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ON THE COVER This is one of five patinated cast-bronze bells in Reverberation, sculptor Davina Semo’s installation along Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 1, curated by Daniel S. Palmer of the Public Art Fund. Up through April 18, 2021, visitors can ring the bells by the regularly sanitized, galvanizedsteel chains, “providing,” Palmer says, “an opportunity to raise our voices and unite with each other.” Photography: Nicholas Knight/courtesy of the Public Art Fund, NY, Davina Semo, and Jessica Silverman, San Francisco.

features 116 REFLECTION POINT

by Laura Fisher Kaiser

LSM’s Hudson Yards headquarters for Milbank mirrors the law firm’s ethos of inclusivity and connection.

126 BACK TO THE BEACH

by Nicholas Tamarin

Morris Adjmi Architects and Curious Yellow Design’s Rockaway Hotel captures the laid-back essence of the Queens shoreline.

134 THE HQ OF HIP-HOP

by Edie Cohen

Jay-Z taps Jeffrey Beers for the musician’s Roc Nation offices in Chelsea.

144 A BOVE AND BEYOND

by Annie Block

The annual NYCxDesign Awards drew hundreds of stellar projects from every borough, further proof that Gotham is far from over.

158 RETURN ENGAGEMENT

by Joseph Giovannini

Gisue and Mojgan Hariri get a call back for an addition to a private equity firm’s Midtown headquarters they designed 15 years ago.

166 ALL AROUND TOWN

by Annie Block

Beeline from Upper Manhattan to lower, then over to Brooklyn via a quartet of apartments, each exhibiting neighborhood character—and Big Apple sophistication.

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by Annie Block

Our special section on the NYC design industry’s efforts to revive the city and beyond.

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by Jennifer Fernandez 73 LET THERE BE LIGHT

by Karine Monié 83 ON TOP OF THE WORLD

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by Wilson Barlow 91 MARKET

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and Colleen Curry 112 CENTERFOLD The Empire Strikes Back

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NYCxDesign’s poster campaign helps to re-energize the city.

206 BOOKS

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Welcome, friends! Welcome, one and all, to the October 2020 issue, entirely dedicated to all things DESIGN in our beloved New York. Now, with that out of the way, and right out of the gate, I have to say I really, really want to hop in a cab, get down to Katz’s, score me a pastrami super-stack, and walk back home. So there! And for good measure, I’ll throw in a double-scoop cone on the way, with some window shopping on Madison Ave...unencumbered, unfettered, and ready to flash my million-buck smile to anyone buying it!

Therein ends my lament, which I freely admit is churlish compared to the countless problems and suffering the world is going through. (Not to mention that walking from East Houston back to 68th Street is something akin to the Long March anyway.) I do, however, miss my city lifestyle, particularly after such a long stay in the gilded suburbs. Separation, for safety’s sake, was my intent, and so far it has worked tickety-boo. Yet that distance is also the insurmountable problem. Aside from the trifle that we humans belong in packs, everything is so expensive and wasteful out here—when time, space, and resources are properly accounted for. Perhaps counterintuitively, cities and towns, even those that are quite modest in size, are actually a lot greener…or would be, if we were sticklers for the here and now. The present notwithstanding, and no match for my irrepressible self, I do believe this pandemic, while a profound tragedy, will also be an all-important factory reset for cities large and small. I have a pretty good window on this. Yes, we have been inundated in the last six months with suburban and country projects, renos and new construction alike. But we have also received a tsunami of on-the-boards work, all for our cities future. And that future, according to our industry, is green, “City Green.” Just consider the projects in this NYC issue as valuable examples: LSM moves an international law firm into an office—in the new Kohn Pederson Fox Associates tower in Hudson Yards—that is not only becoming LEED Gold but also boasts two terraces added during construction. Susan T. Rodriguez built a WFH office on the rooftop of her historic apartment building... with 180-degree views of the Hudson River to boot! And the Rockaways continues to get reinvigorated with a new, casual and oh-so-beach-chic hotel by Morris Adjmi and Curious Yellow Design.

So my dears, chins up, look ahead to the brighter future, and keep on hitting those pedals!

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“Architecture and design are about creating a healthy environment for a healthy community with a healthy government”

Hariri & Hariri Architecture “Return Engagement,” page 158 principal: Gisue Hariri. principal: Mojgan Hariri, AIA. firm site: New York. firm size: Seven architects and designers. current projects: An office in New York; Seaport Square mixed-use development in Boston; Kunming House of Art & Culture in China. honors: Interior Design Best of Year Award; PAAIA Career Achievement Award; Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design American Architecture Award. role model: Teenage Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg for her courage promoting the view that humanity is facing an existential crisis arising from climate change. architects: The Hariris have been promoting “sisterhood” in their profession for 40 years. citizens: They’ve also been activists for the empowerment, equality, and equity of all women in every field. haririandhariri.com

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LSM “Reflection Point,” page 116 founding partner: Debra Lehman-Smith. firm sites: Washington and New York. firm size: 40 architects. current projects: Offices for Bloomberg and Millennium Management in New York; Milbank in London. honors: Interior Design Best of Year Award; IIDA Global Excellence Award; National AIA Honor Award. role model: Architect Mel Hamilton, LehmanSmith’s first boss and a wonderful mentor. beginning: Lehman-Smith started her career at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. milestone: In 1991, she founded LSM, which celebrates its 30th anniversary next year. lsm.com

Curious Yellow Design “Back to the Beach,” page 126 founding partner: Anna Cappelen. partner: Chloe Pollack-Robbins. office site: New York. office size: Three designers. current projects: Residences in New York and Miami. role model: Norman Jaffe for his sculptural beach houses filled with natural materials.

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Jeffrey Beers International “The HQ of Hip-Hop,” page 134 founder, ceo: Jeffrey Beers. firm site: New York. firm size: 60 architects and designers. current projects: 108 Leonard in New York, the Newbury in Boston, and Inspire Entertainment Resort in Incheon, South Korea. honors: NYCxDesign Award honoree; SBID International Awards shortlist. role model: Oscar Niemeyer from whom “I learned to appreciate the fluidity of form.” studio: As an architecture student at RISD, Beers learned, and still does, glassblowing. sea: He’s also an avid fisherman and yachtsman. jeffreybeers.com

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h e a d l i n e rs Morris Adjmi Associates “Back to the Beach,” page 126 principal: Morris Adjmi, FAIA. firm site: New York. firm size: 85 architects and designers. current projects: Front & York condominium in DUMBO; mixed-use parcel develop­ments at the Boston Seaport and the Fourth Ward in Atlanta. honors: SARA New York Award; One Club ADC Award of Merit in Spatial Design; Associated Builders and Contractors Award of Excellence. role model: Pritzker Architecture Prize winner Aldo Rossi for being a mentor who taught how to trust your architectural instincts. caretaker: Adjmi keeps chickens at his farmhouse in Connecticut. collector: He has over 3,000 design books, a favorite being Danny Lyon’s The Destruction of Lower Manhattan for its 1960’s images of a disappearing downtown. ma.com

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standing together Among the challenges presented, the COVID-19 pandemic has been rife with conflicting information. The nation’s fatality figure is flattening, yet the number continues to climb— at 200,000 as this issue went to press. Some states are reporting thousands of new cases daily, while others have had few to none. One state that has been in the latter camp is New York. As of late September, it had the fifth lowest positivity rate, at .9 percent (Texas, by comparison, was at 67.1), even with the city slowly coming back online. The Met, MoMA, and galleries have reopened, The Public Art Fund had been working with sculptor Davina Semo on Reverberation since 2016, with it scheduled to many schools are back in session, and open in Brooklyn Bridge Park last May. It was delayed slightly with the shutdown—and could not be a more fitting installation for the times. Hung from regularly sanitized galvanized-steel chains through April 18, 2021, the five indoor dining is scheduled to resume at 4-foot-long, patinated cast-bronze bells can be rung by park visitors, creating a “collective resonance together.” 25 percent occupancy. Yet, with all that progress, there’s a sizeable lag in NY’s A&D community. According to data gathered from SANDOW sister brand ThinkLab, 57 percent of projects are on hold there, while nationwide, the figure is 33 percent. But if there’s one thing New Yorkers can handle—maybe even thrive on—it’s adversity. We’ve found, from our countless DesignTV segments, Zooms, and emails, that the creatives in our orbit are banding together more than ever, to cure the wounds from the coronavirus as well as systemic racism.

Following is just the tip of the iceberg of what NY design firms and cultural organizations have been doing, often pro bono, to get the city—and the world—back on its feet.

le adership Our special section on the NYC design industry’s efforts to revive the city and beyond edited by Annie Block

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Van Alen Institute and Urban Design Forum project Neighborhoods Now. sites Bedford-Stuyvesant, Jackson Heights, Kingsbridge, Washington Heights, Lower East Side. standout The pro-bono initiative aids with the disproportionate COVID impact on communities of color, along with neighborhoods historically lacking access to resources, through outdoor-dining recommendations and prototypes, by SO-IL, LTL, ARO, Design Advocates, MOS, and nARCHITECTS, and multilingual signage with pandemic protocols,

by Partner & Partners, Pentagram, and Two Twelve.

