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Design, amplified.
NEWS 27. fashion
Portlander Laurs Kemp’s Boob Dress (yes, you read that right) is turning heads in all the right directions.
28. happenings
News, events, and openings.
32. openings
A shop in a Vancouver warehouse offers nitrogen-churned ice cream.
34. openings
The designers behind Gamla launch their tiny hideaway concept shop, Branch 01, on B.C.’s Bowen Island.
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38. hospitality
Luxury boutique hotel chain Thompson taps Seattle’s Olson Kundig to design the city’s newest downtown destination.
40. development
Portland architect Kevin Cavenaugh turns the real estate development industry on its head.
44. travel
Dawson Design Associates channels the bohemian 1960s for San Francisco’s new Hotel Zeppelin.
48. hospitality
Interior designer Alessandro Munge and chef David Hawksworth unveil Nightingale—a Vancouver restaurant inspired by an ancient fable.
STYLE 55. interiors
The artist-designers behind Electric Coffin turn a dark and dated kitchen into an out-of-this-world experience.
62. interiors
Interior designer (and newbie Northwesterner) Max Humphrey tours us around his former L.A. loft.
68. fashion
Seattle’s Même kidswear offers chic, gender-neutral clothing for the playground set.
74. context
Taking a cue from the original minimalists, an international group of designers spent time in Shaker territory, then crafted a fleet of objects inspired by the experience.
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IN DEPTH 85. good neighbors
Seattle architect George Suyama slots a minimalist jewel box of a house between his site’s existing cedars—without disturbing the view from his own house next door.
92. wilderness preserved
Carving a large home into the rocky terrain above Alta Lake in Whistler, B.C., was no small task. The architects at Bohlin Cywinski Jackson were up to the challenge.
104. playing the triangle
Portland’s Skylab Architecture plays with geometry, natural materials, and angular architecture in a bold Colorado getaway.
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148. bringing it home
New York City–based, western Washington–bred architect Steven Holl reveals how the Northwest’s light, water, and sense of space have shaped his iconoclastic designs.
& MORE 158. resources
Your guide to the designers, artisans, furnishings, and suppliers featured in this issue.
162. obsession
Seattle’s Fruitsuper Design pays tribute to the power of play with their collection of wooden stacking toys.
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Architect and Northwest native son Steven Holl poses in his firm’s New York City office with a model of Taiwan’s ChinPaoSan Necropolis. SEE PAGE
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DESIGN, AMPLIFIED
For our “Design Rebels” issue, internationally renowned architect Steven Holl opens up his sketchbooks and family photo albums to ruminate on how the aesthetics of his Washington childhood—the light on Puget Sound; the “modern optimism” of Seattle’s 1962 World’s Fair— have influenced his career and his radical designs. Based in New York City, with offices in San Francisco and Beijing, he still considers the Northwest home. ABOVE: Steven Holl (left), circa 1950s. See page 148 for more.
WHEN I TOOK THE EDITORIAL DIRECTOR JOB at GRAY nearly three years ago, I did so with a bit of trepidation. I admit (a bit sheepishly) that, as excited as I was to focus on Pacific Northwest design, having previously worked for magazines with a broader geographic range, I silently fretted: Will we run out of things to write about? I mean, the region isn’t that huge. The Northwest well may be deep—but what if we eventually hit the bottom? How naïve that fear seems to me now! That well turned out to be more like Alice’s rabbit hole. You know that feeling when you’re reading a blog post that links to an article that mentions someone interesting you haven’t heard of, and then suddenly you have 20 windows open and your mind is spinning happily? That’s a decent approximation of what putting together an issue of GRAY feels like. One discovery leads to another—and another. And with the continual influx of newcomers to the Northwest, our circles of influence and inspiration only continue to expand. For this issue, we tasked ourselves with finding the Northwest’s most rebellious risk-takers—those who rewrite the rules and surpass the status quo. And find them we did: a designer who’s turning real estate development on its head; a company that’s transcending gender norms in kidswear; architects shaping eye-popping buildings that break with convention. We hope this issue gets your heart racing and your inspiration amped. As we do while researching every issue, we not only drew upon our editors’ experience and knowledge but cast a wider net, reaching out to trusted contacts across the region. We’d ask: “Who else should we look at? Who’s inspiring you these days?” And they answered—effusively. Special thanks to Tsilli Pines, founder of Design Week Portland; Mark Busse of CreativeMornings/ Vancouver; and Susan Surface, program director of Seattle’s Design in Public. Their thoughtful input turned our editors’ eyes to design-world influencers who hadn’t yet entered our field of vision, and they’ve given us story fodder for many issues to come. I never cease to be grateful, here in the Northwest, for the design community’s generous and open-hearted attitude toward fresh work. Shouting out about great new design—even and especially if it’s not your own—is a local tradition. We invite our readers to join the PNW design love-fest. We’ve got lots of future magazines to fill, so tell us: who’s inspiring you these days?
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EYES UP HERE
Emerging fashion designer Laurs Kemp faces the male gaze head-on. Written by STACY KENDALL
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THE LATEST PIECES by Ozarks native and current Portlander Laurs Kemp are propelled by body-positive thinking and draw upon everything from line drawing to French director Eric Rohmer’s films to a 1971 pseudo-Japanese concept album by the fictional Yamasuki Singers to—particularly—feminism. “I use the term female gaze”—the inverse of the man-asspectator principle that fuels many women’s collections—“as shorthand for how I seek out inspiration, collaborate, design, and generally interact with the world,” says Kemp. Energetically building upon her Spring/ Summer ’16 collection, Yama Yama (named for a tune off that Yamasuki album), Kemp’s latest pieces, including the head-swiveling Boob Top and Boob Dress and the bootylicious Bumbum Bag, represent, for their creator, “the idea of women reappropriating and celebrating their ideas, endeavors, bodies, and sexuality on their own terms.” h
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September brings big design celebrations to the Northwest, including the Seattle Design Festival (Sept. 10–23, designinpublic.org), Civilization’s 2016 Design Lecture Series (Sept. 16, designlectur.es), Interior Design Show Vancouver (Sept. 22–25, idswest.com), and Dinner by Design (Sept. 15 & 16, dinnerxdesign.com).
NOW OPEN: VANCOUVER’S SUQUET INTERIORS Suquet Interiors, best known in the Vancouver interior design world for its imported old-world stone façades and fireplaces, has a new Yaletown showroom that flaunts an eclectic mix of furnishings and art. Owners Ramon Masana Tapia (son of Suquet’s founder, above left) and Rick Bohonis, cofounder of Canadian interiors chain Urban Barn, have shaped a retail space that artfully mixes edge and elegance. suquetinteriors.com
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Inspired by Seattle’s soon-to-be-shuttered Suyama Space—the popular installation-centric gallery run by architecture firm Suyama Peterson Deguchi—interior designer Jessica Helgerson has launched a Portland equivalent. Opened earlier this year in the entry area of her firm’s historic 1880s building, Front of House has already set its standards high, displaying work from wood sculptor Mike Rathbun (shown at right) and, as of July, fantastical glasswork by Andy Paiko. frontofhousegallery.com
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Confronting the injustices that have left First Nations peoples fighting for land, civil rights, and environmental reconstruction for centuries, Vancouver-based artist Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun launches his first major Canadian solo show in 20 years: “Unceded Territories.” Showing at Vancouver’s Museum of Anthropology, Yuxweluptun’s work is art intended as a spur to action; expect vivid images investigating our heavy-handed impact on the earth’s eroding environment. moa.ubc.ca
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When you step into Mister, the new artisanal ice cream parlor in Vancouver’s Yaletown, you might think you’re in a sci-fi lab. Its made-to-order treats (in rotating flavors including avocado and crème brûlée) are churned with liquid nitrogen, resulting in witchy streams of fog and incredibly smooth ice cream. Designed by local firm Scott & Scott Architects and set in the elevated loading dock of a 1912 warehouse, Mister merges galvanized steel and concrete-slab flooring with a large soapstone counter holding a rank of Kitchen-Aid mixers at the ready. The shop’s modern aesthetic is captured in branding from Brief Studio—the blue hexagon logo is sweet and simple, like the ice cream itself. h
The new Vancouver ice cream shop Mister gets its punny name from the dense fog produced by the liquid-nitrogen churning process. Brick walls, bare light bulbs, and industrial materials recall the building’s past life as a warehouse.
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The sleepy pier at B.C.’s Bowen Island marina just got a lot more stylish. Independent design studio Gamla has opened Branch 01, a pint-sized seasonal retail store that showcases its own work alongside an on-point collection of objects and goods from mostly Canadian makers such as Barter Design and Maggie Boyd Ceramics. Owners Robin McMillan and Brent (Branch) Freedman overhauled the raw, 180-square-foot space sandwiched between two restaurants into an unexpected oasis of contemporary design. “It’s a magical little shack on an island—so we wanted the end result to feel fun, light, easy, and approachable,” says McMillan. Branch 01 will operate on a “hibernation schedule” that corresponds with the duo’s most productive creative time, so pop by soon—the shop shutters for five months starting in November, when Gamla heads back into the studio to create and source more work. h
This past spring, the two designers behind Gamla opened Branch 01 on Bowen Island, a 20-minute ferry ride from Vancouver. The tiny shop sells a mix of covetable and mostly small-scale—i.e. packable in a weekend bag—objects by North American designers.
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The design-minded traveler has a new must-stop destination in the heart of downtown Seattle. In June 2016, the Thompson Hotels chain—known for design-forward boutique properties in New York City, Toronto, and elsewhere—opened its first Northwest hotel adjacent to the city’s iconic Pike Place Market. Designed by Olson Kundig, the 12-story building features a glass exterior positioned to take advantage of views of Puget Sound, the Olympic Mountains, and the market’s daily bustle. Midcentury-inspired interiors, a collaboration between Studio Munge and Jensen/Fey Architecture and Planning, blend modern and vintage furniture in mixed materials (mohair, reclaimed wood, rich leathers) for a refined sense of place. Since it opened earlier this summer, hungry guests and locals alike have flooded Scout, the newest restaurant from the acclaimed culinary team at Huxley Wallace Collective, as well as the Nest, a rooftop bar offering some of the best views—and best cocktails—in the city. h
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Positioned at an intersection where the city’s street grid shifts dramatically, Thompson Seattle’s geometric structure is the work of Olson Kundig. The 158 guest rooms are sleek and modern, with navy leather-upholstered headboards and framed contemporary art. Scout restaurant’s interior spotlights local craftsmanship. The Douglas-fir booths were created by Meyer Wells and upholstered in plaid flannel; the drum lights are by Matt Shoudy of Illume.
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OPPOSITE: Portland development crusader Kevin Cavenaugh inside the Zipper, the wedgeshaped food hall his company, Guerrilla Development, built in 2015. It houses a bar, several restaurants, and a late-night nail salon. THIS PAGE: The end of the Zipper. Each side features a lenticular mural with a phrase or images by a different artist.
TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS AGO, after graduating from architecture school, Kevin Cavenaugh realized two things. “First, I knew I would become a better architect only if I actually learned how to build things,” he recalls one afternoon, sitting in the conference room of his east Portland office. “Second, I had a massive appetite for risk. I still do.” He took a circuitous path to his current role as founder of Guerrilla Development, an iconoclastic real estate development company with 10 large-scale design projects under its belt. Shortly after graduation, he headed to western Africa to work for the Peace Corps for two years and hone his building and leadership skills. Afterward he moved to Portland and spent eight months helping a friend fix up a house in the thengentrifying Northeast neighborhood. Then he began to buy, renovate, and rent out houses himself. But he knew that architecture was his first calling—after all, he’d been filling sketchbooks with drawings of houses since he was a child. So in 1996 he took a job at FFA Architecture and Interiors, only to quickly grow frustrated with the lack of actual design he was doing. Most of his time was spent on noncreative tasks such as seismic upgrades that had him drawing epoxy anchors all day. “I didn’t have a black turtleneck or cool round glasses, but I did have a degree in architecture,” he recalls. “I knew how to design and build, and I realized that the traditional path to the fancy desk in the corner office would take me a long time. I didn’t want to wait.”
