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The Muse Collection by V Starr for Wolf-Gordon Celebrating strong women through three upholstery textiles: ELENA, FRIDA and ORA.
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Above a guest room’s custom banquette in the Schwan Locke, a 151-key Munich hotel by Fettle, a portrait by Veronika Grenzebach reimagines a pioneering woman involved in the city’s early 20th– century Deutscher Werkbund movement, which combined mass production with traditional craft. Photography: Lennart Wiedemuth.
features 98 MAPPING THE FUTURE 130 THE ART OF PLACEMENT OF WORK by Raul Barreneche by Edie Cohen
Works from developer Jorge Pérez’s private collection are showcased in the lobby and public areas at One Park Grove, a Miami residential tower by OMA and Meyer Davis.
A forward-looking foursome—Huntsman, Pfau Long, RMW, and SHoP— deliver a five-star campus for Uber headquarters in San Francisco. 112 EXPERIMENTS IN NATURE by Fred A. Bernstein
140 C ALIFORNIA DREAMING by Rebecca Dalzell
For their weekend home in Spain’s western countryside, the founders of SelgasCano pair preser vation with innovation. 120 LOCAL CONTEXT by Peter Webster
From Munich to Mexico, new hotels look to their neighborhood’s history for creative guidance.
With nods to surfing and mid-century modernism, Markzeff captures the state’s coastal beauty at Alila Marea Beach Resort in Encinitas.
148 C ABIN FEVER by Michael Snyder
Forest huts and woodland lodges are the inspiration behind the interiors of Timber House, a residential tower in Hong Kong by NC Design & Architecture.
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walkthrough 47 HEART OF THE CAMPUS by Alex Bozikovic 53 SHINING LIGHTS by Georgina McWhirter
Hospitality is back and the settings are brighter than ever.
hospitality giants 81 Things Are Looking Up by Mike Zimmerman
departments 25 HEADLINERS 33 DESIGNWIRE by Annie Block 38 BLIPS by Amanda Schneider 40 PINUPS by Wilson Barlow 65 MARKET by Rebecca Thienes, Georgina McWhirter, and Wilson Barlow 93 CENTERFOLD On Another Level by Athena Waligore
The annual CODAawards celebrates projects that integrate compelling commissioned art. 198 BOOKS by Stanley Abercrombie 200 CONTACTS
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203 INTERVENTION by Wilson Barlow
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e d i t o r ’s welcome
xoxo Bravo, all! This letter is actually a love note. And it goes out to us, the entire commercial design industry. I just jetted back from Chicago last night. To be sure, it was an unusual time of year for this trip, which we typically trekked to in June, right?! Yep, I’m talking about NeoCon. The annual pilgrimage to the welcoming halls of the Mart didn’t happen during Covid 2020, but business couldn’t let one more year pass. So, our favorite industry-wide meet-and-greet cum market days moved to the safer month of October. Smashing-good idea and kudos all around! Mercifully free of the unvaccinated (we all were required to show our Clear health passes), the entire show could best be described as responsible. What it lacked in the barely containable crowds of the past it made up for in determined business transactions, concise and effective meetings, the pervasive camaraderie engendered by safe behaviors, and a heckuva lot of design-y masks. Machers, old friends, Chicagoans, travelers from all points: Everyone who wanted to be counted came, and you could feel the good mojo right from the kick-off, on the stairs of Marshall’s Landing at our HiP awards (honoring the best product and people!). Our Interior Design team (and all of us at SANDOW) felt privileged to fly our flag at NeoCon 2021 celebrating design—and each other! As an additional token of love, what could be better than our November selection of projects and the masters behind them? We hiked to the verdant countryside in western Spain to share a glorious weekend cottage that’s one part restoration, one part innovation…and that made us green with envy ;) . On the hospitality front, we took in more local enviros in France, Germany, Italy, and Mexico, where design honors the past but always looks ahead. Speaking of the future, we also Ubered out to, well, Uber’s San Francisco headquarters and were absolutely wowed! From the high-tech digital experience to the high-touch personal one, with all the heads-down work areas and heads-up amenities one could imagine (and let’s not forget two glorious glass sky bridges to get you places!), the design by four prominent firms will make any employee yearn to go back to work…now! So, from sharing what’s new at any number of trade shows to featuring projects in the pages of this magazine and on our social channels (and DesignTV), we are always sending you the best of what’s out there in design…with all our love!
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