Timeless and filled with natural light through floor to ceiling windows, Le Jardinier restaurant gives one the feeling of being in a modern greenhouse in the heart of New York City.
Since 2002, Robin Standefer and Stephen Alesch, the duo behind Roman and Williams, have designed restaurants, hotels, shops and furniture all over the country. At the end of 2017, they took a new step with the launch of their flagship store.
Max Worrell and Jejon Yeung, partners of New York City-based architectural firm Worrell Yeung, refresh an original Charles Gwathmey structure from the 1970s House in the Dunes—a two-story beach abode with modernist bones—to its architectural essence.
Matt Berman, one of the founding principals of New York-based Workshop/APD, is a believer in the transformative power of good design demostrated in this former miner’s cabin.
Artists and architects are the curators of our physical world. Leaders in each field are creating bold interactions between space and surrounds, challenging the landscape at some of our most revered museums to change how, and what, we see.
Brutalism, the bold, blocky architectural style that employs the use of raw concrete in geometric formations is finding its way into more modern designs.
The opening of the city’s design debutante marks new territory for Knoll, which comes to L.A. by way of New York City and has only two direct-to-consumer retail locations—our local outpost the sequel to its longer-running show in NYC. Coveted for its modern designs—those geometrized, cleaned-lined things from Mid-century Modern masters like Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and current L.A. legend Frank Gehry—the au courant emporium is meant to connect two of the city’s more prolific communities: residential design professionals and consumers.
Rare in this city is the anticipated opening that does not come out of Hollywood. Nevertheless, the new NoMad Los Angeles hotel, which bowed last month on corner of 7th and Olive Street in Downtown, has a Hollywood story to tell. The hotel takes over the Giannini Building, which was originally built in the 1920s and the one-time headquarters of the Bank of Italy, which helped bankroll Walt Disney’s badly over budget Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Like that film, this one has all the makings of a classic: a building with much of its neoclassical character, veteran leadership at every level, the essence of its celebrated predecessor NoMad New York, and a sensitivity to the cultural, social and physical fabric of its local environ. How could it not be a hit?
With bold strokes and cool-to-hot hues, prismatic minds Olson Kundig, David Adjaye and Thiel Architecture + Design have produced distinctly vivacious designs in Seattle, Los Angeles and New York City, respectively, bringing a little more color to the urban cityscape.
