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ON THE COVER Moncler’s fall 2019 presentation during Milan Fashion Week was held at the Villa Arconati, where models wore nylon puffer coats designed by Pierpaolo Piccioli and Liya Kebede for the label’s Genius collection.

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FEATURES 126 ONE OF A KIND

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Dimore Studio fashions One-Off, a unique womenswear emporium outside of Milan.

134 SHARING THE STAGE

by Wilson Barlow

Fashion and fantasy marched side by side at the Paris and Milan fall-winter runway shows.

146 CHANNELING CHANEL

by Edie Cohen

In Istanbul, Tokyo, and beyond, Peter Marino explores the essence of the brand.

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156 THE LINE OF BEAUTY

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A graceful curve, used as a recurring motif, helps Sybarite unify the sprawling SKP luxury department store in Xi’an, China.

164 CLICKS INTO BRICKS

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Online retailer By brings its edgy attitude to a Shanghai store by Spacemen.

170 GREAT EXPECTATIONS

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Gisue and Mojgan Hariri’s San Francisco museum exhibition shone a new light on Muslim fashion.

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fashion equation While riffling through the issue—from our mail slot to your boudoir— are you getting a first impression that design for fashion looks très, très intéressant? Well, that would not only be quite appropriate but also right on the money. Contrary to what’s commonly assumed about this highend-leading (and -looking) sector, lots of folks haven’t gotten the “brick and mortar is dead” memo...or they gleefully made a paper plane out of it. At the very least, I can say this of the designers we assign to the fashion industry. All the stories in our April portfolio bear that out and provide irrefutable evidence of being a)mazingly original; b)eyond-the-pale innovative; c)ustomarily grand, as only our magazine will have it; and d)ulcis in fundo, Latin for sweetest at last. And moola-lavish!

Here’s the gist: Investing in high design is still a must for high fashion, and the combination of the two is still on a roll—and will be for the fore­ seeable future. Yes, for sure, the venues are very different from the past; use and time have changed (think pop-ups, etc.), demographics and geographics are in constant flux, and all those factors severely test any interior designer or team or firm. No, it’s not a space for the faint of heart.

But if you want to consider this arena for your creative growth or finish­ing polish, let’s put it this way: You could do a whole lot worse elsewhere. And the traffic is not by any means one way, because fashion is using the synergies and symmetries of interior design for its own takeovers and land acquisitions, too. That ability to bottle fleeting mo­ ments that ensnare by seduction; that intent to vanquish sense with indulgence; that je ne sais quoi…they have produced winning leaders, some of the most glamorous of which are now running some of the most august design brands and bureaus. And you know what? Ça va with moi, the more the merrier. #goforthwithfashion, Cindy

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h e a d l i n e rs “Our practice was founded on the principle that the best, rather than most senior, idea wins”

Sybarite “The Line of Beauty,” page 156

principal, co-founder: Torquil McIntosh. office site: London. office size: 50 architects and designers. current projects: Drop store in Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Borsellino store concept. honors: Queen’s Award for Enterprise: International Trade. role model: The late movie-production designer Ken Adam for his ability to adapt to different film genres. home: McIntosh, a passionate cook, has built a commercial-scale barbecue in the kitchen of his U.K. home. away: Co-founder Simon Mitchell and he share a love of fly-fishing and have planned a trip to Montana’s Little Blackfoot River. sybarite.com

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Spacemen “Clicks Into Bricks,” page 164 founder: Edward Tan. firm location: Shanghai. firm size: 10 architects and designers. current projects: Inspire Tea House, Citrix headquarters, and the National Exhibition and Convention Centre sales and marketing office, all in Shanghai. honors: Asia Pacific Interior Design Award. role model: Interior Design Hall of Fame members Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu for paving the way for Chinese designers. nurture: At 15 years old, Tan was the youngest Boy Scout troop leader in his hometown of Penang, Malaysia. nature: He and his wife will vacation at Japan’s Kawaguchi Lake in a cabin overlooking Mount Fuji. spacemen-studio.com

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Dimore Studio “One of a Kind,” page 126 co-founder: Britt Moran. co-founder: Emiliano Salci. firm site: Milan. firm size: 40 architects and designers. current projects: Residences in Milan, Florence, Turin, Paris, London, and Zurich; stores in Rome, Miami, and New York; pieces for Dimore Milano. role model: Gio Ponti for his dream of a “living, silent house.” origins: Moran is from Asheboro, North Carolina, and Salci from Arezzo, Italy. beginnings: Moran was a graphic designer and Salci an art director at Cappellini before they founded Dimore Studio in 2003. dimorestudio.eu

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Colors are vivid. Angles are sharp. But the boundaries in “Gender Bending Fashion” are blurry. The exhibition, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, reveals that people have been disrupting the division between men’s and women’s clothing not just in recent decades but for more than a century. The show’s design

by MFA in-house architect Chelsea Garunay features lit triangular displays in pinks, oranges, and blues set against black-painted walls, yielding a “retro-futurism, connecting the current moment in fashion to historical prece­ dents,” the museum notes. The over 60 gar­ ments range from an 1895 bicycling corset and a tuxedo worn by Marlene Dietrich in 1930 to a 2012 men’s floral blazer and kilt ensemble by Comme des Garçons and Christian Siriano’s pantsuit with skirt overlay worn by Janelle Monáe in 2018. They’re joined by paintings, photographs, and runway-footage pro­ jections by creative agency Black Math.

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shoes and the city You can almost hear Douglas Cuomo’s opening soundtrack “do-do-do-do” and see Carrie Bradshaw in her tutu. But since her Sex and the City days, Sarah Jessica Parker now has a different starring role: shoe designer. Launched in 2014, SJP by Sarah Jessica Parker is her collection of accessible luxury footwear in classic silhouettes, and the brand has just opened its second shop in New York. Cass Calder Smith Architecture, which has completed three projects in the South Street Seaport neighborhood, being redeveloped by the Howard Hughes Corporation, outfitted the 1,100 square feet like a casual yet sophisticated downtown apartment. Comfortable vintage and new upholstered furniture mingles with residentially scaled artwork, all either in or complementing SJP’s signature blush palette. A custom unit showcases 48 pairs of pumps in tidy, colorful rows.

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Dame Mary Quant is having a moment—rather, another moment. The British fashion designer who has been credited with inventing the miniskirt in the 1960’s is now, at age 85, the subject, along with Terence Conran, of the just-released pop culture book Swinging London, which coincides with an exhibition at the city’s Fashion and Textile Museum. But the spotlight’s just on her in “Mary Quant,” across town at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

The first international retrospective on the multihyphenate (she is also an illustrator and owned Bazaar, her London shop) features more than 120 garments plus photographs and her sketches from 1955 to 1975, when Quant utilized new mass-production techniques and simple, spirited styles to revolutionize how English women dressed. “We didn’t realize,” Quant says, “that what we were creating was pioneering.”

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Clockwise from bottom: Mary Quant, photographed in 1967, is having a retrospective at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London through February 16, 2020.

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Sisters Gisue and Mojgan Hariri have designed build­ ings, furniture, and even jewelry. But they had yet to conceive an installation as large and impactful as “Contemporary Muslim Fashions,” which occupied 12,000 square feet of the de Young Museum in San Fran­ cisco and had 105,000 visi­ tors during its 3½-month run. But, having been born and raised in Iran and recently completing an office tower and a hotel there, the Interior Design Hall of Fame members and partners at Hariri & Hariri Architecture in New York were the perfect fit for the job.

dress code Gisue and Mojgan Hariri’s San Francisco museum exhibition shone a new light on Muslim fashion

Educated at Cornell University, they have long straddled old and new worlds—and that duality was on display at the exhibition, a contemporary, black-and-white environment infused with traditional Islamic elements.

The photography and women’s garments repre­sented an international interpretation of Mus­lim culture and fashion by such known names as Yves Saint Laurent and Oscar de la Renta as well as by emerging designers and artists from Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the U.S. The result revealed modest dress is not something simply imposed on Muslim women but also a means with which they can empower themselves.

From top: Mojgan and Gisue Hariri of Hariri & Hariri Architecture. A silk outfit by Bernard Chandran of Malaysia in “Contemporary Muslim Fashions” at the de Young Museum in San Francisco.

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How did you achieve that?

Mojgan Hariri: Islam is often presented as resistant to modernity.

But it’s actually a multi­ cultural faith. True, the dress of its practitioners is influenced by religious principles but also by local customs and tradi­ tions as well as global fashion trends. So we showcased that diversity.

