Interior Design July 2020

JULY 2020

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CONTENTS JULY 2020

VOLUME 91 NUMBER 7

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ON THE COVER SOA Architeckti won an architecture competition to design the ground-up eco- and community-minded Elementary School Amos in Psáry, Czech Republic.

Photography: BoysPlayNice.

features 72 SAIL AWAY

by Edie Cohen

Massimo Giorgetti’s storied seaside house in Zoagli, Italy, gets a yachtlike renovation by Storagemilano.

80 FASHIONABLE CIRCLES

by Alex Bozikovic

Alex Cochrane outfits Toronto department store Holt Renfrew with a superchic restaurant.

88 FRAMING THE LAND

by Michael Snyder

WMR Arquitectos uses pine beam-and-column modules to create a hillside compound in El Manzano, Chile.

96 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY

by Neal Pollack

An elementary school outside Prague by SOA Architekti celebrates learning, community, and passive architecture.

104 LADY IN RED

by Rebecca Lo

With color and shimmer, AD Architecture dresses up the Trongyee boutique in Shantou, China.

112 ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS

by Colleen Curry

Projects around the globe not only look good but also make visitors feel good.

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walk-through 37 BEAUTY MARK

by Jennifer Fernandez

health & wellness 41 CALMING EFFECT

by Colleen Curry

Expertly designed medical, spa, and fitness centers can help foster serenity.

special market section 51

NEOCONNECT

by Rebecca Thienes, Georgina McWhirter, Colleen Curry, and Nicholas Tamarin

Highlights from NeoCon’s first-ever virtual edition.

departments 19 HEADLINERS 23 DESIGNWIRE

by Annie Block 28 PINUPS

by Wilson Barlow 34 BLIPS

by Annie Block 67 CENTERFOLD

Tree of Knowledge

by Colleen Curry

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122 BOOKS

by Stanley Abercrombie 123 CONTACTS 127 INTERVENTION

by Wilson Barlow

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At a Mexico university, what looks like fallen leaves on a library’s oversize skylight addition by FGP Atelier sparks wonder.

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SANDOW was founded by visionary entrepreneur Adam Sandow in 2003 with the goal of building a truly innovative media company that would reinvent the traditional publishing model. Today, SANDOW is a fully integrated solutions platform that includes leading content, tools, and services, powering innovation for the design and luxury industries. Its diverse portfolio of media assets includes Interior Design, Luxe Interiors + Design, Galerie, and NewBeauty.

Materials Innovation brands include global materials consultancy Material Connexion, game-changing material sampling and logistics platform Material Bank, and materials reclamation program Sample Loop. SANDOW brands also include research and strategy firm ThinkLab. Additionally, SANDOW was selected by the New York City Regional Economic Development Council to be the official operator of NYCxDESIGN Week.

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E D I T O R ’ S welcome

rising up

Aaahhh: bright, sunny day, kids playing in the schoolyard...so warm and inviting. Our July cover all but hints at a bliss we’ll have to wait for. And work for. Education, that pivotal category in our trade, is on the review block in toto. Flirting shamelessly with the obvious, I’ll add hospitality, institutional, retail, and, alas, our breadwinner-in-chief, workplace. The good news is we’re likely past the most cataclysmic phase of the crisis. According to pretty good signs, we’re on the rebound. The rate of ascent is predicated on whether or not the pandemic rekindles and whether or not we can come together to heal longstanding social injustices and build a better future. As a leader in the design community and at a media company, I’ll work hard to improve the latter.

Yet, we are on the rise. The great news comes in two tranches.

Number one, an ever-widening landscape of opportunities is slowly taking shape in front of our weary eyes. New habits, new rules, and new safety requirements are clearly a rich, fertile ground for new products and innovative services our industry will be called on to provide. That will halt the business “compacting” now on show, and it will power the beginning of the next expansion. Number two, we have the greatest talent roster in the history of design and architecture—genuine proof of which are those featured in this very issue—to take full advantage of these opportunities and possibly produce one of the largest innovation waves our craft has ever witnessed.

And of course, taking a leap that could truly deliver bliss: Come November, we all could choose wisely, could we not? Instead of hate, fear, and division, we can choose unity, positivity, and those who propose a just and industrious future.

After all, we are the Moonshot Nation.

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Storagemilano “Sail Away,” page 72 founder: Michele Pasini. founder: Barbara Ghidoni. founder: Marco Donati. firm site: Milan. firm size: 25 architects and designers. current projects: Residences, a restaurant, and Luxottica digital factory, all in Milan; Victoria Palace Hotel renovation in Cattolica, Italy. honors: NYCxDesign Award finalist. role model: Rem Koolhaas. at work: Projects—lots of them—are finally coming back to Italy for Donati, Ghidoni, and Pasini. at play: All of them agree, the best vacations are ones where there are beautiful places to stay. storagemilano.com

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WMR Arquitectos

AD Architecture “Lady in Red,” page 104 founder, chief designer:

Peihe Xie. office site:

Shantou, China. office size:

Five architects and designers.

“Framing the Land,” page 88 partner: Jorge Manieu. partner: Macarena Rabat. partner: Felipe Wedeles. office site: Matanzas, Chile. office size: 10 architects. current projects: Residences and Kau Patagonia lodge and hotel in Chile; residences in Placencia, Belize. students: Manieu, Rabat, and Wedeles all earned their architecture degree from Universidad Finis Terrae. founders: They launched WMR, derived from the first letters of their last names, in 2005. wmr.cl

current projects:

An apartment in Shenzhen and JYC office in Dongguan in China. honors: Interior Design Best of Year Award; German Design Award; Red Dot Design Award. role model: Louis Kahn for being moved by the spirit of the places he created. digital: Xie records his life by taking dozens of daily photos on his iPhone. domestic: He and his wife have two children. arch-ad.com

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Alex Cochrane Architects “Fashionable Circles,” page 80 principal:

Alex Cochrane. firm site:

London.

SOA Architekti “Bohemian Rhapsody,” page 96 principal: Ondřej Píhrt. principal: Ondřej Laciga. principal: Štefan Šulek. firm site: Prague. firm size: Seven architects. current projects: An elementary school and TON headquarters in the Czech Republic. honors: Energy-Efficient House Award Czech Republic. role model: Japanese architecture for its subtle structures, refined materiality, and minimalism.

firm size: Six architects. current projects: Selfridges Men’s Accessories Hall and

a residence in London; Georgian estate renovation in Wicklow, Ireland. role model: Peter Zumthor for his light and shadow play and materials selection and execution. buildings: Cochrane earned his degree from the Architectural Association. plants: He has written books on perennials and grasses and is working on another about trees and shrubs. alexcochrane.com

employee: Píhrt, Šulek, and Laciga met working at an interior design firm. employer: They founded SOA, which stands for Sons of Architecture, in 2015. s-o-a.cz 20

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Frontline, a 2019 signed canvas print by Johan Andersson, was among the donations to the 41st annual Venice Family Clinic Art Walk & Auction fund­raiser. Works for sale continue to be added; go to venicefamilyclinic.org for more information.

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COURTESY OF JOHAN ANDERSSON

Frank Gehry’s ties to and architectural projects in Los Angeles are well-known.

Perhaps less common knowledge is that he was instrumental in saving the Venice Family Clinic from closing its doors back in 1979.

