Books
ARTISTIC INTERIORS BY SUZANNE LOVELL
Artistic Interiors is an extraordinary volume featuring the work of prestigious architectural interior designer Suzanne Lovell. Hundreds of full color photographs feature her unique approach toward designing couture environments that create an expressive home through the integration of architecture, sophisticated materials, and fine art.
Exploring more than a dozen residences, Lovell takes the reader on a journey through homes with sumptuous interiors, finely crafted details, and exceptional collections. A lifestyle architect practicing at the intersection of architecture and interiors, design and art, Lovell’s work incorporates an expansive array of paintings, drawings, and photography, ceramics and sculpture, textiles, custom furnishings, and antiques. Suzanne Lovell is the go-to designer for the passionate collector and Artistic Interiors offers a glimpse into her distinct design process through striking images of her work.
Architect and interior designer Suzanne Lovell is the Principal of Chicago-based Suzanne Lovell Inc. and founder of Twill Textiles. Her work is regularly featured in Architectural Digest – she has twice been included in “The AD 100 Top Architects and Designers” – as well as House Beautiful, Interiors, and Veranda. She is widely respected as an expert on art, antiques, textiles, and furnishings and is a sought-after lecturer addressing the topics of passionate collecting and the intelligent integration of architectural interiors.
We are honored to be included in Barbara Sallick’s beautiful and informative book ‘The Ultimate Bath’.
From the cofounder of Waterworks comes a beautifully curated collection of dream bathrooms designed by today’s top architects and interior designers
In The Perfect Bath and The Perfect Kitchen, Barbara Sallick walked readers through the creation of stylish, functional spaces. With the renewed emphasis on the importance of home, her new book takes bath design a step further. The Ultimate Bath devotes its elegantly illustrated chapters to the most luxuriously designed bathrooms from a wide-ranging list of contributors. These are baths that, while grounded in timeless elements, surprise and enchant. There are grand baths of high style with elegant mirrored and marble surfaces. There are bold rooms of rich maximalist pattern and color. There are strictly tailored spaces of great restraint and serenity. And finally, there are baths with restorative views to the garden or forest—or in the middle of nature themselves.
Gathered together, these spaces seduce, delight, and serve as a visual blueprint for readers looking to create rest, refuge, and beauty at home. The end result is a book that celebrates the unexpected and inspires readers to bring a magical quality to their own baths, no matter how modest or grand.
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The Perfect Kitchen by Barbara Sallick
We are honored to be included in Barbara Sallick’s beautiful and informative book ‘The Perfect Kitchen’.
The kitchen is the heart of the home, the destination of every party, everyone’s favorite gathering spot, where style and functionality must go hand in hand. Designing a kitchen is a vastly complicated affair, involving an array of appliances (movable and fixed) and storage zones, not to mention addressing the kitchen’s role as a multifunctional social arena to be used from very early in the morning until late into the night. Creating a timeless, high-functioning space is daunting indeed. Where is one to begin?
In The Perfect Kitchen, Waterworks cofounder Barbara Sallick explores the process of designing a kitchen in great and beautiful detail, from surfaces and finishes to storage, cabinetry, and hardware. The book is enriched by dozens of images of kitchens by esteemed designers such as Steven Gambrel, Gil Schafer, and Suzanne Kasler; essays by top food icons including Julia Turshen and Melissa Clark about their own kitchens; and important, how-to advice.
Combining evocative, informative photography with an authoritative, engaging narrative, The Perfect Kitchen is an essential, lasting resource that will appeal to discerning homeowners and professionals alike looking for upscale visual inspiration and design advice.
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The Perfect Bath by Barbara Sallick
We are honored to share a ‘Master Class’ in Barbara Sallick’s beautiful and informative book ‘The Perfect Bath’.