108 Leonard project New York Art Academy Artist in Residency Program. site TriBeCa.

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AvroKO and Brand Bureau project Roadmap to Recovery. standout Experts in “Hospitable Thinking,” the firms created guidelines with the intent of helping restaurateurs, developers, and others in the sector reimagine what their spaces and strategy could be in the pandemic era, outlining customers’ typical journey through an establishment, making safety top priority, while still ensuring a warm and welcoming experience.

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standout The landmarked New York Life Insurance Company building by McKim, Mead & White turned luxury condominium by Howard L. Zimmerman Architects, Jeffrey Beers International, and SLCE Architects is providing studio space to NYAA students and alumni, such as painter Tabitha Whitley, at no cost.

Gensler project Alone/Together restaurant concept. standout A product of the monthlong Global Design Charrette, its mission to harness firm-wide creativity and showcase solutions that go beyond everyday project work to address community pain points, the two-person module is about bridging citizens and getting them back to dining together, safely distanced.

Rockwell Group project DineOut NYC. sites Harlem, Park Slope, Staten Island, South Bronx, Chinatown, Jackson Heights, Elmhurst. standout What began last spring as a pro-bono, firm-initiated pilot project to provide six restaurants with an innovative modular outdoor-dining kit-of-parts to help jump-start business has expanded to configurations for entire blocks, such as Mott between Mosco and Worth Streets, resulting in the creation of 550 additional alfresco seats.

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Andrew Franz Architect project Washington Community Center. site East Harlem. standout Undergoing a comprehensive revamp at a reduced fee, the 11,000-squarefoot facility will feature more daylight, fresh air, and improved ventilation and HVAC systems; expanded reception and waiting areas for greater social distancing; a robust senior center and youth-services program; and an improved entrance that provides “a gracious and transparent connection to the community.”

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DeMuro Das project Silver Art Projects 2020 Artist Residency Program. site 4 World Trade Center, Financial District. standout Working pro bono, the firm con­ ceived the 28th-floor artist-residency lounge and common spaces, appointing them with seating, storage, and screens of its own design.

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FROM TOP: ANDREW FRANZ ARCHITECT; WATG; DAVID MITCHELL/CREATIVE DIRECTION: COLONY

standout The modular program transforms city streets into spaces for outdoor dining and shopping and for restaurant operators to grow vegetables, herbs, or fruits to serve on their menus using a maintenance-free kit-of-parts created from recyclable materials, a concept that has been recognized by Urban Design Forum and is in development in London.

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Perkins and Will project Phil Freelon Design Competition. standout This year, the annual program called for housing-crisis solutions, challenging participating staffers to imagine unique co-living strategies through the lenses of sustainability and innovation; the winner, selected by a panel of jurors from outside the firm, including Angela Brooks and Michael Maltzan, was Arroyo, a lush adaptive-reuse concept by Vangel Kukov and Hala EL Khorazaty, with Pivot earning a merit.

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DXA Studio project AIA New York Future of Shared Space in NYC challenge. standout The concept, which includes dedicated lanes for deliveries, first responders, construction and city maintenance, electric bus services and trams, shared mobility vehicles, cyclists, and joggers, redefines public and personal space, transportation, access to healthcare, and basic zoning regulations with a goal of providing a cityscape that’s responsive, adaptable, and focused on well-being.

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Clockwise from above: In the dining room, Eoos chairs ring a custom concrete table beneath a Rich Brilliant Willing pendant fixture. White-oak built-ins backdrop an Antonio Citterio sofa and ottoman in the living room. An ebonized-oak screen and Belgian brick define the entry.

The facade combines the same brick with steel-framed windows. GamFratesi stools pull up to the kitchen’s granite-topped island.

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Each of the five boroughs contains a constellation of neighborhoods with their own cultural quirks and pervading personalities. In Cobble Hill, ethnically diverse mom-and-pop shops and traditional brownstones entwine with a boho art scene, yielding an old-school yet forward-thinking Brooklyn vibe. It’s here that Workshop/ APD founding principal Andrew Kotchen was given the opportunity to nestle a unique piece of architecture between two 1900’s town houses, at once putting into relief the district’s dual natures.

“It’s rare to get the chance to run an intelligent design process that isn’t based in historical preservation,” Kotchen says of the ground-up plan he conceived for his client, a married couple with two teenage children. After performing initial zoning studies, he and the WAPD team demolished the existing residence and inserted a modernist glass-and-steel town house, encompassing 7,000 square feet and four bedrooms across six floors. “We didn’t set out to take up every inch of buildable square footage,” Kotchen continues. “The focus was on creating comfortable, livable rooms.” Leveraging ideas from past projects with this client, he has devised, in its “calming simplicity,” an exemplar of the contemporary urban home.

The streamlined program begins with a triple-height entry atrium that references elements from the facade. A screen of ebonized-oak slats rises the full 31 feet and then crosses the ceiling, the orientations nodding to the exterior’s vertical windows and horizontal Belgian bricks, which extend into the entry. Furthermore, the slat color links to the blackened steel framing those windows. It all functions as a sort of decompression chamber, providing a “gradual transition to and reveal of the interiors,” Kotchen notes.

Beyond is the main living level, where the architect constructed volumes that flow and intersect seamlessly for maximum functionality. The kitchen is central, specially designed to support the client’s love of cooking and entertaining. Flanking it are the dining and living rooms, and directly behind its generous island is a clear path to stairs leading down to an expansive terrace and lawn for casual outdoor gatherings.

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durability. Extensive whiteoak built-ins provide storage in the living room and conceal it in the dining room and kitchen. “We approached the structure as a compositional explor­ ation, using restraint to avoid over-embellishing,” Kotchen explains.

It also provided a neutral envelope to backdrop the cadences of daily family life. April Bovet Interior Design was brought on to infuse the home with a sophisticated palette that complements rather than competes with the architecture. “We integrated many of the client’s midcentury modern pieces,” April Bovet says, “but the new furnishings were chosen to act as a counterpoint to the house’s geometry.” In some cases, that meant rounded and soft, as seen in the plump midnight-blue GamFratesi kitchen stools and the living room’s comfy Antonio Citterio sofa upholstered in discreet gray canvas. Others channel the architecture more literally, such as the dining table’s twin concrete slabs, unified by a blackened-steel ribbon.

“A moment of peace is provided through the continuity of the design,” she adds. That continuity continues in the main bedroom suite, which occupies nearly an entire floor, setback 8 feet to allow for a terrace. Kotchen lined

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Clockwise from top left: Slabs of honed Pietra Cardosa surround the main bathroom. Nondirectional brushed stainless steel juxtaposes with the white oak of the kitchen’s custom cabinets. The custom screen spans the entry’s triple height and ceiling, from which antiqued bronze pendants hang down 5 to 18 feet. Carrie Crawford artwork and a bone-china pendant decorate the main bedroom.

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From top: Outside the main bath’s shower are dual sinks and a Tom Dixon vanity stool. Bluestone slabs enclose the penthouse terrace’s hot tub. A vintage Jens Risom cocktail table stands on a Stephanie Odegard rug in the penthouse lounge.

its bathroom in gray Pietra Cardosa, while Bovet upholstered the bed’s headboard in a coordinating charcoal wool.

A flourish of fuchsia tones animates the penthouse lounge, which opens to a glorious terrace with hot tub. Even though it rises above its neighbors, the town house blends with the surroundings, drawing its power as much from its clarity and simplicity as from the panoramic views of historic rooftops and aging church spires. —Jennifer Fernandez

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c i t y living An Allied Maker flush-mount fixture crowns the duplex’s entry, where blackened steel frames a partition of glass panels.

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Architects Sarah Zames and Colin Stief are masterful in combining New York City apartments. In fact, it was one such project, a Brooklyn duplex, that Talia Kasher and James Rasulo spied in the New York Times and led them to hire General Assembly, which Zames founded and where Stief is a partner, to vertically combine a pair of stacked twobedrooms inside an Upper West Side prewar building into a single three-bedroom, threebathroom home for them and their two young sons.

Much of the work centered on creating a crisp neutral shell and a connection between the two separate apartments, the latter done by inserting a subtle staircase in pale white oak.

To further brighten the environment, General Assembly removed as many walls as possible on the top floor, creating a contemporary open-plan living/dining/kitchen area. One end of the living area, however, is fitted with two large pocket doors; on their other side is the office, which, with doors closed, can double as a guest bedroom when necessary.

“In order to take advantage of the natural light, we put the living spaces on the brighter upper floor and the bedrooms downstairs,” Zames explains. “Then,” Stief adds, “we defined those living spaces by contrasting the discreet architecture with strong color accents and textures.” He’s referring to the rectangle of black-and-white tiles flush with the entry’s

Clockwise from left: The living area’s chair by Kristian Sofus Hansen and Tommy Hyldahl stands on a custom rug. Beyond the Wingate Paine photograph, the new white oak staircase connects the stacked former two-bedroom apartments. The dining area’s table and chairs are by Sami Kallio. Simon James stools pull up to the kitchen’s island topped in solid surfacing.

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c i t y living Clockwise from top: The office’s shelving system

by Nisse and Kajsa Strinning incorporates a vintage Jens Risom desk. Marble tile lines the guest bath­ room’s shower. Wallpaper in the main bedroom is

by Rebecca Atwood. A Meyer Davis sconce is above the custom oak vanity in the children’s bathroom.

white oak floor planks, the living area’s blush wool rug, and the dramatic black dining table and chairs by Finnish designer Sami Kallio. Actually, the entire apartment has a streamlined, Scandinavian air.

