CINDY ALLEN
Editor In Chief
Interior Design Magazine
CINDY ALLEN
Editor In Chief
Interior Design Magazine
Cindy Allen has established herself as a force in elevating the design profession’s importance and exposure—acting as an ambassador and fervent supporter of architects and designers, while providing a platform and vehicle of growth for the design industry.
Allen is an industry champion, promoting the Giants of Design as well as emerging talents. A self-proclaimed design junkie, she brings an unbridled passion for design that is manifested in 17 print issues each year, a digital platform reaching a global audience of over 8 million. With Allen’s direction, Interior Design is constantly evolving to best celebrate designers and their process.
www.interiordesign.net | @thecindygram
KAI-UWE BERGMANN
Partner
Bjarke Ingels Group
KAI-UWE BERGMANN
Partner
Bjarke Ingels Group
Kai-Uwe Bergmann, FAIA is a Partner at BIG who brings his architectural expertise to proposals around the globe, including work in North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Kai-Uwe heads up BIG's business development--which currently has the office working in over 35 different countries. He also oversees BIG's Urban scales projects and supports BIG’s Landscape projects. He is registered as an architect in the USA (13 states) and Canada.
Kai-Uwe most recently contributed to the resiliency plan BIG U to protect 10 miles of Manhattan's coastline. First envisioned through the Rebuild by Design competition to develop proactive responses to Superstorm Sandy, it is now being further developed and construction will begin on the first 2.5 miles in 2020. Further projects include Brooklyn Queens Park, Smithsonian Master Plan, Pittsburgh Master Plan, Miami Beach Square and Zira Island Master Plan. He complements his professional work through previous teaching assignments at the University of Pennsylvania, IE University in Madrid, and his alma mater the University of Virginia. Kai-Uwe formerly was on the Board of the Van Alen Institute, participates on numerous international juries and lectures globally on the works of BIG.
www.big.dk | @kaiuwebergmann + @big_builds
TODD BRACHER
Founder + Creative Director
Todd Bracher Studio
TODD BRACHER
Founder + Creative Director
Todd Bracher Studio
Todd Bracher is a designer and strategist, known for his irreducibly complex approach to design.
His studio guides some of the world’s leading brands to realize strategic differentiation through design, including 3M, Burberry, Cappellini, Herman Miller, Humanscale, Issey Miyake, Jaguar, and the City of New York. Todd has also served as Creative Director for Georg Jensen, Humanscale, and HBF.
Todd has been honored as a Top 100 Global Design Influencer by Wallpaper* Magazine (2015), International Designer of the Year (2015 & 2016), and with numerous RedDot’s Best of the Best and NeoCon Gold Awards for product design.
Todd Bracher Studio, founded in 1999 and based in New York City, draws upon their expert network built over two decades, living, working, teaching in New York, Copenhagen, Milan, London and Paris.
www.toddbracher.com | @toddbracher
CLODAGH
Principal
Clodagh Design
CLODAGH
Principal
Clodagh Design
Irish-born, New York-based designer Clodagh has been ahead of the curve with eco-friendly designs since she began her career. She is acclaimed for her life-enhancing minimalism and “wellness by design” tenets. She embraces healing modalities, using both ancient and cutting-edge methods to energize and balance space. Clodagh was one of the earliest adopters of feng shui, incorporating chromatherapy, aromatherapy, biophilia and the science of light. Her focus is sustainability, well-being and comfort.
HERVÉ DESCOTTES
Principal
L'Observatoire International
HERVÉ DESCOTTES
Principal
L'Observatoire International
In 1993, Hervé Descottes co-founded the lighting design firm L’Observatoire International in New York City after eight years of design practice in Paris, France. Descottes personally creates the lighting concepts for all projects designed by L’Observatoire, and oversees project development through project completion.
Mr. Descottes has been recognized numerous times by the lighting design and architectural community. He has received awards from the International Association of Lighting Designers, the Illuminating Engineering Society and the New York City Illuminating Engineering Society, the American Institute of Architects, the American Society of Landscape Architects, D&ADAD, the Municipal Art Society of New York City, and the GE Corporation. In 2008, Mr. Descottes was named Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Minister of Culture.
In 2020, Hervé Descottes has received the Interior Design's Best of Year Award for Best Lighting Designer.
Photo Credit: Akos Photography
www.obsintl.com | @lobservatoire_intl
STEPHANIE GOTO
Principal + Founder
STEPHANIEGOTO
STEPHANIE GOTO
Principal + Founder
STEPHANIEGOTO
Since its inception in 2004, the international and multidisciplinary design practice of Stephanie Goto has established itself through its consciousness, understanding and mastery of form, structure and materials – the belief that all design is informed by a critical purity. The Studio’s embrace of the relationality between architecture, culture, art and hospitality has earned it renown as a leader in and conduit for creating truly unique and integrated experiential spaces.
