I F Y O U W E R E
AN ICONIC DESIGN OBJECT
A mirror ball. When struck by sunlight, everything lights up. Everyone has a mirror ball inside their soul, but we tend to forget about it. Our role as designers is to make it shine.
A BUILDING
Punta Della Dogana modern art museum because of its mesmerizing location–Venice, and how it mixes antique and contemporary styles.
The Sundukovy Sisters
The Russian twins I r ina and Olga Sundukovy, funded a leading S+S inter ior design studio. They worked on the renovat ion of the Hotel Le Louis Versai l les Château: “the new inter ior spaces of fer a strong and authent ic contemporar y design, int imately l inked to the histor y of the hotel and the emblemat ic locat ion.”
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AN ARCHITECTURAL PERIOD
The retro-futurism as seen in Stanley Kubrick's films.
AN ICONIC DESIGN OBJECT
A BUILDING
Eames’s LCW chair. My grandfather was an architect and taught in the Paris Beaux-Arts. His home was decorated with 1950s Knoll furniture and that chair nurtured my childhood well before I could even imagine becoming a designer.
The "mushroom" guard house in the Luxembourg Gardens, where I often took shelter during rainstorms as a child. This building is still excessively modern in its simple shape and function as shelter.
Donatien Carratier
For the French archi tect of the 3 Nagas Luang Prabang, in Laos, a French colonial house protected by UNESCO, the stakes were to “understand this place as a French her i tage whi le adding deep local Laot ian roots. Immersing guests in today’s col lect ive unconscious for a journey of yester year.”
A CITY
The 1990’s little city of Saigon where I lived for 15 years, opened an agency and worked with many artisans. Back then, Saigon still had its authentic charm, but today Ho Chi Minh city has taken over. I don’t recognize Saigon in this contemporary megalopolis.
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