Whether used as closet doors or a space divider, Quadrum hanging panels need only a ceiling track, keeping the floor clear of obstructions. Lead times for this Italian-made product are less than one month for unusual sizes or combinations of European melamine, exotic wood veneers, frosted glass, and lacquered glass in trendy colors.
Vibrant, jewel-toned M Screen solar shading cloth is now available to brighten up this manufacturer's roller shades. The textile features Enduris Glass Core technology, ensuring that yarns stay strong, stable, and tightly woven. Match one of the available opacities to the amount of light and heat you want to block.
Though the R-Cast line's new Ice pattern acrylic sheets measure up to 4 feet by 8 feet, their random pattern never precisely repeats itself. And although the acrylic ranges from a ½- to 1-inch thick, it is easily shaped or formed. Sheets ship in an icy clear, or in custom colors.
The chameleon of building products, dichroic glass often comes with a hefty price tag. For interior and exterior projects with shallower pockets, there's now Dichrolam tempered, laminated acrylic or poly-carbonate or annealed safety glass. The film interlayer, which provides the ever shifting iridescent colors, comes in seven versions. Panels are offered in any size up to 54 inches wide by 12 feet long, with thickness ranging from ¼ inch to 1½ inches.
They are not exactly the Manolo shelves in the room-sized closet that Big built for Carrie in the film Sex and the City; but at least designer Luciano Bertoncini's upright, 6-foot-1-inch Foot Box will keep shoes clean and tidy. At 23 inches wide by 8 inches deep, the slim, wall-mounted aluminum unit conceals shelves behind a door, fronted with mirrored or frosted glass.
Some say that necessity is the mother of invention, but invention occasionally begets necessity. Cambridge Architectural got its start in 1917 manufacturing the interlocking wire beds used for the conveyor belts of newfangled assembly lines. In the 1960's, the company started to produce the indestructible, rigid, tightly woven mesh that protects the walls of elevator cabs—and somehow manages to be downright sexy, too. Other versions are pressed into service as safety barriers for exploding curtain walls or as part of ventilation systems. Peter Marino Architect even installed the material as a decorative cladding at a Louis Vuitton flagship in New York. A close-up on the manufacturing process weaves a tale of humble stainless-steel origins spun into golden applications.
Manufacturer: Annemette Beck Design Studio
Product: Silver Dust.
Standout: Transparent slats, flecked with silver, form ethereal floating panels.
After 21 years of designing bespoke textiles for Danish places of worship, Annemette Beck says she went in search of "something more Mediterranean, such as plastic, glitter, crystals, gold, silver—absolutely not Scandinavian materials. In England, France, and Italy, I visited the fashion houses and boutiques and looked at all the elegant people on the street." These distinctly secular sources yielded an un-fabric combining fishing line as the warp and a blend of silver, viscose, raffia, and PVC as the weft. She introduced a custom version of the product to the market in 2007. Now, she has released the translucent panels for production under the name Silver Dust, part of the 24-piece Collection of Hand-Woven Textiles. Clearly fitting for a window treatment, the panels are also easy to envision as dividers in a nightclub, bar, or restaurant.
The manufacturer's new Transition technique safeguards privacy without sacrificing light, easing the glass's texture from crystal clear to deeply embossed, all within the same panel. Choose an obscure bottom with clear top, all-over texture with a clear middle section, or the reverse of either example.
The candy colors and honeycomb core of the Panelite Bonded Series make for a sweet spot for light. The core—initially developed for the aerospace industry for its strength-to-weight ratio—is available with a ¼-inch polycarbonate tubular cell; a random mix tubular core of ¼-inch and 1/8-inch cells; and an aluminum hexagonal honeycomb. These bonded series panels require less material, shipping, and labor, and their ability to transmit daylight helps contribute to LEED certification. Facing comes in gloss or satin, and clear or colored, ranging from light blue to bronze.
Successful designers always seem to have mentors. But that only begins to explain Marybeth Shaw's two-decade journey into the design stratosphere. The designer of the Veritas Collection started as an assistant creative director with Formica Corporation, working alongside a parade of visiting design luminaries. Shaw then served for six years as chief creative director for New York–based wall coverings manufacturer Wolf-Gordon. While there, she wasted little time re-branding the company and producing three collections of experimental prints, by Interior Design Hall of Famer Laurinda Spear, celebrity industrial designer Karim Rashid, and Rem Koolhaas's pal, the multidisciplinary designer Petra Blaisse.
Drawing on her own formative experience in France as a master's student at the Ecole d'Architecture de Paris-Belleville, Shaw began to craft her own work in 2004. Her firm, Shaw Jelveh Design, is based out of both a new Manhattan studio and an old Baltimore row house crisply renovated with co-principal and architect Majid Jelveh.
Showing her range of design capabilities with patterns like Collage and Links, Shaw embraces bold geometry. With Spy, Constellation, and Temp, she filters light to let the negative spaces glow. Bamboo, Daisy, and Kiku are botanically inspired, and Laces, Magnetic, Beads, and Arctic are playful layers of film. Textures for the panels are highly tactile, and sometimes inspired by architectural glass. The surfaces of custom panels may be combined with color and graphic patterning. With Collage, layouts vary to ensure that no two panels will be precisely alike. The same is true for her Links series, which encapsulates overlapping squares or circles of wood veneer, paper, foil, and translucent colored film. Consider them a tool for your own creative journey.