One afternoon, Cavenaugh took his friend Francesca Gambetti, a project manager at real estate development company Shiels Obletz Johnsen, to lunch and asked her advice. “She looked at me and said, ‘You buy houses, fix them up, and rent them out—like I do. But I work in commercial and mixed-use spaces, so when the checks come in, the decimal point moves over one or two places.’” Inspired, Cavenaugh boldly approached his bosses at FFA and asked if he could hire them to work on his first ground-up project: the Box + One mixed-used development in east Portland. Admiring his ambition, they agreed. Shortly after completing Box + One in 2002, Cavenaugh quit FFA and became a full-time independent developer, but it wasn’t until 2010 that he officially launched Guerrilla Development (“Before that, it was just me and an assistant and a lot of chutzpah”). Over the next several years, Guerrilla erected some of Portland’s most innovative projects, including the LEED Platinum-certified commercial building known as the Burnside Rocket and the Zipper, a wedge-shaped food hall clad with a lenticular art installation that reveals different images and words—“CHASE,” “DREAMS”—depending on the direction you’re traveling. While he claims he didn’t set out with a grand altruistic mission, one gets the sense that Cavenaugh truly is one of the good guys. “I didn’t, and don’t, have any overarching goals other than to simply control the design and building process from the start,” he notes. “Sometimes it’s a deep design idea, » graymag . com
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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: The undulating side of the Zipper in east Portland. The artful koi is the work of Yoskay Yamamoto. An interior rendering of the soon-to-be-built Atomic Orchard Lofts, Cavenaugh’s attempt to smash through the entrenched precedents of dull affordable housing. The double-loaded corridor is a tripleheight space with a glass roof and catwalks instead of halls. The façade of the Fair-Haired Dumbbell, Cavenaugh’s first crowd-funded development, will feature bold artwork chosen from 60 international submissions.
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sometimes it’s social repair through architecture, and sometimes it’s a financial experiment. The more work I do, the more I notice social concerns that I can at least try to tackle with a building.” Cavenaugh’s latest projects are his most experimental and mission-driven to date. Feeling trapped by dependence on the banking industry to launch his buildings, and rebelling against its exclusivity, earlier this year he launched a crowd-sourced funding campaign to finance the construction of a mixed-use development he calls the Fair-Haired Dumbbell, set to complete construction in 2017. Anyone can invest via the firm’s website, and, at $3,000, the buy-in doesn’t cater to the ultra-wealthy. “Crowd-funding is a way to see if there’s a model that doesn’t involve banks or high-net-worth individuals,” Cavenaugh explains. “It’s a way to invite everyday investors to a table they can’t otherwise sit at.” In its first three months, the initiative has raised $500,000. In a similar vein, Guerrilla Development will break ground early next spring on the Atomic Orchard Lofts, a 90-unit mixeduse project on Portland’s notorious Sandy Boulevard, a busy, rundown street dotted with used-car dealerships and marijuana dispensaries. Here Cavenaugh is taking a similarly democratic, community-focused approach to development—but this time, he’s trying to create a new model for affordable housing, one free of government subsidies and aimed at fixing civic problems. Forty percent of the units will be offered at well below market rates, starting around $580 per month. Because it’s an entirely privately funded development, Cavenaugh can take advantage of a legal loophole when it comes to selecting tenants: “Obviously the law prevents most types of discrimination against people, but I am allowed to discriminate by profession,” he explains. “I, personally, cannot fix the homelessness problem in Portland— and believe me, I have spent hours thinking about it—but what I can do is aid people working every day on the problem by saying I will offer these units only to someone with a master’s degree in social work, or to someone who runs a soup kitchen or an organization that gives battered women a place to sleep.” Cavenaugh and the project’s other investors have agreed to take home less money in order to offer lower rents. “Yes, of course I make money off what I do,” he says, “but I want people to know that anyone can have a stake in their neighborhood. It doesn’t have to be a millionaires’ club. As cliché as it sounds, design really can be used for the greater good.” h
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COUNTERCULTURE CONTEMPORARY Dawson Design Associates’ latest hotel creation
celebrates San Francisco’s free spirit and its historical role as an epicenter of cultural and social change. Written by HILLARY RIELLY : Photographed by DOUGLAS FRIEDMAN
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Hotel Zeppelin, conceived by Seattle- and London-based hospitality design firm Dawson Design Associates, opened two blocks from San Francisco’s Union Square in March 2016. The curving staircase in the lobby corridor is original to the 1913-built hotel, and the large cluster of Viso pendants lures guests down to the game room below. The Wireflow pendant in the foreground is by Arik Levy for Vibia. OPPOSITE: The lobby features original molding and exposed brick walls that were discovered and refurbished during construction, as well as a partially suspended communal table. Glowing green along the ceiling are lines from Allen Ginsberg’s 1955 poem “Howl”—holy writ for the Beat generation—lit intermittently by ultraviolet light. Antonio Mora painted the portrait of psychedelic rock musician Grace Slick, of Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship, on reclaimed timber in a commission by Julie Coyle Art Associates. »
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The Peace game room, next to the Love meeting room (of course), features a wall of basketball hoops, a pool table, a gigantic bingo board, a skee-ball machine, and a shuffleboard. The comic-strip mural on the wall and ceiling was conceived by DDA and realized by a San Francisco–based graffiti collective. Egg Chairs from Fritz Hansen add to the 1960s vibe.
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There are more than 90 different room types in the hotel, a testament to DDA’s creativity. “It’s meant to feel like an old residential building where artists and writers lived and hung out,” says Sheehan. Each room features a custom chandelier that projects images of iconic hand gestures—“Live long and prosper,” “Peace,” and “Hang loose”—onto the ceiling. Custom wallpaper in the bathrooms, inspired by mod graphics and 1960s album covers, lists both old and new San Francisco bands, fusing past and present. The sinks are by Kohler, and the floor tiles are Flaviker by United Tile. h
“THE BATHROOMS ARE AN EXTENSION OF THE STORY WE’RE TELLING IN THE REST OF THE HOTEL—ANOTHER FUN SURPRISE (AND AN INSTAGRAM-WORTHY MOMENT) FOR OUR GUESTS TO FIND. WE THINK IT WOULD’VE BEEN MORE OF A RISK TO DO SOMETHING BORING!’’ —ANDREA DAWSON SHEEHAN, DESIGNER
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Interior designer Alessandro Munge and chef David Hawksworth team up to create Nightingale, their second stunning restaurant collaboration in Vancouver. Written by STACY KENDALL : Photographed by MARTIN TESSLER
THE NIGHTINGALE HAS inspired artists and storytellers for centuries, its melodic song praised in music and literature. Now the bird serves as touchstone for a different kind of artistic venture: the new Nightingale, Vancouver’s latest culinary coup and the second collaboration between Toronto-based design firm Studio Munge and chef-owner David Hawksworth (best known for his eponymous fine-dining restaurant in Hotel Georgia). Inspired in part by Aesop’s fable about a nightingale in the clutches of a hawk (moral: “A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush”) as well as by Hawksworth’s name, the seasonal menu and refined interiors ask diners to “celebrate the here and now,” says the chef. The space is elegant without being stuffy; its laid-back atmosphere captures the spirit of contemporary dining.
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Faced with the dilemma of how to entice guests upstairs in the two-story restaurant, Studio Munge made theater out of the open kitchen and pizza oven, giving a few two-tops a front-row view. Coffered ceilings and antique cut-glass globes on custom brass light fixtures give the space an intimate, almost residential feel. Downstairs, the airy space, with a visually commanding bar along one wall, supports a lively lunch and dinner scene amid black-and-white tiled columns. Fanciful gilded picture frames, convex round mirrors, and a flock of bird sculptures rise to the ceiling. “The space brings out people’s sense of curiosity,” says interior designer Alessandro Munge. “We wanted to make it intimate and exciting, so that every time you come back, it will feel like the first time.” »
THIS PAGE AND OPPOSITE: Nightingale, designed by Toronto-based Alessandro Munge (opposite right) and helmed by Vancouver chef-owner David Hawksworth, opened in the Coal Harbour neighborhood in May 2016. Set in a former university club, the restaurant serves up contemporary seasonal Canadian cuisine in a polished yet playful interior. Flying birds made from stiff cardboard—playful embodiments of its namesake—adorn the top half of the restaurant’s perimeter.
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CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: The chef’s table on the second floor features a custom brass and antique glass light fixture designed by Studio Munge. Bathrooms recall the old-world elegance of the former university club location. The downstairs dining area, once dark and cloistered, is now a soaring, light-filled two-story space. A gilded Federal-style girandole mirror continues the bird motif. h
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The chalkboard wall serves as a canvas for spontaneous inspirations in Electric Coffin’s first residential kitchen project, created for a young family in Seattle’s Mount Baker neighborhood.
“ALL TOGETHER NOW,” the name of the catchy song featured at the end of the Beatles’ 1968 classic Yellow Submarine, is carefully hand-lettered onto a painted-chalkboard wall in a Seattle family’s kitchen. Next month, they’ll likely wipe it off and replace it with a different saying. But for the moment, Mike and Erin’s three-year-old son, Miles, loves the psychedelic cartoon, and, according to Mike, the phrase just suits: “We teach Miles that, as a family, we are a team.” A Microsoft art director who’s also a cartoonist with a background in video game design, Mike and his wife, Erin, a former elementary school teacher, both love transforming words and imagery into visible themes that surround them. The family moved into their 1910 Craftsman-style house in Mount Baker in 2014, intending to overhaul its dated kitchen. The 1980s remodel wasn’t wearing well—the painted-over floor tiles were scratched, the cabinets were peeling, and low soffits made the modest space closed-off and dark. They could have taken down the wall separating the kitchen from the dining room, as almost every contractor they interviewed longed to do, but the couple wanted to preserve the room’s original footprint as well as keep the remodel affordable. One afternoon, amid their search for a builder, they reached out to Seattle artist Justin Kane Elder, asking to purchase one of his colorful, eye-catching paintings. They’d admired his artwork at Revel, one of their favorite restaurants, and, unbeknownst to them at the time, they’d also spotted his design handiwork at Joule, the Seattle Korean-fusion restaurant distinctively revamped in 2012 by Electric Coffin—the design collective founded by Elder, Duffy De Armas, and Stefan Hofmann. Joule had been one of the trio’s first large-scale projects; bigger restaurant projects and installations followed, including Westward and Trove. When Elder arrived at the couple’s house to install his painting, he told them about Electric Coffin. Instantly they showed him their kitchen, and it became clear that theirs could be a design match made in heaven. “It was a new challenge to draw our aesthetic into someone’s living space,” De Armas says. “It meant exploring subtleties and reducing crazy visuals into a core format.” »
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After initial discussions on design direction and budget (not an extravagant one), Electric Coffin pitched the couple specific ideas—and almost all those initial concepts were carried out in the final design. To save money, the firm proposed using Europly for the floors and the cabinets above the fridge; the durable and affordable material has a smooth, even surface that complements the room’s contemporary aesthetic. To enhance its look, they arranged the material’s seams to run in a fluid line from the cabinets to the floor and across the room, where they meet the built-in window bench—a subtle choice that “quiets the space,” says Elder. Construction started in the winter of 2015 and the project sailed smoothly over the following three months, driven by a mutual kinship and a highly skilled contractor, Tom Misciagna of Heart Mountain Joinery. No opportunity for customization was overlooked by Electric Coffin, especially if it reinforced the
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family’s unique sensibilities. The kitchen’s 15-foot-long north wall, for example, is sheathed in custom wallpaper depicting the cosmos and a close-up of the moon’s surface, a nod to Miles’s passion for space. Mike found the image on NASA’s Flickr feed, and Electric Coffin inverted its original black-and-white tones and had a billboard-printing company fabricate the pattern. An adjacent wall bench features a custom marine-grade canvas cushion adorned with handwritten words and patterns—including another unofficial family motto, “The good will out”—penned by Electric Coffin. The design studio’s goal in this project, its first residential interior, was to “help the family tell their story,” says De Armas. But their clients see the project as a shared narrative. “I believe we caught Electric Coffin in a particular artistic zone, one that I can see in our kitchen,” Mike observes. “We notice something new every day, and it makes living in this kitchen an adventure.” »
“I THOUGHT A LOT ABOUT WHAT REAL LUXURY MEANS WHILE DOING THIS PROJECT. FOR THIS FAMILY, LUXURY IS BEING ABLE TO ELEGANTLY STORE THEIR RECORDS AND HAVING SECRET PATTERNS INSIDE OF SHELVES.” —STEFAN HOFMANN, DESIGNER
ABOVE: Carrera marble countertops crown custom black laminate-faced cabinets on IKEA bases. RIGHT: Without widening the window, Electric Coffin took its frame down to the floor to invite in light. The custom bench offers copious built-in storage. The white Strut Medium table and red Real Good chairs are from Blu Dot. Over the table hangs a Soft Dog pendant by Henrik Pedersen from Design Within Reach.