We highlighted that what Muslim women wear in Malaysia or the Philip­ pines is so different than in Saudi Arabia or Iran.

All the mannequins were

displayed on pedestals.

Visitors had to look up to see them, showing the power and beauty of the women in the Muslim world.

Were there traditional Arabic architectural elements?

MH: Yes. To explore the interplay between the seen and the unseen, we designed two MDF screens with CNC cut geometric patterns. In Arabic they are called mashrabiya, which are commonly used in the region as windows to look out of without being seen, mainly for women.

There was one screen at the show’s entrance. Fur­ ther in, there was a pho­ tograph of a traditional Muslim woman in a black veil behind the other -

identity. We strove for the exhibition to foster a positive examination of a community that’s often talked about but rarely given the chance to speak for itself.

screen. And we also had geometric patterns pro­ jected on to surfaces.

Did your design draw parallels between Muslim dress and Muslim architecture?

GH: We took inspiration from the veil, or “gaze,” in organizing the spatial configuration, allowing visitors to see and be seen through various openings and portals.

The “gaze” in this con­ text became a charged signifier of sexuality and power. Our interpreta­ tion of what outsiders see as this dark, impen­ etrable environment be­ came the existing walls of the galleries, which we painted black. But once visitors entered, they experienced a new, modern world which we

achieved with the arch, an archetypal element in Islamic architecture.

But we deconstructed and reinterpreted it in various ways. There were tall, white, partitionlike arches throughout. Then, the exhibition ended in a pair of transparent, tubu­ lar arches reminiscent of Muslim vaulted masonry spaces. The arch is pro­ tective, like a veil but, in the way we used it, also contemporary.

What did you wear growing up in Iran?

MH: Mostly T-shirts and blue jeans. The Iran we grew up in was rapidly becoming a modern country, and the empha­ sis on education, art, and fashion was part of our upbringing. At that time, state and religion

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How did the commis­ sion come about?

Gisue Hariri: Then director and CEO of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Max Hollein had been looking for women architects from the Middle East, so the exhibition wouldn’t be a Westernized interpre­ tation of Islamic fashion and architecture. He knew us already, having seen our Jewels of Salz­ burg mixed use devel­ opment in Austria. We were both thrilled and concerned by the pros­ pect. To be the architects of a mega exhibition was truly exciting. How­ ever, it had a political nature. Muslim women are being increasingly targeted for using their fashion choices to assert their independence and

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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: SEBASTIAN KIM/COURTESY OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS OF SAN FRANCISCO; ERIC LAIGNEL (4)

Opposite: Archlike displays in bendable wood paneling.

Clockwise from top left: An ensemble by Dian Pelangi of Indonesia. A mashrabiya-style screen in CNC-cut MDF at the entry. One of two fabric and metal piping structures at the end of the exhibition. A wedding ensemble by designer Shakeel of Pakistan. LED projections on the floor.

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Clockwise from top left: A cotton, silk, and neoprene head-scarf outfit by Malaysia’s Haslinda Rahim. A rockshape platform in painted plywood. Arches reaching 15 feet high. A dress and hijab from the Verona Collection, a modest clothing brand sold at Macy’s and founded by an American fashion photographer who converted to Islam in 2011.

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Why were some platforms in the exhibition angular?

MH: Since the whole show was sensual in form and fluid in space, the platforms follow the organic look of desert rocks, which has been a through line in our work. From early on, we’ve collected rocks and studied geological

formations, fascinated by nature’s abstract, asym­ metrical patterns.

Is that why there’s a sensual nature to your work generally?

GH: When we founded our practice, we realized that the whole education of architecture is based on male thinking, with a lack of the intuitive and

the poetic. The result was often banal grid structures and pragmatic boxes. We learned to look within ourselves and find a way to express our own ideas and experiences.

Good design is when sensuality, beauty, functionality, technology, and philosophy connect the body and mind.

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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: HASLINDA RAHIM; ERIC LAIGNEL (3)

were separate. All reli­ gions were respected even though the majority of people were Muslim.

But we were and still are familiar with how the more conservative and religious people dress, because we’d see them on the streets and in the bazars, mosques, and rural areas.

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Serena Williams and Lady Gaga…

They are two of the co-chairs of the Met Gala, May 6 at New York’s Met Fifth Avenue. This year’s theme? Camp, the exaggerated style coined by Susan Sontag in 1964 that often fuses elements of high and pop culture. From May 9 to September 8, the museum hosts “Camp: Notes on Fashion,” an exhibition featuring some 200 objects, from modern men’s and women’s ensembles to sculptures, paintings, and drawings from the 17th century.

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But he was perhaps best-known for inventing the monokini, or topless swimsuit. “Fearless Fashion: Rudi Gernreich,” running May 9 to September 1 at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, explores his progressive, liberating women’s clothing. Among the 80 ensembles are images of frequent collaborator, model Peggy Moffitt, photographed by her husband, William Claxton. As an ode to Gernreich’s desire for women to be comfortable, the exhibition’s mannequins were custom produced with flat feet, since he dressed his models in low heels or simply left them barefoot.

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Inside the executive suite at the Michael Kors headquarters, a Mart Stam chair stands on a wool rug in the office of creative director Lance Le Pere.

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A fast pace and high pressure are mainstays in the world of fashion superstar Michael Kors and his husband, fashion designer Lance Le Pere. But they like their surroundings understated and serene. For years, they have been drawn to the layered modernism of Groves & Co., which designed their three residences in New York and Florida. When it came time to renovate the 2,000-square-foot executive suite where Kors and Le Pere work, they asked Russell Groves to bring his subtle luxury there as well.

In the same building as the Manhattan headquarters of Michael Kors, the clothing and accessories company, which recently acquired Versace for approximately $2 billion, the office consists of four main areas arranged in an enfilade: reception, conference room, and an office each for Kors and Le Pere, who is the creative director of the women’s collection.

“Unlike his public persona, Michael’s personal aesthetic is quite pulled back,” Groves begins. “He works with color all day long, so he requested a neutral space.”

The walls and ceiling are painted white; black and grays appear in flooring and furniture, Groves playing with textures and finishes for visual interest. Walnut, oak, Italian marble, glass, and stainless steel compose the materials palette,

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Clockwise from top left: Custom walnut desks outfit reception. La Pere works at a custom marbletopped table. Kors poses before the Hans Wegner desk in his office. Pieces by Florence Knoll, Paul McCobb, and Warren Platner furnish reception.

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From top: Kors’s office also includes a Charles and Ray Eames task chair and an ebonized-oak credenza by Knoll.

The conference room is visible from reception through a series of pocket doors. Fabricius + Kastholm chairs face each other in Kors’s office, where flooring is oak.

with faux fur blankets and pillows from the Michael Kors Collection and wool and leather details adding softness. Classic furnishings by the likes of Charles and Ray Eames and Florence Knoll are rooted in mid-century modernism.

The result is a calculated visual palate cleanser. “Russell immediately understood the combination of efficiency, elegance, comfort, and personality that are so important for our work environment,” Kors states. But simplicity, Groves suggests, is actually hard to engineer. “It’s like a fashion show,” he says. “Behind the screen it’s utter chaos. But when the model walks down the runway, it looks effortless.” —Michael Lassell FROM FRONT GORDON INTERNATIONAL: CHAIRS (OFFICES, RECEPTION, CONFERENCE ROOM). RESTORATION HARDWARE: LAMPS (RECEPTION). ROOM & BOARD: DESK (OFFICE). RICH BRILLIANT WILLING: BLACK FLOOR LAMP (RECEPTION). KASTHALL: RUG (RECEPTION, OFFICE). KNOLL: COFFEE TABLE, SOFA, SIDE TABLE (RECEPTION), CREDENZA, COFFEE TABLE (OFFICE). CARL HANSEN & SON: DESK (OFFICE). JOHN SALADINO: LAMP. HERMAN MILLER: TASK CHAIRS (OFFICE, CONFERENCE ROOM). RUCKSTUHL: RUG (CONFERENCE ROOM).

CHARLES PFISTER: SOFA (OFFICE). GRETA GROSSMAN: LAMP. EDELMAN LEATHER: RUG. THROUGHOUT BENJAMIN MOORE & CO.: PAINT. GENSLER: ARCHITECT. LIGHTING WORKSHOP: LIGHTING CONSULTANT. THORNTON TOMASETTI: STRUCTURAL ENGINEER. WSP: MEP. CERAMI & ASSOCIATES: ACOUSTICAL CON­ SULTANT. CJS BUILDERS: GENERAL CONTRACTOR.