Goto’s most notable commissions include the Calder Foundation’s Project Space, one of her many projects with President Alexander S. C. Rower, Caesarstone’s Experience Center in Georgia, the homes of several private clients including acclaimed chef Daniel Boulud, exhibition designs at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles and New York, gallery and exhibition design for Pace Gallery, and Michelin-starred restaurants including Daniel, Piora, Corton, Aldea and two forthcoming international projects with chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten.
The Studio’s diverse breadth of work has garnered it recognition and accolades across multifarious industries, including the Architect’s Newspaper 2019 Best of Design Award for Exhibition Design, Elle Décor 2021 A-List and 2019 Young Design Talent Award, Architectural Digest 2015 Top Ten Firms to Watch and Best of the Year Fine Dining awards in both Hospitality Design and Interior Design Magazine. Goto has lent her creative authority and energies to publications and institutions as varied as Architectural Record, Vanity Fair, Carnegie Hall, Casa Vogue, Dom Pérignon, Dwell, Ferrari, Galerie, the Museum of Arts and Design, Morgenstern’s Finest Ice Cream, The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.
www.stephaniegoto.com | @stephaniegoto
LEYDEN LEWIS
Founder + Creative Director
Leyden Lewis Design Studio
LEYDEN LEWIS
Founder + Creative Director
Leyden Lewis Design Studio
With global influences from his Caribbean heritage of Trinidad and Tobago, Founder and Creative Director Leyden Lewis leads his namesake firm with the ability to design timeless environments with a universal aesthetic.Through utilizing his background as a trained architect, Lewis’ work evokes nuances of urban sophistication and classical European modernism, while simultaneously bridging the gap between art, architecture, and design.
In the firm’s multi-disciplinary work, Lewis and his design studio take a thoughtful, collaborative approach to design resulting in timeless and meaningful environments that emphasize the importance of the fine arts, design, and structure.
Photo Credit: David. A Land
www.leydenlewis.com | @leydenlewisdesignstudio
SUCHI REDDY
Principal
Reddymade
SUCHI REDDY
Principal
Reddymade
A leader in today’s global design culture, Reddymade Architecture and Design was founded by Suchi Reddy in 2002. Since its inception, the firm has been lauded for its formal experimentation, its imaginative use of color, and passion for innovative materials. The firm’s practice spans the fields of architecture, design, installation art, and sculpture. Its diverse portfolio of projects includes public installations, adaptive reuse of historic buildings, large-scale commercial spaces, and residential projects—from single family homes to micro-apartments and prefab architecture.
The guiding principle of the practice is “form follows feeling,” a design ethos informed by neuroaesthetics, the study of how the brain responds to the design of our surroundings. The strong belief that good design, calibrated carefully to the human, positively influences wellbeing, creativity, and productivity informs all projects from conception to details.
Most recently, neuroaesthetic design principles were central in “A Space For Being,” a collaborative installation with Google, the International Arts + Minds Lab at Johns Hopkins University, and Muuto. Upcoming projects include a sensory healing room designed to improve recovery times for patients with disorders of consciousness; 30,000 square feet of amenities for a condominium project in Sunny Isles, FL with lobbies designed with the late Karl Lagerfeld; and a flagship retail space exploring the intersection between technology and humans.
Suchi Reddy is dedicated to celebrating diversity and equality, as well as addressing the economic, social, environmental and cultural impacts of her work on both the user and the planet. Reddy sits on the board of the Design Trust for Public Space and Storefront for Art and Architecture. She was appointed the Plym Distinguished Professor at the University of Illinois School of Architecture, Champaign–Urbana for the Fall 2019 semester where her work focused on contemporary architectural experience through the lens of neuroaesthetics, neurophenomenology, and sensory design.
Photo Credit: Chloe Horseman
www.rmdny.com | @reddymadedesign
CHARLES RENFRO
Partner
Diller Scofidio + Renfro
CHARLES RENFRO
Partner
Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Charles Renfro joined Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) in 1997 and became a partner in 2004. Charles led the design for a number of projects including the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston and Zaryadye Park, a 35-acre park adjacent to the Kremlin in Moscow. Charles has also led a number of academic projects at Stanford University, UC Berkeley, Brown University, and the University of Chicago, and is currently designing new facilities for Columbia University, and the University of Toronto. He is also currently leading the renovation of Dallas's Kalita Humphreys Theater - Frank Lloyd Wright's only built free-standing theater. Abroad, Charles is leading the design of the Museum of Image and Sound in Rio de Janeiro, and led the design of the Tianjin Juilliard School, recently completed in China. He is a faculty member of the School of Visual Arts.
