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Peter L. Barna
Peter received his Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech and his Masters of Industrial Design from Pratt Institute. He is a professional engineer, and a tenured Associate Professor at Pratt Institute.
He was formerly chair of the Industrial Design Department at Pratt, Lighting Editor of Interiors Magazine, and Principal of Light & Space Associates, a New York City lighting design consultancy. He has won numerous lighting design awards. Past projects include: the Guggenheim Museum renovation and expansion, NBC and GE Headquarters in Rockefeller Plaza, Samsung resorts in Korea, and a 100 meter tall Buddha in Sendai Japan.
He is presently the Provost at Pratt Institute.
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Myonggi Sul
Myonggi Sul has practiced Interior Design in New York City for over 20 years. Ms. Sul is currently the Principal of Myonggi Sul Design, which provides Interior Design Services to corporations in need of design services, as well as high end Residences. Aside from providing services directly to the end user clients, Myonggi Sul Design provides interior design services to major architectural firms.
Prior to the formation of Myonggi Sul Design, Ms. Sul was the Director of Interior Design at the world renowned architectural firm of Marcel Breuer Associates. Ms. Sul was later an associate at GN Associates/Carol Groh and Associates where her creative skills and leadership were instrumental in the firm’s recognition as the 1988 Designer of the Year by the Interiors magazine.
Ms. Sul is currently a Professor at Pratt Institute in the Interior Design Department where she has been a professor of both graduate, and undergraduate design studios. Ms. Sul has also served as a guest critic to a variety of Universities including Fashion Institute of Technology, School of Visual Arts, Parsons School of Design, and University of Cincinnati. During the fall semester of 2000, while on a leave of absence from Pratt Institute, Ms. Sul taught at Hongik University, and Gunguk University in Seoul, Korea as a visiting professor.
Ms. Sul has a Bachelors degree in English Literature, and a Master of Science in Environmental Design from Pratt Institute.
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Stephen Doyle
Stephen Doyle is principal and creative director at Doyle Partners, a New York-based design studio known for its expertise in graphic design, communications, and marketing. Founded in 1985, this ten-person studio has established an international reputation for creating communications programs and engaging design concepts implemented with discipline and imagination.
Stephen Doyle brings his background in editorial design to play in some unlikely places—from mass market retail to exhibitions, from corporate communications to packaging. ID magazine reports that he “rejects fashionable styles in favor of solid, functional approaches rooted in concept, not adornment…all without losing his sense of humor.” Notable projects include branding, packaging and in-store presentation of Martha Stewart Everyday in Kmart (with over 2,500 package designs for this 1.4 billion dollar brand); a new identity program for Barnes & Noble, including store design, website design, marketing materials and collateral; overhauling the identity for the global real estate firm Tishman Speyer. Doyle often cites projects from the world of fine art as inspirations as he tries to infuse his design with a sense of humanity and personal engagement. From CDs to film titles, installations and global brands, he insists that it is the “mix” that keeps the thinking fresh and the execution lively.
The work of Doyle Partners has been highly awarded within the industry, notably with medals and awards from The Art Director’s Club (NY); the American Institute of Graphic Arts; the Society of Environmental Graphic Designers; D&AD (UK); ID magazine, the American Center for Design, the Type Directors Club; and the Society of Publication Designers. The studio has received critical recognition in over fifty publications
Previously Mr. Doyle was art director of M&Co., and associate art director at Rolling Stone magazine and Esquire. He is a member of AIGA, SPD, and was elected to the Alliance Graphique Internationale. In 1999, he was awarded the prestigious St. Gaudens Award from his alma mater, The Cooper Union. His teaching posts have included the graduate programs at The School of Visual Arts and Yale, as well as The Cooper Union and NYU. He lives in Greenwich Village with his wife, Gael Towey, and their two children.
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Gael Towey
Chief Creative Officer
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc.
Gael Towey is the founding Art Director of Martha Stewart Living Magazine. Over the past 15 years, the breadth of Gael’s creative direction has expanded with the rapid growth of Martha Stewart Living Omnemedia, and she was named Chief Creative Officer in May, 2005.
Since its first issue, Martha Stewart Living took the lead in a whole new category of lifestyle publishing and products. “Our design strategy,” says Gael, “is to enchant and inform with well-researched stories and original ideas in our magazines and on television. From those core areas of expertise flow a broad range of useful, functional and stylish products that help our readers, listeners and viewers make every day a little better.
“For us, design is the creation and execution of an idea from start to finish. We develop our content and our core values in our magazines and books, where our stylists and editors work in a laboratory atmosphere to create stories from scratch.” Beyond publishing, Gael’s collaboration with Martha Stewart has spurred the development of outstanding products for the home. “We make great design accessible to everyone and that is our driving force and our inspiration. We have been innovative in bringing quality materials, sophisticated color palettes and thoughtful details to all of our products and have been pioneers in the democracy of design.”
Under Gael’s creative direction, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia has won numerous awards in many categories, including the prestigious American Society of Magazine Editors Award for design and photography, the Art Directors Club Vision Award for long-term commitment to good design and its impact on our culture, and the Daimler Chrysler Design Award, which recognizes designers for extraordinary innovation. We were also included in the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum show: “Design Culture Now.”
Gael lives with her husband, Stephen Doyle, and their two teen-aged children in New York City.
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Thomas R. Krizmanic AIA
Tom is a Principal at STUDIOS Architecture, an international architecture, interiors, and planning practice with offices in New York, Washington, DC, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Paris. Tom joined STUDIOS’ Washington, DC office in 1989 as an intern while studying for his Bachelor of Architecture at the Catholic University of America.
In 1997, Tom left Washington, DC to lead the design efforts of STUDIOS newly opened New York office. Since then, the office has achieved enormous success, due in part to his dedication to strong design and his ability to forge successful collaborations with his clients.
Regarded by his peers as an influential design leader in the organization, Tom excels at creating clearly organized architecture that intrinsically reflects his clients’ identity within a physical embodiment of their environment.
Tom’s leadership and talent have allowed him to be successful in a broad range of project types including corporate offices, high-end retail, law firms, restaurants and other highly creative organizations. Recent work includes projects for MTV, IAC/InterActiveCorp, Wenner Media, Nokia, and the 750,000 square foot New York headquarters for Bloomberg. His work has been featured in Architectural Record, Metropolis, Interior Design and Contract.
