A recent trip to Italy – our honeymoon, in fact – brought us on a whim to Palermo, the ancient capital of Sicily, whose deeply layered history can be read …
Lost City
No one can deny the impact of a stunning and complete interior environment, but I find I derive the greatest inspirations from ruins. It is at the feet of destroyed buildings – …
Proud Vernacular
Something must be said for a nation’s capital where the music hall is larger than any government building, and whose national bank centers around a public sculpture garden. Rekyavik, a city …
Secret Places
For all its couture ostentation, Milan is a city of secret places. Most striking are the hidden moments left for discovery beyond each palazzo gateway: an imposing courtyard, a stunning urban garden oasis, an …
Virtual Tour of the Quintus Showroom
Here’s a little video blogging test run… hope you enjoy! Thanks for watching!
New Capsule Collection with Quintus
I am deeply honored to have had the opportunity to design a capsule collection with Quintus this Spring, introduced to the design world this past week in Los Angeles during the Spring …
Not so Subtle: The Munich Residenz
I’ll keep this one light on text, and let you just take in the images… A quarry visit outside Munich in mid-January this year gave me the opportunity to show …
Les Hôtels de Soubise et de Rohan
Mr. Edward Codish, a much admired teacher of mine once began a history class by suggesting that the social rank of Aristocrat (in this context, the nobility of pre-revolutionary France) …
And for the People…
The contrast between this space and John Piermont Morgan’s Library can be found not in material or eloquence of design, but in intentions. Whereas the Morgan Library served to impress …
Parisian Jewel Box
The magnificent Sainte-Chapelle on Paris’s Ille de la Cite is hailed as one of the greatest works of Gothic architecture. Completed in the mid-Thirteenth Century, it is perhaps most famous …