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Color stories
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Color human relationship
Interview
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PEOPLE Elizabeth Lowrey
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Experiencing the future
PEOPLE Koichi Takada
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Drawing inspiration from natural life
PEOPLE Baranowitz + Kronenberg
128 B+K, the anthropologists of design
WONDER
16 Jevnaker, norway | The Twist BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group
18 Schnals Valley Glacier, Italy | Ötzi Peak 3251m
Viewing platform | noa* network of architecture
20 Lockeford, United States | The Line | REgroup 72 Bangkok, Thailand | Wonjin Aesthetic
Projects review Solaz Los Cabos Hotel
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Sofitel Rome Villa Borghese
Surgery Gallery Clinic | A U N Design Studio
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Sentimental spirit
74 Beverly Hills | Gardenhouse | MAD Architects
Karl Lagerfeld headquarters
76 Ukraine | Undeground House Plan B
Sergey Makhno Architects
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122 Florence, italy | Palazzo Strozzi Courtyard
Installation | Tomàs Saraceno
124 Chongqing, China | Forest for Rest spa Leaping Creative
Amsterdam Style is a list of limiting factors
Conemoting Market Shenzhen
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Emotional market
K11 ARTUS Hong Kong
126 Diagonal Dwelling | Nyde
60 Double dream
184 Xi’an, China | Sunac • Grand Milestone
Modern Art Center | CCD/Cheng Chung Design
186 Beijing, China | Beijing Zhongshuge Lafayette store | X+Living
188 Ravenna, italy | Rosetti Superyachts Shipyard Hydro Tec
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Equinox Hotel New York High-performance lifestyle
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Ensue Shenzhen Imperfection? A constant force of evolution
Arte Miami
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The light shines in
The Prestige Hotel
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George Town, Malaysia Sleight of hand and Victorian mémoires
Maximilian Hotel
102 A contemporary (and playful) touch in Prague
Sinan Books Poetry Store Shanghai
106 Metaphysical harmonies
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116 The discreet charm of good manners
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134 A tribute to Art Deco 142 Socializing Convenience 148 The metamorphosis of spaces 152 Rediscovered splendor 158 The Stratford: the Danish touch in London
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164 The engaging complications of a living museum
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EDITORIAL
Projects unmasked PAOLO BLEVE | Editor-in-chief
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n the annus horribilis of Covid-19, the world of design has not stood still. Designers and developers have spent their respective lockdowns by continuing to draw, refine and construct, in spite of the inevitable limitations. Like an undercurrent, the machine of architecture and interior design has never interrupted its creative process. But their projects have naturally, inevitably experienced delays. The world of projects presented in this tenth edition of the Wonder Book bears witness to increasingly sophisticated research on forms, and to courageous architecture that now proposes veritable monuments inserted in the landscape, to generate breathtaking skylines. Not just in terms of the height of buildings: the three premium projects in this edition – Armani Residences, Solaz Los Cabos and The Prestige – are very different from one another, but they share characteristics of careful insertion in their respective territories, with the ability to generate thrilling landscapes. This Wonder Book presents a harmonious zigzag voyage through sites and interiors at all latitudes, in which the theory of attraction of opposites seems to apply: from the innovative Ace Hotel in Kyoto to the HQ of Karl Lagerfeld, by way of the prize-winning – and captivating – Casa Bures, the most remarkable co-working project of 2020.
Asia Pacific, as usual, is the area that makes this edition memorable: the visionaries of Wutopia Lab with their Sinan Books Poetry Store, the example of holism and socializing Made in Japan presented by Yoshitaka Nojiri and Mount Fuji Architects with the Trunk Hotel in Tokyo. West meets East sums up the approach that André Fu has applied in the K11 Artus in Hong Kong, while the wabi-sabi philosophy is explained through the Ensue restaurant in Shenzhen. Three voices have been called in to express themselves in this edition, three designers with ‘stateless’ careers that have led them to make many trips around the world: Liz Lowrey of Elkus Manfredi, Alon Baranowitz and Irene Kronenberg, Koichi Takada. Three visions of architecture and interior design, stemming from studies, travels and passions. Happy viewing!
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WONDER. JEVNAKER, NORWAY | THE TWIST | BIG-BJARKE INGELS GROUP Set within the existing museum and sculpture park Kistefos complex on a woodland estate, the 1,000 square metre building takes a sculptural form, as a “inhabitable bridge”, twisting at the midway point as it
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Š Benjamin Ward
crosses the Randselva river to connect the north and south sides. The Twist, commissioned by businessman and art collector Christen Sveaas will host an international programme of contemporary art exhibitions.