Founded in 1970 as a small storefront operation, the clinic provided comprehensive primary healthcare to people in need. When it began struggling financially, Gehry along with other supporters initiated the Venice Family Clinic Art Walk & Auction, cor­ralling the likes of John Baldessari and Ed Ruscha to donate works as well as open their studios to the public.

Cut to today, the clinic not only still operates but has also grown to encompass 12 locations throughout L.A., serving some 30,000 people a year, particularly crucial during COVID-19. Because of the pandemic, however, the annual fundraiser could not proceed as usual. Instead, it was held digitally, via Artsy, last month, with 188 artists and designers participating— Claudy Jongstra, Kelly Lamb, and Leo Marmol, among them— raising more than $700,000 for the clinic. And to mark its 50th anni­ver­sary and his support, Gehry was honored as the signature artist.

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Since March, global essential businesses have been more, well, essential than ever. Food and beverage stores fell under that category, including Jané Winestore in Tarragona, Spain. The retail and restaurant establishment has been doing home delivery the past three months. But on June 5, the 7,500-square-foot space, designed by External Reference and Chu Uroz, reopened to in-store shopping and dining. Welcoming visitors is a black-painted facade fronted by a dynamic curtain wall of sorts: the names of dozens of alcohol varieties in laser-cut aluminum, some nearly 10 feet tall, affixed to a metal substructure. Inside, the laser-cut metal changes to galvanized steel for wayfinding. But wood dominates the tasting area, KM 1187, named after the site’s location; MDF forms signage and pine the tables and stools, which are socially distanced for safely enjoying tapas con rioja.

sign language Clockwise from bottom: At Jané Winestore, a retail and dining venue in Tarragona, Spain, External Reference and Chu Uroz formed laser-cut aluminum, glass, and yellow LEDs into facade and signage. The tasting area’s Pilma stools and custom tables. Flooring of resintopped concrete. View from the mezzanine.

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Resin treads and painted risers greet customers at the flagship Glam Seamless, a two-story salon and shop specializing in hair extensions.

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Like a flamingo amid a flock of pigeons, Glam Seamless stands apart from the multitude of monochromatic salons populating New York City’s streets, a fact made obvious even before stepping through the flagship’s door. One glimpse beyond the double-height glass facade reveals a kaleidoscope of rosy hues inspired by the hair extension brand’s signature color: pink. “It’s almost like clothing,” architect Sergio Mannino says of the saturated palette, which Sergio Mannino Studio used to transform what was Pharrell Williams’s decidedly masculine Billionaire Boys Club boutique into a blush-toned sanctuary that is equal parts retail showroom and salon. “When you enter, you need to feel like you’re wearing it.”

Improvising within the existing structural framework, Mannino and creative director Martina Guandalini created connection between the 1,200-square-foot property’s two levels by introducing arched doorways and curvilinear surfaces that mirror the second floor’s barrel-shape ceiling. But the womblike cocoon is repeatedly offset with a shimmering sleekness that gives the interiors an edge. The oblong reception counter, for example, is anchored by both a pink granite rectangle and a brass cylinder. Ovoid mirrors at con­ sultation stations are backlit as if by their own aura.

A sinuous banquette is set aglow by neon signage urging customers to “Make every day glamorous.”

Throughout, white lacquered built-ins provide discreet storage without marring the clean-lined aesthetic.

And to keep the project under budget, SMS repurposed much of the lighting and existing ceramic floor tiles, instead infusing luxe moments via velvet ottomans, brass stools, and decoupage throw pillows.

“Our goal was to evoke calm and tranquility in a very feminine space yet also speak to confident, mature women who respect the way they look,” Guandalini adds. So to keep the color scheme and rounded finishes from looking overly girly, SMS embellished the entry and stairs with a gradient of stripes ranging from peach to raspberry that imparts dynamic movement and personality. After all, you’re never too old to be tickled pink. —Jennifer Fernandez

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Clockwise from opposite top: Ceramic floor tiles lead into the salon on the sec­ ond floor. Under its barrel vault, Simon Legald ottomans stand across from custom backlit mirrors shaped like the arched doorway. The ground floor offers products in lacquered built-ins and hairextension consultations. In the waiting area, vinyl upholsters the banquette and wall, while granite and brass anchor the custom reception desk. Consultation stools are by Erickson Aesthetics.

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wa l k through health & wellness See page 47 for Citywell in Brooklyn, New York, by Mariotti Studio.

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Intoex project Toxnfill, Seoul, South Korea.

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standout Marble, porcelain tile, dramatic pinspot fixtures, and an arching structure tempering the 14-foot ceiling surround patients of the dermatology clinic specializing in Botox and fillers with subtle opulence.

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Rai Pinto Studio and Arauna Studio project Hospital Sant Joan de Déu Barcelona, Spain. standout Continuing the studios’ vibrant animal theme installed earlier in other wings of the children’s medical center, here they, specifically seagulls, pelicans, and flamingos, extend onto ceilings, as most patients coming through are on stretchers, looking up.

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project Workout, Seattle. standout The firm exercised both its interiors and branding departments in combining an office towerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s multiple retail storefronts into one dynamic gym highlighted by energetic herringbone detailing and neon graphics.

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project Citywell, Brooklyn, New York. standout Because of the spa’s tiny footprint, allowing only for reception, showers, and changing and steam rooms, freestanding saunas occupy the garden, the profile of the cedarclad volumes inspired by luxury railcars of 19th-century Europe. —Colleen Curry

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alone time The cone of silence is a well-known film gag. But Helm Shush by Luxxbox turns the trope into something more sensible.

From office proper to home office, the thermoformed, dome pendant fixture for incandescent or energysaving bulbs dampens sound anywhere it’s placed, its shape and wool-felt covering providing a noisereduction coefficient of 0.14. “Our original spuncopper Helm light was one of our most popular releases, so we just added acoustic properties,” company founder and managing/creative director Jason Bird says. It’s available 11 or 15 inches in diameter, in more than 50 colors for the outer shell (the interior is gray), and with contrast stitching. luxxbox.com

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product Pergola. standout The Interior Design Hall of Famer joined forces with the company product design manager to proffer a scalable room within a room that can be kitted out with partitions, power routing, and more. haworth.com

product Soft Top. standout Upholstered steel stools and benches, the latter with an optional oak or ash surface between the twin seats, expand Brad Ascalon Studio’s 2018 Soft Top chairs.

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product Brace. standout A meeting-room table by the Jehs+Laub duo pairs slim solid-steel legs with a 1-inch-thick solid oak or walnut top, cutting a sharp silhouette in a range of shapes and sizes.

product Second Nature. standout With Luum’s existing woolnylon Construct as its ground, the company creative director’s textile layers botanical motifs and rigid lines in nylonpolyester thread and withstands 100,000 Martindale cycles. luumtextiles.com

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product Up. standout The FilzFelt co-founder upcycles polyester from water bottles into a five-piece bleach-cleanable textile collection inspired by such city staples as utility covers and traffic signs. hbftextiles.com

product Aire Outdoor. standout The aluminum and Batyline PVC-coated polyester mesh of Piergiorgio Cazzaniga Design’s armchair come in new colors—Dark Blue, Dark Green, Oxide Red—in addition to existing White and Earth Brown. andreuworld.com

product Toast. standout Each of the 48-by-60-inch acoustic privacy panels by Studio Hopkins can be reconfigured from a vertical to a horizontal orientation by rotating it within its powder-coated recycled-steel tension stand.

product Patkau Bench. standout Atop hairpin stainless-steel legs, a bench from the Patkau Architects founder and team features ergonomic angled seat sections in solid oak, maple, or walnut, separated by a slim gap. nienkamper.com

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“The matelassé construction translates our double-layered framework from paper to textile”

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The former partners of Scholten & Baijings, Stefan Scholten and Carole Baijings, who will work under their own names going forward, introduce Shift, a textile for Maharam. The designers have previously applied their delicate precision and color prowess to other fabrics for the brand—Blocks and Grids in 2014, Mesh and Tracery in 2017—that similarly tinkered with scale, grids, and dimensionality.