Born in Madison, Wisconsin, Tom is a resident of Harlem and particularly enjoys sketching the streetscapes of his neighborhood and the landscapes of Central Park. Tom is also a volunteer mentor through Publicolor.
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Jon Otis
Object inc. is led by Principal & Creative Director Jon Otis. Upon receiving a Masters Degree in Design from the University of Massachusetts, he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to Milan, Italy in 1985. There, he worked with the heralded industrial designers DePas D'Urbino Lomazzi, designing furniture, lighting, and exhibitions. After one year, Otis joined legendary designer Ettore Sottsass at Sottsass Associati, and worked closely on diverse projects such as the Enorme telephone, Brion Vega televisions,Esprit showrooms and stores, fashion showrooms and furniture projects with partners Sottsass, Marco Zanini, and Aldo Cibic. As a Studio Director in New York with design giant Mancini Duffy in 1989-91, Otis was charged with designing offices and showrooms for Calvin Klein Cosmetics and Teknion Systems Furniture.
In 1991, Otis formed The Moderns design studio as a Partner in charge of Interior Architecture and Product Design, and won numerous design awards for Showroom, and Exhibition Design. The work has been published extensively in various design journals. He left after 1998 to form Object inc.
Besides lecturing throughout the United States at Colleges and Universities, Otis is also currently on the Design Faculty at Pratt Institute and teaches courses at the New York School of Interior Design.
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Jonathan Marvel + Rob Rogers
Rogers Marvel Architects, PLLC bases its award-winning practice in Lower Manhattan and Cody, Wyoming. In addition to numerous project awards, the firm was recognized in 'Emerging Voices' by the Architectural League of New York, exhibited in the New York Series and the partnership was chosen for the once-a-decade list of '40 Under 40' most promising talents in the United States. The principals lecture regularly throughout the United States.
In 1991, Robert Rogers and Jonathan Marvel formed Rogers Marvel Architects. Their experience includes institutional, educational, commercial, and master planning and landscape architecture projects. In 2000 they started a company called TRUCK Product Architecture, designing furniture and table-top objects.
Robert M. Rogers studied architecture at Rice University and the Harvard Design School. In 1983 he joined I.M. Pei & Partners and worked on the Louvre and the Bank of China. Rob teaches at Columbia University and Pratt Institute.
Jonathan J. Marvel studied at Dartmouth College and the Harvard Design School. He worked with Richard Meier on the Museu d'Art Contemporani in Barcelona and the Getty Center until 1990. He teaches at the Harvard Design School, and has taught at Columbia University, and the Universita di Napoli, Italy.
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Cary Murnion
HONEST was founded in the Spring of 1997. Partners Jonathan Milott and Cary Murnion met while attending Parsons School of Design, NYC.
HONEST is involved in a variety of projects including producing and directing films; editing and designing their own magazine/book called Honest; designing books, motion graphics, and identities for a wide range of clients; and showing art in various galleries around the world.
Recent projects include a series of short films for MSN called 'ESP Billy' starring Ricky Jay, launched in early 2006, through Fallon. Also, short films for Panasonic’s 2006 Winter Olympics campaign; Nike's ‘Art of Speed’ project and 'You're Faster Than You Think' campaign; a short film for Diesel's 'Dream Maker' campaign; illustration for Metropolis' 25th anniversary issue; and a website The Slowsky's website for Comcast.
Honest was selected to be in the New Young Directors program at Cannes Lions 2005, and is part of the 2005 New Directors issue of shots magazine. Honest
was also selected by the Art Directors Club to be a part of their Young Guns 4 exhibition and will be judging Young Guns 5 in 2006. The work of HONEST
has been featured in shots, RES, The Fader, EYE, NYLON, Anthem, Black Book, Creative Review, Print, STEP, IdN and other magazines.
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Michele Oka Doner
Michele Oka Doner is an internationally acclaimed artist. Her work is featured in a number of major public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and the National Design Museum—Smithsonian Institution, New York. She is also well known for her public monuments, including "Radiant Site," a 150-foot wall composed of 11,000 gold lustre tiles located in the Herald Square Subway complex in New York, "Codex Sacramento" at the Sacramento Central Library, and "A Walk on the Beach," the celebrated 22,000 square foot floor of Concourse A, Miami International Airport.
Oka Doner has participated in a number of distinguished exhibitions, among them Formed by Fire, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Design Resource, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, Industrial Elegance, Guggenheim Museum, New York, Reperti, National Museum of Fine Arts, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Architecture and Art, International Contemporary Art Fair, Yokohama, Japan. Her work has been reviewed by the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, the Washington Post, Metropolis Magazine and the Los Angeles Times. Oka Doner is the recipient of a number of awards and grants, including those from the Kress Foundation, the New York State Council for the Arts and the Lydia Winston Malbin Prize from the Detroit Institute of the Arts.
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Giovanni Pellone
Giovanni Pellone grew up in Rome, Italy; where he studied Economics and Industrial Technology. After moving to the United States in 1985, Giovanni developed his interest for Art and Design, earning degrees from Parsons School of Design and Pratt Institute.
In 1996 he was the co-founder of the design driven manufacturer Benza, of which he was President and Creative Director. The company's main objective
was to provide a creative outlet for experimental design work, with a commitment to US design and US manufacturing. From 1996 to 2005 Benza's
unique approach to the development of home accessories helped emerging American design gain deserved international exposure.
Always blurring the boundaries between art and design, Giovanni's ground breaking work in accessory and furniture design has earned him awards and worldwide recognition, appearing in some of the most prestigious exhibitions, including "Workspheres" in 2001 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and "Ten Avant Garde Designers" by Surface magazine and Romeo Gigli during the 2002 Salone del Mobile in Milan. For over ten years, his projects have been regularly featured in the world’s most respected design publications, from Abitare, to Wallpaper.
Giovanni is currently working in New York City, where he acts as an independent consultant on projects involving product, graphic and environmental design.
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Thomas Phifer
Thomas Phifer (born in South Carolina, 1953) attended Clemson University, where he received a Bachelor of Architecture in 1975 and a Master of Architecture in 1977. He was a Senior Associate at Gwathmey Siegel and Associates from 1979-1985 and a Design Partner at Richard Meier & Partners from 1986-1996.
Mr. Phifer was awarded the Rome Prize and was a Fellow at the American Academy in Rome in 1995-1996. He established his own office in 1996 and has since received major public and private commissions.