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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: The horizontal spacing of the subway tiling on the wall is slightly wider than the vertical—a subtle allusion to Frank Lloyd Wright’s favored orientation, says Mike. The notches in the open shelves above the sink provide extra headspace. The canvas window-bench cushions feature a design by Electric Coffin. An M for Miles, the clients’ son, is affixed to the kitchen island. Electric Coffin refers to these tiny, personalized details as “Easter eggs”—meaningful touches hidden throughout the kitchen. Custom shelving above the desk is exactly wide enough for LPs, of which Mike has a huge collection. h
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TO THE MAX! Interior designer—and new Portlander—Max Humphrey shows off his former 1920s warehouse loft in L.A., where his eclectic-collector cool-guy style reigned supreme.
Written by NICOLE MUNSON : Photographed by LU TAPP
LIKE ANY WELL-SEASONED CONNOISSEUR of his craft, designer Max Humphrey makes the decoration of his former downtown L.A. loft sound remarkably effortless. “I didn’t overthink the design. I just bought things I loved and made them work,” explains the easygoing East Coast native, who recently relocated to Portland after a decade spent building his design career in L.A. What now comes so instinctively to the designer is the product of an unconventional, though well-charted, professional course. Humphrey arrived in California in 2001 for a TV production job, but then the punk band he and his friends had started, the Adored, landed a record deal. “We quit our jobs. I sold all my stuff. And we went on an international tour for two years,” he recalls. Then the tour ended, the band dispersed, and the ever-resourceful Humphrey seized the chance to reinvent himself.
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At the time, he was engrossed in furnishing his apartment, a vintage gem in the Hancock Park neighborhood. “About six months into putting it together, I had a light-bulb moment,” he says of his realization that interior design was a viable career option. “I’d been looking for a job that I felt passionate about, and it had been under my nose the whole time.” He answered a Craigslist ad for a design assistant at L.A.’s Burnham Design, the high-end residential interior design firm helmed by Betsy Burnham. He landed it, despite having no prior experience, with typical chutzpah. “I sent Betsy an email explaining my story and asking for a chance.” He got one. Seven years into his ten-year career, Humphrey made partner. “Betsy really taught me everything I know,” the designer says. With his new-won success, Humphrey upgraded to a 1,000-square-foot 1920s-era loft in L.A.’s energetic arts »
In the living area of designer Max Humphrey’s former L.A. loft, new and old mingled around an antique metal sign. To ground the seating area in the vast space, the designer paired a large sofa upholstered in army canvas with an equally sizeable coffee table. “I realized, after I moved in, that anything small in scale just got lost,” the designer notes. The hanging chair is from Serena & Lily. The Turkish kilims are, per Humphrey, from a “secret” dealer in L.A.
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A self-described “maniac collector,” Humphrey impeccably styled his finds throughout his loft. “You can’t have rooms filled with as much junk as I do if you aren’t organized and tidy. Otherwise you look like a crazy person.” In the bedroom area, Humphrey customized a Room & Board canopy bed with panels stitched from a black-andwhite Pindler buffalo check. »
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“DESPITE BEING A MANIAC ABOUT COLLECTING, I’M NOT ATTACHED TO THE THINGS I OWN. THE CHASE IS BETTER THAN THE KILL.” —MAX HUMPHREY, DESIGNER
district. Its lineage thrilled him—it was once a Heinz ketchup manufacturing plant, and in the 1960s, artist Robert Rauschenberg owned the building. In its white walls, high ceilings, and exposed brick, Humphrey saw the potential to express himself fully as a designer. “I like rooms full of furniture, art, and signs of life—I’m not too precious to mix new with old, cheap with expensive, serious with fun, and itchy with soft.” That attitude aligned perfectly with the loft’s open floor plan, where he used rugs, tapestries, and masterful furniture arrangements to define each area.
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This past January, just before packing up for Portland to launch his eponymous solo firm, Humphrey had his loft photographed to record the results of his three-year-long decorating endeavor. Now, as a new Northwesterner, he’s eager to transform his next home and hungry to make his mark on the city’s design scene. “I’ll always have these photos to remind me of my time in L.A.,” says Humphrey. “But I look forward to seeing how my style translates to life up here in Portland. I hope clients are open to mixing things up a bit.” h
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Born Free
Même’s take on kidswear is refreshingly free of cutesy. Written by ALLISON SCHEFF : Photographed by AVI LOUD Produced by FRANCINE NAZARIO : Creative direction by REINA ACAB Assisted by MARLENA AV
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et the kids be curious!” That’s one of Reina Acab’s mottos, and it’s also the spirit that animates her designs for Même, the modern kidswear line she launched in Seattle in July 2016. Preserving the innocence of young children and encouraging their independent exploration of the world, free of sartorial gender categories, is a mission for Acab, and it’s one the current market does little to address. “Why does our culture need to know whether a child is a girl or a boy?” she asks. Today’s kids, as she sees it, are forced into gender-specific clothing—hearts and butterflies on girls’ jeans; trucks and trains on boys’ T-shirts—at such an early age that they’re not often allowed to discover the world for themselves without the gender categories that determine how they live, dress—and even play. Acab’s designs question whether it’s appropriate to allow such rigid traditions (pink for girls, blue for boys) to influence young children. Acab’s designs for Même, which means “the same” or “even” in French, are loose-fitting and adaptable over time. The billowy, cocoon-like shapes become less voluminous as a child grows taller, and the elastic waistlines adjust to fit a growing body. “As the waist is let out, the shape changes,” Acab explains. What begins as rolled-up pants for a small child becomes a tapered trouser a year later. The palette is minimalist—just black, white, and cream—and enlivened with polka dots and stripes »
Sephy and Ayden both wear the River shirt and Landry trouser in size 4, demonstrating the adaptability of Même’s debut collection to various body types. “We design with growth in mind, widening and lengthening the garments so that each piece adapts to the child’s changing shape over time,” says designer Reina Acab. “Something that might have been outgrown in six months can now be worn a year or more.”
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“Before we are even born, we are placed into boxes of expectation. As children, our hearts are open and pure. We perceive others with innocence and love. We don’t see color, ethnicity, or gender. As we grow older, we begin to realize how damaging society’s expectations can be to our understanding of ourselves. The moment that we understand that we are all the same and yet infinitely different is the moment we can begin to shed those bounding expectations and live freely.”
Même’s designs—such as the Mimi kimono shirt and Rey drop-crotch short—encourage free movement and play. Each piece is finished with high-end techniques not commonly used in kidswear. “We bind all seams and overlock materials that call for serging—such as stretch fabrics—ensuring that the garment is as beautifully done on the inside as it is on the outside,” says Acab. »
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that express a modern, playful point of view. And the clothing is intentionally gender-neutral—“it’s meant to be shared between brothers and sisters,” Acab says. Although Même might seem ultra-modern, with its Japanese-influenced silhouettes and unisex outlook, it actually harkens back to kidswear’s pragmatic past. “There really wasn’t much color in children’s wear until about the past hundred years,” observes Anthony Sosa, the company’s co-founder. “‘Gender neutral’ wasn’t a concept, either, because children just wore whatever fabric or clothing their family had—long tunics or dresses, that sort of thing—until
they turned six, when boys would have a Breeching Party. That’s when they’d get their britches.” Même is sustainably and locally produced, and the debut line includes everything from hand-made bibs, blankets, and booties to jackets and jumpsuits. Tops range from $42 to $88—admittedly costlier than “fast fashion,” but also far more durable and longer-lasting. As Acab points out, choosing kids’ clothing is an opportunity to question society’s dictates about how kids are raised. “As parents, you provide choices and morals for your children,” Acab says. “Teaching children to consume thoughtfully is one of our goals.” h
Même’s designs can be passed between brothers and sisters. Sephy and Ayden wear the Mercy jacket, River shirt, and Landry trouser. The collection is currently available exclusively online in the Northwest as well as in select shops in Korea, Japan, the United Kingdom, and China.
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SHAKE IT UP
Written by RACHEL GALLAHER Photographed by CHARLIE SCHUCK
In September 2015, seven designers spent two weeks combing through the vast archives of historic items, from furniture to tools, at the Shaker Museum Mount Lebanon in upstate New York and Hancock Shaker Village in western Massachusetts. Over the next few months, they, along with nine additional designers, reimagined the no-frills Shaker aesthetic to craft their own furnishings and objects, some pictured here on a lawn at Hancock.
