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into the light
Frida Panther, FDA 6618
The Muse Collection by V Starr for Wolf-Gordon Celebrating strong women through three upholstery textiles: ELENA, FRIDA and ORA.
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ON THE COVER At TT Pilates, a studio in Xiamen, China, by Wanmu Gongfang, organically shaped windows are surrounded by a custom mix of fine sand and powdered seashells, the sunlight streaming in casting meditative shadows on oak floor planks. Photography: 1988 photography studio/a qi.
features 74 BRIDGE TO TOMORROW by Joshua Zukas
100 HEALTHY LIVING by Peter Webster
Around the globe, a plethora of new spas, At Sala Bang Pa-In—a pools, gyms, and saunas river-island resort near raises the bar for Ayutthaya, Thailand, everyday wellness. by Department of Architecture—traditional Thai style connects with 112 MISSION STATEMENT a modern-design future. by Joseph Giovannini
82 HEALING ELEMENTS by Edie Cohen
For the Riverside Main Library in California, Johnson Favaro and Diane Lam Design eschew expected Spanish revival style in favor of something more contemporary.
Art, science, and connection to nature are the prescription at the Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine of USC in Los Angeles by Rios. 120 FITNESS BRIGADE by Rebecca Dalzell 92 LIGHTNESS OF BEING by Rebecca Lo
Wanmu Gongfang carves out a sanctuary for fitness, serenity, and connection at TT Pilates, a studio in Xiamen, China.
At the Brooklyn, New York, headquarters of Crye Precision, a military-gear maker, an employee exercise center by Camber Studio is fit for a general.
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walkthrough 45 THIS WAY TO SMILES by Georgina McWhirter
departments 19 HEADLINERS 25 DESIGNWIRE by Annie Block and Lisa Di Venuta 32 BLIPS by Jen Renzi 35 CREATIVE VOICES Brotherly Love by Dan Rubinstein
Philadelphia hosts a retrospective of Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec’s dazzling career, just one of many recent triumphs for the French siblings. 40 PINUPS by Wilson Barlow 49 MARKET by Rebecca Thienes and Georgina McWhirter 69 CENTERFOLD Full Immersion by Athena Waligore
An installation on the grounds of a Melbourne, Australia, gallery by James Carey and Taylor Knights invites visitors to wade and wonder.
164 CONTACTS 167 INTERVENTION by Wilson Barlow
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162 BOOKS by Stanley Abercrombie
Photos by Flavien Carlod and Baptiste Le Quiniou, for advertising purpose only. Architect : Enric Ruiz-Geli. TASCHEN. Zulma Editions. 1Conditions apply, contact store for details.
French Art de Vivre
Sense. Modular sofa and ottoman entirely quilted in leather, designed by Studio Roche Bobois. Deforma. Side tables, designed by Linde Derickx. Bombom Tutti Frutti. Rug, designed by Joana Vasconcelos. Made in Europe.
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e d i t o r ’s welcome
re-emerge There it is: that sublime, tantalizing promise of change. It is wafting in the air all around me, beating spring to the very peak of my being. Yep, it’s that time of the year when I desperately crave the traditional springtime re-start. But this go-round, I need a lot more change…and my step must get much faster and go much farther! Come March 12, two years’ worth of more change, that is. So here we are, finally: r-e-o-p-e-n-i-n-g. I mouth the word as I write it, ever so gently—sotto voce—as if saying it out loud would jinx the poor damn thing. Yet I was never more ready for it! A return to a bankable (new) normal, in a way, represents the sum of years of postponements, expectations, plans, and dreams. We all have them, big and small. The universal need for those of us at Interior Design is to expand on the processes and workflows we crafted during the shutdowns and put them to continued good use, finally joined by the real-life reporting—in-person interviews and investigations—that was the bulk of our coverage pre-COVID. And the other irrepressible desire, of course, is to find tons more projects and products (planetary, duh!) in all shapes, forms, and, most of all, categories. To that end, I even have an offering to our demiworld powers that be right now: this very special issue. I wanted to celebrate our strides toward some sort of normalcy with a volume dedicated entirely to a category that’s quickly becoming the foundation for every project in the industry, Health+Wellness. This issue was also an opportunity to celebrate the people in healthcare, from designers to doctors and nurses— the heroes of the past two years. And it seemed both a useful recap and a starting block for wellness, the brand of work that will surely occupy many studios and bureaus for years to come. Check these out. For a manufacturer located in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, an origami-like structure is now an employee exercise center complete with a climbing wall and a tunnel over a bridge! A Pilates studio’s organic sanctuary for mind and body literally looks carved out of an urban building from sand and powdered seashells. A campus for transformative medicine includes wellness programs and nutritional counseling. And we even pulled together a roundup of gyms, spas, and pools—with a saltwater sensory-deprivation pod—that would make anyone wanna get fit and feel well! After this issue, I certainly feel a whole lot better. So sit back, take it in, and be healthy and well!
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