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Interior Design theme Amid a Formica table setting produced by Reis Contracting, ceramic glove molds and our signature bold wall graphic encouraged visitors to join as one.

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Black Artists + Designers Guild theme Led by Malene Barnett, Sheila Bridges, and Leyden Lewis, the curated setting backdropped by Shawn Theodore’s photo­mural To Govern or to Love represented the silent hope bonding us all.

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Studios Architecture hosts Herman Miller and WB Wood. theme An atypical table shape that fostered conversation was accompanied by the natural and the technological in an exami­ nation of what makes for an authentic experience.

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Pratt Institute theme Gold accents riffed on kintsugi, the Japanese technique of repairing broken pottery with metallic lacquer, to illustrate the strength in working together. mentor Marks & Frantz.

Gensler hosts Knoll and EvensonBest. theme CNC-routed maple-veneered panels flanking a celebratory environment illustrated that individuals living with HIV/AIDS are equally deserving of happiness and beauty.

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Rockwell Group theme Custom wallpaper and a tablecloth of 6,000 actual feathers was a reinterpretation of James McNeill Whistler’s Peacock Room and a metaphor for those with HIV/AIDS to be seen and accepted.

IA Interior Architects theme Awareness posters produced by nonprofits, activist organizations, and health departments from the 1980’s and ’90’s signified the discovery of AIDS 35 years ago and how far we’ve come— and how much more there’s left to do.

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Setting oneself apart from the masses. Gratifying the need for uniqueness.

Striking out in a new direction. This is the mission statement of AXOR MyEdition.

A personal statement. In perfection.

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Maiarelli Studio host Novità Communications. theme Awash in Yves Klein blue, used clothbound books supported the tabletop and spelled out Malorie Black­ man’s quote reminding of the importance of being kind to one another.

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David Scott Interiors host Roche Bobois. theme Splashes of sea blue anchored by Zaria Forman’s video artwork Ode to an Iceberg transported guests to a luxury ocean-liner dining experience.

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Taking care of light Marset USA Inc. 20 West 22nd Street – Suite 903 New York, NY 10010 T +1 646 727 4250 I F +1 646 304 6959 marsetusa@marset.com

Felderman Keatinge + Associates theme Enclosed by Stanley Felderman’s futuristic drawings, a lunar setting celebrated the upcoming 50th anniversary of the first moon landing—and the human ability to dream big and achieve greatness.

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Huntsman Architectural Group hosts Teknion, Studio TK, Luum, and Tarkett. theme Illustrating “Diversity Has No Boundaries” were austere driftwood branches against a vast landscape rendered in vinyl wall covering, encouraging guests to consider the meaning of inclusivity.

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Patrick Mele host Benjamin Moore & Co. theme Old-world glamour came to Pier 92 in the form of a berry, cream, and gold palette and grand papier-mâché floral centerpieces.

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INC Architecture & Design theme MDF, paint, dried flowers—on their own, they are unremarkable materials but layered together, with the help of Mehovic Painting, they can be dramatic, exemplifying the “Us Is More” table theme.

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train to tabletop Eager to outfit its new TGV trains in style, French railway operator SNCF asked Ionna Vautrin to supply reading lights. The Parisian designer envisioned a lamp evoking the solace of home, a foil for the forced fellowship implicit in public transportation. “It reformulates traveling space as an extension of habitat,” she says. So it’s fitting that Moustache is now offering a tablelamp version for home or office in Khaki, White, or Anthracite, as well as the original Red or Blue.

Made of injected aluminum with polycarbonate diffusers shading LEDs, the TGV lamp is identical to the train version, save for the added ballast for stability. moustache.fr

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Marie Burgos of Marie Burgos Design

product Jewel. standout The Yonoh Creative Studio co-founders named this suspension light for the lacquered-aluminum “gem” shade at the end of its recycled ABS “necklace.” axolight.it

product Abac. standout Touch sensors activate the Studio Jean-Philippe Nuel president’s sconce in die-cast aluminum, brass, and dimmable LEDs. mlelighting.com

product W102 Chipperfield. standout Looks can be deceiving, just ask the David Chipperfield Architects founder, whose oxidizedsteel table lamp is adjustable yet has no visible joints. wastberg.com

product Queen. standout The industrial designer and fêng shui expert plated the floor lamp’s inner shells in 24-karat gold, while exteriors are corroding steel.

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product Opal. standout The British multihyphenate’s sculptural carbon-fiber floor lamps are topped by tinted polycarbonate orbs that emit a gentle glow.

product Folia. standout A branchlike sconce in varnished ash with cut-crystal shades is the interior architect’s nod to the forest around the manufacturer’s factory. saint-louis.com

product Treble Single. standout Cursive penmanship inspired the brass arms of the designer’s pendant fixture, its powder-coated shade paired with a slump-molded glass diffuser. davidweeksstudio.com

product Stellar Grape. standout Handblown rippled and frosted glass spheres cluster around a stem of powder-coated steel in a floor lamp by the Maison & Objet Designer of the Year. pulpoproducts.com

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“I could immediately see the print produced in glass” M A R K E T COL L E C T ION lighting

In 1944, Viennese architect Josef Frank designed a textile print for Svenskt Tenn.

It was called Terrazzo and, naturally, evoked the appearance of the stone composite. Seven decades later, the brand’s marketing and creative director Thommy Bindefeld met Nichetto Studio founder Luca Nichetto, a native of Italy’s Murano island, at the latter’s glass exhibition. The connection spawned Fusa, a totemic lamp series developed by cutting and layering Frank’s fabric into collages, and then replicating the effect in Murano glass using leftover dye reprocessed from glassmakers. Mounted on brass and lit by LEDs, Fusa sparks an interplay between refraction, opacity, and transparency. The four floor and table versions range from 18 to 46 inches tall; there’s also a 6½-inch-high candle holder. svenskttenn.se

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FUSA

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“It brings a touch of comfort and nostalgia” ÉMILE CATHELINEAU

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During childhood camping trips with her family in France, Émile Cathelineau fondly remembers using flashlights during the night. Now a member of the design and product-development department at CVL Luminaires, she builds on those memories with Wonder, her table-lamp and sconce series. The textured polymethacrylate diffuser is surrounded by a brass frame finished in polished brass, graphite, nickel, or copper. The steel body comes in the same options as well as six paint colors including Mango, Dark Blue, Dark Red, and Vintage Green. cvl-luminaires.fr

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“Our unexpected objects can put a smile on people’s faces” lighting M A R K E T C O L L E C T I O N

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three cheers Art direction, product design, and photography are the respective specialties of Jan König, Jonas Lang, and Jakob Weth. But the trio has found common ground as Rrudi, shorthand for “rudimentary,” an allusion to starting from scratch. Among their first lines is Get Lit, a limited edition of illuminated wall sculptures informed by pop art illustrations and neon signage. The quirky graphics are printed on polymethacrylate that is CNC-milled. An aluminum profile outlines the contour, and then LEDs dimmable by remote control are mounted on MDF and slid inside. Each is self-descriptive: Banana, Egg, Cheesy, Snake, and Okay. rrudi.com

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FRENCH OUTDOOR FURNITURE FOR FRESH PROJECTS An elegant chair that is practical yet comfortable. Patrick Jouin and Fermob created this chair with a stunning silhouette and made from a single material: soft sheet steel to achieve a technical and designer dream.

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2. Lapilla magnetic wall lamp in powder4

coated aluminum by Ronda Design.

3. Glenn, Ted, and Bert sconces in ceramic and aluminum by Moooi.

4. Stalagmite table lamp trio in glazed ceramic by Roche Bobois.

5. Conduit Incline table lamp in stoneware and brass by John Sheppard.

6. Owl lamp in aluminum and braided nylon by Jamie Wolfond.

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Dornbracht VAIA Create a new balance

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2. Ronda Design, rondadesign.it.

3. Moooi, moooi.com.

4. Roche Bobois, roche-bobois.com.

5. John Sheppard, johnsheppard.net.

6. Jamie Wolfond, jamiewolfond.com.

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“At our firm Glithero, co-founder Sarah van Gameren and I draw across the table from each other.

It’s the most efficient way for us to get out ideas and avoid miscom munication. When we received the commission by the Musée de Design et d’Arts Appliqués Contemporains in Lausanne, Switzerland, to design “Nez-à-Nez, Contemporary Perfumers,” a six-room exhibition on perfumemaking trends that is on view through June 16, we were given a fairly open brief. So, after the 39 featured scents were shipped to our studio in London and we sampled them, I made these watercolors on 9-by-12-inch paper. I was developing ideas on how to make the immateriality of the perfumes tangible.