Among these are such completed projects as the Workstage office complex for Steelcase in Grand Rapids, Michigan (2000); the Taghkanic Residence in Taghkanic, New York (2001); and the Spencertown Residence in Spencertown, New York (2001). Principal work in progress includes a US District Courthouse in Salt Lake City, Utah; a new building and sculpture park for the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, North Carolina; an arts campus master plan and mixed use development building at Arizona State University in Tempe; the Millbrook Residence in Millbrook, New York; the Sagaponac Residence in Sagaponac, New York; the restoration of federally landmarked Castle Clinton and addition of a new performing arts venue in New York City; a headquarters building for the Sara Lee Corporation in Winston-Salem, North Carolina; a museum and residence which houses contemporary art in Dallas, Texas; and a mobile entertainment complex called the Portal Project, to be built in New York City.
In 2004 Mr. Phifer was awarded the Medal of Honor, the highest award given to an individual or firm, from the New York chapter of the AIA.
During his years in the office of Richard Meier, Mr. Phifer was Design Partner for 27 major commissions, many of which received national and international awards. He was responsible for the design of US courthouses in Phoenix, Arizona and Islip, New York, both completed in 2001. He has received a Progressive Architecture Award for the Taghkanic Residence in 1999 as well as numerous awards from the AIA New York Chapter and the Chicago Athenaeum. In 2004 Mr. Phifer was awarded two National AIA Honor Awards for the Taghkanic Residence and the Workstage Office Complex.
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Jean Parker Phifer
Jean Phifer is an architect and planner who has designed or restored over fifty distinguished buildings, monuments, and public spaces, primarily in New York City. Ms. Phifer has completed projects and master plans for American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Bayard Cutting Arboretum, the Colony Club, the Lycee Francais de New York, and First Presbyterian Church. She has completed renovations for Trinity School, Chapin School, the New York Society Library, and the Town School. Her work in Central Park includes the restoration of Bethesda Terrace, the restoration of Pulitzer Fountain and Grand Army Plaza, the design of the new Ballplayers’ Refreshment Stand, and planning for the Charles A. Dana Discovery Center at the Harlem Meer. She also worked on the restoration of the Chrysler Building and Ellis Island National Monument.
She served as President of the Art Commission of the City of New York from 1998-2003, strengthening public review processes, educating client agencies, and engaging architects and planners in the service of design excellence. She has emerged as a leader in the development of security design standards, writing and lecturing on good design tactics for basic security measures. She co-authored the chapter “Perimeter Security, The Aesthetics of Protection” in the definitive reference Building Security: Handbook for Architectural Planning and Design.
Ms. Phifer graduated cum laude from Yale University in 1974 and received her Master of Architecture degree from Columbia University in 1977. She was an associate and then partner at the architecture firm of Buttrick White & Burtis from 1984 to 1996; she was previously an associate at The Ehrenkrantz Group from 1979 to 1984. From 1977-1979 she was an historical architect with the National Park Service.
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LENI SCHWENDINGER
Leni Schwendinger Light Projects, Ltd. creates lighting environments for architectural and public spaces allover the world. These works energize architecture, landscape and transportation and transit infrastructure with the ultimate objective of connecting people to each other and to their surroundings, especially during the nighttime hours.
For over a decade, her Light Projects studio has been a magnet for professional multi-disciplinary collaborations - with project-specific design teams staffed by architects, engineers, and graphic designers committed to Leni Schwendinger's vision and perfectionist mandate. Balancing technological sophistication, solid project management and artistic verve, the Light Projects methodology has produced a distinctive series of interactions with clients ranging from state and municipal agencies and architectural and engineering firms to museums and events planners.
The Light Projects' installations have garnered awards from professional societies such as the American Institute of Architecture, American Society of Landscape Architects, Illuminating Engineering Society, International Association of Lighting Designers and Society for Environmental Graphic Design. Light Projects studio has enjoyed extensive press and media coverage, most recently in Architectural Lighting and Stir magazines. In December 2006, Leni Schwendinger will be a featured participant in the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum’s National Design Triennial: Design Life Now, an ongoing exhibition program presenting the most innovative American designs in a variety of fields, including product design, architecture, furniture, film, graphics, and new technologies.
Profiled in films and international publications, Schwendinger has also received awards, including the prestigious "NYFA" (New York Foundation for the Arts). She has lectured and taught widely throughout the United States, Europe and Japan, and is currently on the faculty of Parsons School of Design, Department of Architecture, Interior and Lighting Design.
Recently completed projects include Chroma Streams; Tide and Traffic, Kingston Bridge, Glasgow, Scotland UK and Dreaming in Color, Marion McCaw Hall, Seattle, WA. Historic projects currently underway are Coney Island Parachute Jump, Brooklyn, NY and Hoboken Ferry Terminal, Hoboken, NJ. Museum projects include a new art wing at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY and Fashion in Colors at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York City, NY.
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Michael Shuman
Michael Shuman is an architect and studied at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. He is the Principal of MASdesign and sits on the Publicolor Board of Directors.
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Alex Shuman
Alex Shuman is a fashion designer and studied at Parsons School of Design. She is currently VP of Women's Collection Design at Michael Kors.
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Suzanne Tick
Suzanne Tick currently heads up Suzanne Tick, Inc. specializing in material development for commercial and residential interiors, including textiles, hard surfacing, carpet, woven metal screens and lighting. Her clients include KnollTextiles with whom she has worked since 1995 and where she is currently responsible for the direction of the collection and a majority of the fabrics produced every year. In 2000, Suzanne invented a new breed of hard surfacing for KnollTextiles called Imago. It was the first time that fabric had been embedded in a high performance resin, effectively extending the range of textiles into the building materials market, and launching a whole new material product category.
A new client of Suzanne Tick Inc. is Monterey, A Tandus Company. Her firm was hired in the Fall of 2004 to develop overall product strategy by working with a team of talented design professionals to create new floor covering products for all market sectors. Her first products are slated to hit the market in the Spring of 2005.
With Terry Mowers, Suzanne formed Tuva Looms in 1996. This award winning collection, distributed and marketed by Bloomsburg Carpets, specializes in sophisticated woven carpet for the architectural and design community.
In 2002, Suzanne collaborated with Harry Allen to explore the use of woven fiber optic fabrics as light sculptures. This series of designs won a 2003 award from ID magazine.