From Dust Jacket:
Whether you call it your sanctuary, retreat, oasis, or spa, the bath is unlike any other room in the house. It can be the most private and indulgent of spaces or a simple, public one in which guests need to feel comfortable. Today’s bath is an expression of personal style and priorities, and the luxurious focal point of sophisticated interiors. Creating the perfect bath has become an obsession for homeowners and designers. Yet perhaps no room in the house requires as much forethought and planning as the bath. In The Perfect Bath, Barbara Sallick, co-ronder of Waterworks, the luxury brand of bath fittings, fixtures, furniture and accessories, explores the process of desinging a bath in great and beautiful detail. She shares exquisite images of favorite and esteemed baths, and talks with top designers about their work, including Suzanne Lovell, Pamela Shamshiri, Thomas O’Brien, Lee Mindel, Gil Schafer, Tim Clarke, and Steven Gambrel, and offers important, how-to advice for homeowners. Combining evocative, informative photography with authoritative, engaging how-to advice for homeowners, The Perfect Bath will be an essential, lasting resource.
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Andrew Martin Vol. 27
Andrew Martin International Interior Design Review, Volume 27: The World’s Top 100 Designers
The Andrew Martin International Interior Designer of the Year attracts entries from all over the globe and is described by The Times as ‘The Oscars for the interior design world’.
Suzanne Lovell Inc., Chicago, USA. Licensed architects, interior designers, art advisors. Current work includes a full-floor penthouse with panoramic views in the award-winning St. Regis Chicago designed by Studio Gang Architects, a suite of penthouses in 5-star Shipyards Hotel & Residences overlooking the Atlantic coast of Florida, and a Balinese inspired residence right on the water on Captiva Island, FL. Recent projects include a multi-pod private residence to house an important blue chip art collection. the merging of 4 separate units in a high-rise overlooking the ocean in Miami Beach, FL, and a 15,000 sq. ft. penthouse with sweeping panoramic views of the Gulf Coast in Naples, FL. Design Philosophy: couture environments for extraordinary living.
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Andrew Martin Vol. 26
Andrew Martin International Interior Design Review, Volume 26: The World’s Top 100 Designers
The Andrew Martin International Interior Designer of the Year attracts entries from all over the globe and is described by The Times as ‘The Oscars for the interior design world’.
Suzanne Lovell Inc., Chicago, USA. Licensed architects, interior designers, art advisors and business professionals who deliver technical detail, luxury finishes and a fully integrated design experience to each residential project. Current work includes a multi-generational compound spanning three lots in Highland Park, IL, a Balinese inspired residence on the water’s edge on Captiva Island, FL, and the merging of four separate units in a high-rise overlooking the ocean in Miami Beach, FL. Recent projects include a low country residence on the ocean on Hilton Head Island, SC, a 15,000 sq. ft. penthouse with sweeping panoramic views of the Gulf Coast in Naples, FL, and a sprawling cliff top residence overlooking Lake Michigan in Lakeside, MI. Design Philosophy: couture environments for extraordinary living.
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Ingrid Donat
We are delighted to have several recent projects included in the first monograph devoted to Ingrid Donat – Éditions Norma/Carpenters Workshop Gallery
Excerpt from Amazon.com:
Ingrid Donat creates sculpted furniture, most often in bronze. Taking a painterly approach to this weighty medium, Donat draws on diverse decorative influences. Art Deco, tribal tattooing, the work of Gustav Klimt and Armand-Albert Rateau have all inspired the intricate patterning of her work.
Elements of Donat’s practice remain consistent. Her creative process begins with a sheet of wax, which she inscribes, carves and shapes to form the skin of her work. This structure is then applied to her designs. She herself engraves the bronzes, paints the upholstery and treats the wood. Her pieces have been cast at the same bronze foundry, the Blanchet-Landowski, for over 20 years, as the stamp they bear goes to prove. Though often large and heavy, there is a delicacy to Donat’s work. Almost like armor, she uses bronze to shield an idea of the fragile.
In addition to her skilled craft, Donat is also an accomplished engineer. ‘Commode 7 Engrenages’ incorporates a column of cogs into its sides. They begin to whir when the chest’s drawers are opened or closed. The intrinsic mechanism animates the piece with movement and sound.
Born in Paris into a family of artists, Donat was raised in Sweden. In 1975 she returned to her birthplace to explore her passion for sculpture at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. During these years she began to apply her sculptural talent to functional pieces, strongly encouraged by her mentor Diego Giacometti. Only in 1998 did Donat begin to exhibit publicly a body of work she had been creating for over twenty years.
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