The result was a series of interactive experiences in each room with rewards for interaction. For the room with a stained-glass window, for instance, patches of colored light land at the points where

visitors can test a scent. In another space, they access a fragrance by pulling down on a string tethered to a large helium balloon.

I chose watercolor as the medium because it conveys an atmosphere and depicts the essence of light, which was our conceptual starting point. The paints have a will of their own but also allow for transparency and overlay.”

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2019 Programming

The NeoCon exhibition is complemented by world-class programming featuring some of the most creative minds and productive talents in the industry. Three keynote presentations and 100 CEU-accredited seminars offer expertise and insight into the most relevant topics in the industry today.

Keynote presentations Monday, June 10, 8am

Tuesday, June 11, 8am

The Familiar and Unusual: An Investigation of Balance and Experience in Design Robin Standefer and Stephen Alesch, Founders, Roman and Williams Buildings and Interiors

Stuff Matters: The Material World We Make Ilse Crawford, Creative Director and Founder, StudioIlse

Having first worked together for a decade designing sets for Hollywood films, Robin Standefer and Stephen Alesch founded Roman and Williams Buildings and Interiors in 2002.

The pair have forged an ability to create projects without boundaries or borders, employing a range of materials, objects and references— from the unexpected to the pedigreed to the

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mundane. They are designers of interiors, buildings, furniture and objects whose philosophy has spearheaded a movement in the industry against corporate modernism. The spaces they create reflect the narrative of the people who occupy them as well as the couple’s singular vision which gives their design a sense of power and cohesion.

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Ilse Crawford is a designer, academic and creative director with a simple mission: to put human needs and desires at the center of all she does. As founder of Studioilse, together with her multi-disciplinary, London-based team, she brings her philosophy to life. This means creating environments where humans feel comfortable;

public spaces that make people feel at home; and homes that are habitable and make sense for the people who live in them. It means designing furniture and products that support and enhance human behavior and actions in everyday life.

It means restoring the human balance in brands and businesses that have lost their way.

Forward Space : Studio Framery Frasch FreeAxez, LLC FSorb FSR Inc. Fuego Furniture FurnitureLab Futrus Solutions ↓G Gantner Technologies Garrett Leather Corp.

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Do No Harm: The Role of Design in Complicated Times Liz Ogbu, Founder and Principal, Studio O Presented by:

A designer, urbanist and spatial justice advocate, Liz Ogbu is founder and principal of Studio O, a multidisciplinary consultancy working to innovate challenged urban environments globally. From designing shelters for immigrant day laborers in the US to a water and health social enterprise for lowincome Kenyans, Liz has

a long history of working with communities in need to leverage the power of design to catalyze sustained social impact. Her work blends human-centered design research methodologies, architecture and equitable development principles, crossdisciplinary design thinking frameworks and social agendas.

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Numen/For Use refashions a previous installation for handbag designer Anya Hindmarch in London

1. The art collective Numen/For Use began by manually hanging The Tube, which debuted in Austria in 2015, in Brewer Street Car Park, in advance of London Fashion Week’s fall/winter 2019 previews.

2. Riggers stretched the woven-polyester netting into position with polyester suspension ropes and aerial work platforms.

3. The immersive installation celebrated the launch of Anya Hindmarch’s Neeson line of woven leather totes. 4. Called the “Weave Project,” the Brewer Street space also included product displays alongside embroiderers who could personalize Neeson bags with handwoven symbols or initials.

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“When people walked through, it oscillated and pulsated” —Nikola Radeljković

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1. The original color of The Tube netting was black, but Hindmarch specified royal blue.

2. The installation’s highest point was 23 feet. 3. Ropes were either tied with fisherman’s knots to the ceiling’s steel armature or to half-ton concrete blocks.

4. Over 2,000 visitors climbed through The Tube during its fourday run.

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one of a kind Dimore Studio fashions One-Off, a unique womenswear emporium outside of Milan text: ian phillips photography: paola pansini

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Over the past decade, Dimore Studio has become one of the design world’s buzziest practices. “Everything we do is about creating a sense of surprise,” declares co-founder and the more creative half of the duo, Emiliano Salci. “I think we’re very orthodox but in a positive way,” adds business partner and co-founder Britt Moran. Their interiors often bring together unusual color combinations, a wistful nostalgia, and striking originality. In fact, the firm name is derived from the Italian word for dwellings because, to Moran and Salci, it conjures a classical aesthetic, which corresponds to their work always being rooted in tradition. It’s a look that has gained them an impressive list of global commissions including the hip Ceresio7 restaurant in Milan, a Fendi boutique in Monaco, a London town house for Dan and Dean Caten of DSquared, and an Oliver Peoples shop in Miami.

Unveiled last month, Dimore Studio’s latest project is One-Off, a 6,500-squarefoot luxury womenswear boutique in Brescia, about an hour east of Milan. It’s one of two stores that are part of a joint venture between local retail group G&B Negozio and Greek behemoth Folli Follie. The men’s counterpart, designed

by Baciocchi Associati, the Tuscan firm best known for its Prada shops worldwide, opened a few doors down in October.

As the name suggests, the One-Off stores have the express aim of creating an exclusive shopping experience, both in merchandise and environment—the tag line is “Avant-garde. Ultra-creative. Curated.” It’s a response to the upsurge in online shopping, the idea being that to drag customers away from their computers, something new and unexpected must be offered. “Online shopping involves the concept of speed,” Folli Follie co-owner Francesco Galli says.

“Physical shopping involves the concept of pleasure.”

The women’s boutique stretches over five floors of what used to be two separate buildings dating to circa 1800. Moran and Salci linked them together and placed a central staircase clad entirely in a white linoleum that mimics ceramic tile at the core of the newly joined space. Aesthetically, Dimore Studio was given an open brief—a directive that proved particularly inspiring to Salci.

“Emiliano gets bored easily,” Moran notes. “So whenever a client says, ‘Let’s just have fun,’ he begins his own voyage.”

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Previous spread: For a ready-to-wear floor at One-Off, a five-level women’s boutique in Brescia, Italy, Dimore Studio paired Man Ray’s Le Temoin stool from 1971 with a lacquered-wood display.

Opposite: On the floor below, transparent cubes store clothing behind a pair of vintage Gae Aulenti tables, while accessories stand on custom iron shelves.

Top: Cushions upholstered in velvet, leather, or corduroy furnish the shoe department, paneled in steel with a 1960’s Angelo Mangiarotti chandelier. Bottom, from left: Nearby, a vintage table stands before a steel display system. Outerwear is joined by a ’60’s bamboo chair at the store’s entry.

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They were, however, asked to introduce the notion of modularity into the design of the store. The top floor has been devised as a pop-up space, and elsewhere the plans are to make changes to the displays every six months or so. “The idea was to create a beautiful shell, but then to have elements you can either take away or add to,” Salci explains. One of the more striking features, a freestanding cash-wrap desk covered in dozens of blond wigs, is a perfect case in point: It’s framework is pegboard, so the hairpieces can be easily removed and replaced by something maybe even wackier.

Throughout, the duo created a number of distinct atmospheres. “It’s really as if there are five stores in one,” G&B Negozio founder Gianni Peroni remarks.

The basement is largely devoted to the shoe department, the ground level to accessories, and the second and third floors to ready-to-wear. In each, Dimore Studio’s use of materials is particularly strong. There are exposed plasterboard walls and others paneled in silver film, display columns clad in pink latex, white acrylic floors and ceilings, and touches of bamboo. The latter, explains Moran, is a nod to iconic Italian designer Gabriella Crespi, who often incorporated it into her furniture. One of her Tavolo Scultura tables can be found near a cashwrap. Additional vintage furniture appears in other areas, too. There’s a silvery Angelo Mangiarotti chandelier in the shoe department, Gae Aulenti’s pastel-painted tables and chairs in ready-to-wear, and even a stool in the form of an eye designed by photographer Man Ray in 1971.

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Opposite: A Fulvio Raboni chair faces an installation of mannequin legs in the shoe department.

This page: Pegboard fitted with dozens of wigs composes a cash-wrap desk.

