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3.22.10 | One interpretation of Jane Jacobs’s seminal work, The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Vintage 1961), is that architecture has lost its way as an important tool of information distribution. Well, lost its way may not be the proper phrase. How about, stuck in the middle ages.
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3.1.10 | Mr. Smed has the rare entrepreneurial combination of insight and predisposition to act. Fortunately, to this is added the ability to see things as a whole, and what amounts to almost a compulsion to do things better ( environmentally and for clients) and more efficiently. As a result, anyone with an open mind can find morsels of value and inspiration in his presentations.
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2.15.10 | For all of its frustrations and follies, at times the legal system manages to get something, if not right, at least better. Such is the case – getting it better – with a couple of Federal court decisions dealing with the subject of interior design legislation. The most recent case in the U.S. Federal Court for the Northern District of Florida was championed by the nemesis of interior design legislative advocates, the Institute for Justice, which, in this case, helped the profession get it . . . better. The result was a stunning victory for interior design and interior designers: The court upheld the Florida practice act.
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2.1.10| I am overcome with a certain amount of guilty pleasure each year as I bound up the few steps to Cipriani 42nd to begin a new year’s round of self-celebration at the annual – this year the 31st – Interiors Awards Breakfast, which coincided with Contract magazine’s 50th anniversary. If just half of the A&D and contract furniture adulation evident in Contract’s introductory anniversary film translates into contributed projects and advertisement, there will be at least another 50 years ahead.
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01.25.10 | 2010 is off to a decent start, if for no other reason than it’s no longer 2009 . . . and hope springs eternal. Of course we have all just had a big wake-up call – not that wake-up calls ever really wake up anyone for long. Nature’s tragedies strike when and where they want as the earth shucks and shuffles and twirls along its trajectories. The recent example of ghastly proportions in Haiti reminds us of the vital importance, and danger, of the built environment and its relationship to our survival, individually and as a species.
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12.14.09 | Driving home from the NeoCon East show this year, still dazzled by the diversity of office furniture and design industry on display and the creative and enthused people I met, I remained puzzled about how designers earn their money.
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11.23.09 | A&D firms must become more business savvy. Such is the received wisdom of this year’s State of the Industry Panel at NeoCon East 09. (See officeinsight issues 11.9.09 and 11.16.09.) To this not-so-welcome news, we are compelled to add that, business savvy requires a certain level of legal savvy for, after all, it is the law that sets the rules of the game
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9.14.09 | So, to merge or not to merge?
It’s certainly not for me to say, nor for the many other supporters – financially and otherwise – of the interior design profession and its professional associations. But we on the sidelines see and believe in the great hope and possibilities that the profession has for itself and its practices.
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9.7.09 | Labor Day. They say that almost half of the architects in NYC are out of work – and how many interior designers? There must be another way of looking at these professions and what they can do for all of us. The traditional linear thinking – diversification of work, geographical expansion, etc. – worked . . . to a point. But these professions seem to be going nowhere fast, except for a few star architects.
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8.31.09 | Last week’s Part 1 provided background on the issue of whether ASID and IIDA should merge, or at least begin to act in a unified way to move the interior design profession forward. This week, we would like to extend the discussion, but first, we apologize to Mitch Sawasy for misspelling his name (which we spelled “Sawazy”).
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