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WONDER. SCHNALS VALLEY GLACIER, ITALY | ÖTZI PEAK 3251M VIEWING PLATFORM | NOA* NETWORK OF ARCHITECTURE
© Alex Filz
At the top of the Schnals Valley Glacier ridge Italy’s alpine landscape soars high above the reservoir and Austria is around the corner, a viewing platform was built as a detached, almost floating structure.
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WONDER. LOCKEFORD, UNITED STATES | THE LINE | REGROUP
© Tim Griffith Photographer
Designed for small events, the temporary structure in the rural area “has a strong presence while removing all unnecessary components; it is essentially a 75’ long piece of precision woodworking”
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Color human relationship Neuro-aesthetics and collaborative intelligence are the trends that influence the 2021 colors. We keep on the Color Stories tale with Judith van Vliet
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COLOR STORIES
Trend
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he global health emergency has shuffled the deck, to some extent, but the forecasts of ColorForward™ 2021 remain essentially the same, perhaps even more timely and pertinent than before. Each year, the international experts of the ColorWorks™ design & technology centers analyze social and color trends for the year to come; their color predictions result from intensive research and careful identification of innovations and changes in a wide range of sectors of society that influence the way consumers respond color. The correlation between these emerging trends (reduced to four macro-themes, or Stories) and precise chromatic palettes (five per Story, 20 in all), through an extraordinarily empirical procedure, lays the groundwork for ColorForward™ or the ‘color forecasting guide’: a narrative in ‘colors’ where each chapter offers a look at a different trend. While for 2021 the experts of ColorWorks™ (who work in design centers located in Sao Paulo, Chicago, Merate and Singapore) initially focused on the central role of human beings, their relationships and emotions (aptly represented by generally warm, intense tones), to create a link connecting the four Stories, the events of 2020 are bearing out their intuitions. Dumb numb and C-True – namely the first two Stories of ColorForward™ 2021, narrated in the spring-summer edition of this column – address, in one case, the extensive dependency on screens and digital devices that makes human relationships into a privileged action; in the other, the research examines the distrust of the society regarding information and brands, and hence a growing demand for authenticity and transparency. In chromatic terms, the first has been translated into a bright pink, a discreet gold, an orange, a delicate powder hue and a gray; the second suggests a dark blue, a blanched orange, a fake gold yellow, a lime green and a brighter blue. The voyage now continues in this second step, with the two conclusive Stories, Sense appeal and Ubuntu, where the themes of neuro-aesthetics and collaborative intelligence again put the accent on human beings and their relational universe – with respect to both things and persons. Themes that are more essential than ever today. Our constant guide in this chromatic experience is Judith van Vliet, Senior Designer and team leader of ColorWorks™ EMEA.
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EXPERIENCING THE FUTURE The creative flair of the interior architecture of Elizabeth Lowrey, principal of Elkus Manfredi Architects
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he innovative creativity of Elizabeth Lowrey reinvents experience design through an aesthetic driven by various artistic expressions: from fashion to theater, art to architecture. An eclectic vision that reimagines the staging of hotels, retail venues, offices, universities and residential buildings for a high-end clientele: Citizens Bank, Walt Disney Imagineering, Boston Consulting Group, New Balance, Equinox.... from custom furniture Made in Italy to an exquisite idea of beauty. Indicated by the magazine Interior Design as one of the “20 inspiring women who make up the new face of the design industry,” and by Boston Magazine as a “designer of the future,” a member of Auburn University’s Interior Architecture Advisory Council, board member of the Design Museum Foundation and Vice Chair of the Young Collectors Night at Park Avenue Armory, Elizabeth Lowrey has been fascinated since childhood by the various expressions of creativity, growing up in a family of artists. She fills every interior design project with this imaginative insight, finding inspiration in her many passions: travel, film, art, fashion, architecture, theater. Eclectic styles narrated in innovative residential buildings, including Ink Block in Boston, or in hospitality facilities like the White Elephant Palm Beach, in that exclusive location in Florida (opening November 4, 2020), featuring an original art collection curated by Lowrey herself. The artists? Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, Jennifer Bartlett, Ghada Amer. A design poetics that narrates the universe of the sublime.
