Sunday 10 June 2012

Karim Rashid


Karim Rashid is one of the most prolific designers of his generation. Over 3000 designs in production, over 300 awards and working in over 40 countries attest to Karim's legend of design. 

His award winning designs include luxury goods for Christofle, Veuve Clicquot, and Alessi, democratic products for Umbra, Bobble, and 3M, furniture for Bonaldo and Vondom, lighting for Artemide and Fabbian, high tech products for Asus and Samsung, surface design for Marburg and Abet Laminati, brand identity for Citibank and Sony Ericsson and packaging for Method, Paris Baguette, Kenzo and Hugo Boss.

Karim's touch expands beyond product to interiors such as the Morimoto restaurant, Philadelphia; Semiramis hotel, Athens; nhow hotel, Berlin; Universita Metro Station, Naples as well as exhibition design for Deutsche Bank and Audi.
Karim's work is featured in 20 permanent collections and he exhibits art in galleries world wide. Karim is a perennial winner of the Red Dot award, Chicago Athenaeum Good Design award, I.D. Magazine Annual Design Review, IDSA Industrial Design

Karim is a frequent guest lecturer at universities and conferences globally disseminating the importance of design in everyday life. He holds Honorary Doctorates from the OCAD, Toronto and Corcoran College of Art & Design, Washington. Karim has been featured in magazines and books including Time, Vogue, Esquire, GQ, Wallpaper, and countless more.
Karim's latest monograph, Sketch (Frame Publishing, 2011), features 300 hand and digital drawings selected from the last 25 years. Other books include KarimSpace, featuring 36 of Karim's interior architecture designs (Rizzoli, 2009); Design Your Self, Karim's guide to living (Harper Collins, 2006); Digipop, a digital exploration of computer graphics (Taschen, 2005); Compact Design Portfolio (Chronicle Books 2004); as well as two monographs, titled Evolution (Universe, 2004) and I Want to Change the World (Rizzoli, 2001).
In his spare time Karim's pluralism flirts with art, fashion, and music and is determined to creatively touch every aspect of our physical and virtual landscape.

William McIntosh


William McIntosh
Tailored, modern and elegant; rough, sleek and bold. The Interiors by William McIntosh are individually conceived and meticulously crafted. Unique architectural and decorative solutions beautifully detailed and executed, each project emphasizes the integration of architecture and interior design.

 
(6,041)
phone
212.807.8030
fax
212.807.9985
address
54 West 21st Street
New York, NY 10010
United States

Tailored, modern and elegant; rough, sleek and bold — the interiors by William McIntosh are individually conceived and meticulously crafted. Unique architectural and decorative solutions beautifully detailed and executed, each project emphasizes the integration of architecture and interior design. His work is at once familiar but also reveals surprises and new interpretations, embracing both the period and the modern.
Born in upstate New York, William McIntosh studied Interior Design at Pratt Institute in New York. After graduating in 1980 he worked for the noted Interior Design firms of Timothy MacDonald Incorporated and Bray-Schaible Design. He established his namesake firm in 1990. With a team of dedicated professionals including Architects, Designers, Artists, and Craftsmen, McIntosh continues to produce the thoughtful, intelligent and personal interiors that have established him among a solid, loyal and growing clientele.
 

Sheila Bridges


Date of Birth: not available
Country: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Bridges used earth colors and raw materials as well combinations of modern and classic or extravagant and minimalist designs. She was inspired by historical narrative of decorative arts especially the 1700s French toile.

Works:
Sheila Bridges Design Inc. (1993)
Sheila Bridges Home, Inc. (2007)
Harlem Toile De Jouy wallpaper
Sheila Bridges Gallery 

