Universidad Anáhuac and the Colegia Oficial de Arquitectos Vasco-Navarro in Bilbao, Spain. He also participated in the first 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 influences 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 labyrinth, whose exits open out onto and are completed by the ocean.” The book itself is an enchantment, with floor 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 nowhere—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 Decorators by Michele Keith New York: Monacelli Press, $50 224 pages, 200 color illustrations Seeing what designers have done for their own houses is always interesting; seeing what they have done for their private getaways 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 floors. Interior Design Hall of Fame 220


member Trisha Wilson escapes from Dallas all the way to Vaalwater, South Africa, where, within sand-colored, hand-plastered walls, she enjoys wovengrass 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 fireplace with Connemara mountain sheepskins, a collection of old boat propellers, 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 elaborately carved and gilded (but empty) picture frames. Juan Pablo Molyneux’s Paris flat 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 dining area, and a collection of framed calligraphy.

What They’re Reading ... Michael Davis Principal and founder of Michael Davis Architects & Interiors

The Innocence of Objects by Orhan Pamuk New York: Abrams, $35 272 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 melancholic soul of his native city, [he] has discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures.” Sometimes that quest involves the examination 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 inspired 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 delicious 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 blacksmith shop, the project is sure to benefit from the architect’s meditations on transformation. —Deborah Wilk

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António Fernandez Architects (“No Reservations,” page 202), 507 r/c Praça João XXIII, 4490-440 Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal; 351-25261-6260; 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.

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.

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

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DESIGNERS IN SPECIAL FEATURE

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.

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Swivel Seating by Aceray

Committed 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

Crypton Bumper Bed

Bump up your style. Made in the USA with our trademark Super Fabric, this performance-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

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Custom architectural lighting and fabric sculptures channel light, line and motion to transform conventional spaces into extraordinary environments. Our Lightform Sculptures® 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 installations for modern interiors. For more information, please contact us at: t. 626.358.8754, [email protected] or visit studiolilica.com circle 226

Mayer Fabrics

Evoking 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

Pratt & Larson Ceramics

Celebrating 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

Floating Shelf by Rakks

Finally, 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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DORMA 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 every 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

Avery Boardman

Trust 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 expedient delivery. Call 212.688.6611 to receive a free copy of our catalog or visit us online at averyboardman.com circle 232

Infinity Drain

Make the drain disappear with TileDrain by Infinity Drain. Incorporate tile or solid surface 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

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WingNut in Rustic Copper from Sonoma Forge

A little urban, a little country, this graceful style enhances kitchen or bath and complements 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

California Faucets

From 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

Cascade Coil Drapery

Metallic wire mesh drapery panels capture decorative lighting throughout the concourse 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

Sloan BASYS™

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

O-KERA Ceramic Slab

Earth, 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

From Clear Skies to High Seas

Motoart’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


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BOY 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 innovation for commercial interiors. t. 212.206.1730 www.archsystems.com circle 241

The Harmonic Cascade® Waterfall

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

Powell & Bonnell

Powell & Bonnell’s newest addition 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.com circle 243

Magnuson Group

BERTA 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

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 accommodate countless configurations and almost any application. t. 888.589.8236 www.Juxtaform.com circle 245

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Vladimir 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 selected by Mr. Kagan. t. 212.689.0730 or visit vladimirkagancouture.com circle 246

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SHOT Outdoor Seating by Christophe Pillet 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

TIMO trash and recycling receptacles offer the utmost in utility for 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/timo circle 248

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Trinity Furniture

A 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

Like 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

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OKITE Quartz Surfacing

Quite 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

Versatile 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


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