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“THE SHAKERS HAD A VERY SIMPLE AND HONEST APPROACH TO DESIGN THAT ULTIMATELY STOOD THE TEST OF TIME. THEY AVOIDED EXTRANEOUS ORNAMENTATION IN THEIR WORK AND FOCUSED ON SIMPLICITY OF FORM AND FUNCTION.’’ —ZOË MOWAT, DESIGNER
BRUSH STUDY BY ZOË MOWAT A set of handmade oak-and-horsehair brushes from Montreal-based designer Zoë Mowat is color-coded according to function. “I was surprised when I saw the bold use of color in Hancock Village,” Mowat recalls. “The Shakers painted their furniture, objects, and buildings in vibrant hues, and they often chose certain colors for specific objects or spaces—I saw ochre on the bedroom floors, for example, and dark blue in religious or meeting spaces.” »
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NORM SHAKER TRAYS BY NORM ARCHITECTS Inspired by a series of molds the Shakers used to bend veneer into specific shapes for baskets and boxes, Copenhagen’s Norm Architects crafted trays from smoked ash and tinted them with Japanese sumi ink. “We tried to see if we could simplify the trays even more than the Shakers had done, because we aim for geometrical purity in our work,” explains Katrine Goldstein, Norm’s managing director. “Our style is actually no style. Our designs are neither masculine nor feminine—they just are. Simple, minimal, and enduring.” »
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BASKETS BY STUDIO GORM Lightweight baskets from Studio Gorm of Eugene, Oregon, made of bamboo plywood left over from a previous project, update traditional Shaker boxes and basketry. “Bamboo’s flexibility allows us to create different shapes than the maple used for the original boxes would have permitted,” John Arndt explains. “We constantly tried to think of ways to put our process and materials into a contemporary context.” Wonhee Jeong Arndt, also taking note of the abundant color in Hancock Village, infused it into these carryalls. »
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STOVE CHAIR AND DOMINO COAT RACK BY GABRIEL TAN Fascinated with the Shaker practice of storing unused chairs upside-down on walls, Singapore- and New York–based designer Gabriel Tan crafted a three-legged chair and companion coat rack with multifunctionality in mind. “They’re relevant today because we often work, eat, and entertain guests in the same space due to shrinking apartment sizes,” the designer says. “Products that can be hung easily on the wall make room for other activities, such as yoga, having a party, or even—as the Shakers did— clearing space to dance.” h
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Senga Nengudi: Improvisational Gestures is organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver and the University of Colorado Colorado Springs Gallery of Contemporary Art. The presentation at the Henry is organized by Nina Bozicnik, Assistant Curator, with support from 4Culture, ArtsFund, and the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture. Senga Nengudi, studio performance of Mesh Mirage, 1978. Image courtesy of the artist and Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver. Photo: Adam Avila.
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GOOD NEIGHBORS Architect George Suyama takes “not in my backyard” to its (semi)logical extreme. Written by JAIME GILLIN Photographed by ALEX HAYDEN
Architect George Suyama peers down from the front deck of his “second home,” located just next door to his primary residence. He bought this property in 2010 to preserve the tree-filled views from his main house. The structure’s archetypal, five-sided “house” frame belies Suyama’s avant-garde approach to its interior layout: the jutting white box extends indoors and contains the main bedroom, bathroom, stairwell, kitchen, and loft. The building is raised on columns to avoid disturbing tree roots.
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ABOVE AND OPPOSITE: From the home’s front entrance, you can see all the way to the 19-foot-high wall of windows at the back of the house. The protected porch nearly abuts a gigantic old cedar. Through its branches you can catch glimpses of glittering Puget Sound. “It’s counterintuitive to block the view of the water,” acknowledges Suyama. “But this wasn’t designed to be a house about view—it’s more about internal spaces and a relationship with nature. And yet the water’s always there, just beyond the tree. You can feel it. Not everyone gets the concept of withholding. Sometimes in withholding you find more power.”
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ive years after architect George Suyama, cofounder of Seattle’s acclaimed Suyama Peterson Deguchi, built himself and his wife a house in West Seattle, the lot next door came up for sale. It was a rare, undeveloped site with 50 feet of sandy private waterfront, its tiny cabin dwarfed by full-grown cedars. Most of the windows in his own house faced the neighboring lot, and he’d grown attached to the view. Terrified of what another buyer might build, he snapped it up. “It was an emotional investment more than a sound economic one,” he admits, and he had no specific action plan. Maybe he’d create a rental property or a guesthouse, or a residence designed to his liking that he could sell. But whatever he built, he knew two things: it would respect the existing trees, and it wouldn’t mess with his view. Countless sketches and three full redesigns later, he settled in 2015 on a 2,000-square-foot building that’s 18 feet wide by 80 feet long, the biggest he could go without disturbing the existing trees. Inside, surfacenailed brown-stained plywood clads the ceiling and walls. “This house takes all the architectural detailing we usually do down to the most generic, simplistic methodology,” says Suyama. “In our main house, the detailing is fussy and expensive. In this house, it’s the opposite. There’s a lot more latitude for the imperfect.” Suyama attributes this relaxed restraint to his age and experience as much as to the wisdom of not blowing the bank on a house that’s basically a pet project. “As I’ve gotten older, a certain flexibility has emerged. In your early days as a designer, you get fussed up and think you need everything a certain way. Once you’ve designed many houses, you realize you need some things and don’t need others. It harkens back to ancient Japanese potters who’d spend a lot of time making something perfect and then torque it. Once you can make it perfect, you can reach the next level. I couldn’t have done this house earlier in my career. I wouldn’t have had the wisdom.” He knows it’s an unconventional building, but he wouldn’t have it any other way. “This’ll be a hard home to sell one day. Who’d want to live here?” he muses out loud (ignoring this writer’s raised hand), pondering whether he’ll ever see a return on his investment. For now, he and his wife are content to use it as the most convenient getaway ever, walking over to enjoy a glass of wine on the back porch or handing the key to lucky guests. They’ve even entertained the possibility of selling their main house and moving here. “The idea of living with less is very attractive,” he says. “Until you experience it, you don’t know what it feels like. It’s an incredible freedom.” »
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“IN YOUR EARLY DAYS AS A DESIGNER, YOU GET FUSSED UP AND THINK YOU NEED EVERYTHING A CERTAIN WAY. ONCE YOU’VE DESIGNED MANY HOUSES, YOU REALIZE YOU NEED SOME THINGS AND DON’T NEED OTHERS. I COULDN’T HAVE DONE THIS HOUSE EARLIER IN MY CAREER. I WOULDN’T HAVE HAD THE WISDOM.’’ —GEORGE SUYAMA, ARCHITECT
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The 1850s Japanese mizuya tansu chest has moved with the Suyamas from home to home over the past 30 years; the Noguchi pendant light hangs over a table that’s part of Suyama Peterson Deguchi’s 3x10 collection of custom furniture and décor. Except for the white box that holds the home’s private spaces and stairwell, the rest of the house is open-plan. “Normally you’d divide a house into lots of separate spaces to respond to its program,” says Suyama. “But this house is so simple that you really can do only one clear gesture to maintain its conceptual clarity, and to hell with the rest of the program!” OPPOSITE: Suyama has filled the loft with some of his favorite objects— old fishing reels, tortoise shells, pocket watches, and other things he likes “shape-wise,” all arranged carefully on industrial shelving. The drafting table once belonged to the father of Suyama Peterson Deguchi’s cofounder, Jay Deguchi. »
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OPPOSITE: A 2-foot-wide slot runs down one side of the white box. When you stand in the kitchen and peer down the length of custom folded steel shelving, you can see past the bathroom sink to the bedroom windows 30 feet away. The slot “allows the house to breathe from one end to the other and gives you the feeling that the building is one simple shape,” says Suyama. THIS PAGE, RIGHT: The slot funnels light into the bathroom, too, a room that epitomizes Suyama’s approach to décor. “We took the most economical tactic and reused what we already had.” The porcelain sink was left over from a previous firm project. THIS PAGE, TOP: White canvas curtains flank the walls of the main bedroom. When they’re pulled shut, “the room becomes a surreal white sanctuary,” says Suyama. The Swedish prints are family heirlooms that he’d consigned to storage 40 years ago and unearthed while searching for the right pieces for the house. “Turns out they fit perfectly, and they’re fabulous in this room,” he says with delight. “That was a serendipitous turnaround.” h
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wilderness preserved Asked to create a Whistler getaway that embraces its rugged locale, Bohlin Cywinski Jackson delivers on an epic scale.
Written by RACHEL EGGERS : Photographed by NIC LEHOUX
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Created by principal Robert Miller and his team at the Seattle office of architecture firm Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, this audacious home rising above Alta Lake in Whistler, British Columbia, is built into its rocky surroundings. The rock wall and blue light cannon in the grotto at the far end of the pool is uplit from a concealed LED light below the pool deck. The home makes the most of the majestic views, with decks and terraces connecting or adjoining spaces throughout. Âť
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While the architects were still in the early stages of design, the client purchased 50 logs of high-grade Douglas fir, windfall from a 2006 storm in Stanley Park. The design team used the wood throughout the home. Here it forms the walls, floors, and ceilings of the spiraling spine of the home, including the double-height living room at the center of the floor plan. The 40-foot-high granite fireplace reaches to meet a skylight that’s power-operated, allowing heat to escape during summer months. In the foreground is an Artek Aalto 400 chair upholstered with reindeer fur; in the background, a paper chandelier by Anke Neumann, lit with LED lights, hangs over a dining table custom designed by the architects. RIGHT: Three pivoting glass doors by Capoferri connect the living room to one of the home’s many decks. The high-grade fir was treated with a whitewash stain to even out its tones and achieve a sleek, modern look. »
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The home needed to be able to withstand the extreme mountain storms and freeze-thaw cycles of Whistler, so the designers chose low-maintenance materials such as zinc, aluminum, and stainless steel. The green roof planted with native sedums reduces stormwater run-off; a stateof-the-art window system from Capoferri offers superior thermal performance and provides wide, bracing views. The stainless-steel knife-edge roof is visually striking and also serves a practical need: it’s durable and prevents dangerous icicle buildup. Audacious design choices define the home. A stunning 82-foot-long pool, cantilevered over the mountainside, gives swimmers the sensation of floating over a canyon. It was cut into the rock with expertly controlled blasts of dynamite. “We were all in attendance on that day,” laughs Miller. “The client even got to push the lever once. It made me a little nervous.” Nearby, a stacked set of slender decks juts out 37 feet from the house, connecting the dining room and upstairs office to the views. Guests can take in alpine sunsets after a dinner party, and the owners can watch groomers working the ski slopes below at night. The courtyard’s oval lawn is punctuated by three sculptural concrete cones, or “light cannons,” that open onto the floors below, allowing light to stream in year-round. A floating walnut staircase supported by a cascade of steel cables in the center of the main floor doubles as an art piece that can be viewed from the interior or exterior. For all the home’s ambitious details and impressive scale, it expresses a humble intention: rather than standing out against its surroundings, it blends into them. And the experience of living in it consists more of small, serene moments than of grand events. “The deck is one of my favorite places,” says the homeowner. “In the morning, I just have a cup of tea here and look at the mountain. I love how quiet it is.” »
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FROM LEFT: Sketches of the Whistler home’s lower level, upper level, and a “light cannon” reveal some of the structure’s unique and artful aspects, including a spiraling floor plan and concrete cones that funnel daylight into subterranean rooms.
Curving around a glass wall facing the inner courtyard, a floating walnut staircase supported by a cascading series of cables is both a sculptural element and a bit of visual magic on the architects’ part. “When you’re outside and see someone climbing the stairs,” Miller notes, “it looks as if they’re actually floating.” Light cannons fabricated by Dürfeld Constructors from the architects’ design dot the courtyard, illuminating the subterranean wine room and spa and providing fresh air intake into a mechanical area.
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To enter the house, you walk through a luminous gateway of blue glass. In autumn, the blue plays off the golden leaves of the surrounding aspens. OPPOSITE: A red artisan plaster light cannon shoots daylight into the underground wine cellar. While all the cannons allow light to enter year-round, this one makes an especially elegant nod to the natural world: it’s strategically angled so that on the summer solstice, its beam creates a mathematically perfect circle on the floor. 