Over the years, Suzanne has been design director, or created product for several high profile contract and residential fabric and carpet companies including Interface, Inc. and their Bentley and Prince Street brands, Boris Kroll, Tufenkian, Brickel Associates and Unika Vaev, Groundworks, a division of Lee Jofa
Suzanne has received numerous awards and participated in several museum exhibitions with her work. In the Fall of 2003, she was nominated as one of three finalists in product design category for the Cooper Hewitt National Design Awards. Three of her designs for KnollTextiles and Groundworks were included in the 2002 exhibition at the Denver Art Museum called “US design from 1975-2000” which will be touring around the country. One of her experimental woven projects, which used an industrial steel fiber from Japan, was included in the show at the Museum of Modern Art called “Structure and Surface: Contemporary Japanese Textiles.” Her work for Tuva Looms and KnollTextiles has frequently won awards from I.D. magazine, IIDA product design awards, Best of Neocon and the Chicago Athenaeum in their Good Design Award Program.
Suzanne Tick was cited in 2001 by the New York Times as an up and coming design talent. In 1999, Metropolitan Home magazine listed her as one of twenty-one noteworthy designers to watch in the 21st century. Her products are frequently seen in magazines and newspapers and she has been profiled in Azure, The Chicago Tribune and Design Times. Suzanne is frequently asked to speak on her approach to color and design.
* Suzanne Tick received her B.F.A. in woven design from the University of Iowa and an associate degree in Applied Arts from the Fashion Institute of Technology.
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Terry Mowers
With his ability to foresee market trends, predicated on over twenty five years’ experience in sales and marketing for the carpet industry, Terry Mowers provides marketing and design expertise at Suzanne Tick, Inc. He has been consultant to carpet manufacturers, Bentley Prince Street and is currently working with Monterey Carpet, A Tandus Company. He and Suzanne formed Tuva Looms, a woven carpet company with a modern aesthetic, in 1996. His goal, in keeping with the Tuva philosophy, is to develop product that is both progressive and viable. An interest in Eastern philosophy, combined with a sensitivity to nature and keen fashion sense, help inform his design decisions.
Prior to forming Tuva Looms, Terry was Design and Marketing Director at The Harbinger Company and also held sales and marketing positions with Horizon Industries and Mohawk Industries. He holds a B.S. in marketing from Syracuse University and a B.S. in environmental science from S.U.N.Y. College of Environmental Science and Forestry.
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Stanley Tucci
Not one to sit still for too long, Stanley Tucci has appeared in over 45 films and countless television shows. In the past few years he has appeared in films such as THE TERMINAL, THE LIFE AND DEATH OF PETER SELLERS and ROAD TO PERDITION. He is no stranger to the theater; and has appeared in over a dozen plays, on and off Broadway.
Tucci has been recognized for his work on both Sides of the Camera. In 2002 Stanley won a Golden Globe Award for his portrayal of Nazi Lt. Colonel Adolf Eichmann, in the HBO film CONSPIRACY. He also won a Golden Globe and Emmy Award for his role in HBO's WINCHELL, as fast talking newsman Walter Winchell. Behind the camera Stanley won critical praise and numerous honors and awards for BIG NIGHT, his first effort as a co-writer and co-director. Since that film he directed, wrote, and produced the farcical THE IMPOSTORS and co-wrote and directed JOE GOULD'S SECRET.
Most recently, Tucci completed the upcoming project FOUR LAST SONGS and taught a course at Columbia University. He has also completed LUCKY NUMBER SLEVIN, which debuted at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival with Josh Hartnett, Morgan Freeman and Lucy Liu and will premiere March 31st nationwide. Tucci recently wrapped filming THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA alongside Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway which will also debut this year in June. He resides in New York with his wife, Kate, and their three children.
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Tucker Viemeister
Tucker Viemeister, FIDSA: Tucker is now Rockwell Group’s VP Creative. A graduate from Pratt Institute, he was president of Springtime-USA, a partnership with the young Dutch industrial design company, he helped to found Razorfish's physical design capability, frogdesign's New York office and Smart Design where he helped design the widely-acclaimed OXO "GoodGrips" universal kitchen tools. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Architectural League of New York, chair of the Rowena Reed Kostellow Fund and president of the International Design Network Foundation. He produced and designed a book written by Gail Greet Hannah, Elements of Design: Rowena Reed Kostellow and the Structure of Visual relationships. Tucker currently teaches at NYU's ITP and holds 32 US Utility Patents. BusinessWeek called him “Guru,” the Architect’s Newspaper (2/06) “scruffy brand-meister,” and when he was dubbed "Industrial Design’s Elder Wonderkind" when ID included him in America's hottest 40.
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Lella Vignelli
Lella Vignelli was born in Udine, Italy. She received a degree from the School of
Architecture, University of Venice, and became a registered architect in Milan in 1962. In 1958, she received a tuition fellowship as a special student at the School of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.
In 1959, Ms. Vignelli joined Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Chicago, as designer in the interiors department. The following year, with Massimo Vignelli, she established the Vignelli Office of Design and Architecture in Milan. In 1965, she became head of the Vignelli Office of Design and Architecture in Milan. In 1965, she became head of the interiors department for Unimark International Corporation in Milan and in New York (1966).
In 1971, the Vignellis established Vignelli Associates, where Lella Vignelli was initially Executive Vice President, and is now Chief Executive Officer. Seven years later, they formed Vignelli Designs, a company dedicated to product and furniture design, of which
she is President.
Ms. Vignelli’s work is widely featured in design publications in the United States and abroad. Examples of her work have been included in the permanent collections of numerous museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Montreal, and Die Neue Sammlung in Munich. The Vignellis’ work has been the subject of two featurelength television programs that have been televised worldwide. monographic exhibition of the Vignellis’ work toured Europe between 1989 and 1993,
and was featured in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Helsinki, London, Budapest, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Munich, Prague and Paris.
Lella Vignelli lectures in schools and Universities and is a frequent speaker and juror for national and international design organizations.
Ms. Vignelli has been the recipient of many awards including the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Industrial Arts Medal,1973; AIGA Gold Medal, 1983; Interior Design Hall of Fame, 1988; National Arts Club Gold Medal for Design, 1991; Interior Product Designers Fellowship of Excellence, 1992; The Brooklyn Museum Design Award for Lifetime Achievement, 1995; The Russel Wright Award for Design Excellence, 2001. In 2003 Lella and Massimo Vignelli received the National Design Lifetime Achievement Award, and the 2005 Architectural Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
She is also the recepient of Honorary Doctorates from the Parsons School of Design, New York; the Corcoran School of Art, Washington D.C. and the President Medal of the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY.