Striking artwork appears throughout the duplex’s 2,000 square feet. There’s good reason for that. “It’s from three places,” explains Kasher, a native New Yorker whose father is renowned photography dealer Steven L. Kasher, “my dad’s gallery, including photographs by Wingate Paine and Ernest Withers; my mom, Israeli artist Yocheved Weinfeld; and finally my grandmother, Ursula Kalish, who co-owned New York gallery Multiples in the 1960’s.”

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cityliving Architect Susan T. Rodriguez stands on a terrace outside her home studio, which tops her and her husband’s four-bedroom duplex below.

on top of the world firm: susan t. rodriguez site: upper west side

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True aeries are hard to come by. So when architect Susan T. Rodriguez had the chance to build and feather a nest above her existing duplex, which tops a 14-story Rosario Candela building on the Upper West Side, she took it. The 300-square-foot home office is wrapped in floor-to-ceiling windows with views to the Hudson River, providing high-flown inspiration for the sketching, drawing, and thinking she does for the myriad projects her namesake firm, founded in 2017 in Chelsea, after decades as an Ennead founding partner and principal, is working on.

“It’s a little house in the sky,” the architect says of the chic sheshed Rodriguez acquired and started working on 15 years ago and has been improving upon ever since. She and her husband live below; the studio was created when the couple expanded from their duplex penthouse upward, buying the quirky volume above it.

A journey through the now three-story, four-bedroom home begins on what would be the building’s 13th floor and the apartment’s lowest level, with a dramatic floating staircase in the entry. “We cut a hole and dropped in the stair, which came in by crane,” Rodriguez explains. “It’s a foreshadowing of something special to come. The choreography unfolds to give a nice surprise.” Another smaller stair leads to the studio, which had formerly been a one-bedroom penthouse suite.

Outside, the structure had a Gothic-style exterior. Looking for something more modern and utilitarian, the architect clad the facade in gray zinc panels, which, from a distance, read similar to the clapboard siding of the neighboring water towers. Similarly, she installed ipe planks on the deck and furnished it simply with Acapulco chairs. “It’s really crisp and precise, and then these nice casement windows open up to the city and frame the view,” Rodriguez says, adding that for an architect, such a perspective over one of the world’s most captivating built environments helps her see “the order of things.”

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Clockwise from top left: Tools of the trade hang on pegboard. The studio tops a Rosario Candela building from 1924. A wood and steel staircase in the apartment’s entry is the first of two needed to reach the studio. An Isamu Noguchi pendant fixture and side table and Charles and Ray Eames task chairs furnish the 300-square-foot studio. Both the studio and apartment feature terraces.

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Inside, the work area is meant to be “detached from the living space,” Rodriguez notes of the setting, anchored by oak floor planks. “Everything’s white and neutral.” A single pendant globe by Isamu Noguchi hangs from the peaked ceiling. On the walls, straightforward pegboard organizes tools, renderings, and artwork. With no frills except the city itself laid before her, Rodriguez’s imagination can flourish: “It may sound corny, but with a tabula rasa, the studio comes alive with the work.” —Ted Loos FROM FRONT CONTAINER STORE: FILE SYSTEM (STUDIO). AMUNEAL: CUSTOM STAIR (ENTRY). THROUGH NOGUCHI MUSEUM SHOP: PENDANT FIXTURES (DINING AREA, STUDIO). HERMAN MILLER: DESK, TASK CHAIRS (STUDIO). DESIGN WITHIN REACH: CREDENZA. VITRA: LOUNGE CHAIR, OTTOMAN, SIDE TABLE (STUDIO), SIDE TABLE (TERRACE). THROUGH STONE SOURCE: RISERS (STAIR), WINDOWSILLS (STUDIO). INNIT DESIGNS: CHAIRS (TERRACE).

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Clockwise from top left: Zinc panels clad the studio. The second stair, with wood treads and metal risers, leads to the studio. Behind Rodriguez are her renderings and sketches, including for her firm’s Central Park Harlem Meer Recreation project, debuting in 2024. Decking is ipe.

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making waves There’s good reason these patterns seem chic enough to wear. Early gigs for lifelong New Yorker Aimée Wilder included designing apparel for Vans and Gap, which has informed the graphic, runway-ready aesthetic of the wall­ papers, fabrics, and rugs she’s been creating since 2009, when she founded her namesake home-furnishings studio. Now, with Apogee, Wilder is onto yet another medium: floor and wall tiles. Five patterns center on waveforms, from sea to sound, in terrazzo, matte-cement, or ceramic, and five additional tiles are solid or split-color to create variation in layouts. Myriad sizes are available too, including an 8-inch square (Mamba, Wavey), 8-by-16-inch rectangle (Timewave), and 8-by-9-inch hexagon (Moon Phases). aimeewilder.com

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“When you see one of our objects, you’re seeing several invisible hands,” says Nick Ozemba, who runs his Brooklyn studio In Common With alongside co-founder Felicia Hung under the credence that collaboration with skilled artisans is paramount. Take Terra, a six-piece suite of pendant fixtures and lamps inspired by ancient Rome and developed with ceramicist Danny Kaplan. Kaplan throws the

“Working in tandem, we embraced what our materials, together, wanted to become” ceramic shades, imbuing them with the tactile, handcrafted quality for which In Common With is known, yielding the torch-esque Seneca Orb and Augustus Orb, each sculptural form concealing intricate hardware, so the clay and light speak uninterrupted. Both come in white Stone or black Anthracite and equipped with a handmade dimmable glass diffuser. incommonwith.com

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“We tried to capture the tension between the physical and the virtual”

surreal nature “Our physical worlds have gotten smaller, but the digital one has ballooned.” So states Jumbo founders Justin Donnelly and Monling Lee. Not only is their chicly cartoonish Creature Comforts a testament to the digital universe but it was also launched at Sight Unseen’s Offsite Online, the annual furniture show that this year, for the first time, was presented virtually. The five-piece collection presents a cast of characters: Hero, a curvy armchair in emerald-green spun aluminum; Sport, a neon-yellow neoprene sofa inspired by tennis balls; Hung, a mirror with a polishedaluminum surface that drapes against the wall à la toilet paper (nodding to the TP-sparse early days of COVID-19); and the Mop pendant fixture, replete with a mane of silicone tubes befitting its name. jumbo.nyc

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call of the wild When the pandemic hit, instead of attempting to continue business—and photoshoots— like usual, Bower Studios partners Danny Giannella, Tammer Hijazi, and Jeffrey Renz made the most of the new all-digital design environment, each working remotely in AutoCAD and Rhino software to push rather than limit boundaries. The result is Melt, conceived as an exploration of perception versus reality in which the collection’s 14 pieces droop in some way, as if experiencing a natural force, like oppressive heat. Witness the glass mirror draped over its walnut peg, the walnut of the side table that slumps as if turning into liquid, and the foam cushions that ooze over the walnut frames of the lounge chair and daybed.

Further illustrating the theme, their detailed renderings place the pieces in surroundings that convey a sense of overgrown remoteness, where nature has started taking back the land. bower-studios.com MELT

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product Pilar. standout The RISD-educated designer exhibits her painting and sculpting background with a floor lamp in bluelacquered papier-mâché, topped by a hand-dyed and -knotted fringe shade. hbigeleisen.com

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It turns up at some point during time spent in the five boroughs. The late Milton Glaser’s heart-symbol version of the official state slogan: “I Love New York.” Created in 1976, the iconic graphic delights and inspires to this day. With a similar goal in mind, NYCxDESIGN, the annual festival operated by SANDOW, in partnership with the New York City Economic Development Corporation, launched “An Ode to NYC,” a poster campaign that debuted digitally in June, a month after when the event—a series of trade shows, exhibitions, panels, and parties— normally takes place (but, of course, didn’t this year). The campaign returns this fall, but this time in three dimensions, citywide, prompted by the need to uplift in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. “We see it as a meaningful and important theme of our current times,” NYCxDESIGN program director Valerie Hoffman says.

For the physical iteration, she and her team enlisted the creativity of 18 designers, some of whom are representing partner organizations ICFF, WantedDesign, Design Pavilion, and the Female Design Council. For most of October, their 18-by-24-inch posters will be displayed all around Manhattan and beyond, from the New York Design Center in Murray Hill and Artistic Tile showroom in the Flatiron District to digital locations inside the Oculus in FiDi and aboard the NYC Ferry. The designs can also be purchased at the Poster House in Chelsea and online at shop.posterhouse.org, with proceeds benefitting the Black Artists + Designers Guild.

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After 150 years on Wall Street, Milbank was one of the first large companies to commit to 55 Hudson Yards. Executives at the international law firm, which is headquartered in Manhattan, jumped at the chance to lease nearly 300,000 square feet across 10 floors while the 51-story tower by Kohn Pederson Fox Associates was still under construction (at the time pursuing, and ultimately attaining, LEED Gold certification). Almost immediately, LSM was called in to help make one of the project’s most consequential decisions: where to incorporate two terraces that came as a custom option. “It was really brilliant the way KPF designed the building as a curtain wall that could accommodate terraces,” LSM founding partner and Interior Design Hall of Fame member Debra Lehman-Smith begins. But the clock was ticking. The glazing was already up to the 18th floor on the SoHoinspired, matte-aluminum window frames, getting closer with every passing week to Milbank’s offices, which start on the 30th floor.