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A glimmering 82-foot-long pool, cantilevered over the mountain, stretches dramatically into midair. Due to its tricky cliffside siting, it had to be built before the rest of the house. “You don’t always start with the pool,” says Miller with a laugh. “But it shaped the plan for the rest of the house.” »
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The corner master bedroom allows expansive views of Whistler and Blackcomb mountains. The bed—inspired by Japanese tatami sleeping mats—was custom designed by the architects; reading lights are hidden under the wood slat above the headboard. Though somewhat small for a master bedroom in a home of this size, it reflects a larger trend, Miller says. “Master bedrooms are getting smaller and cozier. Our clients wanted this room to be tranquil and devoted to sleep.” h
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playing the triangle Part striking architectural statement, part social gathering place, a vacation house in the Colorado Rockies is Skylab Architecture’s latest foray into bold residential spaces—and it’s perhaps the firm’s most distinctive project yet. Written by AMARA HOLSTEIN : Photographed by JEREMY BITTERMANN Portrait by WILLIAM ANTHONY
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In Snowmass, Colorado, a modern home designed by Portland firm Skylab Architecture perches on a rocky promontory. The rusty tones of its Cor-ten steel mimic the hues of fall foliage, the iron oxide in the surrounding mountains, and the corrugated steel roofs of old Rockies mining shacks. Loewen windows frame sky-high views of Snowmass Valley. The kitchen island opens to the outdoors through a bifold window. OPPOSITE: Architect Jeff Kovel, founder of Skylab Architecture. Âť
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“I’m in a triangle phase right now,” says architect Jeff Kovel, a fact evident throughout the house, from its overall form to its interior details. The triangular coffered ceiling is made of Alaskan yellow cedar inset with LED lights. Triangles also inform the custom-made leather sectional couch from InHouse PDX, offset by circular Tyne cocktail tables from Room & Board. The Friday Lounge armchairs are by Formstelle, sourced through Avenue Road.
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ortland-based firm Skylab Architecture prides itself on pushing the design envelope. From downtown Portland’s mod, spaceship-sleek rooftop restaurant Departure to a cantilevered tree house tucked into a forest (and featured in the Twilight films), Skylab projects are meant to be noticed. That’s what drew an East Coast couple to the firm. They’d just purchased a lot on a bluff in Snowmass, Colorado, their longtime getaway spot, and they wanted to build a vacation house—or, rather, “an architectural experience that hadn’t been considered before and that captured the surroundings,” as the husband puts it. Most houses in the area are traditional, rather bland 1970s-vintage structures, and a home upstaged by the stunning landscape wasn’t what the clients had in mind. “We knew that Skylab created unique, one-of-a-kind spaces, so it seemed a perfect fit.” The Snowmass project, about 15 minutes outside Aspen, was especially appealing to Skylab founder and design principal Jeff Kovel. “I’m an avid skier and mountain guy, so this was a dream opportunity to build a ski chalet in a beautiful natural place,” he says. “It achieves a level of integration among landscape, architecture, and interior design that sets a new high bar for our work.” Shaped as a triangular wedge to maximize views and slot cleanly onto the site, the house deliberately echoes its stony, jagged setting. “We wanted to make a dynamic form, but we also wanted it to feel native and grounded,” says Kovel. “So we looked to the angular forms found in the surrounding landscape as inspiration.” The locally sourced sandstone cladding the groundfloor level makes the house look “as if it were carved from the earth,” says the homeowner. The second level is mostly glass, with a Cor-ten steel roof and siding. The rust tones of the weathered steel mimic the iron ore that colors the surrounding hills; the steep slope of the roofline “shoots out the way boulders do,” says the homeowner. A prefab steel frame increased efficiency and decreased costs since “we could fabricate it down-valley, where it was a little less expensive than trying to do it with Aspen labor prices,” says Kovel. Inside the 4,500-square-foot house, Denver-based interior designer Anna Lambiotte used a palette of warm grays and neutrals, accented with shades of blues that “play off the Colorado skies you see from every room,” she says. The open-plan public areas—living, kitchen, and dining—on the top two levels allow guests to gather and interact easily. The lower two floors contain the bedrooms and bathrooms. All four floors spiral around a central staircase, with amphitheater seating built into its base and oriented toward a screen that lowers for movie watching. Dramatic amenities—such as a custom hot tub that points down the valley and an angular deck opening off the kitchen, with a built-in ice trough to hold cold drinks—cry out for large parties. A mud room complete with lockers welcomes skiing guests. At night, guests retreat to the five bedrooms downstairs, led by the soft glow of LED lights hidden under steel baseboards along the stairs. There are two master suites (so “there’s no hierarchy of owners versus guests,” says the homeowner) in addition to bunkbed rooms for kids. Although it’s close to the bustle of Aspen, the house feels light-years away. Elk migrate across the valley below, and the homeowners and visiting family and friends can hike, ski, and bike virtually outside the front door, then retreat to a space that’s fun on the inside and irreverently modern on the outside. “It’s bold architecture in a place that doesn’t really have any,” says Kovel. “We created a space where you experience the site in an amplified way.” » graymag . com
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The amphitheater at the bottom of the spiral stairway provides a perfect place for parties to gather; about 30 kids piled in for a movie one recent New Year’s Eve. Reclaimed white oak flooring is a contemporary contrast to the rustic vinegar-stained knotty cedar ceiling and walls. The local sandstone was laid by hand. OPPOSITE: “The geometry in the house is pretty intense,” acknowledges Kovel. A custom chandelier by his sister, Andi Kovel of Portland-based Esque Studio, cascades down through the stairwell and softens its strong lines. A natural Kobe cowhide rug on a landing hints at the area’s cowboy past. »
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A dining table made of two slabs of walnut by Seattle-based Urban Hardwoods easily seats 12 in a fleet of Bauhaus armchairs from Restoration Hardware. A Lindsey Adelman branching chandelier made of white glass and brass floats overhead, lending the space a gentle glow. A compact pass-through window connects the dining room with a bar built behind the fireplace. OPPOSITE: Tractor Barstools from Design Within Reach line up along the 15-foot-long granite kitchen island. Two stainless-steel Faber Cylindra Isola hoods make a strong vertical statement against the long horizontals of the island and countertop. The appliances, all from Wolf, ably handle large parties and barbecues, and the passthrough window by Loewen opens completely to the adjacent deck. Âť
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ABOVE: The guest bedroom is a quiet retreat with killer views. A Wyatt bed upholstered in gray leather from Room & Board faces the corner windows, and a Thatch rug from Design Within Reach lies underfoot. LEFT: Downstairs, the limestone steam room was designed to be “airy and spa-like,” says Kovel; its windows are covered with frosted film for privacy, and the lighting can change color depending on users’ whims. OPPOSITE: “The apex of the roof, the flooring, and the hot tub all orient themselves to the head of the valley, following the river,” says Kovel. The custom tub by Diamond Spas, cantilevered dramatically over the site, is easily accessed from both master suites. h
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Welcome to IDS Vancouver, the largest celebration of design on the West Coast!
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We are honoured to welcome individual designers, artists, makers and design-centric brands who have come together in Vancouver to showcase their current works, concepts and products. Creating IDS Vancouver 2016 with equal parts energy and optimism, we are pleased to proclaim that IDS Vancouver is still picking up steam at 12 years young. Thanks to our abundant, creative and collaborative design community, these are truly exciting times for IDS Vancouver. Here, we have an incredible opportunity for dialogue about the ways in which the West’s people, beauty and resources have influenced its culture of design. And maintaining a global perspective, IDS Vancouver is pleased to be featuring a large and varied range of speakers and exhibitors from such design-forward cities as Eindhoven, Tokyo and London. IDS Vancouver invites you to explore ideas about how where you live and where you’ve been can inform your life and work. We would like to extend a tremendous thank you to the exhibitors, sponsors, special guests and speakers, all of whom are here to share their passion. We are humbled and motivated by your work and your dedication. On behalf of the many individuals who have tirelessly worked to bring you the 12th annual Interior Design Show Vancouver, we hope you find your favourite new design, feel as inspired as we do by all the talent around you, and engage in the West’s flourishing design community.
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Charitable Partner Now entering its 12th year, Out in Schools is a highly sought after film education program, offering students the chance to develop and deepen their understanding of the experiences of LGBT2Q+ youth, the impacts of discrimination and exclusion, and what they can do to foster cultures of inclusion within their classrooms and schools. Out in Schools workshops have planted the seeds of belonging for our queer youth throughout the province in 39 school districts with over 60,000 students. Donate to Out in Schools by purchasing tickets online or on-site. Coat Check Located outside the entrance to the IDS Vancouver show floor, you will find a coat check offered by donation with proceeds benefiting Out in Schools. ATM An ATM machine, located next to The District, is available on-site for your convenience.
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Bistro Located on the show floor, the Bistro serves up both hot and cold meal selections as well as a great offering of beverages. Coffee Bar Located on the main show floor by Studio North and Prototype, the IDS Coffee Bar serves up locally roasted Moja coffee and espresso beverages available for purchase throughout the show. The Bar Always the central hub of IDS Vancouver, grab a friend, a drink and journey “Down the Rabbit Hole” in this creative space designed by Kalu Interiors. Lose yourself – and all sense of time! – in this ethereal, visual wonderland. Food and Beverage Thursday 7 p.m. – 11 p.m. Friday 9:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. Saturday 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Sunday 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
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The Party on Opening Night Thursday, Sept. 22 | 7–11 pm Vancouver’s design party of the year kicks off the IDS Vancouver event in true style. The Party on Opening Night provides an opportunity for both the trade and general public to explore our features, entertainment and exhibits. All exhibits will be open for business and the wine will be flowing. Enjoy a night celebrating Vancouver’s exceptionally talented design industry at IDS Vancouver 2016. Presented by
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IDS Vancouver Limited Edition Totes Be one of the first 2,500 people through the doors to receive The Party Gift Bag, a custom designed canvas tote exclusive to IDS Vancouver 2016. The doors open at 7pm; arrive early to ensure you get your hands on a limited edition and highly coveted tote created by one of three celebrated designers: Ontwerpduo of Eindhoven, Lindsey Hampton of Vancouver and Built by Civilization of Seattle. It gets even better! If a limited edition, exclusive canvas tote isn’t enough, each of the 2,500 Party Gift Bags has a prize inside. We don’t just mean any prize either. IDS Vancouver, Inform Interiors and Intracorp have come together with the top brands in contemporary furniture and lighting to create Inform Favourites: The Party Gift Bag. It’s an unprecedented giveaway where over 100 contemporary pieces of furniture and design accessories will be won. The prizes include, but aren’t limited to, a Bocci 28d lamp, BENSEN My Turn Chair and an Eames Hang-It-All coat rack. Each of The Party Gift Bags given out on Opening Night will include a ticket with a unique code. The first 2,500 lucky party goers through the doors will be able to enter this code onsite at the contest stations to see what they have won!
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On Stage Drop in and enjoy informative, entertaining and inspiring presentations on our stages. CONVERSATIONS
The main Caesarstone Stage is your source for inspiring and educational keynote lectures from local and international experts in the design industry. At IDS Vancouver we are excited to host an esteemed group of designers and design industry professionals on the Caesarstone Stage for both the Azure Trade Talks and consumer presentations.
GRAY magazine is the exclusive media sponsor of one of the most anticipated elements of the show: the GRAY Conversations Stage. Hosted and moderated by GRAY, this unique show highlight will feature on-topic, dynamic discussions with creative thinkers—providing a more intimate experience for both trade and design enthusiasts. This year the focus is on DESIGN REBELS. Presented by
The Caesarstone Stage at IDS Vancouver 2016 is designed by Stantec, a multidisciplinary consulting group that connects people and their projects locally and globally. They’ve partnered with the local non-profit art collaborative The Beaumont to fully recycle the main stage art installation. The Beaumont’s mandate is to create an environment where local artists can work and grow. This focus on local community resulted in an abstract sculpture of the Vancouver cityscape, influenced by city building data. Vancouver’s past, present & future growth will be overlaid on the modular threedimensional piece with projection mapping technology to convey the ever-changing nature of our urban fabric. The suspended installation will define a space of engagement, discussion, and imagination.