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Massimo Vignelli
Massimo Vignelli, born in Milan, studied architecture in Milan and Venice. Prior to establishing the offices of Vignelli Associates in 1971, and Vignelli Designs in 1978, with Lella Vignelli, he and Lella Vignelli established the Vignelli Office of Design and Architecture in Milan in 1960, and in 1965, Massimo Vignelli became co-founder and design director of Unimark International Corporation.
Massimo Vignelli is the co-founder and President of Vignelli Associates and Chief Executive Officer of Vignelli Designs in New York. His work includes graphic and corporate identity programs, publication designs, architectural graphics, and exhibition, interior, furniture, and consumer product designs for many leading American and European companies and institutions.
Mr. Vignelli’s work has been published and exhibited throughout the world and entered in the permanent collections of several museums; notably, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York; the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Montreal; and the Die Neue Sammlung in Munich. Mr. Vignelli has taught and lectured on design in the major cities and universities in the United States and abroad.
For the past ten years he has taught a summer course at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He is a past president of the Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) and the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), and a vice president of The Architectural League.
Two feature-length television programs on the Vignellis’ work have been aired worldwide. A monographic exhibition of the Vignellis’ work toured Europe between 1989 and 1993, and was featured in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Helsinki, London, Budapest, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Munich, Prague and Paris.
Among Massimo Vignelli’s many awards: Gran Premio Triennale di Milano, 1964; Compasso d’Oro, awarded by the Italian Association for Industrial Design (ADI), 1964 and again in 1998; the 1973 Industrial Arts Medal of the American Institute of Architects (AIA); the 1982 Art Directors Club Hall of Fame; the 1983 AIGA Gold Medal; the first Presidential Design Award, presented by President Ronald Reagan in 1985, for the National Park Service Publications Program; the 1988 Interior Design Hall of Fame; the 1991 National Arts Club Gold Medal for Design; the 1992 Interior Product Designers Fellowship of Excellence; The 1995 Brooklyn Museum Design Award for Lifetime Achievement; and The 2001 Russel Wright Award for Design Excellence.
He has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Architecture from the University of Venice, H has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Architecture from the University of Venice, Italy and Honorary Doctorates in Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design, New York, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, the Corcoran School of Art, Washington D.C, and the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA, and the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY.
In 1996 he received the Honorary Royal Designer for Industry Award from the Royal Society of Arts, London. In 2003 Lella and Massimo Vignelli received the National Design Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2004 the Visionary Award from the Museum of Art and Design, New York and the 2005 Architectural Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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Vicente Wolf
In the world of contemporary design, Vicente Wolf has been at the top for 28 years. He heads his own company, Vicente Wolf Associates, located in a spacious light-filled loft in New York City. It is from here that Wolf and his staff explore his passion for design guided by the principles of integrity and simplicity.
Wolf has designed a wide range of projects including the L·S store in Hong Kong, the Luxe Hotel Rodeo Drive and Café Rodeo in Beverly Hills, the lobby of a Fifth Avenue office building, the Andrew Fezza company offices and showrooms, the Registry stores in Chicago, L’Impero Restaurant in New York City winner of the 2003 James Beard Foundation Award for Outstanding Restaurant Design, Bedell Cellars Winery and guest cottage on Long Island’s North Fork and the executive offices of J Records for Clive Davis. This year marked the opening of two new restaurants designed by Vicente Wolf; the SW Steakhouse for Steve Wynn’s new hotel Wynn Las Vegas, and also Alto, an Italian restaurant located in New York City. Wolf’s list of residential interiors include the California home of Nely Galan, former president of Telemundo Communications and founder of gaLAn Entertainment; the Richland Plantation in Natchez, Mississippi; the guest house of Clive Davis; the New York City apartment of the Prince and Princess von Furstenberg; an apartment in the Museum Towers; the New York City apartment of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Lynne, president of New Line Cinema; the New York City apartment of Mr. Carl Bernstein; and other private residences throughout the United States. His design projects include international locations as well, such as France, Israel, Japan, Saudi Arabia, and Sweden.
Vicente Wolf has contributed designs to many organizations, such as the Brooklyn Academy of Music, “Dining by Design” for DIFFA, and “Entertaining People,” which was chaired by the former First Lady Mrs. Barbara Bush. He was the honorary Chairman of Design for the Miami Beach Showhouse to benefit the New World Symphony, the “Furnish a Future” benefit dinner, and ASID house tour. Wolf was one of the designers chosen to be a part of Absolut Vodka’s “Absolut Design” advertising campaign.
Wolf teaches an annual course through Parsons School of Design in Altos de Chavon, Dominican Republic. He is a sought-after speaker for design shows throughout the United States and has lectured overseas in South Africa, Japan, and Australia.
Beyond interior design, Wolf has designed everything from furniture collections for Carson’s, Casa Bique, Henredon, and Neidermaier; lighting for Tyndale and Sirmos; and rugs for the Doris Leslie Blau Designer Collection and Tufenkian Carpets. He created flatware collections for Sasaki, various tabletop and bedlinens for the L·S Collection, even crystal, china and stemware for Steuben. His own line of sterling silver flatware is available in his NYC showroom, VW Home. Wolf is presently designing a series of resin vases and candleholders.
Vicente Wolf’s VW Home showroom carries everything for the home, including antique furniture, accessories, and bedlinens that he handpicks while traveling the globe. VW Home also features furniture, upholstery, lighting, fabrics, wallpaper and mirrors designed by Wolf specifically for the showroom.
Over the last few years Wolf has become known for his other passion—photography. He has had individual gallery shows, photographed his design projects for magazines, and photographed the advertising campaign for Anichini Linens. His latest photography series entitled “Waterworks” was exhibited at the Iklektik gallery in Houston, TX.
House Beautiful named Vicente Wolf one of the 10 most influential designers in the United States, and Interior Design Magazine inducted Wolf in its Designer Hall of Fame. He was selected as one of the top 100 designers in both Metropolitan Home’s "Design 100" and Architectural Digest’s "AD 100". Wolf’s work has been featured in various design books and magazines, including Architectural Digest, The New York Times, New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine, Elle Décor, House Beautiful, Metropolitan Home, House & Garden, Interior Design, Vogue Decoration, Country Living, Traditional Home, Connoisseur, Bride’s Magazine, Home Magazine and Maison & Jardin.