In the old days of white-shoe firms, a terrace might be the kind of perk reserved solely for the executive floor. But that was not in keeping with the sense of togetherness for which Milbank was striving. So LSM proposed placing the two double-height terraces on the 36th floor, on the east and west sides of the building, to create what Lehman-Smith calls “one really great amenities floor” that all 700 Milbank employees could access.

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Previous spread: At the 10-story headquarters of law firm Milbank at 55 Hudson Yards, LSM wrapped ring beams with Mirodal Mirror, a proprietary construction material with a Mylar-like appearance, to enhance the panoramic city and Hudson River views.

Opposite top: In reception, more mirrored surfaces reflect a leatherupholstered sectional sofa by Foster + Partners and Nicola Gallizia tables.

Opposite bottom: Nearby, a Pae White ceramic-tile installation references the four seasons.

Top: Centrally located between practice floors, the double-height amenities level on floors 36 and 37 includes reception, a restaurant, and conference rooms, all oriented around a pair of terraces on the east and west sides of the office tower. Bottom: Italian marble flows beneath the custom recep­ tion desk in stainless steel.

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Opposite: Practice floors, featuring such art as Eric Fertman sculptures and hubs with GamFratesi chairs, are located off the open amenities stair.

Top: Another practice-floor hub has a welded-steel wall installation by Rathin Barman overlooking a custom table. Center: Treads and risers of the stairs connecting floors 30 to 35 and 38 to 39 are Cardosa Imperial marble, while balustrades are glass and stainless steel. Bottom: A coffee station’s lacquered cabinetry coordinates with the cotton velvet upholstering Verner Panton’s Cloverleaf sofa.

Staff and clients step off the elevator into an extended garden aerie that feels more posh hotel than venerable law firm, com­ plete with a full-service restaurant, a coffee bar, conference rooms, and a concierge to greet them. But what’s noticed first are the astounding views of the city to the east and the Hudson River to the west. “When you’re out on the west-side terrace and you’re enveloped in one of those beautiful orange sunsets over the Hudson, you feel like you’re on the prow of the Love Boat,” Lehman-Smith notes. Used throughout the day by employees and clients, and then into the night for firm functions, the landscaped terraces are outfitted with graceful domed heaters and 7-foothigh wind guards, so they can remain comfortable well into the colder seasons.

But the terrace volumes cut into the footprint of the 36th and 37th floors. To compensate, the LSM team made the 20-footwide reception area feel more expansive by employing a simpli­ fied silvery palette of mirrored and stainless-steel finishes, which maximize natural light and reflect the views. Additionally bright­ ening the envelope is gleaming-white Italian marble flooring.

Farther into the floor plates, LSM conceived glass office fronts and hid perimeter columns and storage, allowing daylight to reach all workstations. Because the upper floors of the base building have no corner columns, the architects expressed the diagonals of the corners by incorporating angled luminous ceiling planes and cladding the concrete ring beams with aluminum-framed panels finished in a mirror film. The Mylar-like material connects the eye with the city below and “makes the 10-foot ceilings look huge,” Lehman-Smith explains.

“It’s like a halo.”

The two stories of the amenities level, which are sandwiched between practice floors above and below, are linked by another custom feature, an inviting stair. In practical terms, the stair, an open freestanding construction of white marble treads and risers, enhances vertical organization and

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visual transparency, as meeting spaces are organized around it for easy access to other floors (which are connected by other stairs in gray marble). More importantly, the connector symbolizes and facilitates the firm’s radical shift away from a culture of “closed wooden doors and internal conference rooms that people booked for two weeks but never used,” Milbank partner and exec­ utive director David Wolfson states. “At our old office, you could come in and never see anyone.

This building and the design process here really helped us understand who we are and build a culture of intimacy and col­ laboration. We now have a space where colleagues and clients want to spend time with each other.”

The amenities stair also provides an opportunity to use site-specific commis­ sioned artworks—a constant in LSM projects—as a way­ finding system. A tree-slice sculpture by Michel François indicates the 37th floor. In a litigation hub, a 5-foot-tall red neon “M” by R & R Studios flashes LEDs every time Milbank wins a big case. In the restaurant, Clifford Ross’s black-and-white photograph of the Atlantic Ocean serves as a metaphor for the work— and the times. Like most of

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Opposite top: A tree slice sculpture by Michel François enlivens a break-out area. Opposite bottom: Hans Wegner chairs surround a custom marbletopped table in the restaurant.

Top: In a partner’s office, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe guest chairs stand on custom nylon carpet. Bottom: A conference room’s angled stretched-ceiling panel follows the diagonals of the base building as it illuminates a custom table by Debra Lehman-Smith and Ron Fiegenschuh and Jehs+Laub chairs.

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his wave images, it was shot in the midst of a powerful storm, with Ross tethered to ropes held by assistants on shore, as he waded into the roiling water to capture the ocean at its utmost dramatic visual moment.

LSM had just installed the last tile of Pae White’s massive colorful mural of an abstract alphabet in reception when the COVID-19 shutdown forced all Milbank employees to shift to working from home. Fortunately, as part of the process with LSM, the law firm had done a comprehensive analysis of its business, and then streamlined and futurized its entire operation, from IT platforms and file storage to work teams and branding, which made the transition to remote fairly seamless. “Don’t get me wrong,” Wolfson adds. “I love spending more time with my children, but I really miss our new office.”

Hopefully soon, employees will be running into each other on that stunning stair and grabbing a coffee on either of the terraces.

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Morris Adjmi Architects and Curious Yellow Design’s Rockaway Hotel captures the laid-back essence of the Queens shoreline

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In 1977, when Queens natives the Ramones released “Rockaway Beach,” the punk band’s classic paean to the borough’s oceanside neighborhood, it was against a backdrop of high crime and low budgets. Fast forward to 2012 and, like much of the city, the working-class riviera—the largest urban beach and boardwalk in the nation—had gone from worn-out to welcoming. Then came the epic devastation of Hurricane Sandy. Eight years later, rebuilding efforts are nearing completion. And now comes a crowning jewel, the Rockaway Hotel, which embodies the coastal getaway’s restored charm and relaxed aspirations.

A spit of land a few blocks wide, the Rockaway peninsula sits between Jamaica Bay and the Atlantic Ocean, with the skyscrapers of Manhattan glimmering like the Emerald City in the distance. Its ready accessibility by bridge, subway, and ferry (a pleasing polyglot of hipsters and Hasidim) made it an attractive site for the new hotel, the brainchild of sustainability-minded developer 7G Realty, which took a hands-off approach in its brief to Morris Adjmi Architects and Curious Yellow Design. “All we did was make sure there was a balance of urban and beach,” recalls 7G partner and chief social impact officer Michi Jigarjian, who was determined that the building not disrupt its context of row bungalows and low-rise apartment blocks.

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Previous spread: The lobby of the Rockaway Hotel in Queens by Morris Adjmi Architects and Curious Yellow Design is defined by white-oak shelving, plastered walls, and custom furniture

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Top: Nearby, the custom teak table stands on semipolished-concrete flooring across from a Guillerme et Chambron reproduction armchair.

Bottom: Vintage Giovanni Travasa chairs compose another lobby seating vignette.

Opposite top: Blackened-steel balustrades wrap around a Kennedy Yanko sculpture.

Opposite bottom: A custom rattan pendant fixture hangs from the lobby’s white-oak ceiling.

Morris Adjmi was a perfect fit for the project, having won a load of street cred years earlier with his seminal Wythe Hotel in Williamsburg, Brooklyn—another high-profile property that helped transform a neglected city neighborhood.

Although Adjmi’s 84,000-square-foot Rockaway Hotel encompasses a restaurant, rooftop bar, street-side coffee shop, large-scale event space, and outdoor pool area, it delicately nods to the existing architectural topography, complementing the historic bungalows, some of which date to the 1920’s. They determined the hotel’s modest six-story height as well as the use of zinc exterior paneling, which echoes the row houses’ colors and style. “We tried to create something with a relaxed vibe that really fits in the neighborhood and becomes an instant go-to place,” Adjmi says. “It feels like it belongs here.”

Curious Yellow was also influenced by the hotel’s setting as well as ’60’s beach culture. Partners Anna Cappelen and Chloe Pollack-Robbins—veterans of a previous oceanside success, the Hero Beach Club in Long Island’s Montauk—created an eclectic yet calming atmosphere embellished with items that a contemporary surfer might have collected on the road. “It’s a place where the city’s grit and luxury and the beach all come crashing into each other,” Cappelen says.

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The hotel comprises 53 guest rooms and eight extended-stay suites. All enjoy an ocean or bay view—some backdropped by the far-off Manhattan skyline— and many offer terraces. Custom beds with floating nightstands are made from teak and cane and dressed in crisp white linens. They back up to walls fronted by teak slats, which provide even more natural warmth and texture.

The lobby features curvy furniture and vintage Indonesian textiles mixed with a hint of Scandinavia (Cappelen is Norwegian). Materials include off-white linen, flax-textured weaves, black metal, teak, pink terrazzo, cast concrete, and stone. A grand entry table showcases an ever-changing tableaux such as a giant bouquet of cherry blossom branches, an antique marble bust, vintage candy, and black-licorice sculptures. Shelves are lined with books and curios, walls are hung with sconces and art. Jigarjian, who is a professor in Bard College’s MFA program and heads the Camera Club of New York, has curated the hotel’s painting and photography collections, which center on works by local artists.

