You could say that interior designer Katharine Pooley fell into her career by accident. In 2003, she took on the task of improving the interior of her family’s holiday home in Scotland as a personal project. The following year, she repeated the task when she bought and redecorated two upmarket holiday lets: one in Thailand and the other in Colorado, in America.
It was only when friends, family and holiday guests kept pestering her about where she had found the eclectic designer accessories and furniture she had used that Pooley decided to open an interior design shop in Chelsea, west London, in October 2004, and to set up a business carrying out refurbishment projects for wealthy clients. She won two design awards the following year, establishing her reputation. (more…)
Architects from the Chicago-based firm in charge of renovations at Cross Campus Library spoke at a Yale College Council-sponsored forum Wednesday about the furnishings and interior design that will be installed before the library reopens in August 2007.
During an hour-long presentation in Sterling Memorial Library, Aric Lasher, an architect from Hammond Beeby Rupert Ainge, showed students slides of the furniture sets the firm has picked out for CCL’s various study areas and provided an overview of the renovated library’s layout. Lasher said the architects tried to choose furnishings that would both complement and contrast with the Gothic style of some parts of the library complex. (more…)
Construction will continue, despite the completion of restorations this past summer to Franklin Lloyd Wright’s Darwin Martin House. A new Visitors and Research Center will be erected alongside the newly restored buildings. Toshiko Mori was selected to build the center in 2003 in a design competition amongst four other architecture firms.
The Visitors and Research Center will be a historical landmark in tandem with contemporary architecture. Much like Wright in 1905, the competition was a catalyst for thought and an opportunity for young architects to design a significant building. Mori, the architect designing the gateway to the Martin House, will be speaking on Wednesday, October 4 at the University at Buffalo. (more…)