Vicente Wolf’s first book, Learning to See, is available through Artisan Publishers and focuses on personal style and travel. His new book, entitled Crossing Boundaries: A Global Vision of Design, depicts the many design inspirations found throughout the world from the perspective of an observant traveler, and will be released in the fall of 2006 through The Monacelli Press.
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Philip Glass
Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an American composer. His music is frequently described as minimalist, though he prefers the term theatre music. He is considered one of the most influential composers of the 20th century and is widely acknowledged as a composer who has brought art music to the public (apart from precursors such as Kurt Weill and Leonard Bernstein), in creating an accessibility not previously recognised by the broader market.
Glass is extremely prolific as a composer and counts many visual artists, writers, musicians and directors among his friends, such as Richard Serra, Chuck Close, Doris Lessing, the late Allen Ginsberg, Robert Wilson, Godfrey Reggio, Ravi Shankar, David Bowie, and the conductor Dennis Russell Davies, who all collaborated with him. He is Buddhist and a strong supporter of the Tibetan cause. In 1987 he co-founded the Tibet Housewith Columbia University professor Robert Thurman and the actor Richard Gere.
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A. Eugene Kohn
In 1976, along with William Pedersen and Sheldon Fox, A. Eugene Kohn founded Kohn
Pedersen Fox Associates PC, a firm of architects and planners committed to the principle of design excellence. Since then, Mr. Kohn has led many of Kohn Pedersen Fox’s major domestic and international projects and is responsible for many of the firm’s new commissions. He contributes to each Kohn Pedersen Fox design from corporate headquarters and office buildings to hotels and institutional facilities spanning the United States and some 33 countries around the world.
A. Eugene Kohn is respected worldwide, not only for his 40-plus year career as an architect, but also for his inspirational leadership qualities. As Founder and Principal of Kohn Pedersen Fox, he has developed a global strategy and has shaped the firm into one of the world’s leaders in all aspects of the profession of architecture. KPF is known for buildings that are sensitive to their context, while establishing a unique and memorable image on the exterior and creating interior environments that reinforce the clients’ overall mission and function.
Over the last two years, KPF has been voted in the Top Five Most Admired Firms in an Annual survey conducted by bd World Architecture. Similarly, in an article published in September 1991, Architecture magazine asked its readers “Of today’s practicing architects, whose work do you admire?” Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates tied for first place, cited for their “principled and intelligent” approach to design. In 1990, KPF was honored with the prestigious AIA Architectural Firm Award - KPF was the youngest firm ever to receive this one-time award.
Six projects for which Mr. Kohn has been Principal in-Charge have won National AIA Design Awards: 333 Wacker Drive in Chicago, Illinois; the Procter & Gamble World Headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio; the DG Bank Headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany; the World Bank Headquarters in Washington, D.C.; Baruch College/City University of New York in New York City; and the Gannett/USA Today Corporate Headquarters in McLean, Virginia.
Honors
In 1987, Mr. Kohn was honored by the National Education Fund and, in 1995, by the Sheltering Arms Children Service. In 1996, Mr. Kohn was honored with the Sidney L. Strauss Award from the New York Society of Architects, as well as in 1997 with the Lifetime Achievement Award given by the Wharton Real Estate Centre. Mr. Kohn was also recognized, in 1998, with the Ellis Island Medal of Honor. Mr. Kohn also received the 2002 Harry B. Rutkins Award from the AIA New York Chapter.
Recently Mr. Kohn received the 2003 Business Leadership
Award from the Burden Center for the Aging, Inc.
for his accomplishments in both business and the
community. In 2005, Mr. Kohn received the Salvadori
Award for Excellence in Design from the Salvadori
Center, one of New York City’s most progressive
educational programs. Mr. Kohn is also an Executive
Fellow of the Graduate School of Design at Harvard
University. He is the first person to be awarded
that title.
Membership
Mr. Kohn is registered in twenty-six states, as well as Great Britain and Japan. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and a member of its Octagon Society. During 1988, Mr. Kohn held the position of president of the AIA New York City Chapter.
He is also a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects, the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, the Japan Institute of Architects, and Honorary member of the Fellows of the Philippine Institute of Architects. He has served on the board of directors of the Architectural League, the Chicago City Ballet, as well as on the Advisory Board for the Master of Science degree in Real Estate Development at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, and on theYale University Committee on the Art Gallery and British Arts Center.
Mr. Kohn also served as a Trustee for the University of Pennsylvania and currently serves on the Board of Overseers at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Fine Arts and the Wharton Real Estate Center Advisory Board. In addition, he has been a member of the Board of the National Realty Committee, the Museum for African Art of New York and the Silvermine Art Guild. He also currently serves on the Board of Sheltering Arms Children Service and he is a Trustee for the Urban Land Institute and the National Building Museum. Mr. Kohn is an Executive Fellow at Harvard University’s Executive Education Program, and is a Trustee for the Citizen’s Budget Commission.
Lectures and Teaching
Mr. Kohn has lectured extensively on the subject of contemporary architecture, and has been invited to participate in conferences throughout the world including the Second Asian Congress of Architects in Kuala Lumpur as keynote speaker. He was recently the keynote speaker at the 1997 National Philippine AIA convention in Manila. He has delivered keynote speeches to professional associations, civic and educational organizations, and industry and trade groups in Los Angeles, Dallas, Chicago, the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., New York, London, Hong Kong, Nagoya, Osaka, and Tokyo, as well as in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, and Perth in Australia, and in Wellington, New Zealand. He also spoke at a conference in Beijing, China, organized by the Chinese government and Business Week, at which Henry Kissinger was the keynote speaker. Recent lectures have been in Boston, Barcelona, and Singapore.