Outside the lobby, the pool is surrounded by teak and woven-rope chaise longues interspersed with lush concrete planters and large ceramic floor vases.

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Left: Guest rooms have custom headboards made of teak and cane. Top: The slat paneling is also teak. Bottom: A brass pendant fixture shines light on the concrete-finished quartzcomposite counter of the hotel’s rooftop bar.

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cabanas outfitted with teak sofas and tables in which guests can relax under parasol-like rattan pendants. “Every single person you know would feel comfortable here,” Pollack-Robbins notes. “It’s unpretentious but also transporting.

You feel like you can lounge around all day with a glass of red wine.” More wine can be enjoyed at the rooftop bar, situated beneath an enormous skylight.

Wooden tables topped with hand-painted tile and a quartz bar join brass pendants and hanging plants for an urban yet unaffected feel.

Without a doubt, the hotel is the hippest element in Rockaway’s post-Sandy renaissance since the Queen’s Economic Development Corporation used the Ramones anthem in an ad campaign to lure visitors back to the shore. Just like that song, the appealingly laid-back property is saying: It’s not hard, not far to reach We can hitch a ride To Rockaway Beach.

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Top: Among the 53 guest rooms is a deluxe king featuring a custom bamboo side chair and oak floor planks. Bottom: Concrete pavers and custom chaise longues surround the pool.

Opposite top: An Um Project stool joins a quartz-composite vanity in a guest bathroom.

Opposite bottom: Cedar frames the pool area’s semiprivate cabanas.

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Previous spread, left: At the Roc Nation headquarters in Chelsea by Jeffrey Beers International, walnut planks form flooring and the treads of the floating switchback staircase connecting two of the office’s four floors.

Previous spread, right: Nick Cave’s Soundsuit is among the blue-chip art owned by Jay-Z, founder of Roc Nation.

Top: The logo for Paper Planes, Roc Nation’s apparel line, is affixed to the walnut-paneled end wall in the ground-floor lobby. Bottom: A storefront system of anodized steel with flush glazing articulates offices on floors six through nine.

Opposite top, from left: A Roy Nachum mixed media hangs in the stairwell. The social media room is encased in a plaster sphere with walnut millwork. Opposite bottom: In Roc’s private reception area on the sixth floor, Niels Bendtsen swivel chairs face a sofa by Ueli Berger, Elenora Peduzzi-Riva, Heinz Ulrich, and Klaus Vogt.

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Shawn Corey Carter, aka Jay-Z, is perhaps best known as a superstar rapper. He’s earned 22 Grammy Awards and, according to Forbes, he’s the first hip-hop billionaire. The husband of Beyoncé can claim equal fame as a global mogul. Roc Nation, the entertainment company he founded in 2008 as a joint venture with Live Nation, encompasses every aspect of the modern business. From offices in New York, London, and Los Angeles, Roc Nation, in a word, represents. The talent-management arm handles such recording artists as Alicia Keys and Meek Mill and sports figures as Kyrie Irving and Skylar Diggins-Smith.

Rihanna and Rapsody are part of the company’s record label. Publishing, distribution, and streaming are in the mix, too, as are Paper Planes apparel, Armand de Brignac Champagne, and Philadelphia’s Made in America Music Festival. A recent coup entails Roc Nation signing with the NFL to oversee live entertainment and social justice activism.

“We’re hoping to affect what’s going on.” This from Roc Nation CEO and co-founder Desiree Perez, who goes back with Jay to 1996, when she booked him to perform at a club she was managing. Now, overseeing a staff of 450, 52 percent of whom are minorities, she leads development and growth across Roc Nation. That includes the New York office’s move from the Garment District to Chelsea, where Perez handed over the mic to Jeffrey Beers International.

At first, the choice might not seem obvious. Founder and CEO Jeffrey Beers is renowned for hospitality work—counting Four Seasons Hotels, the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, and Jean-Georges Vongerichten among clients—not office, and, encompassing 29,000 square feet across four floors, with another 9,000 square feet outdoors, it’s a big office to boot, serving as Roc Nation’s headquarters. But it’s precisely Beers’s expertise in hospitality that initially connected him with Jay-Z, Perez, and her husband Juan to design their 40/40 Club in 2003. So bringing Beers in to interpret Roc Nation’s “bold, fearless, and creative client culture,” according to Perez, in 3-D format, was a natural fit.

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Opposite top, from left: A Timothy Oulton sofa in a lounge. Another Nachum piece in an executive’s meeting room. Reception’s Mickalene Thomas. Opposite center, from left: An executive’s office custom desk. The Paper Planes logo in the label’s showroom.

Zanele Muholi’s artwork in the building’s entry. Opposite bottom, from left: A cus­ tom sofa and a Jean-Michel Basquiat in an executive office. An audio room’s custom sofa and table. The rooftop’s concrete pavers and seating by Harrison and Nicholas Condos.

Below: Buffed concrete flooring leads to an office for an executive of Armand de Brignac Champagne, another of Roc Nation’s brands.

“This is an amazing building with incredible bones,” Beers says of the nine-story, LEED Silver–certified building that Morris Adjmi Architects completed in 2018 in the heart of Chelsea’s gallery district. “I envisioned a real downtown New York feel, but one that’s warm and residential, too.” Not to mention fittingly gallery-esque, since Jay owns a world-class contemporary art collection, featuring pieces by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Roy Nachum, and Mickalene Thomas, all of which are on display at Roc Nation.

In fact, it’s Jay who selected the stirring black-and-white portrait by South African artist and humanrights activist Zanele Muholi as the street-level introduction to Roc Nation. Farther inside, the lobby reads serious and corporate: concrete flooring, walnut and patinatedsteel paneling, an impressive steel and leather desk. There’s no name, no label—save for a Paper Planes logo on a far wall.

Off the elevator on the sixth floor, the first of the office’s consecutive four levels, is where Roc Nation truly comes into play. Here, outfitted with the iconic DS-600 leather sofa to feel like a VIP lounge, JBI launches the pervasive materials palette: buffed concrete, wood, and glass. Among other standouts is the internal staircase, a switchback construction in rich walnut that rises to a secondary lounge while surrounding an energetic symphony of an 8-foot-tall sculpture by Nick Cave.

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Interestingly, work spaces defy the pre-pandemic norm.

They’re mostly private offices, averaging 125 square feet.

“Given where we are now, that’s a good thing,” Beers notes. Particular about divisions, he located an Italian storefront system of black anodized steel with glazing flush, which softly echoes the building’s facade of factory-sash windows in a black aluminum grid. Furnishings skew mid-century with resi­ dential scale: George Nelson benches, Eero Saarinen chairs, Antenna desks. Each occupant had a say in selecting the artwork hung on their walls.

Executives had plenty to say about the look of their own suites, which include an office, a meeting room, lounge, pantry, and private restroom. Beers strove to have each reflect the personality of its occupant. “Desiree’s exudes competence and elegance,” he explains. Its firebreathing Godzilla artwork by Gian Luigi Delpin, “gives an air of power.” Meanwhile, her husband’s suite “has a relaxed and laid-back personality,” which the JBI team expressed as “a social space,” with leatherupholstered seating, a Basquiat painting, and plenty of athletic paraphernalia (Juan Perez is president of Roc’s sports division). The suite of music division executive Ty Ty Smith, who Beers describes as “subtle and savvy,” meanwhile, is defined by gray-stained oak millwork and flooring, a crisp angular desk, and minimalist abstract art by Christian Rosa.

Subtle may not be the adjective to best describe the social media room. Moody, perhaps, or futuristic. The rounded space is a feat of acoustics, encased in a white plaster sphere and cocooned in charcoal leatherlike paneling, mink-gray carpet, and a gray-painted ceiling. The one flat wall is essentially a floor-to-ceiling bank of screens displaying relevant content.

The social media room’s walls feature a bank of monitors and faux-leather paneling flanking sofas by Lorella Agnoletto and Stefano Spessotto.

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Nearby, the main conference room is “impressive and just what Desiree wanted,” Beers notes. A wall of windows with views of the Hudson River and another paneled in rosewood flank what’s truly a statement table: a 40-foot-long expanse of Nero Marquina marble that seats 30.

Best of all, though, may be the rooftop. A bona fide plaza of concrete pavers and artificial turf, it’s populated with teak benches and tables. In one direction is a view of another Paper Planes logo, this time oversize and in painted metal. In every other direction, there’s the spectacular cityscape—vistas of Hudson Yards, the Empire State Building, and the Chrysler Building reminding of, and maintaining, New York’s grit and glamour.

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AVENUE ROAD: SOFA. HOLLY HUNT: SIDE CHAIRS. HERMAN MILLER: TASK CHAIR. KNOLL: COFFEE TABLE. FLOS: DESK LAMP. THROUGHOUT: ALEA OFFICE: OFFICE FRONTS. KNOLL: WORKSTATIONS. DATESWEISER: CONFERENCE TABLES. HERMAN MILLER: CONFERENCE CHAIRS.

Top: A leather-covered sofa anchors the CEO’s office. Bottom: A desk by Paolo Cattelan and a Christian Rosa painting outfit the office of a music-division executive.

