Interior Design Magazine

https://lnkd.in/guarShmS 10 Questions With… Faye Toogood We caught up with super-busy British Designer Faye Toogood, fresh from the Stockholm Furniture Fair, where she was a guest of honor, and Maison et Objet in Paris, where she was named Designer of the Year for 2025. Beginning her career as a journalist at The World of Interiors, she was an assistant, then stylist, and then Decoration Editor. It was an experience she credits with giving her depth and breadth. After a period of several years, she needed a change. Seeking to move into something more 3D and tangible, she began experimenting with various media including fashion, furniture, and sculpture and her approach skewed bold and avant garde. Words: Stephen Treffinger Feature: Faye Toogood

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https://lnkd.in/ewMYCC-n Postpandemic workplace challenges presented rich opportunities for the redesign of a global investment firm’s Park Avenue workplace. Stefanie Shunk, principal of the perennially top-ranking Giants firm Gensler—and a recent Interior Design HiP Rising Star—led the transformation, which expanded the client’s existing office onto contiguous floors. The primary goals were to better connect teams, present layers of visual intrigue, and add top-tier hospitality touches and overall warmth. Words: Athena Waligore Photography: Eric Laignel Firm: Gensler Design

https://lnkd.in/eQHNs7gW The former Western Electric Company headquarters in Watertown, Massachusetts, was not an obvious place for a cutting-edge life-sciences research facility. Approximately 10 miles west of Boston, the 1931 structure was built for heavy industrial manufacturing and most recently held an insurance company office. Though it retained its art deco exterior, no period details remained inside. But its large size, solidity, and proximity to Harvard University and MIT caught the eye of developer Spear Street Capital. It tapped local firm Elkus Manfredi Architects to transform the seven-story building into Watertown Exploratory Labs (WELL), a state-of-the-art campus for life-sciences research and development. Words: Rebecca Dalzell Photography: Eric Laignel Firm: Elkus Manfredi Architects

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https://lnkd.in/eGNXB6kK By the time senior administrators at Princeton University decided to renovate Prospect House, an 1852 Italianate mansion used for meetings and events, it was dark, dated, and dysfunctional. The recessed front door was cloaked in shadows and inaccessible to anyone in a wheelchair. Inside, paint colors were gloomy, furniture was tired. Kitchen facilities struggled to keep up with catering demands, and the audiovisual equipment might consist of an antiquated projector and screen. It was time to “press the restart button,” recalls university architect Ron McCoy, who oversees changes to the campus. To tackle Prospect House, McCoy and the reno­vation committee selected Irina Verona and Jennifer Carpenter of New York firm Verona Carpenter Architects, which focuses on inclusive design, striving to ensure spaces accommodate the broadest range of bodies and minds, with particular attention to sensory and physical disabilities. Verona and Carpenter were completing another project on campus, so their team was already steeped in the school’s priorities for its built environment. Also helping to tip the scale in their favor is that Verona is a Princeton undergrad alum, providing her with an intimate feel for the campus, which features an eclectic assortment of buildings, Prospect House, a National Historic Landmark, among the older structures. Words: Jane Margolies Photography: Eric Laignel Firm: Verona Carpenter Architects

https://lnkd.in/gGhepYuM Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania is one of many institutions of higher learning that has taken on the ambitious but necessary goal of becoming carbon-neutral within the next decade—even as it expands to accommodate a fast-growing student body. That target was fundamental to the conception of the campus’s 60,000-square-foot dining and community commons building, and guided DLR’s choice of mass timber for the structure. The Northern pine glulam beams and CLT elements, built in collaboration with Mid-Atlantic Timberframes, have the unique ability to sequester carbon. Left exposed inside, the framework contributes to a naturalistic vibe that synchronizes with framed views of the surrounding Scott Arboretum, home to 4,000 species of trees and other plants. Words: Wilson Barlow Photography: Brad Nicol, Robert Benson Firm: DLR Group

https://lnkd.in/gFjr-fZm Many expatriates living in Hong Kong share a similar history: they stopped off in the city, found their niche and never left. For Emma Maclean, it was her father Van Maclean who stopped in Hong Kong in the mid-1960s on his way to art school in London, England, as an 18-year-old Australian. The newly opened Hong Kong Hilton hired him to sculpt ice for its buffets. He ended up working with the hotel group for two decades as a self-taught interior designer before joining Planning Services International to concentrate on clubhouses and hotels. Maclean and her identical twin sister Caitlin McDaid grew up in Hong Kong drawing furniture sections with their parents on paper tablecloths at Dan Ryan’s Chicago Grill. There was no question that both girls would pursue careers as interior designers. Words: Rebecca Lo Feature: Emma Maclean