Student Places Top Nine in Design Competition

The Interior Design Department is happy to announce that second year Interior Design student, Ariel Peet, placed amongst the top 9 finalists in the Bernice Bienstock Furniture Library's Design Competition, which challenged students to create a three-story unconventional youth shelter located in Seattle, Washington specially targeted for runaway youths aged 10-17 who are in crisis.

The first floor of the facility housed a sandwich shop and soup lunch shop featuring organize and locally harvested items operated by a creative and motivated team who mentor the teens as they learn responsibility and life skills. The second and third floors were identical and provided gender neutral rooms, a counselors' station, two lounges, and a computer/reading room.

Ariel developed the design concept of "Strength through Metamorphosis" which embodied the transition of life and strength through primary colors, patterns, textures, and lines.  She used a butterfly and its transformation as a centralized motif throughout the space.  The overall desired feel for the space was a feel residential and family oriented.

Ariel competed among the top four year design colleges in the nation.  Randolph Community College was the only 2 year program recognized in the top tier. 

You can view more of Ariel's project on her blog at:  http://arielmarshaedesign.blogspot.com/

We are super proud of you and your complishment!  Let's all join in congratulating Ariel!

85th Annual Academy Award's Greenroom Revealed

 

When the 85th annual Academy Awards is held this Sunday, February 24, the fortunate stars who hear their names announced after “And the winner is …”  will have a stylish, elegant lounge to relish their victory in backstage thanks to Los Angeles designer Madeline Stuart.

Billed as the "Architectural Digest's Greenroom" the room will be an Art Deco–style space inspired by 1930s-Hollywood glamour and, in particular, legendary art director and set designer Cedric Gibbons, who most notably designed the coveted Oscar statuettes.

Stuart tells Architectural Digest, “My goal was to create a space where contemporary stars wouldn’t be surprised to bump into Cary Grant or Katharine Hepburn.”

Stuart, who ranks among Architectural Digest’s AD100 and was named by Elle Décor as one of the leading 25 designers in the country, is the daughter of director Mel Stuart, known best for the 1971 classic film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. A leading member of the Los Angeles design community, Stuart is no stranger to designing for Hollywood’s elite as well as clientele from the world of business and finance.
More on the AD Greenroom at ArchitecturalDigest.com.