GRAY’s Design Rebel theme doesn’t stop at programming and stage guests. It is woven into every facet of their presence at IDS Vancouver including their designers and sponsoring partners. The 2016 GRAY Conversations Stage is designed by Amber Kingsnorth of MāK Interiors, a Vancouver-based, full service, creative interior design studio. The stage includes a special feature designed by Electric Coffin, an art-forward Seattle-based design studio.
2015 GRAY Conversations Stage designed by Occupy Design.
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Dueling Designers
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Marianne Amodio Marianne Amodio Architecture Studio | Vancouver
Stephanie Beamer | NYC
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Yukio Hashimoto Hashimoto Yukio Design Studio Inc. | Tokyo Presented by
From his start at Super Potato, Yukio Hashimoto has become known for his concept of designing “atmosphere,” rather than focusing on materials, in commercial spaces such as hotels, restaurants, and retail facilities. Yukio Hashimoto is the Art Director of Hashimoto Yukio Design Studio Inc. in Tokyo, Japan and is currently a lecturer at the Aichi Prefectural University of Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts.
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Studio Munge | Toronto Renowned Canadian interior designer Alessandro Munge’s work never relies on surfacelevel aesthetics alone to tell stories through design. His high-profile restaurant and hotel projects can be found all over the world, and perfectly encapsulate cutting-edge luxury hospitality design now. Often incorporating arresting artwork and floor-to-ceiling custom designs into his elegantly appointed spaces, a Studio Munge project is always an immersive and alluring experience. In his characteristic uber-charismatic style, Munge discusses “rebel moments” in his career, reveal how he keeps the fresh ideas coming, and offers us a look at what’s next for this dynamic studio.
James Cheng, James K.M. Cheng Architects | Vancouver Darryl Condon, HCMA Architecture + Design | Vancouver Presented by
Three of Vancouver’s most influential architects go head to head (to head) on the most pressing issues facing Vancouver and the design industry today in a dynamic debate. As the clock ticks down, each will have the chance to make their case on a series of rapid-fire questions, ranging from the serious to the surprising and off-script. Don’t miss the chance to peek inside the fascinating design minds shaping the future of this city.
Crystal Ellis | NYC Hillary Petrie | NYC New York-based Egg Collective is a design company established in 2011 by three female designers— Stephanie Beamer, Crystal Ellis, and Hillary Petrie. Pulling from its founders’ backgrounds in architecture, art, and woodworking, the company creates exquisitely engineered furniture and lighting. Not only does Egg Collective design all its work, the company fabricates, sells, and markets it as well. Egg Collective received the “Best New Designer” award at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair in 2012, was named to the 2014 Forbes “30 Under 30” List, and was the inaugural recipient of the American Design Honors presented by Wanted Design and Bernhardt Furniture in May 2015.
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Tom Dixon Tom Dixon Studio | London, UK Presented by
Tom Dixon is an internationally renowned and self-taught British product designer. The London-based designer’s works are included in permanent collections of the world’s most prestigious museums including the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Dixon’s portfolio also boasts a number of high-profile interior projects including The Restaurant at The Royal Academy in London, Jamie Oliver’s restaurant Barbecoa, Shoreditch House, McCann World Group’s New York City Headquarters and the 360-room Mondrian London at Sea Containers House. Following the success of the inaugural Tom Dixon showroom in New York City this past year, Dixon decided to upscale his commitment to the United States via bi-coastal expansion! Dixon will be opening 2 new locations: his first retail presence in Los Angeles, California, and a larger-scale showroom on Howard Street in New York City’s SoHo neighbourhood. For more information, please visit tomdixon.net.
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Dutch Exchange: Eindhoven
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Design Dynasty:
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Steven Banken, Steven Banken Tineke Beunders & Nathan Wierink, Ontwerpduo Sam van Gurp & Esther Jongsma, VANTOT Dirk vander Kooij, Studio Dirk vander Kooij Presented by
In a Pecha Kucha-style format based on 20 slides x 20 seconds, 6 leading designers based in and around Eindhoven present their body of work and reveal what about the Dutch city influences their business, their process and the city’s design culture.
Steven Holl Architects | New York Turkish-born, New York City– based architect Chris McVoy is senior partner at the internationally renowned firm Steven Holl Architects, where he oversees many of the firm’s most groundbreaking and startlingly innovative projects including the forthcoming John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Expansion in Washington D.C. Rebelling against the status quo is second nature at Steven Holl Architects, and to McVoy personally. In this energizing keynote talk, he discusses his firm’s ideas-driven approach to design; the dangers of generic “cut-and-paste” architecture; the “super thin, super tall buildings for the super rich” that are cropping up in New York City (his firm refuses to design one); and what’s worth fighting a client for.
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Rudi Peet, goldsmith | Canmore, AB Oskar Peet, OS ∆ OOS | Eindhoven Lukas Peet, ANDlight and Lukas Peet Design | Vancouver Celebrated Dutch-born goldsmith Rudi Peet has been handcrafting jewelry for 37 years in the idyllic Rocky Mountain towns of Banff and Canmore, Alberta, where he raised his sons Lukas and Oskar. Join us for an on stage “family reunion” that explores what it means to grow up in a creative household and how each generation summoned the boldness and courage to fully realize their own international design pursuits.
Apartment Therapy | New York Presented by
Maxwell Ryan is the CEO and founder of Apartment Therapy. Maxwell left teaching in 2001 to start Apartment Therapy as a design business helping people to make their homes more beautiful, organized AND healthy. The website started up in 2004 with the help of his brother, Oliver. Today he is the CEO and Founder of Apartment Therapy Media, which includes both Apartment Therapy and Kitchn, two brands devoted to home and cooking enthusiasts. The sites together offer inspiration, tips and resources to a combined audience of 17 million monthly readers.
For GRAY’s own version of Dragon’s Den/Shark Tank, we chose five people from an open call for submissions to present a rapid-fire pitch of a new, audacious design-related idea, product, or event to a panel of experts who’ll ask questions and offer valuable feedback to hone their pitch. The judges and audience will vote on which idea they are most impressed with, and the winner gets a grand prize, coverage in a future issue of GRAY, and more!
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Emily Henderson Emily Henderson Design | Los Angeles Presented by
Perhaps best known as the host of HGTV’s Secrets from a Stylist, Henderson is the creative director of Los Angelesbased Style by Emily Henderson and author of the 2015 book Styled: Secrets for Arranging Rooms, from Tabletops to Bookshelves. Originally from Portland, Oregon, Henderson trained in New York City, where she was working as a prop stylist when she won Season 5 of HGTV Design Star. From there, she moved to Los Angeles and went on to host Secrets from a Stylist. In addition to her work as a designer, she currently writes the blog Style by Emily Henderson and is the Home Spokesperson for Target.
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Design Activism
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Over the last decade, the rules of design have slowly changed. Today, the traditional rules of interior design may no longer apply: leaving design to be an open book of personal preference and personality. Designer and educator, Ramsin Khachi of Khachi Design Group, joins us on the main stage at IDS Vancouver to lend his expertise on applying design sensibility, how varying lifestyles dictate our surroundings and how trends are not always as important as we think they are.
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Kate Bingaman-Burt, Design Week Portland | Portland Mark Busse, HCMA Architecture + Design, Creative Mornings | Vancouver
Design Rebels Piers Cunnington Measured | Vancouver
Andee Hess, Osmose | Portland
Kevin Cavenaugh, Guerilla Development | Portland
Amber Kingsnorth MāK Interiors | Vancouver
Jennifer Cutbill, Vancouver Design Week | Vancouver
Carey Melnichuk Secret Location | Vancouver Neil Patel, Kabuni | Vancouver
How can design be brought out of the abstract, and into the forefront of our city’s and community’s priorities? Through the lens of design, four maverick Pacific Northwesterners—from a “guerilla” Portland developer who’s turning his industry on its head and creating a new model for affordable housing, to Vancouverites working to put design at the forefront of the city’s momentum—discuss their inspiring ideas and innovative approaches, and rally us to take action and make a difference on both a local and global scale. Come find out how you can be part of it.
Pacific Northwesterners aren’t known for their outspoken speech or brazen manner, but when it comes to design, we’ve got the volume on high. We’ve gathered some of the region’s most inspirational rebels to get a glimpse into how they got to their current positions, what they’re working on next, and why they decided to step away from the expected and lead a charge toward change.
Heather Ross { natural eclectic } Vancouver Design often addresses what, and how, but when we connect to why and where, the how and what becomes more meaningful, authentic and endruing. Through evocative writing and stunning photos in her book The Natural Eclectic, artist, photographer and stylist Heather Ross explores a design aesthetic inspired by nature. Heather will expand on this theme, with a philosophical discussion on why are we drawn to beauty? Why do we prefer certain colours, textures and forms in art and design? In addition to why, she will explore where we draw our inspiration and materials from, with the premise that nature is our greatest teacher.
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Barbara Barry Barbara Barry | Los Angeles In conversation with
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The Karl Lohnes Daily | Toronto Award-winning designer Barbara Barry is internationally known for her streamlined interiors and elegant home furnishings. Her look speaks to quiet luxury, comfort and ease—supporting her design philosophy that living simply and with quality is the highest form of luxury. Her celebrated vision of beauty finds expression through partnerships with internationally renowned companies, including Baker Furniture, Hickory Business Furniture, Henredon, Kallista Plumbing, Kravet Fabrics, Visual Comfort Lighting, Global Views and others, as well as her own line of signature bedding. Barbara Barry’s first book, Around Beauty (Rizzoli New York), debuted in October 2012.
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Location Vancouver Convention Centre West Room 116 Date/Time Saturday, Sept. 24 10am 11:30am 2:30pm Tickets $50/$60 Wifi access while at your session and complimentary admission to IDS Vancouver on Saturday or Sunday is included with your purchase of a session. Justina Blakeney
Focusing on design, the online world and the blogging community, the one-day Social Sessions will inspire, connect and create dialogue for the West Coast online community and beyond. Three seminars are planned for Saturday September 24th in conjunction with IDS Vancouver 2016. The first session is with Apartment Therapy Executive Editor Janel Laban followed by keynote presentation #GOALS by Justina Blakeney. The Jungalow.com creator will guide you through how to grow your brand through clarity, creativity and community. The final session of the day, Embracing Video for Your Brand, includes expert advice from Erin Cebula, Treana Peake and Brian Ceci. Carefully curated by Poppytalk, all sessions have been submitted for both AIBC and IDC accreditation.
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SHOW FEATURES
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Show Features Presented by
New for 2016, Clay & Glaze is a curated installation that features contemporary work by an invited group of regional and international ceramicists. From faces (and other body parts) on canisters to crumpled vessels to architectural, hard edges, Clay & Glaze will highlight contemporary ceramics at its best.
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Studio North is the marketplace to showcase custom work and limited edition collections to the design industry, media and a discerning design audience. Canadian and international designers of the highest calibre present one-off and custom collections of furniture, lighting, glass, ceramics, textiles and surface design.
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IDS Vancouver is once again pleased to present Prototype, a showcase of North America’s next generation of designers. With new ideas for the residential market, this twice-juried platform features products that are not currently in production. The group of participants features professional designers and students who will be presenting both to-market and conceptual works. You don’t want to miss this curated selection of innovative designs by our next generation of designers.