Named "America's Best Interior Designer" by CNN and Time Magazine, Sheila Bridges founded her own interior design firm in 1993. Sheila Bridges Design, Inc is committed to creating high-end, interior spaces that are thought-evoking and visually interesting while also comfortable and livable. Sheila has designed residences and offices for many prominent entertainers, entrepreneurs and business professionals including the 8,300 square foot Harlem offices for former President Bill Clinton and his staff. Sheila Bridges Design, Inc has also completed projects at Columbia University and Princeton University, bringing Sheila's signature design aesthetic to interior spaces at both of these prestigious academic institutions.
Along with running a successful interior design business, Sheila hosted four seasons of Sheila Bridges Designer Living for the FINE LIVING Network, one of America's fastest-growing networks and part of the Scripps Howard cable family. The sleekly produced half-hour weekly series and award winning hour specials continue to showcase Sheila's practical wisdom and hands-on advice. Sheila's television show has become a trusted resource to help viewers define and express their sense of personal style in their own homes.
Sheila has been a regular contributor on NBC's Today Show, has appeared on Oprah and has been profiled in numerous national and international publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, O The Oprah Magazine, Martha Stewart Living, Ebony, Country Living, Elle Décor, Interior Design, Vanity
Fair, In Style, Essence, House & Garden, Town & Country, Traditional Home and Black Enterprise. Sheila Bridges Design, Inc has been included in Gotham and New York magazines Top Interior Designer's lists and has been featured in House Beautiful magazine's listing of the Top 100 Interior Designers in the country since 1997. Sheila is also the author of Furnishing Forward: A Practical Guide to Furnishing for a Lifetime, which was released in paperback in January 2005.
In 2007, Sheila's passion for interiors inspired her to design furniture and home furnishings under the name Sheila Bridges Home, Inc. Sheila's home furnishing collections have been sold to design conscious consumers online, through mail order catalogues and at such notable national retailers as Anthropologie and Bed, Bath & Beyond. Sheila's Harlem Toile De Jouy wallpaper is currently available through design showrooms in The United States, Canada and Europe and she is honored to have this wallpaper pattern represented in the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum's permanent wallpaper collection.
Originally from Philadelphia Pennsylvania, Sheila Bridges moved to New York City in 1986. She holds degrees from Brown University and Parsons School of Design, and studied decorative arts at Polimoda in Florence, Italy. She lives and works in Harlem, New York and relaxes at her weekend home in New York's Hudson Valley.

Link: http://www.sheilabridges.com/sheila.html

Barbara Barry


Date of Birth: Aug 06, 1965
Country: Manhattan, USA

Barry has laid-back designs reinventing the West Coast feel with lush color, texture and cinematic light as well as the classic fabrics for quiet beauty. She appreciates naturalism and history to emphasize serenity. She luxuriously plays with color tones in layers as well as patterns with textures. Simplicity and glamour are the primary impressions with Barry's work of art.

Works:
Barbara Barry Inc, in Los Angeles (1985)
She worked at Tufenkian Tibetan Carpets, Hickory Business Furniture (HBF), Henredon, Wedgwood, Kravet Fabric, Dream Bedding, Boyd Lighting, HBF, McGuire Furniture, Kallista Bath Products
Barbara Barry's Gallery 

Barbara Barry is internationally known for her streamlined interiors
and her elegant home furnishings. Her rooms speak to quiet luxury and her furnishings to comfort and ease. Her work for Tufenkian has been a love affair from the beginning in 1995, as her designs embrace the inherent quality of the wool and silk from which these beautiful heirlooms of tomorrow are made. "To live simply and with quality is the highest form of luxury."
 
Barbara Barry has been celebrated for her refined style, characterized by a lush palette of subdued tones, furniture graced with sensual lines and delicate proportions, and a distinctly Californian, laid-back glamour. In short, sleek environments that are the very picture of elegance and luxury. But Ms. Barry's real genius is her devotion to detail, her carefully-orchestrated interiors in which every element has been selected to inspire calm and tranquility.
Trained at San Francisco's Academy of Art College, Ms. Barry suffuses her work with a painterly touch. Her artist's eye conjures a subtle range of hues-sage, ochre, seafoam, taupe-within a restrained color scheme. Texture, line, and pattern harmonize in pleasing visual rhythms. But cinema may be a more apt metaphor for the Los Angeles based designer's work, and not just because her star-studded client list is peppered with Hollywood heavy-hitters like Michael Ovitz, Darren Star, and Victoria Principle. Akin to a set designer, Ms. Barry composes feature-length productions, overseeing every variable of the mise-en-scene from the upholstery to the water decanters to, in some cases, how the linens are folded. She delights in the minute. Yet despite Ms. Barry's panoptic approach, her quietly luxe interiors feel effortless, never overproduced.
Ms. Barry founded her Los Angeles-based firm in 1985 to focus on residential projects of the decidedly upscale variety. After launching Barbara Barry Home, her private accessories division for clients, Ms. Barry increasingly turned her talents to product design, entering licensing arrangements with such manufacturers as Baker, HBF, McGuire, Boyd Lighting, Tufenkian Rugs, and Baccarat Crystal. Her collections-which include furniture, fixtures, textiles, and china-have met with great acclaim, further solidifying her status as an international taste maker. Ms. Barry's diverse output is united by her trademark style, rooted in a breezy, mix-and-match classicism that avoids the trappings of nostalgia.

