A good painting evokes emotions. A good residential design renders a portrait of its residents.
Karen’s clients love Julie Heferman’s oil painting “Living Under Glass” . Karen placed it above a sofa.
Then she imagined walking into the painting and discovering this library.
Photo by Tom Rossiter
Ollie O,
Yesterday we were talking about the process for making sculptures and other objects. And, as promised, I found some images to illustrate the methods we chatted about on the phone...
The first ideas are usually doodles, freehand line drawings because they are the quickest way to visualize an idea.
Then the proportions get tested with measured drawings. We talked about using graph paper to draw plans (bird’s eye view) and elevations.
The initial ideas invariably change as we consider alternative materials, the context of the object and as playfulness and random inspirations infiltrate our work, which leads to 3d renderings in color, usually using paint or colored pencils .
Then we make three dimensional models. For this chair we made model at 25% the size of the piece. Depending on the form we use plaster or wax or foam or wood or cardboard or paperclips taped together.
Then it’s time to start building the piece.
In this case we sculpted the chair alternating between additive and subtractive sculpture. A mold was made from the finished sculpture after testing it for comfort.
We developed a special resin material to cast the chairs. It is noncombustible and safe for a big public space. The legs and back are reinforced with Kevlar, a woven glass fiber used in bullet proof vests and sails for boats. We integrated the color into the liquid to create a solid material that develops a patina as it is used, the way solid wood floors, metal hardware and stone steps get more interesting as they are used…poem by Louis Jenkins
Innovation comes from inspired communities. How can they be nurtured?
The world’s population has tripled in sixty years. We’ve often built too quickly and compromised community in favor of individuals.
We were invited to convert a vacant ‘60’s office building in Savannah into a boutique hotel. Exploring the neighborhood was channel changing; a rhythm of public and private buildings hugging public squares and parks which imbued the city with connections.
Savannah’s 18th century Oglethorpe plan inspired our design for an incubator city of high tech manufacturing buildings centered upon a town square in Detroit, a configuration promoting interaction. It was invigorating applying methods we’ve used to create hospitality and retail businesses at a larger scale.
From the entry to the library …
Interiors by karen Lilly Mozer
Lobby…
An impromptu hour with my dear friend Rebecca Goldberg, superhero, who surreptitiously shot the studio as I completed a conversation with Jeff…She is the trailblazing cofounder of DadaGoldberg, among Observer’s top 25 PR firms, located in New York, which the Observer describes as “making waves in all the right places” …a “shapeshifting” and continuously evolving team of 35 serving the luxe worlds of design, fashion, art, hospitality and real estate with “good storytelling that knows no boundaries”…wwwdadagoldberg.com…@dadagoldberg…@rebeccagoldbergbrodsky.