For Shift, the duo cut paper models to play with layering color, an effect reproduced in a dimensional matelassé that blends cotton, solution-dyed nylon, and polyester. The eight colorways include Pewter, Sapphire, Copper, and Honeysuckle, some with proprietary fluorescent yarns, but all employed to eye-popping effect. maharam.com

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From its stable of Nordic manufacturers, workplace furniture retailer Scandinavian Spaces curates a dynamic collection.

Götessons teamed up with o4i Design Studio’s Henrik Kjellberg and Jon Lindström for the iQseat mobile chair, its backrest able to rotate to become a table surface. The Ridge receptacle by Studio Doms’s Annica and David Doms for TreCe comes in MDF lacquered 11 colors, including Wine Red, with eight recycling symbol choices. Hygge upholstered stools,

by Kauppi & Kauppi’s Johan and Nina Kauppi for Karl Andersson & Söner, group to form a seating archipelago, with oak or ash frames and incorporating an optional armrest, tablet, or integrated USB charger.

Finally, Blå Station and Bernstrand & Co’s Thomas Bernstrand and Stefan Borselius have produced Bobby, individual chairs that can gang together via magnets to form a sectional. scandinavianspaces.com

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It was 2017 when industrial designer Geof Lilge founded Division Twelve, making colorful bent-metal furniture for hospitality and residential settings. Then this year, fellow Canadian company Keilhauer bought the brand and relaunched it as a subsidiary.

“We’ve always been excited by the hospitality sector and this acquisition provides us with a new solution for office design,” president Mike Keilhauer explains.

Lilge, Samuel Petterson, and Scot Laughton designed the inaugural line of poppy bent-steel stools, tables, benches, and chairs, such as Wedge, with its swooping tubular back, all with an eye on sustainability. Woods are FSC–certified, seat foam is bio-based, and the 20 powder-coat options are environmentally friendly. Each year, the palette will update to include the latest Pantone Color of the Year. division12.com

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in felt, acrylic, aluminum, and leather by Spinneybeck | FilzFelt. spinneybeck.com 5. Encircle textiles in polyurethane in White/Neutral/Brown, Green, and Blue by Designtex. designtex.com 6. Drape acoustic pod in PET by Okamura. okamura.com 7. NeatUp cable-management system in ABS plastic, ABS/PC plastic, and steel by Humanscale. humanscale.com

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“The shell is large enough to curl up in”

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groovy baby “First the person, then the chair.” Such was Geoffrey Harcourt’s design adage. In the case of the British designer’s 1967 F500 lounge chair, the person in question was none other than Harcourt’s girlfriend, whose penchant for sitting cross-legged inspired the chair’s extra-wide seat.

Now, through Studio TK’s partnership with original manufacturer Artifort to make and distribute the Dutch company’s furniture in North America, the F500 is available here for the first time.

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“A repeated mark can transform into an organic pattern with subtle movement”

Take in the subdued pattern of Mark Making, a line of 6-by-48-inch luxury vinyl floor planks in 17 colors by Patcraft. “It was designed to provide a hard surface option with a textilelike appearance,” senior hard surface designer Kelly Stewart says. Throughout the creative process, Stewart worked from sketches and mark-making studies, eventually settling on a rhythmic pattern of hatches and dabs similar to striated tweed that can be installed in a staggered, herringbone, or brick layout. Made in the U.S., the product’s 20-mil wear layer offers durability, while an optional polish and buff finish allows for easy maintenance. patcraft.com

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1. Balance Mantra bleach-cleanable, Greenguard Gold–

certified textiles in Sunbrella solution-dyed acrylic-polyester with Sunbrella Assure fluorine-free stain-repelling finish by C.F. Stinson. cfstinson.com 2. Fig40’s Still screens wrapped in Kvadrat wool or wool blends and Mark Kapka’s Verve Wood chair in white oak by Stylex. stylexseating.com 3. Patricia Urquiola’s Nuez table in sustainable ash and stool in powder-coated steel, recyclable thermo-polymer, and Kvadrat’s Melange wool by Andreu World. andreuworld.com 4. Sly tables in powder-coated steel with tops in laminate, wood veneer, back-painted glass, or linoleum with exposed plywood edge. studiotk.com 5. Jean-Marie Massaud’s Aston Club upholstered chair in recyclable, post-industrial plastic and painted aluminum by Arper. arper.com 6. Social Fabric carpet tiles in recycled nylon in Sunset by Interface. interface.com 7. Frédéric Sofia’s Luxembourg stool in aluminum in Poppy

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c enter fold At a Mexico university, what looks like fallen leaves on a library’s oversize skylight addition

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“Milan is a small city where big things happen,” architect Michele Pasini asserts. A case in point: his meeting Massimo Giorgetti, founder and designer of the hip Italian fashion label MSGM, at the wedding of mutual friends. This led to a year-long project for Pasini, co-founder with Marco Donati and Barbara Ghidoni of Storagemilano, when Giorgetti commissioned the firm to renovate his seaside retreat—a unique haven perched at the edge of a promontory in the town of Zoagli, about 20 miles down the Ligurian coast from Genoa.

With only one hotel, Zoagli is a semisecret spot for the cognoscenti.

“It’s a super-easy place, the opposite of Portofino,” Pasini says, referencing the town’s molto elegante neighbor.

“Zoagli has no harbor, so boats can’t enter. I’ve been going there since 1999.” Giorgetti, born in Rimini, is a long-time visitor, too. Yet the two men never knew each other until those nuptial festivities in 2017. But Pasini did know the fashion designer’s beaconlike house, famous thanks to its commanding position, distinctive ovoid form, and twin sunshade sails that make it recognizable from out at sea. In fact, that’s how Giorgetti first saw it—from his kayak—some five years ago. Smitten, he bought the property shortly before meeting Pasini.

Actually, there are three structures on the precipitous site: The tiny but eye-catching main house, which dates to 1930 and, given its position, served as a wartime observation post (ergo Giorgetti dubbing it La Vedetta, or the lookout) before becoming a private bathing club; a small stone structure located farther up the hillside, now a guest cottage “where,” Giorgetti reports, “you can enjoy the countryside”; and between them, another building that Storagemilano will renovate at a future date.

“The shape is unequivocally reminiscent of a ship closed in upon itself,” Pasini says of the gleaming white house, which could double as the curved bridge of a prewar ocean liner. “Its form also reminds me of some beautiful buildings on the Adriatic from the ’30’s, but on a minor scale: not rationalist, 74

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Previous spread: Along with renovating the interior of fashion designer Massimo Giorgetti’s house in Zoagli, on Italy’s Ligurian coast, Storagemilano restored the residence’s three levels of terraces with stone walls and built-in benches.

Top, from left: The entire master bathroom is custom, from the mirror and towel rack to the Ardesia slate vanity. The porthole next to the entry door was given a new frame and glass. In the kitchen, a half wall, clad in rubber-caulked teak planks, conceals stairs to the balcony TV area. Bottom, from left: Storage is built into the master bedroom’s teak-paneled wall, while the headboard supports a Davide Deserti sconce. The house was an observation post during World War II. Kitchen chairs and table, the latter topped in teak and edged in stainless steel, are custom.