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There are myriad other wonderfully whimsical touches. Back in the shoe department, rows of mannequin legs appear to pop out of a wall; another area has been furnished with a series of oversize cushions, practically inviting customers to recline. “It’s like a 21stcentury harem,” Moran quips. One level up, clothes and accessories hang from poetic treelike structures made from real walnut branches. On the third floor, one of the rooms looks like it could be straight out of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: Space Odyssey. The designers’ version brings together a backlit platform and ceiling of white acrylic printed with a black grid pattern, dotted with a few classical-style plaster columns. Everywhere, merchandise is displayed with extreme restraint. A single pair of Gucci loafers stands near a column. A Balmain dress hangs along on a simple tangerine-painted open frame. A half dozen clutches all in a rose-colored palette ring the pink column.

Early visitors to the store were given further insight into the world of Dimore Studio in the pop-up-style top floor, where the firm’s own furniture creations are displayed. In June, the space will be devoted to ephemeral presentations of limited-edition fashion. And a collaboration with Prada for the room is already afoot. But Galli is coy to divulge anything further. “To discover more,” he says teasingly, “we invite you to visit the boutique.”

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Opposite top: Custom linoleum surrounds the floor styled like a pop-up space, with chairs and table by Dimore Studio’s Dimore Milano product arm. Opposite bottom: Aulenti’s chairs stand outside a fiberglass-enclosed fitting room.

Top, from left: Part of a ready-to-wear floor features a platform and dropped ceiling of acrylic and a plaster column. Acrylic shelves surround a latex-and-LED display column beyond the entry.

Opposite bottom: To the side, a Verner Panton chair rests on a rug by Pierre Gonalons Studio.

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There was snow and there were tears during Paris Fashion Week last month. Yes, at Chanel, models in vivid puffer coats, part of the last ready-to-wear collection by the late Karl Lagerfeld, strode through an elaborate alpine-village setting as they mourned the loss of the label’s legendary creative director. The fall and winter runway presentations for the likes of Louis Vuitton, Moncler, and Vetements were equally captivating. From a menagerie of giraffes and zebras to a cadre of mid-century gray office desks, drama is proving to be particularly au courant.

LOUIS VUITTON Scaffolding and ductwork inspired by the bright industriousness of the Centre Pompidou backdropping artistic director Nicolas Ghesquière’s collection in the courtyard of the Musée du Louvre.

Photography: courtesy of Louis Vuitton.

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TATRAS In a Paris garage, creative director Masanaka Sakao’s monoliths of aluminum-composite mirrors simulating reflective icebergs amid a stream of puffer coats and moon boots. Photography: Shoji Fuji.

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MONCLER The baroque style of the 18th-century Villa Arconati contrasting with the futuristic Moncler Genius collection. Photography: courtesy of Moncler.

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THOM BROWNE At the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, a glassed-in office featuring women instead of men working at desks and portraits of Una Vincenzo, Lady Troubridge—a 10th-anniversary nod to a similar set done for Pitti Uomo. Photography: clockwise from top left: Francois Guillot/AFP/Getty Images; Dan Lecca (2); Thomas Goldblum (2).

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VETEMENTS Head designer Demna Gvasalia alluding to the evolution of human beings with nonprofessional models and taxidermic giraffes, zebras, and elephants at the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle. Photography: Kristy Sparow/Getty Images.

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CHANEL La Grand Palais transformed into a wintery village of “snow”-covered mountains and chalets for Karl Lagerfeld’s final ready-to-wear collection.

Photography: from left: Olivier Saillant/Chanel; Francois Mori/Associated Press.

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Talk about a banner year. . .and a half.

That’s what it’s been for Interior Design Hall of Fame member Peter Marino and his longtime client Chanel—a collaboration that’s a quarter century old, so far. Peter Marino Architect has just completed a renovation of the Paris flagship, near Coco Chanel’s original boutique, atelier, and apartment, and a renovation of a Chanel boutique in New York. And there’s more. “We received commissions for four buildings, all ground-up,” Marino begins.

“That’s powerful.” A Chanel building in Seoul, South Korea, is imminent and another in Chicago has debuted.

Also recently opened are Istanbul and Tokyo, both projects extraordinary for their approach, he notes: “The numberone goal was not high-volume sales but image creation.” He therefore worked outside-in, starting with facades that are real showstoppers.

Was Chanel creative director Karl Lagerfeld involved in generating any of the store designs before his death?

“No,” Marino responds, “but he reviewed them all.”

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In Istanbul, Tokyo, and beyond, Peter Marino explores the essence of the brand

text: edie cohen photography: manolo yllera This page: Marble panels, framed by blackened steel, dominate the facade of the Istanbul building.

Opposite: The Tokyo tower’s facade juxtaposes aluminum panels and fritted glass windows.

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It takes but a glance to get the unmistakable allusion to high fashion: Angled panels of shimmery white marble, framed by blackened steel on the facade of Chanel in Istanbul, are the architectural equivalent of Coco Chanel’s white pleated blouses. This five-story beacon, set back behind an entry plaza of gray marble pavers with a black granite reflecting pool, is sited on the city’s less touristy Asian side, but there’s a purely New York reference at play, too. “It’s me imitating the Seagram Building, with its most elegant entry,” Peter Marino says.

At Chanel, the glass doors and immense window are surrounded by more white marble panels, this time applied flat.

Inside, the look is less retail emporium, more gallery. Marino “dressed” the interior in crackled lacquer, textured plaster, ebonized oak, and additional gleaming marble. Bespoke luxury—enriched by the motifs of pearls, folding screens, and mirrors—pervades the three levels devoted to sales. The top two levels accommodate offices, bringing the total to 8,800 square feet. A roof garden hosts VIP events.

About those pearls and screens. Spiraling halfway down from the ceiling of the double-height ready-to-wear salon, Jean-Michel Othoniel’s sculpture of black and mirrored spheres, flecked with gold, resembles an enormous pearland-onyx necklace. It descends just to the height of the top of an eight-panel screen painted gold with scribbles of crackled lacquer. Standing in front of a wall of textured ivory plaster, the screen backdrops a then-and-now seating vignette, where a quartet of Louis XV gilt-wood armchairs meet a custom sofa in ebony and gold metallic silk.

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Opposite: The front plaza’s marble pavers surround a reflecting pool lined in granite.

Left, from top: Panels in paint and lacquer compose Alasdair Cooke’s screen for the ready-to-wear salon.

Louis Ellis abstracted a photograph of Coco Chanel for the triptych in a corridor. Right, from top: Glass fragments, backed by mirror, surround the fragrance niche. Above Cooke’s screen hangs a blown-glass sculpture commissioned from Jean-Michel Othoniel.

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Back to the art component, omnipresent in Marino’s oeuvre—we discover more in unexpected places. How about the elevator lobby where a photographic portrait of Mademoiselle Chanel adorns a black plaster wall? En route to a terrace, there’s a triptych that a contemporary artist created from vintage photos of her. A Curtis Jeré sunburst glows in a corridor off the shoe section.

The fragrance display practically counts as a work of art, with a wall treatment in fragmented glass and mirror surrounding the product niche. Speaking of mirror, nothing says “Chanel” more than the mirrored stairwell, Marino’s homage to that of the original headquarters. Reflected in the accordion panels, the white marble steps are topped by a caramel-colored silk-wool runner with a black “necklace” pattern knotted into the field off-center.

Overlooking this mise-en-scène sits the shoe salon, where the mirrored ceiling combines with the stair’s mirrors to an effect that’s positively kaleidoscopic.

To welcome the well-heeled clientele, Marino provided slipper chairs upholstered in tweed in coral, ivory, gold, and black. Think a covetable Chanel jacket.

PROJECT TEAM TOBIAS LUNDQUIST; DARREN NOLAN; PAOLA PRETTO; GLENN STEVENS; AMY RAITER: PETER MARINO ARCHITECT. ORAL ARCHITECTURE & ENGINEERING: ARCHITECT OF RECORD. FRONT: FACADE CONSULTANT. FISHER MARANTZ STONE: LIGHTING CONSULTANT. ERK PROJE: MECHANICAL ENGINEER. CENACCHI INTERNATIONAL: MILLWORK. ALTINSOY INSAAT CONSTRUCTION: GENERAL CONTRACTOR. PRODUCT SOURCES FROM FRONT ATELIERS BERNARD PICTET: CUSTOM PANELING (FRAGRANCE). GOOSSENS: LAMPS (SALON).

THROUGHOUT PIETRO SEMINELLI: CUSTOM WINDOW SHADES.

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“The look is less retail emporium, more gallery”

Opposite left: A corridor’s brass sunburst is by Curtis Jeré, circa 1960. Opposite right: The mirrored stairwell recalls a similar feature at Chanel’s original Paris headquarters.