Opposite top, from left: Another Basquiat appoints the sport-division president’s meeting room. The main conference room centers on a custom table composed of five slabs of Nero Marquina marble, ringed by Eames chairs. Bottom: The same A65 partition system used for office fronts separates the Paper Planes work area and showroom.

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above and beyond The annual NYCxDesign Awards drew hundreds of stellar projects from every borough, further proof that Gotham is far from over text: annie block

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SHINING MOMENT

FXCollaborative with ESI Design project Statue of Liberty Museum, Liberty Island photography From left: Iwan Baan; David Sundberg/Esto, both courtesy of FXCollaborative

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SMALL RESTAURANT

Brooklyn Home Company

Bates Masi + Architects

project Brownstone, Brooklyn Heights photography Matthew Williams

project Asset, Upper West Side photography courtesy of Bates Masi + Architects

CORPORATE OFFICE

Gensler project Frankfurt Kurnit Klein + Selz, Financial District photography Inessa Binenbaum

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SMALL RETAIL

Shapeless Studio Architecture & Interiors project Ahlem Eyewear, NoLIta photography Hagan Hinshaw

HEALTHCARE

ICrave, Perkins Eastman, and Ennead Architects project David H. Koch Center for Cancer Care at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Lenox Hill photography Chris Cooper

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APARTMENT

SheltonMindel project Triplex, Yorkville photography Michael Moran

ARCHITECTURAL INSTALLATION

Somewhere Studio project Salvage Swings, Roosevelt Island photography James Leng

FACADE

James Carpenter Design Associates project Waveforms, Midtown West photography Nic Lehoux

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FINANCIAL OFFICE

Architecture + Information project Private client, Hudson Yards photography Magda Biernat

EDUCATION

Lubrano Ciavarra Architects project Grand Concourse Academy Charter School, Bronx photography Chris Cooper

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LARGE RESTAURANT

RESIDENTIAL LOBBY

AvroKO

INC Architecture & Design and OMA

project Zodiac Room, Hudson Yards photography Eric Laignel

project 121 East 22nd, Gramercy Park photography Annie Schlechter

OUTDOOR

WXY Architecture + Urban Design project West Thames Pedestrian Bridge, Battery Park City photography Albert Vecerka/Esto

CO-WORKING OFFICE

MODEL APARTMENT

Convene

Combined Architecture and Interiors and Mathieu Lehanneur

project 225 Liberty, Financial District photography courtesy of Convene

project 32 East 1st Street Penthouse B, East Village photography Evan Joseph

CIVIC

Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Gensler project Museum of Modern Art, Midtown photography Brett Beyer

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HOTEL

Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners, INC Architecture & Design, Lubrano Ciavarra Architects, and Stonehill Taylor project TWA Hotel, Queens photography Eric Laignel

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Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners, INC Architecture & Design, Lubrano Ciavarra Architects, and Stonehill Taylor project TWA Hotel, Queens photography Eric Laignel

BAR

Stonehill Taylor project The Connie, Queens photography Eric Laignel

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SOCIAL IMPACT

Gensler project Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice, Midtown East photography Garrett Rowland

GRAPHICS + BRANDING

2x4 project Prada, SoHo photography Brett Beyer

APARTMENT BUILDING

Deborah Berke Partners project 40 East End Avenue, Yorkville photography Michael Klienberg

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LARGE RETAIL

O’Neil Langan Architects project Moose Knuckles, SoHo photography courtesy of Moose Knuckles

CITY HOUSE

Joseph Vance Architects project Town house, SoHo photography Mikiko Kikuyama

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HEALTH + WELLNESS

Verona Carpenter Architects project Bathhouse Williamsburg photography Adrian Gaut

SHOWROOM

CookFox Architects project Lutron Experience Center, NoMad photography Eric Laignel

EXHIBITION/INSTALLATION

Rockwell Group and LAB at Rockwell Group project Journey to Edge, Hudson Yards photography Oriana Layendecker

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HOK project Shiseido Americas, Midtown photography Eric Laignel

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return engagement Gisue and Mojgan Hariri get a call back for an addition to a private equity firm’s Midtown headquarters they designed 15 years ago text: joseph giovannini photography: eric laignel

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Previous spread: A high-back sofa and angled banquette, both custom, form a conference pod on a full-floor addition to an equity firm’s Midtown headquarters

by Hariri & Hariri Architecture.

Opposite: On the floor below, which the firm designed 15 years ago, the main reception area was upgraded with a new waiting area and a spiral staircase con­ necting it to the newly acquired 25th floor.

Top, from left: A freestanding filagree screen of modular blocks rises behind the stair. The interlocking blocks are made of reinforced plaster cast in 3-D printed molds. Bottom: The wenge-clad dropped ceiling above the pod is outfitted with LED up-lighting.

When a client calls you back for an encore after nearly 15 years, you probably feel a certain degree of comfort, but also a certain degree of doubt. How has the client changed? How have you changed? How has the world changed, especially in the time of COVID-19. The call prompts both intro- and extrospection.

Back in 2007, Hariri & Hariri Architecture—the long-established firm of Iranian sisters and Interior Design Hall of Fame members Gisue and Mojgan Hariri—completed the Midtown headquarters of a private equity firm. On a 14,400-square-foot full floor of a Madison Avenue high-rise, the architects laid out executive offices and meeting rooms at the perimeter, a conference room in one corner, and an open bullpen in the middle, with a common service island—a library, copy area, pantry, and privacy booths—between the inner and outer zones. The client, whose employees spend long hours at their desks, wanted a workplace that was “modern, warm, inviting, and timeless,” Gisue Hariri recalls. The Hariris delivered a plan of elegant, straightforward clarity, with wide corridors walled in translucent glass that diffused natural light to interior spaces. The large number of workstations, cubicles, and offices predetermined a rational, right-angled layout.

Over the last 15 years, the equity firm had grown and now needed more space. But the client liked the building in general and the design in particular.

So, executives decided to stay put on the 24th floor and wait for adjacent space to open up. In 2018, the floor above became available, and the Hariris were brought back to conceive the new space, connecting it to the existing one to yield a 28,800-square-foot, two-story headquarters.

The client was looking for the upper level to have the same qualities as the current space but, with a younger generation of employees in mind, the architects wanted it to be “more fun,” Gisue Hariri explains. It had to be the same but different: modern, warm, inviting, and timeless, but perhaps more “now.” And no matter how fresh and spirited the new design was, it should not demote the previous one or make it appear obsolete.

To establish continuity, the Hariris brought the same materials palette upstairs, particularly wenge, used as accents, and translucent glass, which maintains privacy while transmitting daylight to the interior, acting as a floor-to-ceiling, wall-to-wall architectural lampshade. As on the lower level, the square geometry of the workstations and offices dictated a Cartesian layout, but with enough wriggle room in the orthogonal plan to accommodate the fun part of the conception.

The playfulness actually begins on the 24th floor, where the architects updated reception with built-in banquette seating and a semicircular staircase to the upper level. With limestone treads and solid balustrades partly clad in wenge, the stair curves

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“We basically designed the space to be as healthy and humane as possible because, as architects, we have to care about people first” Inset, from left: A pair of conjoined wenge-clad capsules house three privacy booths. The booths and the pod behind them sit like islands in a wide corridor with porcelain floor tile. Below: Claudia and Harry Washington lounge chairs and a Jephson Robb side table furnish the largest privacy booth.

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past a two-story, self-supporting filigree screen composed of interlocking blocks of reinforced plaster cast in 3D-printed molds.

If the spiral stair and feature wall kick off the buoyant mood, the liveliness quickens on the 25th floor, where a series of colorful spaces—each an anecdote in geometrical form—creates a narrative path that wends its way between the perimeter offices and the bullpen. First off is a pantry and wing-shape coffeeand-lunch bar where analysts take breaks and brainstorm. The bar points forward to a partly enclosed conference pod—an assemblage of curvilinear and angular forms incorporating a high-back semicircular sofa facing a zigzagging banquette, both upholstered in lime-green leather. With a wall covered in Yves Klein shock-blue felt, and a carpet of equally vivid blue rectangles underfoot, it’s an Alice-in-Wonderland fantasy pod in a serious business setting.

Pivoting round the curved sofa, the path leads to a conjoined pair of what look like space-age capsules. Wrapped in wenge, and with glass sidewalls, the form houses a trio of privacy booths. Along with the bar and pod, the structures create a chain of islands—or a trail of anecdotes—in the larger space, an idea based on the original service island on the lower floor. But the architects add an element of surprise: Each of the spaces sits partly under a wenge-clad dropped ceiling with up-lighting that bounces off the white acoustical tile above. However, the wiggly geometries of the ceiling do not coincide with the wiggly geometries of the breakout spaces below, a strategy that elevates the visual energy—an enlivening spirit that spills over to the adjacent areas.

There is method to the fun. As on the 24th floor, “The issue was how to separate people but connect them, how to give privacy without barriers, so that everyone feels part of the big headquarters,” Gisue Hariri says. “But on the new floor we were able to accommodate everybody but in a more spacious way.” Corridors on average are from 6 to 8 feet wide, allowing casual conversations as co-workers pass; task chairs in the bull pen are 7 feet apart, with glass partitions between workstations allowing both acoustic separation and transparency. Before COVID, the offices anticipated new distancing standards, so very little had to be changed when the pandemic arrived. As Mojgan Hariri puts it: “We had basically designed the space to be as healthy and humane as possible because, as architects, we have to care about people first.”