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Top: The guest house, which has a bedroom and a gym, features walls clad in okoume, an African hardwood.

Bottom: Stones recovered from excavating the buried cottage were used to help rebuild it.

Opposite: The master bathroom occupies part of the original stone cellar and provides access to a storage cave beyond.

not modernist, not quite American deco like the hotels in Miami, yet somehow recalling all those styles with humble honesty.”

Given the house’s historical and aesthetic importance, its exterior could not be altered, though Pasini did install some new windows. So the intervention focused on the threelevel interior, which totals little more than 530 square feet—the kind of cramped quarters that boat designers regularly have to deal with. Pasini embraced the nautical analogy, approaching the project as though he were outfitting a luxury yacht.

Everything was rebuilt with an eye to seamless style and optimized space.

“We needed to hide things,” the architect succinctly puts it.

Entry is directly into the kitchen, which occupies almost all of the vessel’s “prow,” the biggest space in the house. The sink and stovetop sit under their own portholes, while teak cabinetry forms a graceful crescent under the panoramic view of the Ligurian Sea offered by a curved row of windows. A table in the center of the room is the perfect indoor spot for guests to congregate after a day of swimming, sunning, and aperitivi on the three terraces.

At the “stern” of the kitchen, a teak-clad half wall conceals a narrow companionway bifurcated by a tiny landing: The steps on the left lead up to a balcony just big enough to fit a sofa and flat-screen TV; those on the right lead down to a bathroom and the master suite. The treads of the staircase are trapezoid in shape, creating a beguiling zigzag effect that’s heightened with LED underlighting. Storage is concealed beneath the landing floor and behind a teak-paneled wall in the bedroom, which has its own bathroom—a knockout sliver of a space that occupies part of the original stone cellar.

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Pasini keeps everything looking trim and shipshape by limiting the color and materials palette. All cabinetry, flooring, and paneling comprises teak boards with rubber caulking, like traditional boat decking. The few pieces of custom furniture, such as the kitchen table and the bed, are the same wood. Both bathrooms are typically Italian, clad with broad horizontal stripes of white Carrara marble and inky Ardesia, a local slate. “It’s a decorative motif of the most beautiful Ligurian churches of the 1500’s,” Pasini observes. Otherwise, walls are white plaster. So is the exterior finish with crisp detailing in navy-blue paint, slightly darker than the original.

When Storagemilano approached the 480-square-foot guest house, it was mostly covered with earth.

Excavation involved the recovery of a quantity of rocks that, along with more Ardesia, were used to reconstruct the derelict building. The interior, which includes a bedroom and a gym, features African okoume millwork and paneling. “We use this wood a lot,” Pasini notes. “It’s strong and available in large slabs, which we treat with oil to make them look nice and elegant.”

Those adjectives apply to the finished project as a whole, but Pasini drew the most pleasure from “organizing the space to help Massimo live better.” As for Giorgetti, he says COVID-19 has helped shift his focus from Milan “to nature, fresh air, and greenery.” Let’s hope his beloved Zoagli never becomes posh and famous.

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Top, from left: A stairway leads from the main terrace through the rocks down to the Ligurian Sea. Rubberized canvas sails shade terraces from the Mediterranean sun.

Underlit with LEDs, the companionwayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s teak treads create a zigzag effect. Bottom, from left: Like the master bath, the walls of the second bathroom are clad in Carrara marble and Ardesia slate. Detailing on the exterior is painted a suitably nautical color.

The terra-cotta tiles on the terraces are new, while the existing pool got updated lighting and massage jets.

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A high-end department store can have a unique place in the life of a city. Think Harrods in London or Bergdorf Goodman in New York. In Toronto, Holt Renfrew has that distinction. Like its aforementioned counterparts, the flagship store on Bloor Street includes Holts Café, a restaurant known as a ladies-wholunch and special occasion spot since it opened in 2002. Alex Cochrane understands its sense of occasion in a very personal way. “The first time I visited it in 2007,” he recalls, “was to meet the Westons and ask for Alannah’s hand in marriage.” That lunch was a success: Cochrane has

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been married for 13 years to Selfridges chairman Alannah Weston, whose family also controls Holt Renfrew. Part of Holt Renfrew’s recent storewide renovation included a refresh of the eatery. With its myriad projects for Selfridges in London, Alex Cochrane Architects was the perfect fit for the job, resulting in a welcoming environment of warm minimalism, jewel tones, and simple geometries that maintains the existing clientele while also helping to attract a younger one.

On Holt Renfrew’s mezzanine, the cafe’s bar, lounge, and main and private dining rooms total 3,300 square

feet. All employ a restrained materials palette of white oak, rosewood, brass, and milky terrazzo, and have some degree of visual connection. But it’s not all so quiet. “We think color in­ vigorates the soul,” Cochrane says, acknowledging his admiration for Luis Barragán as well as for John Pawson. Each area has elements in primary colors, deployed with a touch that evokes the monumental paintings of Ellsworth Kelly. Banquette, stool, and chair upholstery alternates between emerald green, electric blue, golden yellow, and claret red. The shades reappear in Cochrane’s feature element seen throughout the

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Previous spread: For Holts Café, inside Holt Renfrew in Toronto, Alex Cochrane Architects appointed the passageway from the department store to the restaurant with an MDF form coated in high-gloss lacquer and lit by LEDs, a circular element that appears throughout the project.

Opposite top, from left: The motif carries through to the cafe’s signage of gold-finished anodized aluminum. A 4-foot-diameter mirror precedes the host station. Opposite bottom: The main dining room faces onto Bloor Street through a new curtain wall by Gensler; the banquette lamps are by Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglione.

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project: large circular panels, sconces really, since each is backlit, and finished in a high gloss. “To stand out against the clothing,” the architect continues, “the design and architecture have to have their strengths.”

Where steel structural columns pierce the interior, in the restrooms and corridors, for example, they too get coats of the same hues. “Color can be bold and feels positive,” Cochrane notes, “which is important in retail,” especially now, as shoppers slowly ease back into stores with COVID-19 stay-at-home orders lifting.

The ceiling and walls are tightly detailed, however, to make the custom elements sing more clearly. The ACA team worked carefully to contain mechanicals within a dropped ceiling.

To balance the resulting spatial compression, Cochrane specified a stretched-fabric system in the main dining room and the lounge. Each is a round or an oval recessed downlight that provides subtle light and a visual focal point. In the bar and atop banquettes, ACA specified spherical lamps by Vico Magistretti as well as Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglione.

Triangular sconces by Cochrane’s studio offer finer punctuation against the walls, particularly in the corridor leading to the restrooms.

The interior renovation proceeded alongside a rethinking of the entire 195,000-square-foot building, which originated as several separate structures. Its front facade had been covered since the 1970’s with a shroud of white marble. In its place, Cochrane together with Gensler are adding narrow, horizontal limestone panels.

The two teams have also opened up one end of the building with large windows framed by vertical bronzetoned mullions.