Recently, the prolific Ms. Barry has expanded her domain to include contract design. She has developed retail programs for Brooks Brothers' Manhattan flagship store and for the Avon Center Salon and Apan in Trump Tower. Both projects showcase her flair for creating order and intimacy within an expansive floor plan, a talent also evident in her residential program to house and display the vast holdings of art collectors Peter and Eileen Norton.
Ms. Barry's oeuvre, which has been extensively published, is a paean to gracious living. Eschewing drama for poetry, Ms. Barry creates environments that are true sanctuaries.
Link: http://www.barbarabarrycompany.com/


Laura Day


Date of Birth: August 28, 1972
Country: New York City, USA

Day's sophisticated designs were manifestation of easy elegance with personal touches to satisfy client's needs of function and beauty. Her simple masterpieces reflect personality as it is based on classic principles on playing with colors, lights, and furnishings. She focused on natural elements to come up with clean, comfortable work of space.
 

 Works:
Laura Day Design in SOHO (1997)
TLC's Trading Spaces
Home Depot's table for DIFFAS'S Dining By Design
a bar for Skyy Vodka

Bestselling author Laura Day has spent three decades helping individuals, organizations, and companies use their innate intuitive abilities to create profound changes in their lives.
Her work has helped demystify intuition and demonstrate its practical, verifiable uses in the fields of business, science, medicine and personal growth.
She has trained thousands of people to use their brains and perceptions in effective ways including scientists, celebrities, business executives, and other professionals to realize their goals while creating supportive and inspiring communities.
Laura has been featured in many publications including Newsweek, New York Magazine, The Independent, Bottom Line, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, and People magazines.

She speaks regularly both here and abroad, and has appeared on numerous shows including CNN, Fox News, Good Morning America, The View, and The Oprah Winfrey Show.
Laura's Day Gallery

Julia Buckingham Edelmann



Julia Buckingham Edelmann's passion for antiques, artifacts, and found objects translates into beautiful and exuberantly youthful homes with a timeless quality. As a former antiques dealer, she designs her interior environments with keen interest in integrating antiques and artifacts with modern elements to reflect today's lifestyles. 

Julia Buckingham Edelmann is one talented and savvy woman! Not only does she know a thing or two about design, but also she has embraced the blogging world. Founding principal of Buckingham Interiors + Design, a full service Interior Design firm on the North Shore of Chicago, Julia is the Chicago contributor for the popular blog Material Girls.
A lifelong passion for design, unusual antiques and unfussy objects is what fuels her work and imagination. Julia’s trademark style is a modern twist on tradition. “I have to infuse just a little bit of “funk” into every room that my firm designs,” Julia concedes. The result—rooms that are time-honored, yet fun and unusual.
Julia also possesses a keen eye for unwanted houses. In 20+ years of marriage, she and her husband John have flipped seven houses, “I am always revitalizing the proverbial ugly duckling and looking for ways to infuse my style into a home.” The firsthand knowledge of renovation and construction is one that Julia happily passes on to her clients. “Creating a true customer connection is the cornerstone of my business, but most importantly I want my work to be a reflection of the homeowner’s lifestyle and not a shrine to my vision.”



With which iconic interior decorator or architect do you most identify?
Mies van der Rohe. He strove towards an architectural style of a minimal framework, structural order and balance. His mantra “less is more” and “God is in the details” always rings true when I design a project. Editing is such an important part of the creative process. It’s good to know when to stop.