PROJECT TEAM BIEINNA HAM; CHRIS WHITESIDE; KYUHUN KIM: HARIRI & HARIRI ARCHITECTURE. LIGHTING WORKSHOP: LIGHTING CONSULTANT. PRECISE AV: AUDIOVISUAL CONSULTANT. SILMAN: STRUCTURAL ENGINEER. IP GROUP: MEP. LENCORE: ACOUSTICAL CONSULTANT. MILLER BLAKER: WOODWORK. STRUCTURE TONE: GENERAL CONTRACTOR. PROJECT SOURCES FROM FRONT MARK JUPITER: CUSTOM SOFA (POD), CUSTOM BANQUETTES (POD, RECEPTION). SPINNEYBECK: SOFA UPHOLSTERY (POD), BANQUETTE UPHOLSTERY (POD, RECEPTION). BERNHARDT DESIGN: TABLE (POD, BLUE PRIVACY BOOTH), CHAIR (RECEPTION), LOUNGE CHAIRS (BLUE PRIVACY BOOTH), LOUNGE CHAIRS, TABLE, STOOLS (PANTRY). MODULAR ARTS: FEATURE WALL (RECEPTION). J&J JOHNSON: CUSTOM TABLE. ABC STONE: FLOOR TILE. FLOR: CARPET (RECEPTION, BULLPEN). TAGWALL: OFFICE FRONT (GREEN PRIVACY BOOTH). HERMAN MILLER: DESK CHAIRS (BOOTHS, BULLPEN). KNOLL: WORKSTATIONS (BULLPEN). FOCAL POINT: PENDANT FIXTURES. THROUGHOUT: MOSA: PORCELAIN TILE. BENTLEY MILLS: CARPET. FILZFELT: FELT. BENDHEIM: GLASS. HUNTER DOUGLAS: ACOUSTICAL CEILING TILE. FOCAL POINT; I2SYSTEMS: LIGHTING. BENJAMIN MOORE & CO.: PAINT.

Opposite top, from left: The two smaller privacy booths share a glass, aluminum, and drywall front.

Yves Béhar task chairs service Antenna Design’s height-adjustable workstations in the bullpen.

Opposite bottom: Studio 7.5’s task chair pulls up to a custom desk in a smaller privacy booth.

Top: The pantry’s wing-shape bar and stools are for breaks and brainstorming sessions. Bottom: The pod is furnished with leather seating upholstery, felt wall covering, and nylon carpet tile.

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all around town

Beeline from Upper Manhattan to lower, then over to Brooklyn via a quartet of apartments, each exhibiting neighborhood character—and Big Apple sophistication See page 172 for this Chelsea residence by LUCE et Studio. Photography: Michael Moran.

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“Red marble and gray terrazzo add moments of rich contrast to the oak and sunlight”

Worrell Yeung project Three-bedroom loft, DUMBO. standout To take advantage of the panor­ amic four-way views surrounding the corner unit in the landmarked Clocktower Building, living spaces have been organized along the perimeter while two central volumes clad in white oak contain the foyer, kitchen, bathrooms, and storage. photography Alan Tansey.

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Wid Chapman Architects project Four-bedroom condominium, East Harlem. standout Anchored by fumed stained European oak planks, faceted metallic dust–infused plaster surfaces mingle with jewel-toned custom furnishings, velvets, and paints—materials and colors that reflect the sky and Central Park views captured through the windows of Wid Chapman’s own home. photography Ashok Sinha.

“Sculptural walls delineate but don’t separate, creating space that’s communal and intimate”

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“The simple yet rich palette was inspired by the sensual quality of Hadid’s facade”

LUCE et Studio project Two-bedroom condominium, Chelsea. standout A clean rectilinearity formed from 12-inch planks of California old-growth white oak, monolithic Pietra Cardosa, and sleek gray glass offsets the rounded apertures defining Zaha Hadid’s 520 W 28, but the series of Francis Alÿs white paintings nods to them. photography Michael Moran.

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D&A Companies and Ravi Raj Architect project Three-bedroom condominium, Chelsea. standout After a gut renovation unearthed the 1880’s former cigarette factory’s original timber structure and red-brick masonry, all well-preserved, bleached walnut flooring and honed black, beige, and white marbles were introduced to refine and add color to the industrial backdrop. photography Nick Glimenakis.

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“Materials are locally sourced, durable, easy to maintain, and rich—without being precious”

“Loftlike yet warm, the home celebrates the building’s palimpsest of histories”

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Designers, designers, designers: We’re really getting into the swing of LAUNCH! And, woo hoo, you are too! We’ve heard from many of you about how you’re experiencing LAUNCH. And you know what they say about designers: No two want exactly the same thing. Oh, for the love of originality!

You’re absorbing the magazine, leisurely tapping the LAUNCH CODES™ featured throughout. Some of you simply want to see what’s new with a scroll through Instagram. And quite a few of you are actively searching for products online, while sitting upright at an ergonomically correct workstation (hopefully with the right seating; we all know how important that is!).

I’m here to remind you that, no matter what your state— relaxed and seeking inspiration or up-and-at-’em and ready to take action—LAUNCH is there when, where, and how you want it.

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into the future Check out LAUNCH products in print (you know the drill by now), or check them out digitally here: Instagram: interiordesignmag Facebook: InteriorDesignMagazine Online: interiordesign.net/launch Twitter: interiordesign Pinterest: Intdesmag Show me the LAUNCH love! What do you think? Tag us or drop me a line at hellocindy@interiordesign.net.

Love,

Cindy Allen and the Interior Design editors P.S. Just a reminder: If a LAUNCH product is available through Material Bank, and you're a member, you can order a sample with the touch of a button, up until midnight, and get it by 10AM the following day. In fact, you can order as many samples from as many different LAUNCH partners as you like, and get them all in the same box!

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EDITORS’PICKS HAY Arbour

Soft cushions filled with OEKO-TEX–certified foam bring a cossetting touch to a solid-wood-frame sofa by Oslo’s Andreas Engesvik and Daniel Rybakken. Switch up the look via swappable slipcovers. hay.com

standouts solid oak , walnut , or beech additional slipcovers sold separately

22 upholstery 5 frame options

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HARLEQUIN Plush Velvet

Impactful indeed, a tony polyester velvet ideal for window treatments and upholstery stands up to stains and comes in every color of the rainbow… and then some. stylelibrary.com

standouts

50 colors 55.1” wide from the prism plains 2 collection

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standouts bisected brass base

48” wide x 70” high

NICHOLAS OBEID Ines

A chair the designer coveted in his great aunt’s Buenos Aires apartment sparked an ebony-frame room divider embellished with retro caning and lush brass. nicholasobeid.com 182

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PORTRAIT: GIEVES ANDERSON

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standouts lacquered F1 steel structure fixed fabric foam cushioning

SANCAL Roll

Eduardo Villalรณn and Alberto Sรกnchez of MUT Design birthed an athleisurely yet elemental chair modeled on a leg-press machine, its unconventional cylindrical cushions clad in leather or fabric. sancal.com

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SMOLENICKY & PARTNER ARCHITEKTUR Armchair AA I

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Is it a seat or a sculpture? Poised on a red marble pedestal, Joseph Smolenicky’s aerodynamic swoop of veneered plywood is treated to seven layers of high-gloss lacquer. united-objects.com

satine veneer limited edition

PORTRAIT: JESSIE GOLDSMITH; PRODUCT: ANDREAS GROBRE

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2 colorways (peach / sunset shown ) embroidery detailing comprises 9 panels , each 90 cm wide

MISHA MILANO Oasi

PORTRAIT: CHIARA CADDEDDU

A panoramic silk wall covering conjured from the imagination of Italian designer Cristina Celestino is a fanciful landscape indeed, one that interweaves tropical leaves with abstracted fruits and rolling dunes. mishawallcoverings.com

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EO IPSO STUDIO Bolet

Handmade in France of enameled clay and raw brass, the crisply graphic lamp—the brainchild of Nadia El Abany—is dressed in a flirty cotton lampshade with flair to spare. eoipsostudio.com

standouts each lamp is unique slight color and surface variation

13.7" or 20” high

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standouts selenite colorway nonrepeating custom mural leed certified type ii pvc and poa

CALICO WALLPAPER Erosions

Multimedia artist and Snarkitecture cofounder Daniel Arsham’s first foray into the genre arrives in the form of a trompe l’oeil design that seems to burst through the wall. calicowallpaper.com

PERROTIN GALLERY AND GUILLAUME ZICCARELLI

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standouts removable quilted cover optional cylindrical headrest padded with gradu ated polyurethane

ZANOTTA Rider

High-tech meets handcrafted: The zippy saddle shape of Ludovica & Roberto Palomba’s languorous rocker comes courtesy of a rigid polyurethane base upholstered in luxe hand-stitched leather. zanotta.it

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9 colorways cotton - viscose nylon blend formaldehyde - free italian made

L’OPIFICIO Relief

Italian architect and interior stylist Bruno Tarsia teams with the Turinbased brand to launch a neo-geo jacquard—a contemporary take on the 15th-century Gobelin technique. lopificio.it