author: Anna Casotti portrait photo: Trevor Reid projects photo: Robert Benson (Booth Theatre + Draper Headquarters) Andrew Bordwin (Charles River Associates) Eric Laignel (Siena at Ink Block) Evan Joseph (Lantera at Boston Landing) courtesy of Elkus Manfredi
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Elizabeth Lowrey
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When did your passion for design start? I grew up in a family of artists and designers. I was lucky – I knew by the age of six that I wanted to be an architect. I shifted to interior architecture in college when I realized that interior architecture was more involved with the actual end user. I like to design from the inside out, to start with the smallest detail and expand to the urban scale. I’m passionate about working with clients to create a space that enhances their lives and the lives of those who use the spaces we design. How did your career at Elkus Manfredi begin and what fascinated you most about the group? It began with a call from architect Howard Elkus (co-founder of Elkus Manfredi Architects) on a Sunday morning in early summer 1988, inviting me to come interview. It was supposed to be an hour meeting but it evolved into the entire day. The following day, I met with architect David Manfredi, who co-founded Elkus Manfredi Architects with Howard. The day after I turned in my resignation at the firm where I was working and became the first employee at Elkus Manfredi Architects. Howard and David were looking to establish what we now call the “three-legged stool” – as architects and urban planners, they wanted to add interior architecture in order to offer total solutions to their clients. That concept was very attractive to me, especially in the ‘80s, when interior design was considered by some as just decoration. At that time, Howard and David were pioneers in the US to value interior architecture as an equal partner – to see it as an integral piece of the architectural whole, the creation of space around people and programs and communities. How is work organized at Elkus Manfredi? Elkus Manfredi Architects is a full-service design firm of 270 people. We provide architecture, interior architecture, master planning, and urban design, and we’re recognized for our work in hospitality, life sciences, workplace, higher education, multi-unit residential, and retail/entertainment design. Since the first day and continuing today, we all work from
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a single location in Boston, Massachusetts, which allows us to bring together the best people across disciplines in a highly creative, collaborative environment. Rather than being siloed into separate departments for different specialties, we are organized around our clients’ work. Each project team is made up of designers who bring experience on an array of project types in different industries, which brings diverse points of view to the table. We know that this cross-pollination makes us more inventive and innovative problem-solvers and keeps our work fresh. For example, blending aspects of hospitality and residential design into our workplace projects brings all sorts of good ideas to the mix, ideas that truly enhance the productivity and innovation that can happen in those workspaces. How is Made in Italy an integral part of your interiors work? Which are your reference Italian design companies? Almost all of our interiors projects include Italian furniture, simply because the Italians lead the way in industrial design and furniture design in terms of sophistication and quality. We work with lots of Italian manufacturers. B&B Italia, Giorgetti, Poltrona Frau, Flexform, Minotti, Zanotta, Glas Italia, and Gallotti & Radice are some that come immediately to mind, but there are many more – every year we discover new companies to work with. Some of our recent workplace projects featuring Italian furniture include the offices we’ve designed for Charles River Associates, the headquarters office of Draper, law firms Mintz and Foley Hoag, and AEW. In the last few years we’ve completed multi-unit residential buildings at Meriel Marina Bay, VIA, and Lantera, plus six multi-unit residential buildings at Ink Block, all of which include Italian furnishings. And we’re just completing White Elephant Palm Beach, a reimagined historic landmark hotel in Palm Beach scheduled to open this November. We attend Salone del Mobile with a team of designers each year. As a firm, we invest in that trip because Salone is so influential, so consolidated, and so immediate. IFDM | 27
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San José del Cabo, Mexico
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Landscape: from cliché to relaxed progression in time The relational perspective forms the basis of the project by Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos for the Solaz Los Cabos Hotel in San José del Cabo. A facility of big numbers with views of the sea and reflecting pools, restaurants, a fitness center, a spa, a beach club and native plants that are doubled to reinforce the concept of interaction with nature
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hite expanses of luminescent sand, meeting the crystal clear waters of a sea – that of Cortez – narrated by John Steinbeck in his Log. The robust beauty of the desert, beneath technicolor skies, like timelapse images of clouds in motion. Los Cabos, a cult location for whale watchers and sports fishermen at the extremity of Baja California in Mexico, needs no introduction. Its immediately perceptible charm is well known. What is lacking here, however, is care devoted to the wild spirit, which has had to gradually succumb to tourism, and the tendency to build things that are not always consistent with the relational logic of the parts and the whole. What sets Solaz Los Cabos Hotel apart, in the field of resorts justified by an evolved definition of luxury, is architecture that provides visual evidence of an effort to recognize and respect the natural topography of the site. IFDM | 35