Top, from left: In an elevator lobby, Chanel’s portrait by Ellis hangs above a custom console in blackened steel, stone, and glass. A custom runner in hand-knotted silk and wool climbs the stairs up from the ground level. Bottom: Woven wool tweed upholsters the shoe salon’s slipper chairs, also custom.

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Left: Shuji Mukai’s artwork, printed on film, graced the facade in honor of the opening.

Photography: Jimmy Cohrssen. Right: A stair­ case in Thassos marble and blackened steel rises from the ground level’s granite floor.

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dressed to the nines Standing tall amid the posh Ginza shopping district, Tokyo’s latest Chanel location is assured superstar status. First, this is Chanel. Second, it’s a groundup project signed by Peter Marino.

Who could miss the slender nine-story tower’s black-and-white facade, with its rhythmic composition of matte panels and fritted glass? As Marino explains, “The windows of varying dimensions intentionally cause the building to appear

as more of a sculptural object than a series of floors atop one another.”

To absolutely solidify the art reference, he invited the participation of a renowned artist, Shuji Mukai, a member of the radical Gutai move­ ment, which is a precursor to arte povera.

Mukai embellished the windows to create an abstract composition that stayed in place for the shop’s first two months. Marino’s take? “They were scribbles resembling Japanese calligraphy.”

“We designed the shop specifically for the Japanese customer, not tourists,” he continues—the latter can patronize another Chanel boutique just two blocks away. “Customers have to go up four levels to see the entire collection.” Apparently, they don’t mind.

The verticality is due to the building’s minuscule footprint, barely 40 by 50 feet. Each level is basically only one room. “In Tokyo, there is respect for every bit of space,” Marino interjects. “They practically sell real estate by the square centimeter.” (In American reckoning, square footage here totals 10,500.)

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Top, from left: Chairs by Laurence Montano accompany another ready-to-wear salon’s custom suede-covered sofa. Hand-textured plaster backdrops accessories. Commissioned for a ready-to-wear salon, Nancy Lorenz’s screen combines gold leaf, moon gold, and lacquer.

Opposite left: Onyx lines a restroom. Opposite right: A Hiroshi Sugimoto photograph hangs in a spa treatment room lit by LEDs.

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The lower levels, constituting the retail component, pretty much adhere to the Chanel standard: handbags and other accessories on one, shoes on two, ready-to-wear collections on three and four. Five through seven are offices.

Eight, however, introduces a new development in the world of Chanel. A spa, the Salon Beauté, consists of two treatment rooms and a full-on glam makeup center, so the elite clientele emerges relaxed and camera-ready for a night on the town. When VIPs need to explore fashion options for the next event, the Salon Privé on nine stands at the ready.

Marino characterizes the interior overall as “even more gallerylike, with a higher level of art, serious furniture, and more precious carpets and fabrics,”

“We designed the shop specifically for the Japanese customer, not tourists” the rationale being that traffic is lighter and the clientele more respectful.

The international art cache includes Agnes Martin limited-edition lithographs on vellum, lending a contemplative effect to a reception area, and a Hiroshi Sugimoto photograph of the Aegean Sea, setting a soothing tone for a spa treatment room.

For the ne plus ultra of artful furnishings in ready-to-wear, Marino chose a pair of bronze armchairs by Laurence Montano and upholstered them in customwoven navy-and-gold leather. Marino also commissioned Nancy Lorenz for an eight-panel screen combining gold leaf, moon gold, and lacquer. He loves folding screens, as did Coco Chanel, particularly of the Coromandel variety.

PROJECT TEAM STAN JONES; JACQUELYN VAN ECK; PAOLA PRETTO; SIMON WUTHERICH; GLENN STEVENS; SOOJUNG RHEE: PETER MARINO ARCHITECT. FISHER MARANTZ STONE: LIGHTING CONSULTANT. J.FRONT DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION CO.: WOODWORK. TAISEI CORPORATION: STRUCTURAL ENGINEER, MEP, GENERAL CONTRACTOR. PRODUCT SOURCES FROM FRONT PHILIPS LIGHTING: LEDS (SPA). 3M: WINDOW FILM (EXTERIOR).

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the line of beauty A graceful curve, used as a recurring motif, helps Sybarite unify the sprawling SKP luxury department store in Xi’an, China text: becky sunshine photography: kristen pelou

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Having created stores and boutiques for such high-end fashion brands as Marni, Joseph, and Alberta Ferretti, Sybarite is well versed in designing for the international luxury retail sector. But a recent foray into the booming Chinese market has seen much larger emporiums become the particular forte of the Londonbased architecture and branding practice, co-founded in 2002 by Torquil McIntosh and Simon Mitchell.

“We have more than 10 million square feet of projects around the world,” McIntosh states. “Nearly twothirds of that is in China.”

Sybarite launched its China venture by helping Shin Kong Place, a 12-yearold shopping mall in the nation’s capital, rebrand itself as a world-class luxury department store with a much punchier moniker: SKP Beijing. The studio then redesigned the flagship, which opened in 2017 and has since been reported the world’s most successful department store by revenue after Harrods in London. Sybarite has

now completed its second SKP store, this one a 20-story behemoth in the northwestern city of Xi’an.

At 2,690,000 square feet, SKP Xi’an is almost twice the size of its Beijing sibling, and nearly three times as big as Harrods. “Its site is pretty spectacular,” McIntosh notes. Xi’an, the oldest of the Four Great Ancient Capitals of China, was not only the starting point of the fabled Silk Road but is also home to the much-visited Terracotta Army of Emperor Qin Shi Huang. “It’s one of the few places where the 20th-century Chinese didn’t demolish the old city wall,” the designer says. “In fact, they actually preserved it.”

The SKP building, which Sybarite inherited as an uncompleted convention center built about a decade ago, is sandwiched between the monumental South Gate in the city’s Mingdynasty wall and the adjacent regional parliament building. “It’s culture and government versus commerce,” McIntosh says with a wry

Previous spread: SKP Xi’an, a 20-story luxury department store in northwestern China by Sybarite, includes Love Hall, one of 10 color-coded theaters in the project’s multiplex cinema.

Top: A custom acrylic chandelier hangs outside Louis Vuitton on the ground floor.

Bottom: The building, formerly an uncompleted convention center, is clad in a laminated-glass curtain wall with brushed bronzed-brass detailing.

Opposite top: An atrium ceiling features a constellation of translucent PVC circles backlit with LEDs. Opposite bottom: A custom brushed bronzed-brass birdcage encircles display stands in the women’s shoe department.

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smile. “The stipulation was our building be somewhat humble in scale, with simple detailing, so that it didn’t overshadow the South Gate at all or imply that in some way SKP was more important than parliament. The

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wall in three tones of gray. (A highrise tower, also sheathed in dark glass, rises behind the five-story pediment.) Look closer, however, and you’ll see that the laminated glass is interlayered with a honeycomb pattern inspired by the intricate ornamentation found in Beijing’s Forbidden City. At night, instead of looking like a brightly illuminated lantern as a conventional store might, the building resembles a block of softly gleaming polished obsidian. “That’s because the permissible level of exterior illumination was controlled, too,” McIntosh explains. “We were delighted about that. In the cityscape, where everything is often over-lit, it’s nice to have something more subtle, so that it stands out by default.”

Some portions of the facade are clad in bas-relief panels of brushed bronzed-brass CNC-cut with a tracery of sinuous lines that echo an elongated S-shape found in the company’s new Sybarite-designed logo.

Dubbed the “SKP curve,” this serpentine motif appears throughout the project, worked into elevator buttons,

door handles, carved columns, molded ceilings, wayfinding iconography, and even lighting fixtures such as the elegant clear-acrylic chandeliers that punctuate some of the shopping aisles. But if the signature curve is everywhere, it, too, is applied with subtlety. “One thing we didn’t want to do was to have the SKP brand overshadow the 1,000 or so luxury labels the store sells,” McIntosh says. “They are the stars. So, while it’s important to know you’re in a branded environment, it never dominates.”

In fact, Sybarite’s predominant focus at SKP Xi’an has been on experiential design—something that China’s wealthy and savvy middle-class shoppers demand. “They expect newness, experience, curation, and a strong edit and discovery of brands,” McIntosh reports. “Yet they also want a heritage aura, like that of Harrods, Le Bon Marché, or Selfridges.” Those legendary forbears are evoked through the lavish use of marbles, metals, textiles, and other luxe finishes not generally found in everyday department stores. And space has

Opposite top: A staircase of brushed bronzed-brass, granite, and glass links a terrace to a fourth-floor event space. Opposite bottom: On the street-level facade, custom bronzed-brass panels are CNC-cut with a pattern derived from the “SKP curve,” the company’s signature motif.