Cochrane carried the motif of ver­ tical fins into Holts Café. Its public spaces are divided by expanses of brass-plated posts; similar slats separate the bar, where visitors enter the restaurant, from the adjacent women’s footwear department. These porous borders, the architect says, balance a degree of visual privacy with a feeling of connection and energy. The rhythmic patterns generate “a sense of life and movement,” says Cochrane. Those exterior windows,

now 20 feet high, also connect Holts Café with a stretch of Bloor Street known as the Mink Mile, which is—or was, before the pandemic—busier than ever, lined with luxury retailers and an Eataly. “As a café guest,” Cochrane explains, “you can sit there and enjoy looking down at the action on the street.”

This outward-looking sensibility reflects the store’s goals for the re­ design. The company has a slightly more youthful sensibility than competitors like Saks and wanted “to make the café more dynamic,” says Mario Grauso, who stepped down as Holt Renfrew president in late May

Opposite top: Slats of brass-plated steel partially enclose the bar. Opposite bottom: Vico Magistretti lamps and a stretched ceiling gently illuminate the other side of the main dining room.

Top: Terrazzo flooring and a solid-surfacing countertop appear in the men’s restroom. Bottom: In the corridor leading to restrooms, photographs by Jason McDonald from Holt Renfrew ad campaigns hang on textured stucco walls.

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and has been replaced by Sebastian Picardo, “a space that customers would want to come to as its own destination, day and night.” As such, the color palette and gentle lighting are comfortable both for lunch and dinner. The revised menu features local and seasonal ingredients, plantbased selections, and relatively affordable options. And, when it reopens post-shutdown, the lounge, compact, carpeted, and speakeasylike, offers, among its signature drinks, the Renfrew, a sparkling rosé cocktail.

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Opposite top, from left: Custom triangular sconces are positioned to reflect light off corridor walls. Reeded glass sliding doors open to the private dining room featuring a custom pendant fixture and wool-viscose wall covering. Opposite bottom: The lounge, with custom sofas, offers cocktails till 11 PM on weekends, long after the department store has closed.

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framing the land WMR Arquitectos uses pine beam-and-column modules to create a hillside compound in El Manzano, Chile text: michael snyder photography: sergio pirrone

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When architects Jorge Manieu and Felipe Wedeles moved from Santiago to the twin coastal villages of Puertecillo and Matanzas, respectively, they did so because they thought the quiet, forested region approximately three hours southwest of the city would make a pleasant place to retire. At the time, the rocky stretch of coastline was one of the least populated in central Chile, preserved by complicated terrain and poor infrastructure—until five years ago, access was only via dirt road—“So we ended up being early colonizers here,” Manieu jokes. But in the 15 years since opening WMR Arquitectos with a third partner, Macarena Rabat, who is based in Santiago, their office has built dozens of new residences in the region.

The most recent of those residential projects is a sprawling 50-acre family compound, Campo La Higuera, centered on a 4,100-square-foot main house: a long, low-slung building that the architects and client refer to as el quincho, the term for an indoor-outdoor space used for home cookouts throughout the Southern Cone. More literally and—given the structure’s large footprint—more ironically, it means “the hut.” What the client originally asked for was “a deck with some shade, where his family could pitch tents,” Manieu recalls. “But he is super-intense, and constantly reimagined what the project would be.”

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Previous spread: A modular frame of pine columns and beams forms the main house at Campo La Higuera, a compound retreat in El Manzano, Chile, by WMR Arquitectos.

Top: Known as el quincho—“the hut”— the house sits on a terraced hillside de­ signed by renowned Chilean landscape architect Juan Grimm. Bottom: An outdoor kitchen in the central open-deck area is shaded by a pine trellis overlaid with eucalyptus sticks.

Opposite top: The master suite’s sitting area features a modular sofa and a wool rug handwoven by Chilean artisans.

Opposite bottom: The stain on the pine beams was inspired by shou sugi ban, the Japanese technique of charring wood to make it weatherproof.

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Left, from top: A cabin, one of three used by the owner’s adult children, projects over a ravine forested with native trees. The stables at the bottom of the property use the same materials and modular pine framework as the main house up the hill. Pine decking also surrounds the swimming pool. Right: The dining area’s Scandinavian-style table and chairs are joined by pine floor planks and a eucalyptus-stick ceiling.

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Initially the client worked with renowned Chilean landscape architect Juan Grimm to clear the gently undulant site of exotic pine and eucalyptus (this is Chile’s most important commercial logging region), replanting it with native trees like arrayán and boldo. Higher up the hillside, the owner has planted grape vines, the first in the area, from which he’s recently started producing simple table wines, largely for his family’s own consumption. An avid horseman, he also laid out bridle paths traversing the entire estate and surrounding forests and clifftops. “The architecture is really just a grain of sand compared to all the energy that went into the land,” Manieu notes.

Indeed, from the entrance to the property, the quincho, set low on a midslope ridge, is hardly visible at all. Its central public space maintains the project’s original premise: an open platform under a geometric trellis of robust pine beams that creates a patchwork of dense shade and dazzling austral light on the pine-clad deck. Sharing this outdoor living area, with its unrivaled views of the distant Pacific Ocean, are a sunken hot tub and groups of pine seating and dining furniture that the fierce sun has already faded to a delicate, dusty gray.

The whole structure, from frame to floor, is made of pine from a local mill. It’s

a simple style of building—timber beam-and-column modules, stained black— that WMR has perfected over the years in response to the regional climate and materials. Pine has proved ideal. “It was planted in this area to be exploited,” Manieu explains. “To use any other wood, to put in a single log from a native tree, would be sacrilege.” The modular form, based on the mill’s standard cutlength, initially emerged as a cost-saving strategy more than a decade ago when most of their clients were young families with limited budgets.

Gradually the quincho grew from the central deck, adding an enfilade of new indoor spaces—a full kitchen, dining and living areas, and a master suite with a plush yet understated sitting area—in the form of glass-enclosed modules. They are furnished in a straightforward, practical manner that defers to the architecture and landscape. The pine beams, columns, and floor planks are complemented by a blond-wood dining table and chairs, pillow-strewn modular sofas, and other clean-lined furniture, all with a decidedly European-modernist sens­ ibility yet mostly produced in Chile. These are joined by more overtly rustic pieces, handmade by local carpenters and craftspeople, along with handwoven rugs, textiles, wall hangings, and artwork by regional artisans.

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Just as the quincho expanded, so did the compound, eventually encompassing a square swimming pool, connected to the main house by a stepped pathway that boomerangs down the terraced hillside; stables for the family’s horses; and three minimalist cabins, one for each of the owner’s adult children, that project out over a densely forested ravine.

With walls, floors, and ceilings clad entirely in pine, headboards of woven wicker, and balconies opening onto the timbered gully, they’re enfolding wooden cocoons, like sleeping in the knot of a tree.

For all the project’s comforts and refinements, from a distance it still looks provisional, like a geometric shadow cast on the hillside. In fact, the architects’ master plan for the property actually includes a main house on a separate ridge, but to date the family is content to remain in their hut, close to the earth in a half-enclosed cabin—the perfect place to constantly reimagine what might come next.

Top: Small stone tiles clad the walls and floor of the master bathroom. Bottom: Along with the main house, three cabins, and pool, the 50-acre property includes a vineyard on its topmost slopes—the region’s first grape vines, which already produce wine.

Opposite top: The interior of a cabin is entirely clad in pine; the headboard is woven wicker from Chimbarongo, a town famed for that craft. Opposite bottom: A hot tub and outdoor living area take center stage on the deck, the first portion of the quincho to be built.