The Open Studio installation will feature the concepts of a selected group of designers based on a singular theme of Colour, with no-VOC and eco-friendly paint provided by Portland-based Colorhouse Paints. With 1,600 square feet of prime exhibition space and eight hand-picked designers and design firms, the Open Studio exhibit is sure to inspire with both functional and conceptual installations. The participating designers include: Heather Ross { natural eclectic } Amanda Hamilton Interior Design Mango Design Co Aloe Designs
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Collect is a unique experience where attendees can view a curated selection of modern and contemporary fine art features. Collect not only provides a platform for local and international artists and galleries; it is also the place to network with a diverse group of fellow creatives.
Dinner by Design Dinner by Design is a three-dimensional dining installation produced by The Social Concierge in partnership with IDS Vancouver that brings together local and global designers to create extraordinary dining environments. This highly anticipated feature of IDS Vancouver will present installations from the lavish and romantic to the outrageous and whimsical, seeking to awe, inspire and delight.
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IDS Vancouver once again invites visitors to the popular cash-and-carry neighbourhood, where attendees can take home a piece of good design. The District is the marketplace for designers to show and sell to discerning consumers and industry insiders. The cash and carry neighbourhood features fresh collections of design products for the home. Look for lighting designed by Willow & Stump illuminating The District this year.
The Dutch Exchange: Eindhoven, curated by Design Milk and designed by Vancouverbased Burgers Architecture Inc., is the third installment of the Exchange and will feature a group of designers from Eindhoven, Netherlands who are at the forefront of design. Designers include Steven Banken, Tineke Beunders and Nathan Wierink of Ontwerpduo, Dirk vander Kooij, and Sam van Gurp and Esther Jongsma of VANTOT. Design Milk is an online magazine founded by Jaime Derringer, an expert on design trends who consults and speaks about design, blogging and social media. Ideas and insights by Design Milk have been featured in notable publications including the Los Angeles Times, Time Out New York, and Dwell magazine.
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Burgers Architecture is a team of talented architects, interior designers, intern architects and technologists led by Cedric Burgers. Their approach to design can be summed up as global ideas, local knowledge— meaning that ideas and products come from all parts of the world while the local offers unique opportunities for a distinct expression.
Berge Panossian, of Armenian descent, has been a much sought after designer and metal crafts manufacturer in the Middle East and the Mediterranean. Having recently moved to Canada, this will be his ďŹ rst local exposition, where you will witness the uniqueness of his sculpture metal furniture.
Phone: 778.317.7976 Email: panossianberge@yahoo.com www.berjpanoussian.com
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FIRE Kitchen By Tom Dixon For Caesarstone An unforgettable architectural and culinary experience will be the central feature of IDS Vancouver 2016. Caesarstone has collaborated with international designer Tom Dixon to bring the Fire Kitchen to Vancouver. Originally unveiled at Milan Design Week as part of The Restaurant, the Fire Kitchen has a characteristic basalt look with touches of gold and copper. The Caesarstone colours selected for this kitchen have a dramatic black and dark grey appearance (Vanilla Noir 5100, Raven 4120 and Coastal Grey 6003 models). Dixon has now designed four conceptual kitchens for Caesarstone inspired by the four elements: earth, air, fire and water. Dixon transformed the four elements into formations in space, into the colour of surfaces chosen from the Caesarstone range, and into complementary furniture from collections of his own designs.
Tom Dixon Pop-Up Shop Presented by
Tom Dixon and Inform Interiors have paired up to present the Tom Dixon Pop-Up Shop at IDS Vancouver 2016. The exclusive shop will include a wide range of freshly launched accessories and designs. Bring a piece from one of the exciting Tom Dixon collections on display home with you. Visit the Tom Dixon Pop-Up Shop presented by Inform Interiors on the show floor at booth #917.
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Interior design team Aleem Kassam and Phyllis Lui of Kalu Interiors will lead show visitors down the rabbit hole with their visionary conceptual design of the IDS Vancouver show bar. “We’re taking this opportunity to step beyond everyday design and be whimsical, explore our creativity and take IDS guests on a journey outside the ordinary,” says Kassam. Kassam and Lui blended their close partnership, unique styles and sensibilities for design into their name Kalu (KA-LU), from Kassam-Lui in 2007. They understand the importance of personal style and spaces for both clients and their homes. kaluinteriors.com @kaluinteriors
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1. BULLET BOWLS The Bullet Bowls are spun from solid sheets of either copper or steel and then finished with a powder-coated exterior by Vancouver-based Ben Barber Studio. benbarberstudio.com 2. SHADOWBROOK 3D PRINTED FAUCET The first commercially-available residential faucets created with 3D printing. Masterful designs offer an exclusive, luxury faucet experience and collection from DXV by American Standard. dxv.com
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3. PURELINE M TOUCH CONVECTION OVEN The PureLine M Touch Convection Oven with intuitive touch operation and Moisture Plus technology allows for for perfect results in the kitchen. miele.ca
5. ROSE VESSELS The rose vessels are a series of handblown glass vessels by Manhattan-based design trio Egg Collective. eggcollective.com
4. AXIOS WALL SCONCE Handmade wall sconce in walnut and grey Corian with white cord by Vancouver-based Willow & Stump. willowandstump.ca
6. PRINT COLLECTION The PRINT Collection by Rex Ray for Semihandmade, a Burbank-based company that transforms standard Ikea kitchen cabinets into one-of-a-kind furniture. semihandmadedoors.com
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7. SHIFT RUG This handmade wool and Chinese silk rug is a collaboration between local flooring fashion house Burritt Bros and Montreal-based artist Zoë Pawlak. burrittfloors.com; zoepawlak.com 8. LIMPID LIGHTS The Limpid Lights are constructed of handblown glass shades and LED lighting technology by Eindhoven-based VANTOT. vantot.com
9. 5031 STATUARIO MAXIMUS Statuario Maximus is the newest design from Caesaerstone for their 2016 collection of quartz surfaces. caesarstone.ca
11. LOLLYGAGGER CHAISE The Lollygagger Chaise Lounge Chair by Duluth, MN-based Loll Designs, is intended for extended relaxing—even napping. lolldesigns.com
10. HOOP AND STAVE COFFEE TABLE Floating steel hoops let into a 12-sided stave base hold up a smoked glass top referencing the vintage craft of the cooper by Vancouverbased Hinterland Design. hinterlanddesign.com
12. TTRIS WALL SHELVES The Ttris modular wall shelves, inspired by the 1980s video game Tetris, are designed by Victoria-based Arostegui Studio. arosteguistudio.com
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DESIGN REBELS CELEBRATING
This year at IDS, GRAY pays homage to the Design Rebels, those who embody the spirit of rebelliousness that unites the innovators, forward-thinkers, and courageous risk-takers of the design industry. From its programming to the design of its stage to offsite events— GRAY celebrates, embraces, and encourages the DESIGN REBEL.
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BRINGING IT HOME
Legendary New York City–based architect and iconoclast Steven Holl pays tribute to the Northwest, the place where his obsession with light and space first took hold. Written by JAIME GILLIN : Portrait by ZACH GROSS
“ALTHOUGH I TRAVEL THE WORLD AND HAVE OFFICES IN NEW YORK, BEIJING, AND SAN FRANCISCO, THE NORTHWEST IS DEEPLY INGRAINED IN MY BEING,”
says architect Steven Holl, who grew up in the small waterfront towns of Bremerton and Manchester, Washington. As a boy, long before he became one of the world’s most celebrated architects, he built model cities and ambitious clubhouses in his backyard. When he played on the beach in the winter, he noticed how the low-angled sun “glanced off Puget Sound to create a dappled effect.” These formative experiences gave him “a certain deep emotional connection to the changing seasons and the light of the sky”—a connection that continues to influence every building he designs. Today he and his international team of 39 designers shape buildings that break from architectural convention and take thrillingly new forms. His 2007 design for the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art expansion in Kansas City consists of five glowing translucent glass boxes cascading down a grassy lawn; his 2009 Vanke Center is a 1.3-million-square-foot “horizontal skyscraper” hovering over a tropical garden in southern China. Holl’s firm continues to sweep the design field, winning a dizzying array of international competitions and prestigious commissions, including, most recently, an addition to the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and the expansion of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Despite his frenetic schedule—“We’ve got nine things under construction and nine things in design; we’ve never been so busy,” he says—Holl returns to his family’s Manchester cabin several times a year to recharge and reconnect with his roots. In a GRAY exclusive, the Northwest native son opens up his sketchbooks and family photo albums to trace his architectural origin stories.
COURTESY STEVEN HOLL ARCHITECTS
I GREW UP ON THE BEACH IN YUKON HARBOR, WASHINGTON, BETWEEN BLAKE ISLAND AND MANCHESTER—which is a one-horse town where you can see the Space Needle and Seattle skyline across the bay. My brother and I fished for salmon and caught our limit every day, so much that we used to feed it to the dogs. My dad had a big garden. We had a life that was very anchored to the earth. I respect the idea that where you’re born—especially if it’s by a large body of water facing the sunrise—shapes the rhythm of your life and your connection to the cosmos. The sense of open space, the freedom and freshness, that I felt as a child at the edge of beautiful Puget Sound has gotten into almost all my work. It drives my constant effort to engage water in my designs.
The atmosphere of iconoclastic thinking in my family circle definitely influenced me early on. My godfather, William Vanderbilt, gave me books of Rilke poetry as soon as I’d learned to read. And my mom was really tough and single-minded—she didn’t take any bull from anybody. When she was pregnant with me, she was working for the ferry; she’d run 3,000 feet from our house down the boardwalk to take tickets and load cars onto the boat to Seattle. She went back to work two months after I was born. And later she was the head of tool control at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and had 40 people working under her. She was very rebellious, especially for a woman of the ’50s. She had her own checking account, and she would say, “We’re gonna do this, we’re gonna do that, and I’m paying for it.” She was the boss. »
OPPOSITE: Steven Holl in his New York office with a model of his firm’s forthcoming ChinPaoSan Necropolis in Taiwan. FROM LEFT: Holl (left), his brother Jim, and their dog Dutches in Bremerton, Washington, where Holl lived from ages 4 to 17. In 1974, the year Holl became a registered architect, he designed and built a house in Manchester for his parents, Helen and Myron (pictured). It’s still in the family, but rented to tenants.
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We had a big backyard at our house in Bremerton, and when I was six or seven years old, my brother Jim and I would spend hours “playing property.” We made hillside roads and model cities and a two-story tree house. Once we even built a clubhouse underground that we covered with logs and old carpets. Many years later, when I was teaching architecture at Columbia University, I made a diagram for the students. I told them there are only four types of architecture: under the ground, in the ground, on the ground, and over the ground. And that’s still part of how they teach architecture at Columbia. “Under, in, on, over”— it’s a basic first-year point. It sounds a bit far-fetched, but that idea started in the backyard when I was seven. I always knew I wanted to be an architect. I loved to draw; I loved mathematics. When I was nine, my aunt had an architect draw up a modern house for her in Tacoma, and we went to visit. That was a bit of an influence. And a few years later, my mom took us to the 1962 World’s Fair in Seattle. We went to the top of the Space Needle, which was really impressive. You could see the whole fair from there, the monorail, the buildings they made; all that modern architecture was so optimistic. Something about those interesting experimental forms was really exciting to me. My only doubts about architecture came when some of my architecture professors at the University of Washington were so stupid that I thought about switching my major to art. But I had a great teacher, Hermann Pundt, who told me, “Steven, you must apply to the Rome studies program.” He sent me a quote by Goethe that changed my life: “Rome is a city where one could spend a lifetime in Pythagorean silence and still not know it.” I thought, Wow, I gotta go. I arrived in Rome as a college sophomore in 1970, very naïve and young and Pacific Northwestern. There’s something wrong with the Northwest. There’s a complacency you get—like, “This is the most beautiful place on earth.” Well, no, there are many places that are more interesting. But you don’t know that until you get out of there.