Top: Stained-oak custom paneling brings warmth to the fifth floor’s Costa Café. Bottom: A typically broad marble-floored shopping avenue separates beauty-product counters from high-end jewelry boutiques.

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been treated with similar open-wallet generosity: Wide, boutique-lined shopping avenues flow into expansive common circulation areas, and vast swaths of real estate are given over to often short-changed departments such as kids wear. “It’s meant to be inviting, so you can meander painlessly,” the designer says.

Other grand spaces include the ground-floor beauty hall, adjacent to which sit such super-brand boutiques as Gucci, Dior, Hermès, and Chanel.

This level also houses a bustling food court with multiple markets and cafés, supplemented by others like the fifth floor’s wood-paneled Café Costa.

High-end restaurants, such as the polished Beijing Kitchen, are found in the tower, as are more lifestyle stores, numerous flexible event spaces, a garden terrace, and the SKP Cinema multiplex. There’s also an ex-

panded version of the Rendez-Vous— an SKP umbrella-concept department that includes a wine bar, art gallery, tea salon, artisanal fromagerie, and bookstore—and SKP Select, a rigorously curated collection of high fashion clothing and accessories. Anything else? “We’re adding an Olympic-size ice-skating rink at this very moment,” McIntosh marvels. “Plus, two further SKP locations are due to open in the next couple of years. It’s bonkers.”

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Top: Custom fiberglass pendant fixtures enliven the multiplex elevator lobby. Bottom: To preserve its low-key presence at night, the building does not light up lantern-style but gleams softly thanks to LEDs. Opposite top: Like all the movie theaters, Blue Hall’s ceiling and walls resemble an armadillo’s shell. Opposite bottom: Wool-felt ceiling discs absorb sound in Beijing Kitchen.

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clicks into bricks Online retailer By brings its edgy attitude to a Shanghai store by Spacemen text: rebecca lo photography: min chen xuan

Millennials may prefer online shopping. “With the rise of giants like Alibaba, Taobao, and WeChat, a lot of retailers in China are converting to e-commerce,” architect Edward Tan concedes.

But there’s a concurrent movement toward brickand-mortar establishments, he adds: “Some online retailers are doing the exact opposite by building large experience stores. Customers go off-line to explore activation spaces that are fun, further boosting brand awareness.”

When a mutual friend introduced Tan to fashion aficionado Warren Wang, an engineer turned private investor, Wang already had a good thing going. His online store, By, was well-known as a pioneer for bringing avantgarde labels including Neil Barrett and Rick Owens to China’s booming e-commerce arena.

To seal the deal, Wang hired Spacemen, Tan’s firm, to design a Shanghai store for By that would also carry the handbags and watches sold online at sister site Moore.

“As an in-store visual merchandizer, Warren is eccentric—I think that also shows in the way he runs the brand,” Tan says. “He never actually gave us an official brief. We had to scribble down notes and bits of his ideas during every meeting. One day, it would be an exhibition platform with limited-edition furniture pieces.

The next meeting, he would want to collaborate with independent labels for a private fashion show. Part of our job was to help him narrow things down while coming up with a concept that worked for all scenarios.”

Another challenge was By’s location, an underground space at Soho Fuxing, a diningoriented shopping mall. “A pair of escalators

In a corner of the sales floor, Be@rbricks toys stand on plastic shipping pallets outlined by LED battens, a combination that repeats for the canopy.

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Top, from left: Fluorescent tubes glow against the painted wall of a fitting room. Stools by Konstantin Grcic Industrial Design pull up to the cash-wrap desk. Inside a tunnel earmarked for multi-brand displays, flooring changes to terrazzo from epoxy-finished concrete.

Bottom: Be@rbricks greet customers as they enter from the lower level of the Soho Fuxing mall.

completely hides the entrance to By. If you don’t go looking for it, you won’t be able to spot it— which, in fact, attracted our client, as he didn’t see By as a conventional retail store,” Tan notes.

“Also, a lot of the mall’s mechanicals run through the space. The exposed pipes and ductwork near the back left just 7-plus feet for headroom, and we found water leakage. Then there’s a massive 4-foot-high concrete block that runs the length of the back. We converted that into tiered seating that doubles as display.”

Despite all the negatives, both Tan and Wang saw the potential for a retail experiment. “We felt that the height change and the oddly shaped layout could be something fun,” Tan says. With almost 8,800 square feet to play with, he programmed the front of the sales floor as a cluster of triangular display islands, each surrounding a structural column.

The angled sides of these islands are mirror polished. “Customers glimpse the products reflected and are curious to meander deeper in to get a closer look,” he explains. The islands have triangle-patterned flooring in six different types of marble, while overhead light filters through a stretched ceiling system, likewise triangular.

“As the products on display don’t always have a correlation to the products offered at By and Moore online, we designed the front of the shop to be inviting to anyone walking by,” Tan says.

“The islands are meant to display anything and everything—not just fashion but also furniture, sculpture, and collectible toys.” So you might find Japanese toy figures called Be@rbricks positioned like bowling pins on the marble triangles, greeting customers as they enter.

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Top: The 600 pallets can be stacked for seating.

Center: A display counter is mirror-polished stainless steel. Bottom: Fitting rooms have no mirrors inside.

Opposite: A steel-wrapped concrete column rises from the marble floor to the stretched ceiling system of a display island.

With the premium quality of the goods in mind, Tan kept the materials palette rich and sleek. A terrazzo counter, lined with spiky black stools, reads more like a swanky bar than a cash-wrap desk, and terrazzo flooring in the rear half of the sales floor is accented with brass strips. Gray full-height drapery softens and contrasts with the textured graytinted plaster of the walls while hiding unsightly fire exits and other services.

At the corner where the front and rear zones meet, hundreds of plastic shipping pallets, some rimmed with LED battens, offer maximum flexibility. “The pallets can be reconfigured like Legos,” Tan explains. “They can be stacked one way to display sneakers or another to seat 100 people for a fashion launch.”

Special consideration went to the Instagram phenomenon Outfit Of The Day. “Social media– savvy shoppers are so infatuated with #OOTD— we realized that everyone takes a photo of themselves in the fitting rooms as they try on clothes,” Tan observes. “We celebrated this culture by giving each of the three rooms a unique light installation, encouraging customers to discover a different effect even with the same outfit.” The trendy street-wear kids snapping selfies can’t get enough.

PROJECT TEAM RAYMOND TANG; SIMON LIU; HOIYEE LIM: SPACEMEN. SWJSW METAL: METALWORK. TWH CONSTRUCTION & ENGINEERING: GENERAL CONTRACTOR PRODUCT SOURCES FROM FRONT FLOS: PENDANT FIXTURE (SALES FLOOR). MAGIS: STOOLS. GAINKER: POLYCARBONATE PANELS. THROUGHOUT LARBENE: DRAPERY FABRIC. SIGNIFY: LINEAR FIXTURES, TRACK LIGHTS. DOER TECHNOLOGY: CUSTOM FLOORING.

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great expectations Follow the path to a world of retail wonderlands

See page 174 for Gray Matters in Brooklyn, New York, by Bower Studios. Photography: Charlie Schuck.

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Envelope Architecture + Design project North, Brooklyn, New York. standout Ceiling-hung holographic screens and capsule-themed booths offering advanced scanning technology are appropriately futuristic for this space selling Focals, or smart eyeglasses. photographer Juliana Sohn.

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“We conceived the store as a beautifully crafted kit of parts adaptable to diverse locations�

“The pleasing compositions of the shoes were our inspiration”

Bower Studios project Gray Matters, Brooklyn, New York. standout Riffing on the brand’s Mildred Egg mule, table bases are ovoids of painted resin composite, but the mirror is a customized Bower production piece. photography Charlie Schuck.

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“Displaying each item individually brings more attention to the product”

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Kengo Kuma & Associates project Camper, Barcelona, Spain. standout Interlocking niches of unglazed iron oxide–tinted stoneware contain shoes and nod to the region’s Catalan vault, a fixture in the architecture of hometown hero Antoni Gaudí. photography Imagen Subliminal.

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“The surprising color and material palettes lend a postmodern edge”

Alberto Caiola Studio project Harbook, Hangzhou, China. standout In this digital age, it’s fitting that the bookstore-housewares hybrid melds the old (classic Italian porticos) with the new (Instagram-worthy Memphisesque displays and hues). photography Dirk Weiblen.