Mr. Kohn also spoke in several cities in the former Soviet Union on behalf of the United States Information Agency. He has also served as chairman of design award juries for the state of California AIA and for North Carolina AIA and the city of Pittsburgh AIA, as well as a juror for the Urban Land Institute awards program and the J.C. Nichols Prize. In addition, he has lectured numerous times at AIA Chapters nationwide. Mr. Kohn is also contacted by leading weekly publications, NBC and CNN for comment. As a visiting critic and guest lecturer, Mr. Kohn appeared at Bucknell, Harvard, UCLA, University of Pennsylvania, Penn State, University of Kentucky, University of Tennessee, Clemson University, the University of Wisconsin and Yale University. For the last six years Mr. Kohn has conducted and taught courses during the summer program at the Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design on Marketing, Presentation Skills and more recently the Office Building as approached through a global perspective. Currently, he teaches a graduate leadership course at the Harvard Design School each February and lectures at the Harvard Business School. In addition, he recently taught a design course at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. Many of Mr. Kohn’s architectural articles have been published in the United States and abroad, including chapters for several architectural books. “The Design of the Office Building” for Wiley Books was released in 2002.
Previous Experience
Prior to founding Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates in 1976, Mr. Kohn was President and partner of John Carl Warnecke and Associates (1967-76); Design Director of Welton Becket Associates New York; and Senior Designer at Vincent G. Kling Associates in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where two of his designs received the American Institute of Architects National Honor Awards. Mr. Kohn served as an officer in the U.S. Navy retiring as Lieutenant Commander after 3 years (1953-56) active duty and 5 years reserve duty.
Education
1982 Real Estate Development Course, Harvard University Graduate School of Design 1957 Master of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania (Theopolis Parsons Chandler Graduate Fellow) 1953 Bachelor of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania Experience and Qualifications.
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Sol Lewitt
Sol LeWitt was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1928, and attended Syracuse University. After serving in the Korean War as a graphic artist, he moved, in 1953, to New York, where he worked as a draftsman for the architect I. M. Pei.
LeWitt had his first solo exhibition at the Daniels Gallery, New York, in 1965, and the following year Dwan Gallery, New York, mounted the first in a series of solo exhibitions. He participated, during the late 1960s and early 1970s, in several significant group exhibitions of Minimalist and Conceptual art, including "Primary Structures," at the Jewish Museum, New York, in 1966, and "When Attitude Becomes Form," at the Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland, in 1969. His renowned text "Paragraphs on Conceptual Art" was published in 1967. LeWitt's work was included in Documentas 6 (1977) and 7 (1982) in Kassel, as well as the 1987 Skulptur Projekte in Münster and the 1989 Istanbul Biennial. Major retrospectives of his works were organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1978, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, in 2000.
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Meredith Monk
Meredith Monk (born November 20, 1942, in Lima, Peru) is an American composer, vocalist, film-maker, and choreographer. While she is one of the earliest artists to practice what is now known as performance art, Monk identifies herself as a composer and folk singer.
She is primarily known for her vocal innovations, including a wide range of extended techniques, which she first developed in her solo performances before forming her own ensemble. In 1964, she graduated from Sarah Lawrence College and in 1968 she founded The House, a company dedicated to an interdisciplinary approach to performance.
Her performances influenced many artists, including Bruce Nauman, whom she met in San Francisco in 1968. In 1978, Monk formed the ensemble called Meredith Monk and Vocal Ensemble (modelled after similar ensembles of musical collagues such as Steve Reich and Philip Glass) to explore new and wider vocal textures and forms which often were contrasted with minimal instrumental textures. Powerful and influential pieces from this time include Dolmen Music(1979), which also was recorded for her first album released at Manfred Eicher's record label ECM in 1981.
In the 1980s she has written and directed two films, Ellis Island (1981), and Book of Days (1988), which developed from a single idea; "One day during summer of 1984, as I was sweeping the floor of my house in the country, the image of a young girl (in black and white) and a medieval street in the Jewish community (also in black and white) came to me", as Monk recounts in the liner notes of the ECM-recording. Apart from the film different versions exist of this piece; two for the concert hall, and an album, thought by Meredith Monk and Manfred Eicher as "a film for the ears." In the early 1990s Monk composed an opera - Atlas which premiered in Houston in 1991. More recently, while continuing her work for her ensemble, she began writing for instrumental ensembles and symphony orchestra - her first symphonic work Possible Sky (2003), and Stringsongs (2004), commissioned by the Kronos Quartet. In 2005, events all over the world were celebrating the 40th anniversary of her career, including a concert in Carnegie Hall, featuring Björk, whose singing is fundamentally indebted to Monk's, and others, including the composers Terry Riley, DJ Spooky (who has sampled her on his album "Drums of Death"), and John Zorn and the new music ensembles Alarm Will Sound and Bang on a CanAll-Stars, along with the Pacific Mozart Ensemble.
She has won many awards including a MacArthur Fellowship, and she holds honorary Doctor of Arts degrees from Bard College, the University of the Arts (Philadelphia), The Julliard School, the San Francisco Art Institute and the Boston Conservatory.
Her music was used in films by Joel and Ethan Coen (The Big Lebowski, 1998) and Jean-Luc Godard (Nouvelle Vague, 1990 and Notre musique, 2004).
In a recent interview she said that her favourite music includes Brazilian music, especially Caetano Veloso's recordings, the music by Mildred Bailey ("the great jazz singer from the ‘30s and ‘40s"), and Bartok's cycle for piano Mikrokosm.
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David Rockwell
David Rockwell is Founder and CEO of the renowned architecture and design firm, Rockwell Group. Long before turning his attention to architecture, David Rockwell harbored a fascination with staged environments. Growing up in Chicago, Deal, New Jersey, and Guadalajara, Mexico, Rockwell was a child of the theater: his mother worked as a
vaudeville dancer and a choreographer and would cast him in community repertory productions. Rockwell brought his passion for theater and an eye for the color and spectacle of Mexico to his architecture training at Syracuse University; these formative influences continue to have strong reverberations throughout his practice.
Rockwell Group was founded in 1984 and today has a 160-person office with over 200 built projects to its credit. Characterized by rich materials, innovative narrative and a sense of theatre, recent projects by the Rockwell Group include the groundbreaking Mohegan Sun casinos, set designs for the Broadway musical Hairspray, set design for Team America: World Police, a new film by the creators of South Park, the Chambers (New York) and W (New York) hotels, the Kodak Theatre (Los Angeles) and dozens of restaurants, including Nobu, Town, Rosa Mexicano, Pod and most recently Café Gray at the Time Warner Center.