PROJECT TEAM LAURA DECURGEZ; MANUEL GRANADOS: WMR ARQUITECTOS. KATERINA JOFRÉ: LIGHTING CONSULTANT. OSVALDO PEÑALOZA: STRUCTURAL ENGINEER. PEDRO SARMIENTO: MEP. RODRIGO VELIZ: ELECTRICAL ENGINEER. MÁXIMO RIVERA: GENERAL CONTRACTOR. PROJECT SOURCES FROM FRONT MILK: SOFA (MASTER SUITE). FORASTERO: COFFEE TABLE. CASA SUR & CO.: RUGS (MASTER SUITE, LIVING AREA). WØLF-NORDICA: TABLE, CHAIRS (DINING AREA). AMESTI: FIREPLACE. THROUGH­ OUT WASHINGTON ENRIQUE ALVAREZ RUAY: CUSTOM WINDOWS.

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An elementary school outside Prague by SOA Architekti celebrates learning, community, and passive architecture

bohemian rhapsody text: neal pollack photography: boysplaynice

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Many schools throughout the Czech Republic bear the grim mark of endgame Eastern Bloc architecture, their design stuck in the 1980’s. Not very inspiring to the young students passing through them. Elementary School Amos, however, in the small Bohemian town of Psáry, is unlike any of them. Seven years ago, a national architecture competition called for proposals for Amos. SOA Architekti, a small studio based in Prague that had been focused on interior-design and residential projects, beat out the 62 other firms that entered. At that time, Czechia didn’t really have a system in place for institutional biddings, so everyone gave it a shot.

“That might have been our advantage,” SOA prin­ cipal Ondřej Píhrt begins. “School design in the Czech Republic had not been anything anyone really bothered about. There wasn’t much to learn from, and we couldn’t use our own school experience from the ’80’s as a good starting point.”

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So, along with co-principals Ondřej Laciga and Štefan Šulek, Píhrt started fresh, drawing on the progressive 21st-century school models in Germany, the Baltic countries, Switzerland, Austria, and, especially, Scandinavia. “We realized it had to be designed from the inside out, around the kids, to create a microworld for them to explore,” Píhrt says. “Not the other way around, like had mostly been the case.”

The resulting 41,000-square-foot, three-building complex reimagines the elementary school as the center of a small city with a distinct civic identity.

Not only does it feel and look unique and exciting but SOA also conceived of it as a place that the entire town of Psáry can use and enjoy. That concept was part of the original competition brief. “Schools have been quite walled-off from the community, and not for security reasons,” Píhrt notes. “Allowing everyone to use the building makes perfect

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Previous spread: At Elementary School Amos in Psáry, Czech Republic, by SOA Architekti, linoleum flooring flows through the entry foyer and adjoining cafeteria.

Opposite: The school’s name is painted on the larch facade of the corridor connecting the three buildings.

Top: Behind the custom entry bench, a PVC-clad partition functions as an ever-changing whiteboard for school projects.

Bottom: Chairs by Claudio Dondoli and Marco Pocci join custom tables and benches beneath the cafeteria’s sprucecoffered ceiling.

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Opposite top, from left: Off the gym, the boy’s changing room includes built-in benches. Balustrades and balconies are HPL. Opposite bottom, from left: Each color-coded floor is an enclosed cluster of classrooms around a central hall equipped with restrooms and teacher lounges. Matching benches outfit the girl’s changing room.

Top: All ceilings are paneled in acoustic material. Bottom: Linoleum also floors a space outside a classroom cluster.

sense.” The town even established a special civic association to organize nonschool activities there, such as cooking workshops and author readings.

The two-level connecter building centers on an open-plan cafeteria that functions like a town square, with educational wings resembling lively streets full of activity. Bright, fluid space defines what Píhrt refers to as the “learning landscape,” organized in clusters around wide staircases. Each cluster consists of two or three classrooms and a central hall, with access to outdoor areas and its own color-coded identity. The classrooms are infinitely adaptable. Students can write on the classroom walls and use them as magnetic surfaces.

Píhrt says giving kids that opportunity allows them to feel ownership. “Space you can partly style and shape yourself will become yours more naturally.”

The cafeteria on its own is dynamic—airy and double-height, with a square ceiling grid interspersed with LED fixtures in the same shape, rem­iniscent of an oversize tic-tac-toe board. But the room can also combine with an adjacent gymnasium via a wall of folding doors to become a spacious auditorium with a stage. An outdoor terrace connects with a grassy slope and a playground for younger kids, part of the 1-acre grounds that can be used by locals organizations for outside workshops or relaxing. The public library next door further enhances the community vibe. In other words, it’s a nice place to hang out, which is not something that can be said about a lot of schools, in any country.

Although the exteriors of the reinforced-concrete buildings are stark white, color is fully present inside. Student lockers and the linoleum flooring running underneath them are canary yellow. Chairs in the cafeteria are cherry red. Changing rooms off the gym are sky blue for boys, salmon pink for girls.

Throughout, graphics based on child drawings create a warm, homey environment.

Abundant woodwork—on stair balustrades, fronting balconies, paneling the gym—glued trusses supporting the flat roof of the connecting building, and larch slats on portions of that facade temper the bold pops. Exterior and interior walls are made from sand limestone bricks. The natural materials synchronize with SOA’s employment of passive architecture practices for the school. Heat is provided by pumps combined with gas boilers to cover peak hours. Hot-water floor heating is supported by radiators in classrooms. Ventilation-system units are decentralized on the roofs and attics of each building, and the intensity of ventilation is controlled automatically. In summer, the system is

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Left: Radek Hegmon and David Karásek designed the teak benches at the entry.

Opposite top, from left: Adjacent to the larch-slat gymnasium, bleachers are wood-topped concrete. A playground for younger children is next to the cafeteria’s terrace.

Opposite bottom: Plywood panels surround the main gym.

used for nighttime pre-cooling. A rainwater system collects water for irrigation and toilet flushing.

“The built environment can support and trigger good pedagogical practice,” Píhrt explains, “and helps the kids form their sense of space and quality.

They spend a lot of time in the building at an age when they perceive things more or less intuitively.”

The students love it and the teachers are getting used to it. “Amos,” he says, “is a school I would like my children to attend.”

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lady in red With color and shimmer, AD Architecture dresses up the Trongyee boutique in Shantou, China text: rebecca lo photography: ouyang yun

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Ever since becoming a foreign-controlled “treaty port” in 19th-century China, Shantou has been open to international trade. When the country began open­ing up in the 1980’s, it therefore made sense that this city on the South China Sea, opposite Taiwan, was designated a Special Economic Zone. Yet progress here has been more relaxed and organic than in SEZs such as Shenzhen.

Slower development means that traditional shophouses, three-story brick structures with merchants below and residences above, exist side by side with glass skyscrapers in Shantou’s central district. The relatively low density also means that the COVID-19 outbreak made less of an impact on the population of approximately 5 million than in the provincial capital, Guangzhou.

In one of those Shantou shophouses is Trongyee, a high-end women’s boutique. Owner Lu Wang had operated the shop for 20 years when she decided that its offerings—predominantly casual wear, shoes, bags, and accessories from various Chinese and international labels—could benefit from a more appealing brand identity overall. So she looked to Peihe Xie, founder and chief designer of AD Architecture, for a renovation.

“To position Trongyee at a higher level,” Xie notes, he developed a concept of evolution, with clever modifications, as opposed to a complete transformation. Certain existing elements, most notably a mezzanine at the rear, have been refreshed not removed. In a sense, it’s similar to the fashion world’s seasonal changes.