What talent would you most like to possess
?
To be an architect and to design the whole thing!

Who would you most like to collaborate with on a project
?
Darryl Carter. He uses clean simple lines in his interiors and then adds beautiful antiques with just the right amount of patina and dimension.

Who are your style icons?
Axel Vervoordt. His philosophy is simple: Make people happy; make them discover things in themselves; make them feel at home and love their house.”
Ralph Lauren. What he did for design and fashion while creating the wardrobe for the movie the Great Gatsby remains an inspirational favorite. The lines between fashion and the set design were blurred, and as result one aesthetic beautifully emerged. Ralph Lauren embodies a timeless sense of style.
Diane von Furstenberg. Her sense of design allows women to feel and look beautiful. The confidence that comes from wearing her designs has no doubt created some very strong women.

Holly Hunt. You’ve gotta love Holly Hunt and her design philosophy, “The best decisions are always made at the last minute. Just know when the last minute is.” I am always on the lookout to for that moment when I know—this is just right.

What is your most prized possession?
My family. They are my jewels—my husband, John, and our children; Caroline, Alex and Madi. Children are a huge gift, and one that keeps on getting better. I must mention our Wheaten Terriers Jane and Frankie too. We are a bit obsessed, as each child goes off to college we keep adding another dog to the family. How does this make any sense?!
What books are currently on your bedside table?
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Crazy For the Storm by Norman Ollestad
Phoenix Home and Garden (from a recent trip)

What is your favorite luxury in life?
A beautiful dress 

Who would you most like to meet and spend the day with?
I wish that I had met and spent a day with Princess Diana. Her innate sense of style and beauty came through in all that surrounded her, not to mention her goodwill and charity towards those less fortunate was incredibly moving. And all the while she slogged through some pretty treacherous adversity!
How would you describe your style?
Mix and twist tradition with whimsy! One part classic design, one part whimsy and one part lovely.
What inspires your creativity and designs?
The “oohs” and “aahs” of my clients. If I do not hear this, then I am not making a difference. Whether it is a design hit or a miss, emotion has to be present! My clients keep me real and grounded. The relationships that form are priceless, not to mention that we have a lot of fun together!


Saturday 9 June 2012

Nina Campbell

Nina Campbell is one of the world’s most respected and influential interior designers. Her list of clients and design expertise is unparalleled. Renowned for her contagious wit and brilliant sense of style, her designs appeal to both young and old and sit well in both contemporary and traditional interiors.


Her enthusiasm and interest in design and interiors was developed when, at the age of nineteen, she went to work for John Fowler at the prestigious Sybil Colefax & John Fowler. Shortly afterwards she set up her own decorating business, where one of her first commissions was to design a castle in Scotland and Annabel’s private members’ club, Berkeley Square, London, in her unmistakably elegant and rich colour palette.

Further developing her business, Nina opened her interior design offices and studio where she creates a successful fabric and wallpaper collection internationally distributed by Osborne & Little. Her famous retail shop for home accessories and gifts is at 9, Walton Street in London’s Knightsbridge, and has remained a firm favorite for the last 30 years.

The interior design side of the business continues to flourish with notable projects, both commercial and residential, throughout the world. In most cases her clients are very private individuals who require a high level of confidentiality and privacy. Nina Campbell feels very strongly that a house should be personally tailored to each client and should reflect their own particular needs and lifestyle. This is confirmed by her many returning clients, throughout the generations and for houses in different parts of the world.
Nina Campbell works with a large and trusted team of craftsmen in all the decorative fields. She is equally happy working with clients existing furniture and art or acquiring antiques and bespoke pieces to create a house ready to be lived in.

Current projects include a large residence on mainland China, a private house for a member of the Jordanian royal family in Amman, a town house in New York and a country house hotel overlooking Cheltenham race course.

Nina was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Middlesex in 2001, on top of the many other awards she has received, including the Royal Oak Timeless Design Award (2003) and the American Fashion Award for ‘the woman who has most influenced style internationally’. Nina is also a Trustee of the Prince of Wales Drawing School and on the Fundraising Committee for Kids Co. She is also the author of 5 books on interior design.