Project: Resort House
Location: Palm Springs, CA
IN BRIEF: For this project, the owner wanted to feel like he was living in a resort 24/7. The team looked to create a the feeling of a luxury hotel for the owner and his guests. The first goal was to discover how water plays an active and essential element of desert living. This relationship between desert and water become a core idea of this project. Secondly, the body’s geometric relationship to the desert scape’s horizontality. The desert is flat, barren with nearby mountains cutting upward creating a topography of blue sky. The third primary relationship is the suns path, which becomes critical in understanding natural, passive heating and cooling efforts. Lastly, how we can expand the relationship of built indoor space and developed outdoor space creating a sense of expanse surrounded by water
EPIC PULLTHROUGH MOMENT: Each piece of the house leads out to a section of the pool allowing guests to be “poolside” wether indoors or out.
SERVICES: Full Architecture and Interior Design (Concept design, Design Development, FF&E selections, Specifications and Art Procurement).
AWARDS: Metropolitan Home of the Year
IN THE MEDIA: Palm Springs Life, Modernist Tour of Palm Springs
CATEGORY: Residence Resort
Project: Yours Truly
Location: Honolulu, Hawaii
IN BRIEF: Business in the front meets party in the back at this 1920’s era lounge. The front room design is a nod to the original curio shop which sold some of the first Hawaiian postcards in the world. The back room is a tribute to the shop’s Hawaiiana obsessed founder who collected artifacts through out decades.
EPIC PULLTHROUGH MOMENT: Head to the bar where you get a key providing access to your own mail box for the night. Drinks are ordered through postcard service and you’ll find you adventurous cocktail inside your locked PO Box.
SERVICES: Full Interior Design (Concept design, Design Development, FF&E selections, Specifications and Art Procurement).
AWARDS: Coming Soon
IN THE MEDIA: Coming Soon
CATEGORY: Bar, A/C Hotel