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Marcante-Testa project Imarika, Milan. standout The womenswear boutique’s renovationexpansion features elements in clay, burled briar, copper, and acrylic, creating a milieu referencing midcentury projects by Franco Albini and Carlo Scarpa. photography Carola Ripamonti.

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“The aim was to create an architectural landscape”

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BOOKs edited by Stanley Abercrombie

“Although mutable The Bauhaus, perhaps the most important school—and movement—in design history, was founded in April 1919 with the and imperfect, its aspiration merging of two older art academies in Weimar, Germany. Relocated to Dessau in 1925, it flourished until 1932 when it has remained compelling” moved to Berlin; a year later it was closed by the Nazis for being “Bolshevist” and “degenerate.” Publisher Thames & Hudson delivers two standout reads from the current crop of books and exhibitions commemorating this seminal centenary.

Bauhaus Goes West follows founder Walter Gropius from Berlin to London, where he calls on his star pupil and future partner Marcel Breuer to join him. After a couple of years, they both cross the Atlantic to the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, after which they open a joint firm before each establishes his own practice. László Moholy-Nagy also goes to London but then to Chicago where he transforms an existing art school into a New Bauhaus (although he comes to shun that term as too “German”). We also see Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the last director of the Bauhaus, going to Chicago to head the architecture school of the Illinois Institute of Technology. Farther south, artist Josef Albers, his wife, weaver Anni Albers, and theater pioneer Xanti Schawinsky use their Bauhaus experience to turn a North Carolina college called Black Mountain into a magnet for American talents such as composer John Cage, choreographer Merce Cunningham, and painters Kenneth Noland and Robert Rauschenberg.

Alan Powers tells these colorful histories with a happy combination of scholarship and readability.

Bauhaus Imaginista accompanies an exhibition of the same name running until June 10 at Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin. Other exhibitions are planned for Moscow and Tokyo, the Bauhaus-Museum Weimar just bowed, and another opens later this year in Dessau. But this book takes us farther afield. It offers 33 essays divided into four sections. The first, “Corresponding With,” examines examples of art and design schools founded in Asia at the time of the Bauhaus. The second, “Learning From,” considers, among other things, African carpets influencing Bauhaus painter Paul Klee and African chairs influencing Breuer. “Moving Away” looks beyond the original concepts of the “unity of art and craft” and of “art and industry” toward a view of design as “a tool for improving life,” and concern for goals such as freedom and democracy. And Bauhaus Goes West: Modern Art the final section, “Still Undead,” asks how the ideas of a century ago, because of their international connections, remain and Design in Britain and America influential today in both the Western and non-Western worlds.

These essays expand our image of the Bauhaus to include not only the story of ideas coming “from all points of the

by Alan Powers compass” to Weimar, Dessau, and Berlin but also the story of “unknown New York: Thames & Hudson, $40 304 pages, 120 illustrations (59 color) artistic impulses worldwide for which the Bauhaus served as catalyst.” It links Bauhaus concepts to those in Mexico, Morocco, Tunisia, Nigeria, Brazil, China, Japan, Russia, India, and even to some earlier civilizations.

Bauhaus Imaginista: Both books tell us much about the Bauhaus’s 13 years in Germany, but A School in the World together they also provide a new and broader context than generally edited by Marion von Osten and appreciated for that school’s still shining example.

Grant Watson New York: Thames & Hudson, $60 312 pages, 206 illustrations (96 color)

“Our existence today, like that of the Bauhauslers, is a global one”

What They’re Reading...

Double Vision: The Unerring Eye of Art World Avatars Dominique and John De Menil

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At the intersection of fashion and art stands David Mann, designer of projects ranging from shops for Dior and Lanvin to the private Warehouse Gallery (in a mystery location on the West Coast) and countless artfilled New York apartments. His partner Fritz Karch, the longtime editorial director of collecting at Martha Stewart Living, gave him this weighty volume beautifully designed by the legendary Chip Kidd. “I have long known that the De Menils were great patrons of extraordinary architecture and art; I wanted to know more about why they were driven to do what they did in their lifetime,” Mann says. “This is not just about people with fine aesthetics. It’s about having great curiosity, true originality, and courage and resources to live life to the fullest. These are the qualities I seek for my own life and my work.” That work includes a house in Claverack, New York, “and this book is having a lot of influence on how I am approaching the project,” Mann says. When that wraps, his curiosity is leading him on a two-week exploration of Italy, where he plans to catch up on his reading. —Nicholas Tamarin

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Made in New York State and is UL listed. t. 607.256.3640 donovanlighting.com

QM Drain

Springboard

An invitation to transform the ordinary into extraordinary.

Whether designing your dream shower, or customizing your outdoor pool and patio spaces, QM Drain offers an exciting collection of center and linear drains, made with the highest quality Stainless Steel 316.

954.773.9450 qmdrain.com

Launching Q!, a unique line of frameless, mobile working surfaces perfect for office, education or healthcare environments. Q! is made in the USA and crafted from premium low-iron glass for bright whites and crisp colors. To learn more, please visit us online at springboard-us.com

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Pratt & Larson Add surface interest and color depth to your next ceramic tile installation by incorporating Pratt and Larson textured field shapes. Textures are available in multiple sizes, shapes and colors. Our handmade ceramic tile is made to order in Portland Oregon.

503.231.9464 prattandlarson.com

Wittus Shaker Wood Stove Inspired by classic American Shaker furniture design, this wood burning stove is designed by Italian architect Antonio Citterio with Toan Nguyen. Reddot award winner. Sleek, spare, with a dramatic glass-viewing window. Heats about 1,200sq. ft. Please call 914.764.5679 or visit wittus.com

Création Baumann Création Baumann’s “Nature & Poems” Collection is centred on genuine and unadulterated values. Linen encounters beautifully soft wool yarns; striking textures generate texture and vitality.

The colour palette primarily includes earthy and natural tones, but also sets accents with dark indigo, autumnal rust-red and fresh yellow.

212.906.0106 creationbaumann.com

Peter Pepper Products Sound-absorbing Slalom panels provide flexibility and acoustic comfort for any type of space. The wide choice of fabrics and attention to details are designed to offer you a range of solutions that perform and enhance the aesthetics of the environment. Please contact us at 800.496.0204 or visit peterpepper.com

Uline No bunny stocks more box sizes – we offer over 1,600! And with over 36,000 products also in stock, you'll love our variety.

Order by 6 PM for same day shipping. The best service, products and selection – that's how we do business.

800.295.5510 uline.com

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ThinkLab Webinar Series impactful information meets meaningful application

MAY 31 | 11 EDT

INDUSTRY 101 Exploring the Tangled Web of Contract Interiors

If you are new to the industry and want a fast-forward button of industry knowledge at your fingertips (or if you’re an oldie who wants a fresh look at the state of the game), this webinar is for you.

JUNE 28 | 11 EDT

NEOCON 2019 Evidence and Implications of Top Trends

NeoCon is full of inspiration, but taking it all in, or even making it past a single floor is a challenge! In this webinar, our team of design natives break down this year’s important trends, evidence of them at the show, and how to employ them effectively.

JULY 26 | 11 EDT

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American Society of Interior Designers (ASID)

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Bernhardt

Kimball

BIFMA

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Brown Jordan

Material Bank

Cambria Clarus

Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams Contract

Cosentino

Mohawk Group

Craftmade

NeoCon

DWR Contract

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Studio TK

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A temple of luxury. It’s a concept a designer may have in the back of their mind when conceiving a retail space. Various Associates took the idea a step further at an outpost of SND, a clothing and jewelry boutique inside the upscale Shin Kong Place shopping center in Chongqing, China. Confronted with a long and narrow 3,100-square-foot plan surrounded by a glass facade on three sides, co-founder Yang Dongzi utilized mirrors to create a funhouse effect as customers meander through narrow corridors. “We stretched the obvious walking route,” he says, “so you can see the products in an interesting way.”

At the end of one 90-foot-long passageway, symmetry rules what is an inner sanctum of sorts, which the designer describes as “churchlike.” International clothing brands are displayed in a monochrome setting lit by LEDs. “The design creates a sense of sacredness and ceremony,” Yang continues. With such little ornamentation, materials and textures really shine. A tuft of fluffy faux wool contrasts sharply with the portal’s cool terrazzo. A mirror wall seems to add depth. The pristine shrine is divine. —Wilson Barlow

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