Stone-lined fireplaces lose their spark when one considers the heavy burden that their rustic charm places on Mother Nature. Yet, the light and heat that they generate are unmatched, soothing in us a primal need for comfort. Balancing duty and desire, the Fire Company's EcoSmart fireplaces tread lightly on the environment. They burn denatured ethanol, a renewable resource, instead of wood or coal. After winning an Interior Design magazine Roscoe award in 2006 for Innovation, the manufacturer has launched three new items.The already popular Retro, a rounded-square fireplace, is now offered in the limited edition Gift of Fire design, which is an imaginative Aboriginal motif. Also new are the Austere and modern Igloo, with its panes of ice-like glass, and the folded Zeta, which sports a curved leather shell in camel, black, white, chocolate, or red, on a steel and plywood base. For those who prefer simpler forms, the previously-introduced square-shaped Cube and Fusion offer painted MDF-surrounds that come in a dozen colorways, which will set hearts ablaze. Fusion also features a glass front and back, offering visual access from just about any perspective.
Sleek Caliber signage turns the spotlight on way-finding or other kinds of information using a silk-screen process to emblazon high-impact acrylic panels with computer-generated custom graphics. For low power consumption and extremely long life, white LEDs mounted in a die-cast aluminum box illuminate the graphics from the edge of the plastic.
Perfect for columns and other curved surfaces, Palm Panel Flex and Mosaic offers a tropical look thanks to coconut shells. Natural color variation is achieved by using coconuts at different stages of ripening, and a small space between each hand-placed chip leaves room for grout. The panels are available with or without resin, which comes in a wide range of colors including custom finishes. Panels can be fitted with Flex backing in zero-formaldehyde–emitting cork or mesh, or in Omarno's standard plywood backing. The panels contribute to LEED credits for recycled content and low-emitting materials, and each measures 12 inches square.
Italian-made Solid Core high-pressure laminates are stable without backing, for visible-edge applications such as tabletops, counters, or partitions up to 51 by 120 inches. The substantial white, black, red, gray, or magnolia cores, which range from 1/20 to ½ of an inch in thickness, may be single- or double-faced using the manufacturer's full palette of non-iridescent Arpa colors.
Botanica custom architectural glass borrows imagery from the work of photographers Henry Domke, Steven Meyers, and Zeva Oelbaum. The patterns may be rendered using a combination of textures, translucent or opaque colors, etching, and two-sided overlays, in the process creating, perhaps, several patterns as variations on a theme for a single installation.
Architectural Drapery mesh interweaves weatherproof copper and stainless steel wire. Los Angeles–based designers ARYA Group used the mesh for the Village School gymnasium facade in Pacific Palisades, California, then carried it indoors for window treatments, light fixtures, and the curtain on a stage at one end of the gym. It's also available in a natural aluminum finish, nickel plated, or colorfully painted.
Architect Zaha Hadid shares credit with Woody Yao for the zippy ZH Duemilacinque. The door lever sparkles in aerodynamic polished chrome over brass, though gleaming satin chrome is also an option. Choose a plain or square rose, or escutcheons of either an oval or rectangle shape.
An office needs a fresh coat of paint. Simple job, right? But when the client is Benjamin Moore & Co., expect the workplace scrutiny advisory level to hit Severe. Or, in this case, Neon Red. Tackling the update of the palette pro's 138,000-square-foot, two-level headquarters in Montvale, New Jersey was Dana Jenkins, design director in Gensler's nearby Morristown office, in collaboration with Doty Horn, Benjamin Moore's director of color and design. They further enlisted Kenneth Wampler's Alpha Workshops, the collaborative that employs persons living with HIV and AIDS, to develop specialty effects—using, of course, only Benjamin Moore paints. The most aggressive of these is the aptly named Bar Code Wall, a floor-to-ceiling stack of multicolored stripes that looms above the visitors sitting beneath. Alpha also conceived the playful, domino-like treatment of the employee café, using colors like Split Pea and Truffle, and the painted leaf swatches cascading down the staircase of the reception area's Color Atrium. The pièce de résistance of the space certainly must be the Brush Wall, a tactile exhibition of the manufacturer's identity, where pre-dipped paintbrushes provide a backdrop for color-coordinated upholstery. Is it any surprise that it's directly across from the office of Benjamin Moore chief Denis Abrams? It's still good to be CEO.
“Build us a 3-D business card.” This sentiment, though unspoken, drives many corporate building projects, sending some designers scrambling for a branding guru or graphics wiz. Matteo Thun & Partners, however, went straight to the source. As the firm plotted a 43,055-square-foot executive pavilion for German wood producer Binder, it employed Binder's own plywood in the building.
“We've been known for sustainable architecture for 30 years, and it all started with wood,“says Thun, the firm's principal and Interior Design magazine Hall of Famer. On a grassy knoll adjacent to a wood mill in Kösching, Bavaria, project leaders Bruno Franchi and Uta Bahn mapped out a straightforward and linear design to spotlight the company's signature commodity. It was the ultimate product placement.
They specified use of Binder's cross-laminated BBS for the entire complex. Spruce and larch overlap in alternating layers to produce the prefabricated sheets in a process that is energy efficient. The self-insulating composite absorbs sound and resists fire, with nary a whiff of carbon emissions. Sheets come in 13 different thicknesses, up to 10½ inches, at 49 inches wide.
On the single-story facade, full-height glass panels mix with BBS sheets, generating a give-and-take between transparency and substance. Slender office quadrants of glass and wood are wedged into a glass, central entrance hall, forming an “H” that also frames two outdoor courtyards. White wood walls and limestone flooring intensify the starkness of negative space in the reception area, which is bordered by the glass conference room and its SmartWood-certified, nut-wood-top table. All beneath a flat BBS roof, forcefully projecting over the courtyards like a wide-brimmed boater. It makes a spot-on finish for a corporate tip-of-the-hat. binderholz.com. circle 591
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