by admin | Jul 2, 2014 | Press |
by admin | Jun 27, 2014 | Blog |
Design of this home features a two-story high central space where the family can gather, as well as more private common spaces such as a playroom in the basement and a library-style living room for the grown-ups. The two-story family room opens up to the back patio with a disappearing sliding wall of glass that is18’ wide. The pool, backyard barbeque and outdoor fireplace are close to the home and the relationship of the home to the outside is very natural. After moving in to the house, the homeowner commented: “In all the many tours we have done showing people around the house, the comment we get the most is how smart and well thought out the architecture of the house is – from the open feeling, the flow, to the perfect symmetries of various doorways and lines of the house. There is a great feeling of being together, with other family members, yet private if you seek it. And for a house of this size, it is incredibly cozy and warm – a perfect “Cape Cod”. We love everything about our house and would not change a thing. It is absolutely...
by admin | Jun 27, 2014 | Blog |
I completed the redesign and expansion of the Wolfgang Puck Express restaurant in Orlando Florida. A new dining room structure was added to the building and the existing space was remodeled for better customer flow and visual appeal. The restaurant now has double the previous seating capacity. The restaurant’s contemporary design features the brand’s deep chocolate brown and accent green colors, sumptuous leather booths and banquettes, light wood table tops, and two family-style tables. Other design features include black and white photos of Chef Puck and fresh ingredients that are commonplace in the kitchen. Floor-to-ceiling glass doors offer a complete view of the bustling dining room from the new and expanded patio with brick columns and awnings. I was pleased to create an open and inviting atmosphere for the restaurant by fashioning the existing space as a large eat-in kitchen with community tables and hanging pot racks, and adding a new vaulted-ceiling dining room for more...
by admin | Jun 27, 2014 | Blog |
I have crafted several titanium art pieces that are framed as paintings and embody the excitement of a new form of abstract art. Titanium can be colored with an industrial process that can yield colors such as blue, green, yellow and even purple. The colors also have a glow which I enhance by a process of preparing the metal prior to coloring. I was looking at titanium jewelry and the lovely colors that the material can take on. I then researched how to accomplish the colors on a larger scale that results in framed titanium panels that take on a glow of their own due to the surface texture of the material, coupled with a treatment that gives the opportunity of combining several colors on the same piece. This medium employs what is most modern in our present day culture, demonstrates some of the different ways that light can interact with materials and yet resonates with elemental concepts of beauty for its own sake. If our long-ago ancestors used the local clays and ash to make cave paintings, what is more natural than for us to look at new materials in our daily life and turns those into art? Most of the initial run of several art pieces has been sold out but more are...
by admin | Jun 27, 2014 | Blog |
A coffee-shop restaurant with a very modern twist. A restaurant has been completed in the town of Santa Paula, California with a theme of high-tech automotive materials. This is no coincidence as the restaurant is built right up against the structure that houses ARP (Automotive Racing Products). I have brought to this project years of experience in the restaurant design field as seen on the website: http://www.eckelberry.biz/ . We picked a bright range of colors for the walls and fabrics that are reminiscent of customized cars and used materials in the decoration that would also be used in race cars such as stainless steel, titanium panels and carbon-fiber look countertops. Some of the wall decorations selected are of race cars that currently use ARP’s line of fasteners. Although the menu is relatively simple, the quality of the ingredients is top-notch as the owner of the restaurant is a very conscious of what is expected in fine dining restaurants and the results are very appetizing. Lisa McKinnon of the Ventura County Star had this to say about the restaurant: “Hozy’s Grill continues to serve breakfast, lunch and dinner -the latter with a wine list- in a snazzy red-and-orange setting that belies its industrial-park neighborhood.” The restaurant caters to local customers that live in the Santa Paula and Ventura area and also those that work in nearby office and industrial buildings. The restaurant’s design contributes to the ongoing transformation of Santa Paula as a tourist destination and emerging fine-dining...