Well positioned to attract shoppers, now that they are slowly returning, the boutique presents an open facade to a busy commercial street. The glass storefront, which stretches the full width Previous spread: To create rippled reflections at the Trongyee women’s boutique in Shantou, China, AD Architecture clad a ceiling in mirror-polished stainless steel.

Opposite: Anchoring the main sales floor, a disk in brushed stainless steel slices through a custom limestone table.

Top: A volume surfaced in micro-cement shelters the boutique entry. Bottom: Arched doorways demarcate a trio of fitting rooms.

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Opposite: Micro-cement on the stairwell to the mezzanine is tinted a different color from the surrounding surfaces.

Right: Outside the fitting rooms is a waiting area.

of the building, does not extend to the maximum possible height, however, creating something of a compressed effect to draw the gaze of passersby deep into the 970-square-foot space. Illumination also plays a part: intentionally dim on the exterior and crisply spotlit on the interior.

“As people in Shantou mostly drive, the contrast­ ing lighting guides eyes directly in,” Xie says.

The sole bright spot on the facade is the backlit Trongyee logo emblazoned on a rectangular volume that floats above the front door, like a small marquee. Besides serving as signage, the composition alludes to the geometric forms inside. “Curves and angles interweave to enrich the space visually,” the designer continues.

world’s seasonal changes” “The vaulted ceiling and arched doorways counterbalance all the straight lines.”

Clothing display racks, horizontal bars with equally simple vertical supports, stand against the sidewalls. “The middle of the floor is a flex­ ible area that can be used for events,” Xie explains. “Shortly after we handed over the project, Trongyee held its first product launch, for clothing and other accessories by labels including Atelier, Cochains, and Grace Feng.”

An arresting focal point amid the openness, a low square slab of rough limestone is intersected by a large disk in brushed stainless steel, slicing halfway across. Functionally, this is a table for showcasing accessories and ma­ gazines, but it’s just as much about contrasting forms and materiality.

Euclidean tropes continue with a crescentshape cash wrap desk that acts as a loose de­marcation point between the main sales floor and the rear of the ground level, under the mezzanine. Here, a waiting area with a sofa is thoughtfully positioned outside the row of

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three fitting rooms, each entered via an arched doorway. Farthest back on the main sales floor are the restroom and the staff pantry.

Xie splashed the rear staircase up to the mez­ zanine—home to a sales salon and an office—with a dramatic shade of red. Coating the steps and walls, it seems to emit a pink aura, thanks to light bouncing off the unusual ceiling treatment. Be­ cause of the limited headroom under the mezza­ nine, just 7 feet 3 inches, he camouflaged the surface with wavy mirror-polished stainless steel.

“The rippling patterns both expand and blur the boundaries of the space,” Xie notes.

The red is micro-cement, the same finish found, in shades of gray, dominating the rest of the bou­ tique. Standing out against the monochromatic floors, walls, and ceiling vault, the red and mir­ rored surfaces produce intriguing shimmers and halo effects that come alive as they reflect the movement of shoppers.

Although those shoppers have been scarce of late, Xie is optimistic. As the slowdown ends, longtime Trongyee customers may be itching to get out and heed the message in the boutique’s name. It translates roughly as: Beautify yourself through clothing.

PROJECT TEAM SHANTOU ANBAI HOUSEHOLD BUILDING MATERIALS CO.: CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS. PRODUCT SOURCES FROM FRONT QUANZHOU SHANGXIANG CULTURE AND ART CO.: CUSTOM TABLE (SALES FLOOR). THROUGHOUT TOPCIMENT: CE­MENT. OIKOS: PAINT. SAT: LIGHTING.

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essential elements

Projects around the globe not only look good but also make visitors feel good text: colleen curry See page 118 for EKH Children’s Hospital in Samut Sakhon, Thailand, by Integrated Field Co.

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“We were inspired by the beautiful and primitive world of dinosaurs”

Bean Buro project Beautysaur Organics, Hong Kong. standout Although its logo is Mesozoic, the budding skincare company’s clientele is definitively millennial, so the store’s aesthetic is tinted slightly Memphis, with rounded profiles, terrazzo surfaces, and saturated pastels. photography courtesy of Bean Buro.

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“It was necessary above all else that our work express both identities”

Ubalt Architectes project Adidas x INSEP, Paris. standout Teamwork wins at the Institut National du Sport et de l’Éducation Physique, where a recent renovation whipped the student lounge into shape, its custom tiled tables atop vinyl flooring streaked with the iconic Adidas Triple Stripe. photography Yohann Fontaine.

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Integrated Field Co. project EKH Children’s Hospital, Samut Sakhon, Thailand. standout The lobby’s twisting fiberglass slide supports the brief’s theme of playing is healing, as does the facility’s 850-square-foot, “cloud”-surrounded pool, also available for older patients to use for hydrotherapy. photography Ketsiree Wongwan.

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“We tried to create a dialogue between the activities of waiting, playing, and observing”

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“When you arrive, it’s meant to feel like stepping into someone’s home”

Rockwell Group project ORA, New York. standout Combining ancient Chinese medicine and tea culture with contemporary design, the acupuncture and cupping clinic’s reception centers on a marble check-in counter, where patients are served herbal beverages under an installation of dip-dyed cotton rope. photography Phoebe Cheong.

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BOOKs

edited by Stanley Abercrombie

David Adjaye–Works 1995-2007: Houses, Pavilions, Installations, Buildings

by David Adjaye New York: Thames & Hudson, $90 300 pages, 400 illustrations (200 color)

This welcome book—postponed until the fall due to the pandemic—does not show us David Adjaye’s latest work, but something of equal interest: the “early years in practice and the formative years of Adjaye Associates,” demonstrating “the sense of urgency we had, the need to experiment with the typologies and built fabric we were offered.”

Here are three dozen of these experiments, many of them never published in book form before. (One of them, a pair of studios for two New York artists, was also in David Adjaye: Living Spaces, reviewed here in 2017.)

Many are adroit reimaginings of existing buildings, some are new. One is an angular one-room potting shed, others are multistory blocks; several are examples of collaborations with artists (Chris Ofili and Olafur Eliasson), some deal with community needs in urban centers (London’s “Idea Stores”). All display an inventive, idiosyncratic, but secure design sense. And all investigate the possibilities of natural lighting and vertical connections among spaces. None of them predicts Adjaye’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, which opened on the Washington Mall in 2016, firmly establishing the architect's importance.

The book’s editor, a collaborator with Adjaye for 20 years, is Peter Allison, the closely observant introductory essay is by Pippo Ciorra, and the respectful book design is by Zoe Simpson. The genius is David Adjaye.

Liaigre: Creation

by Françoise-Claire Prodhon New York: Rizzoli International Publications, $75 360 pages, 279 illustrations (253 color)

Christian Liaigre founded his celebrated namesake firm in the early 1960’s, and then sold it and retired, this new book tells us, in 2016.

But not before beginning the five residential commissions shown here. They were concluded, we’re also told, “by his team under the artistic direction of Frauke Meyer.”

The locations of the projects—France (where the Liaigre firm is based), Switzerland, India, Japan, and Germany—hints at the international reputation the firm has earned. Each of them, we imagine, rests comfortably in its location and has a distinct personality, but one that reflects the character and tastes of its occupants not its nationality. Each also has its own materials palette and furniture, custom designed for it alone.