David Rockwell has been honored with a lifetime achievement award from Interiors magazine, is included in Interior Design magazine’s Hall of Fame and was awarded the Presidential Design Award for the Grand Central Terminal renovation. Rockwell serves as Chairman of the Board of the Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS (DIFFA) and is a Board Member of The Public Theater and City Meals on Wheels. Pleasure: The Architecture Design of Rockwell Group, a book about the firm published by Universe, documents Rockwell Group’s first 18 years.
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Mark di Suvero
Mark di Suvero began showing his sculpture in the late 1950’s and is one of the most important American artists to emerge from the Abstract Expressionist era. His sculptures have been exhibited in city-wide exhibitions in Paris, France, Venice, Italy, New York City, Stuttgart, Germany, Nice and Valence, France and was the first living artist to be shown in Le Jardin des Tuileries in Paris. Storm King Art Center mounted major exhibitions of di Suvero in 1985 and once again in 1995 and 1996. As the eminent Art historian, Barbara Rose has written: “[di Suvero’s] genius lies in his unique ability to fuse the excitement of the momentary expressed in the potential for imminent change of the swinging, twirling and precariously poised elements with the gravity of a timeless geometry and the engineered ability and intuitive equilibrium that his hard-won mastery of structural balances makes possible.”
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Adam D. Tihany
Adam D. Tihany is widely regarded as the preeminent hospitality designer in the world today. His sophisticated, often groundbreaking, designs are the result, in part, of his unique global perspective. He was born in Transylvania in 1948, raised in Israel, and earned his architectural degree from the Politecnico di Milano in Italy. After apprenticing in design firms throughout Europe, he moved to New York City in 1976 to become design director of the firm Unigram. Two years later, Tihany established his own multidisciplinary studio that encompassed all aspects of design, from commercial and residential interior architecture to furniture, products, exhibitions, and graphics.
As a premier hospitality designer, Tihany has created some of the world’s most innovative and highly acclaimed restaurant and hotel projects. Highlights of his work in New York include three four-star restaurants, the highly anticipated Per Se restaurant for celebrated French Laundry chef Thomas Keller in 2004, Le Cirque 2000 for Sirio Maccioni and Jean Georges for Jean-Georges Vongerichten in 1997, as well as The Sea Grill in Rockefeller Center, One c.p.s. in the former Edwardian Room at The Plaza, and The Time hotel in the Times Square vicinity. Among his multi-city design concepts are Bice restaurants worldwide and Spago restaurants for Wolfgang Puck in Las Vegas, Chicago, Mexico City and Palo Alto.
Additional Tihany-designed restaurants for the Maccioni family include Le Cirque in Las Vegas and Mexico City, and Osteria del Circo in New York and Las Vegas. In his native Israel, Tihany transformed the King David and conceived the Dan Eilat hotels. His versatile projects include the recently completed “C” restaurant for Chef Charlie Trotter at the One & Only Palmilla resort in Cabo San Lucas, and Aureole at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas (with the illustrious Wine Tower), and the redesign of Aureole in New York both for Chef Charlie Palmer. Tihany’s luxury concepts in London include the one Michelin star Foliage, The Park, and the ultrachic Mandarin Bar at the Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park, and Monte’s, an upscale private club in Knightsbridge. His numerous residential, corporate, and retail projects include the redesign of Fred Leighton, the Madison Avenue jeweler, and the design, conception and expansion of Tihany’s own Remi restaurants.
More recently, Tihany has completed restaurants Lafite and the Lemon Garden Café at the Shangri-La in Kuala Lumpur, and three hotel projects for the Boscolo Group—the stylish Carlo IV in Prague, and in Rome, public spaces at the landmark Exedra, and the award-winning Aleph hotel (the latter two Boscolo projects were published in a stylish hardcover book, Adam Tihany: Designing in Rome). 2005 marked a new presence in Asia with the opening of The Line at the Shangri-la Hotel in Singapore, public spaces, MO Bar and Amber restaurant at the ultra luxurious Landmark Mandarin Oriental in Hong Kong and Jade on 36 restaurant and bar at Pudong Shangri-la, Shanghai. Tihany’s first major architectural commission, Hangar One, a private aviation club in Scottsdale, took off in 2003, as did Excelsior, Tihany’s total renovation of his decade-old Biba restaurant for top Boston chef Lydia Shire. His presence in Las Vegas continued with Bouchon for Thomas Keller at The Venetian (following the success of Bouchon in Napa Valley, which Tihany also designed) and Seablue at the MGM Grand. At The Mirage, Cravings, Tihany’s revolutionary new buffet concept, launched in May 2004; and Teatro, a bar with interiors reminiscent of a fine luxury automobile, unveiled July 2004 at the MGM Grand.
As curator and designer of the GrandHotelSalone exhibit at the Milan Furniture Fair in 2002, Tihany invited ten internationally renowned architects, including Toyo Ito, Richard Meier and Jean Nouvel, to create the “hotel room of the future.” His fully functional boutique hotel lobby included the GHS Restaurant with three superstar chefs. In April 2004, Tihany unveiled DiningDesign, his second consecutive exhibit in Milan, this time a peek at the future of restaurant design as interpreted by talented architects-to-be worldwide.
Tihany has also licensed product lines for several renowned companies: furniture for the Pace Collection and McGuire; custom china, cigar holders, and ashtrays for Villeroy & Boch; Premiere, a new silhouette in porcelain for Schönwald; door hardware for Valli & Valli; fiber optic lighting fixtures for Lucifer; lamps for Baldinger; area rugs for M & M Design International; hospitality linens for Frette. His longstanding association with Christofle has resulted in Collection 3000 barware, including the iconic cocktail glass; Urban flatware; a collection of contemporary Judaica for The Jewish Museum, and K + T Hollowware designed with Thomas Keller.
A recognized authority in architecture and design, Tihany’s numerous honors and awards include an Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts from the New York School of Interior Design (2003), Bon Appetit magazine’s Designer of the Year (2001) was Nation’s Restaurant News’ Innovator of the Year (1999). He was inducted into the Interior Design Hall of Fame in 1991; was named Who’s Who in Food and Beverage in the United States by The James Beard Foundation in 1997, and was the subject CNN’s "Pinnacle" program in 1997. He is co-author of a cookbook, Venetian Taste (1994), and his monograph, Tihany Design, was published by Monacelli Press in 1999. His second book, Tihany Style, was published by Mondadori Electa in July 2004. He is active in the design world and participates frequently in lectures, panel discussions, and judging competitions.
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