Photo Credit: Geordie Wood
www.dsrny.com | diller_scofidio_renfro
MARION WEISS
Design Partner
WEISS/MANFREDI
MARION WEISS
Design Partner
WEISS/MANFREDI
Marion Weiss is the Graham Chair Professor of Practice at the University of Pennsylvania and cofounder of WEISS/MANFREDI Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism. She was honored by Architectural Record with the Women in Architecture Design Leader Award in 2017 and is a National Academy of Design inductee. She is a graduate of Yale University’s School of Architecture and earned her undergraduate degree in architecture at UVA. In 2020 she was selected for UVA’s distinguished alumna award. She has taught at Harvard, Cornell and at Yale University she was the Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor. Her firm has been recognized with the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award for Architecture, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Architecture, the Architectural League of New York’s "Emerging Voices" award, the New York AIA Gold Medal, and, most recently, the 2020 Thomas Jefferson Gold Medal in recognition of the firm’s significant contribution to culture and education.
www.weissmanfredi.com | @ weissmanfredi
MICHAEL MANFREDI
Design Partner
WEISS/MANFREDI
MICHAEL MANFREDI
Design Partner
WEISS/MANFREDI
Michael Manfredi is a Senior Design Critic at Harvard University and cofounder of WEISS/MANFREDI Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism. He was born in Trieste, Italy and grew up in Rome. He completed his undergraduate education in the United States and received his Master of Architecture at Cornell University where he studied with Colin Rowe. Manfredi won the Paris Prize, was a Cornell Fellow, and was awarded an Eidlitz Fellowship. He is a board member for the Storefront for Art and Architecture, and was recently inducted into the National Academy of Design. His firm has been recognized with the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award for Architecture, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Architecture, the Architectural League of New York’s "Emerging Voices" award, the New York AIA Gold Medal, and most recently the 2020 Thomas Jefferson Gold Medal in recognition of the firm’s significant contribution to culture and education.
www.weissmanfredi.com | @weissmanfredi
RICK JOY
Principal
Studio Rick Joy
RICK JOY
Principal
Studio Rick Joy
Rick Joy is the founder and principal of Studio Rick Joy.
He is considered an important contributor to the ongoing global discourse on conceptual and sustainable architecture. His work expresses innovation and exactitude in modernism and reflects a unique sense of place.
Honors include receiving the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Architecture in 2002 and in 2004 winning the prestigious National Design Award from the Smithsonian Institute/Cooper-Hewitt Museum.
In 2015, Rick was vested into the American Institute of Architects’ College of Fellows and the Royal Institute of British Architects’ RIBA International College of Fellows.
He was inducted into the Interior Design Hall of Fame in a Javits Center event in 2019.
Other professional affiliations include The College of Fellows of The American Institute of Architects, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, Tucson MOCA Advisory Board Member.
Rick lectures internationally and periodically serves as visiting professor at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, Rice University, M.I.T. and the University of Arizona.
The studio’s first monograph, Desert Works, was released by Princeton Architectural Press in 2002 and the second, Studio Joy Works, was released in 2018.
He is also the co-owner of CLL Concept Lighting Lab with his partner Claudia Kappl Joy. CLL provides full-service lighting design for all SRJ projects in addition to outside firms.
Originally from Maine, he studied music and was a classical percussionist and rock/blues drummer until the age of 28 when he moved to Tucson to study Architecture.
www.studiorickjoy.com | @studiorickjoy
PASCALE SABLAN
Associate
Adjaye Associates
PASCALE SABLAN
Associate
Adjaye Associates
Pascale Sablan, FAIA, NOMA, LEED AP, Associate at Adjaye Associates, with over 14 years of experience, has been on the team for a variety of projects around the world. Pascale is the 315th living African-American, woman registered architect in the U.S. She is an activist architect who works to advance architecture for the betterment of society, bring visibility and voice to the issues concerning women and BIPOC designers. She founded the Beyond the Built Environment organization positioned to uniquely address the inequitable disparities in architecture. In 2020 Pascale was voted President-Elect of the National Organization of Minority Architecture, the 5th woman to hold this position. She was awarded the 2020 AIA New York State President's Award and the 2021 AIA Whitney M. Young. Jr Award for her advocacy efforts and ascended to the AIA College of Fellows, the youngest African American to reach that honor. Pascale has given lectures at Colleges and Universities nationally; cultural institutions such as the United Nations and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
www.adjaye.com | @pascalesablan