The amount of space given to every one of the five projects (roughly 60 pages each) reflects how important the most minute details are to the designers. Indeed, there are very few exterior views. Instead, presentations begin with a dozen or so pages titled “Inspiration.” Here we see material samples and color swatches, of course, but also more characterful objects: a feather, a view of distant mountains, a slice through a tree trunk, a piece of fruit. These have no printed captions, but instead French notes in seemingly hasty cursive, which are translated into printed English in the back of the book, where some of them remain tantalizingly vague: “Emerging,” for example, or “Seeking. . . uncertainty.”

The book closes with “Studio,” several pages of uncaptioned blackand-white photos of the staff, not posing but at work—some at drawing boards, some at computers, some sketching with pencils. The book itself, like the work it shows, is thoughtful, inventive, idiosyncratic, cleanly simple yet luxurious. Also expensive? Maybe, but deservedly so.

What They’re Reading...

Troy Schaum Partner at Schaum/Shieh

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“I went to a short reading Ocean Vuong gave recently at Brazos Bookstore, an independent shop around the corner from our office in

by Ocean Vuong Houston. A good friend had recommended his poems to me in the New York: Penguin Random House, $26 past, so my interest was piqued when I saw he was so close by.

256 pages Vuong has such care in the way he puts together sentences.

Reading him is like watching expert rock climbers find holds. The route feels so natural when the line is completed but you are held in suspense by the turns they take along the way. Beyond its formal construction, which draws me into his work across different genres, the empathy with which he treats his subjects is startling at points.

It is very hard for me to make an easy distinction between my work and my life. That said, I am pushing lately to see more of the texture of problems and not just the edges they form. Vuong’s work doesn’t look at the edges of things but finds where the soft middles overlap.”

BOTTOM LEFT: COURTESY OF TROY SCHAUM

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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c o n ta c t s DESIGNERS IN SPECIAL FEATURE

DESIGNERS IN HEALTH & WELLNESS

Bean Buro (“Essential Elements,” page 112), beanburo.com.

Arauna Studio (“Calming Effect,” page 41), arauna.studio.

Integrated Field Co. (“Essential Elements,” page 112), integratedfield.com.

Best Practice Architecture (“Calming Effect,” page 41), bestpracticearchitecture.com.

Rockwell Group (“Essential Elements,” page 112), rockwellgroup.com.

Ubalt Architectes (“Essential Elements,” page 112), ubalt-architectes.com.

PHOTOGRAPHERS IN FEATURES BoysPlayNice (“Bohemian Rhapsody,” page 96), boysplaynice.cz.

Helenio Barbetta (“Sail Away,” page 72), Living Inside, livinginside.it.

Eric Laignel Photography (“Fashionable Circles,” page 80), ericlaignel.com.

Intoex (“Calming Effect,” page 41), intoex.co.kr.

Mariotti Studio (“Calming Effect,” page 41), mariottistudio.com.

Rai Pinto Studio (“Calming Effect,” page 41), raipinto.com.

DESIGNER IN CENTERFOLD FGP Atelier (“Tree of Knowledge,” page 67), fgp-atelier.com.

Sergio Pirrone (“Framing the Land,” page 88), sergiopirrone.com.

DESIGNER IN WALK-THROUGH Sergio Mannino Studio (“Beauty Mark,” page 37), sergiomannino.com.

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design

annex

DOOR HARDWARE Buster + Punch is a London-born home fashion label. We work with rare, solid materials to make extraordinary items for everyday use. Design trade professionals wanted. t. 818.392.3827 trade.busterandpunch.us

QM Drain Supreme revolutionizes the installation of linear drains when the pipe is off-center.

An independent base eliminates the need to relocate existing pipes. Supreme appears centered regardless of existing drainpipe location. Available in various lengths and finishes. Modern, impeccable, supreme. t. 954.773.9450 e. info@qm-us.com qmdrain.com

The Luna Piena Coffee table The Luna Piena Coffee Table by Bespoke by Luigi Gentile is a beautiful two-tiered white Carrara marble table with a modern polished nickel metal base. Perfect for modern or classically styled homes. All design elements and dimensions are custom made. t. 212.371.7107 e. info@bespokebylg.com bespokebylg.com

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PCS106 Power Grommet

Kaswell Flooring

Put convenient power and USB charging options within reach. Mounts into work desks and other furniture, anywhere power access is needed at home or in the office. Includes two power outlets plus USB-A and USB-C charging inputs. t. 800.523.1269 mockett.com

Since 1946, Kaswell Flooring Systems has pioneered the use of specialty wood materials for flooring and vertical surfaces in residential, corporate, hospitality, and healthcare applications. Our FSC prefinished hemlock strip block (displayed here in extra white) is a creative and unique way to compliment any space. Please visit our website to request samples or more information. t. 508.881.1520 kaswell.com

Infinity Drain Slot Linear Drain

Edition Modern

Designed to disappear, Infinity Drain’s Slot Linear Drain has a narrow 3/8-inch drainage gap that integrates seamlessly for a beautiful, barrier free bathroom. An easily accessible clean-out tray simplifies the process of debris removal. infinitydrain.com

Handcrafted in Los Angeles atelier of French modernist devotee Denis de la Mesiere, Edition Modern pays homage to iconic designers Pierre CHAREAU, Jean ROYERE and others with scrupulous attention to detail and materials that are faithful to the timeless spirit of their original masterpieces. editionmodern.com

Whiting & Davis Digitally Printed Metal Mesh

Uline

Escape the traditional with digitally printed metal mesh fabric. Your pattern or photograph printed on Whiting & Davis’ Flat Spider mesh fabric will transform your environment with modern and dramatic appeal. Feel the difference.

Made in USA Since 1876 t. 800.876.MESH wdmesh.com

Uline’s cushioning gives you the best seat in the house. And with over 36,000 products, you’ll love our variety. Order by 6 PM for same day shipping. Best service, products and selection – experience the difference! t. 800.295.5510 uline.com

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concrete vision

There’s a new generation of shoppers in China’s large cities. International, fashionable, and with a pen­ chant for luxury, one-of-kind goods, they’re the market that the Shouter, a millennial-focused home-furnishings boutique in Shanghai, is looking to attract. To do so, the store enlisted KCA/Kostas Chatzigiannis Architecture, led by the firm’s namesake principal.

The client’s primary request was that the Shouter look completely different from its retail neighbors.

Employing concrete, KCA took an assertive, crea­ tive approach that immediately sets apart the 2,700-square-foot store, starting with its facade.

Walls, 1 foot thick, were cast in place to appear “broken,” Chatzigiannis notes, in the middle and supported by stainless-steel poles. The resulting holes partially expose the interiors to passersby as well as the individual furniture pieces, such as APcollection’s pink sheepskin Flamingo Girl chair, displayed on simple white platforms. “Cracks” in the concrete are lit by similarly fragmented linear LEDs. The simplicity of the materials palette allows the products to shine. “The idea was to create a rough architectural background to contrast with the del­ icate, colorful merchandise,” Chatzigiannis explains.

Some of that merch are limited-edition custom pieces by the architect himself. “We designed things the customers probably haven’t seen before.”

—Wilson Barlow

DERRYCK MENERE

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Arc-Com

Ensemble Collection

Bentley Mills

Encore

Invisible Visionaries Collection

String Games

Momentum Textiles and Wallcovering

Nucraft

Light Collection

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Patcraft

Shaw Contract

FENIX® Innovative Materials

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Benjamin Moore

The Benjamin Moore Color Portfolio™ App & ColorReader

Resonate

Shifting Fields

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