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PORRO Romby

Equally at home in a dining room or the boardroom, GamFratesi’s gravity-defying swivel seat levitates a cocooning cushion on an inverted cone of solid natural or black-stained ash. porro.com

standouts leather or fabric upholstery solid wood base

PRODUCT: CARLOS TEIXEIRA (2); PORTRAIT: JEFFREY SCHAD

49.5 x 54.1 x 80cm

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Designers are loving LAUNCH. KnollTextiles

The Destination Collection

LAUNCH PARTNERS // FURNITURE

standouts designed by douglas levine

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BRIGHT CHAIR The Davids Modular Seating

The modular sofa collection encompasses interchangeable and easily moveable square, angled, end, and corner units, allowing for versatility in configuration and spatial layout. brightchair.com

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LIGHTING

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0.80 to 1.00 nrc 15 stock colors adjustable hanging height available lit or unlit

LIGHTART Acoustic Echo

Made of Sola felt incorporating postconsumer-recycled content, the acoustic/ lighting module (available unlit, too) has a sculptural form that absorbs sound in all dimensions. lightart.com

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standouts free of pvc and red list chemicals type ii performance

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WOLF-GORDON CLAIR

The brand’s latest wall covering is made with sustainable, PVC-free technology that exceeds Type II standards—and it's in tune with nature, courtesy of its organic design and color palette. wolfgordon.com

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BERNHARDT DESIGN + PLANK Miura

A flexible, foldable table system for indoors and out is available with a round, square, or rectangular top in a variety of dimensions and three heights. bernhardtdesignplank.com

standouts designed by konstantin grcic polished or powder - coated aluminum base mdf , hpl , or powder - coated metal top linking device

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FURNITURE

// LAUNCH PARTNERS

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5 styles side and coffee tables freestanding and floating storage

CARAGREEN STUDIO Modern furniture

Sustainable materials meet thoughtful design in the brand’s collection of furnishings and case goods by Sitzer Spuria Studios, which incorporate healthy, eco-conscious surfacing. caragreen.com OCT.20

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SALGADO SAUCIER Mitchum

A sleek brass sconce inspired by vintage lipstick cases sports a handapplied patina and finely incised texture, while dimmable LEDs provide ambient backlighting and up/down light. salgadosaucier.com

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ARCADIA Scenery Lounge + Modular

Available with a conversation ledge and optional wood bridge, the adaptable, multipurpose, and productivity-minded modular lounge collection can support many simultaneous functions: relaxing, gathering, collaboration, and focus. arcadiacontract.com

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BERNHARDT DESIGN + PLANK Monza

Konstantin Grcic’s stackable armchair contrasts a colorful, injection-molded polypropylene back (in 9 colors) with a rich wood seat and base in ash, iroko, oak, or walnut. bernhardtdesignplank.com

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Strip block flooring, with tongue-and-groove connection for a more simplified installation, can be supplied either unfinished or prefinished in a variety of oil colors. Available FSC certified upon request. kaswell.com

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Stanford White in Detail

by Samuel G. White New York: Monacelli Press, $40 256 pages, 202 illustrations (194 color)

Of the three partners forming McKim, Mead & White, Stanford White is the one most closely identified with the design of the interiors of the firm’s buildings.

This very welcome book, by Samuel G. White, FAIA, Stanford’s great-grandson, who has authored three earlier books on his famed ancestor, shows, through impecc­able photography by Jonathan Wallen and some of Stanford’s own sketches, the rooms, furnishings, and ornament in the Veterans Library of the Park Avenue Armory, the Villard Houses, the Century Association, the Players Club, the Colony Club, the Metropolitan Club, the Bowery Savings Bank, the Washington Memorial Arch, and Tiffany & Co.—all McKim, Mead & White projects and all in New York. In Rhode Island, we see a half dozen of the firm’s magnificent New­ port “cottages.” Then, as afar as Missouri, we’re shown details of churches, casinos, office buildings, and residences, including Stanford’s own summer house on Long Island.

Throughout is fine, never gaudy detailing and workmanship in wood, tile, marble, mosaic, and metal. Inspirations come from Europe (especially the Italian Renaissance), Asia, the Middle East, Colonial America, and Stanford’s own well-stocked imagination. There are doorways and doork­nobs, stair­ ways, fireplaces, paneling, light fixtures, and cabinetry. In all, a rich feast.

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Upstate: Living Spaces with Space to Live

by Lisa Przystup New York: Monacelli Press, $45 224 pages, 200 color illustrations

Our annual New York issue tends to focus on Manhattan and the surrounding boroughs. But this year we yearned for a trip, albeit vi­ cariously, to the more rural parts of the state, where things tend to be a bit more relaxed.

Here in a handsome book designed by Monica Nelson are a dozen country houses in 11 Upstate towns.

In one called Delhi, a renovated barn holds an art studio as well as an oc­ casional barn dance, where you can hear “music mingling with the hum of crickets,” Przystup notes. In an 1892 former iron foundry-turned-residence in Somers, chairs by Vernor Panton and Harry Bertoia mix happily with family antiques. A 1999 Hamden house combines paneling from a court­ house, light-switch covers from a yard sale, stairs from a telegraph house, and flooring from a Vermont barn “as if it had led many lives.” Another home, in Ghent, unites the 1795 original with a 2009 addition by Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates and contains furniture by Robert Venturi, Charles and Ray Eames, and Michele De Lucchi. A 1790 Greek Revival farm­ house in Hillsdale has spacious, tall white rooms that are backdrops for more Eames chairs plus an ornate bed frame from India. Others in Accord and Craryville exhibit centuries-old “quirky charm.”

For all their eccentricities, the projects seem to share an atmosphere of secure personal taste, comfort, and relaxation. Their characters are clearly presented by the author’s deft and appreciative descriptions and the fine photography of Sarah Elliott.

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“Before founding my product-design firm, I worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. When I expressed to a colleague in the design department my yearning for more knowledge and information on the topic, he recommended this book. It gave such clear meaning to things I may or may not have already been using in my process. The three levels of design from the book known as Visceral, Behavioral, and Reflective, for example, are now assessed with each piece I create. That has allowed me to be even more aware, intentional, and creative with how The Design of Everyday Things humans interact with my designs. Interaction is important because I’m making practical, usable, everyday

by Don Norman things, such as the Hand That Feeds You spoon. Not only do I give more consideration to aspects of what New York: Basic Books, $15 a product invokes or demands from the user but I’m also more cognizant of other designs and how they 368 pages, 70 black-and-white illustrations affect people.”

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Design tributes to the five boroughs

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c o n ta c t s DESIGNERS IN SPECIAL FEATURE

PHOTOGRAPHERS IN FEATURES

Wid Chapman Architects (“All Around Town,” page 166), widchapman.com.

Kyle Knodell (“Back to the Beach,” page 126), kyleknodell.net

D&A Companies (“All Around Town,” page 166), dacompanies.com.

LUCE et Studio (“All Around Town,” page 166), lucestudio.com.

Ravi Raj Architect (“All Around Town,” page 166), rarara.co.

Eric Laignel Photography (“Reflection Point,” page 116; “The HQ of Hip-Hop,” page 134; “Return Engagement,” page 158), ericlaignel.com.

DESIGNERS IN CITY LIVING

PHOTOGRAPHERS IN CITY LIVING

April Bovet Interior Design (“Neighborhood Gem,” page 61), aprilbovet.com.

Donna Dotan (“Neighborhood Gem,” page 61), donnadotan.com.

General Assembly (“Let There Be Light,” page 73), genassembly.com.

Jeff Goldberg (“On Top of the World,” page 83), Esto, esto.com.

Susan T. Rodriguez (“On Top of the World,” page 83), str-architecture.com.

Matthew Williams (“Let There Be Light,” page 73), matthewwilliamsphotographer.com.

Workshop/APD (“Neighborhood Gem,” page 61), workshopapd.com.

Worrell Yeung (“All Around Town,” page 166), worrellyeung.com.

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Nov 19 to Dec 3

The Architecture & Design Film Festival will take place from November 19 to December 3. ADFF has curated an illuminating selection of films that celebrate the creative spirit behind architecture and design paired with introductions by special guests and followed by Q&As from the films’ directors.

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It was a project more than a decade in the making. In 2008, members of the Friends of the High Line nonprofit donned red T-shirts declaring “Save The Spur.” It was their rally cry to salvage the last remaining section of original elevated rail structure connected to the High Line, the 1½-mile-long public park in Chelsea, with a fate that had not yet been decided. Today, that final section, officially called the Spur, has not only been planned, designed, and completed but also won an NYCxDesign Award.

The original High Line design team—project lead James Corner Field Operations with Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Piet Oudolf— reunited for the additional piece. It be­ gins at the intersection of 10th Avenue and 30th Street, serving as the new park entry, a public art showcase, and a link to neighboring Hudson Yards.

One side of the Spur features a piazza centering on the Plinth, which hosts a rotating series of contemporary art commissions. On view through next year is Simone Leigh’s Brick House, a 16-foottall, cast-bronze bust of a Black woman.

On the other side, a pair of 60-footlong planters wrapped in Cor-Ten steel flanks the central walkway, forming thresholds of woodland foliage as well as disguising such services as public restrooms. “We ended up with the best solution,” James Corner says, “tough, simple, and authentic.” Just like New Yorkers themselves. —Wilson Barlow

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