I was in Rome for 10 months studying under Astra Zarina, the first woman to win the Rome Prize. She was a professor at the University of Washington, she had a studio in Rome, and she spoke eight languages—an amazing woman. She told us that in order to be a great architect, the first thing you need to learn is how to cook. Color, texture, taste, smell, presentation; these things are all culturally connected to architecture. My Roman studies began with her handing me a big wooden bowl and spoon, green Italian olive oil, egg whites, and salt, and she made me stir it until it became mayonnaise. I still teach at Columbia, and I teach students that thinking for yourself is the most important thing—and I mean thinking deeply, not in a superficial or reactionary way. There’s too much of that happening in design nowadays: a shallowness that’s promoted by Internet-speak and the Instagrammic method in which you see a plethora of images without depth. You type in a building and you get 100 images, yet they don’t even tell you who did it or where it is. This is the opposite of deep thinking. The upcoming generation needs to discipline themselves to not just surf and taste. Pundt said something very clearly: it’s more important to go into a building than to look at it. Not many buildings stand up to that [test] today. Some don’t have anything going on inside—they’re all about some Instagram image taken from the outside. I’m very proud that my buildings don’t date, because they’re not stylistic. If you start designing with a stylistic or superficial trend, you’ll create something that gets very dated very fast. The Knut Hamsun Center in Norway, which I realized in 2009, was actually designed in 1994. It was put on hold for political reasons but then it opened, and I never changed a stick of the design. And it’s a building that looks good today. Its design was not about style. It was about that specific writer, that culture, that climate, that Norwegian landscape and its history. You have to think for a long time to do good architecture. We need more thinking all around in design. »
Holl paints with watercolors every morning. Below, a sketch of his acclaimed 1997 Chapel of St. Ignatius at Seattle University (left) reveals a design he calls “seven bottles of light in a stone box.”
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A new landmark on the East River in Queens, New York, the 22,000-square-foot Hunters Point Community Library is set to open in spring 2017. The concrete exterior is coated in aluminum paint that sparkles subtly, and the irregularly shaped cutouts offer visitors glimpses of the Manhattan skyline across the water as they traverse the building’s bookshelf-flanked stairs.
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Holl intentionally veers away from a signature look in his firm’s work. “You avoid sameness by looking at the specific circumstances—the site, the climate, the culture, the people, the adjacencies of every project—and then finding a poetic thought to hold the whole—plans, section, and everything else—together,” he says. His firm’s idea-driven, highly site-specific work includes the new Visual Arts Building for the University of Iowa, which opened in 2016 (above); 2012’s Sliced Porosity Block in Chengdu, China (below); and the hyper-modern Reid Building, a 2014 addition to the Charles Rennie Mackintosh–designed Glasgow School of Art (opposite). »
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“SPACE CAN BE EMOTIVE— THAT’S ONE OF THE GREAT THINGS ABOUT ARCHITECTURE. I ALWAYS SAY THAT A ROOM CAN BE LIKE A REVERIE, A DREAM. A BUILDING CAN BE A VESSEL FOR MEMORIES, A PLACE THAT CAPTURES YOUR EMOTIONS— IT CAN BE MUCH MORE THAN JUST A ROOF OVER YOUR HEAD.” —STEVEN HOLL, ARCHITECT
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“The light is pronounced and very special in northern conditions,” says Holl, whose 1994 design for Norway’s Knut Hamsun Center, a museum dedicated to the author and Nobel Prize winner, was finally realized in 2009. The black-stained wood exterior recalls vernacular Norse churches, and the grassy roof garden puts a modern spin on traditional Norwegian sod roofs. Holl is proud that even after a 15-year delay, the completed building looks contemporary and fresh. »
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When completed in 2018, the ChinPaoSan Necropolis in Taiwan will contain a hotel, restaurant, ceremonial chapel, auditorium, two small museums, a 5,000-seat amphitheater, and a pavilion for 150,000 ashbox sites. The building’s form, consisting of intersecting spheres embedded in a rectangular plan, derived from a watercolor Holl sketched of intersecting circles in 2013. Its eye-catching exterior gives way to meditative and well-functioning internal spaces, with light filtering in through openings in the spheres. As with all of his firm’s buildings, “the inside of the building is more important than the outside,” Holl says—a lesson internalized long ago from his University of Washington professor Hermann Pundt. h
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Scott & Scott Architects Vancouver scottandscott.ca
48. HOSPITALITY Nightingale Vancouver hawknightingale.com
Zoë Mowat Montreal zoemowat.com
Johan Portland shopjohan.com
34. OPENINGS Branch 01 Bowen Island, B.C. gamla.ca
Studio Munge Toronto, ON studiomunge.com
85. FEATURE Suyama Peterson Deguchi Seattle suyamapetersondeguchi.com
55. INTERIORS Albert Lee Appliance albertleeappliance.com
Crocker Construction Company Seattle (206) 932-1968
Laurs Kemp Portland laurskemp.com 28. HAPPENINGS 400 Fairview Seattle 400fairview.com Anchorage Museum Anchorage anchoragemuseum.org Andy Paiko Portland andypaikoglass.com Design Lectures Seattle designlectur.es Dinner by Design Vancouver dinnerxdesign.com Front of House Portland frontofhousegallery.com
38. HOSPITALITY Huxley Wallace Collective Seattle huxleywallace.com Jensen/Fey Architecture and Planning Seattle jensenfey.com Meyer Wells Seattle meyerwells.com Olson Kundig Seattle olsonkundig.com Studio Munge Toronto, ON studiomunge.com Thompson Seattle Seattle thompsonhotels.com
Best Buy bestbuy.com Bosch bosch.com Electric Coffin Seattle electriccoffin.com Heart Mountain Joinery Seattle (206) 375-8826 Ikea ikea.com
GroundLink Systems North Vancouver, B.C. groundlink.ca
Pindler pindler.com
Spark Electrical Whistler, B.C. sparkelectrical.com
Guerrilla Development Portland guerrilladev.co
Serena & Lily serenaandlily.com
Museum of Anthropology Vancouver moa.ubc.ca
Yoskay Yamamoto Los Angeles yoskay.com
68. FASHION Même Seattle memekidswear.com
Suquet Interiors Vancouver suquetinteriors.com 32. OPENINGS Brief Studio Vancouver brief-studio.com Mister Vancouver madebymister.com
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Dürfeld Constructors Whistler, B.C. durfeldlogconstruction.com
Room & Board Seattle roomandboard.com
Mike Rathbun Portland mikerathbun.com
SkB Architects Seattle skbarchitects.com
Brian Hood Lighting Design Seattle brianhoodlightingdesign.com
Fast + Epp Vancouver fastepp.com
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44. TRAVEL Dawson Design Associates Seattle and London dawsondesignassociates.com
Bohlin Cywinski Jackson Seattle bcj.com
62. INTERIORS Max Humphrey Portland maxhumphrey.com
IDS Vancouver Vancouver idswest.com
Seattle Design Festival Seattle designinpublic.org
92. FEATURE Alka Pool Burnaby, B.C. alkapool.com
74. CONTEXT Gabriel Tan Studio Singapore and New York gabriel-tan.com Hancock Shaker Village Pittsfield, MA hancockshakervillage.org Norm Architects Copenhagen, Denmark normcph.com Shaker Museum Mount Lebanon New Lebanon, NY shakerml.org Studio Gorm Eugene, OR studiogorm.com
Wide Open Welding Mount Currie, B.C. wideopenwelding.com 104. FEATURE Artifex 10 Denver, CO artifex10.com Design Within Reach Portland and Seattle dwr.com Diamond Spas diamondspas.com Esque Studio Portland esque-studio.com Faber faberonline.com Mountain Design Group Evergreen, CO mountaindesigngroup.com
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10. David Robinson Vancouver robinsonstudio.com
11. Ligne Roset Seattle ligne-roset-usa.com And available through: Livingspace Vancouver livingspace.com
Fruitsuper Design Seattle fruitsuperdesign.com
37. Design Lecture Series Seattle designlectur.es
51. Lundgren Enterprises Seattle lundgrenenterprises.com
Muji muji.com
73. Design Within Reach Seattle and Portland dwr.com
79. Madera Furniture Company Tacoma, WA maderafurnitureco.com
Sarah Loertscher Seattle sarahloertscher.com
8. Chown Hardware Portland and Bellevue, WA chown.com
33. Distinct Interiors Vancouver distinctinteriors.net 20. Dovetail General Contractors Seattle dovetailgc.com 75. EWF Modern Portland ewfmodern.com 163. The Fixture Gallery Multiple locations thefixturegallery.com 83. Henry Art Gallery Seattle henryart.org 2. Hive Portland hivemodern.com
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39. Royal Building Products expressionofwow.com 18. Savvy Cabinetry by Design Seattle savvycd.com 25. Schuchart/Dow Seattle schuchartdow.com 36. Seattle Design Festival Seattle designinpublic.org 26. Secret Location Vancouver secretlocation.ca 29. The Shade Store Seattle and Portland theshadestore.com 147. Steven Pollock Vancouver woodstonedesign.ca 61. Sub-Zero and Wolf Available through: Bradlee Distributors Seattle subzero.com/seattle 71. Sun Valley Bronze sunvalleybronze.com 35. Tufenkian Portland tufenkianportland.com 164. Urban Hardwoods Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles urbanhardwoods.com 17. Van Gogh Designs Surrey, B.C. and Mississauga, ON vangoghdesigns.com 37. Vancouver Design Week vancouverdesignwk.com 77. ZINC Art + Object Edmonds, WA ZINC contemporary Seattle zincartobject.com
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ZINC Art + Object / ZINC contemporary ZINC Art + Object: Modern furniture, contemporary art, and curated gifts. Located in the waterfront town of Edmonds, just 15 minutes from Seattle. NEW! ZINC contemporary gallery, located in Seattle’s Pioneer Square. Join us August 4th from 5–9 pm for a reception celebrating our inaugural exhibition, VERGE. ZINC Art + Object, 3rd & Main, Edmonds, WA ZINC contemporary, 119 Prefontaine Pl. S., Pioneer Square, Seattle, WA Visit ZINCArtObject.com for hours, shopping, and event schedule.
Stillwater Dwellings Rooted in contemporary Pacific Northwest design, Stillwater Dwellings’ homes are built using a systems-based sustainable construction method that provides design flexibility and cost predictability. The Stillwater team is with you every step of the way, from determining building site feasibility to personalizing finish options. Start with one of over 20 floor plans available, or have us design a custom home just for you. 3950 6th Avenue N.W., Seattle, WA 98107 | (206) 547-0565 stillwaterdwellings.com
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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP RIGHT:
Croc Pile by Karl Zahn for Areaware, 2012; Penguins by MUJI, 2013; Wood Tangram Set by Sarah Loertscher, 2014; Der Baumeister by Franz-Joseph Holler, 1983, reissued 1992; TotemBlocks, 1973; Stackable Gnomes by Fruitsuper Design, 2013.
WHO:
sallyann corn and joseph kent Founders, Fruitsuper Design
OBSESSION: Wooden stacking toys SINCE WHEN: 2011 “Over the years, without even realizing it, we started to collect wooden toy sets— especially sets focused on stacking and modularity that really encourage play, whimsy, construction, and flexibility and create a sense of nostalgia. These sets have become integral to our design process—we reference them often and play with them always. One of our favorite Charles and Ray Eames quotes is ‘Toys are not really as innocent as they look. Toys and games are the preludes to serious ideas.’”—Sallyann Corn h
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