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Anchored by a proprietary app, all of Chief’s services and events are accessed digitally, including core groups led by executive leadership coaches—10 women at the same professional level culled from different industries. Still, many members will be eager to meet in person post-COVID, and a trifecta of flagship clubhouses in New York, LA, and Chicago, designed by a women-led team from AvroKO’s New York office, offer fitting backdrops to exchange ideas and cultivate relationships. “They truly understood how to design for women without being overtly feminine,” says Kaplan.
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“That’s similar to a passageway on the ground floor of the New York hotel,” Fu notes. Located on the 16th floor of the Hilton-owned Waldorf Astoria Hotels & Resorts’ first venture into Southeast Asia, the lounge is just one of the spaces in the hotel that allude to the design of New York’s classy old Art Deco dame, the beloved Waldorf Astoria New York—albeit in clever ways that pay homage to local Thai culture. AvroKO is behind the designs of many well-known restaurants and hotels in New York City and beyond.
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Traditional designs from Korea, from houses to hairpins, are reworked to create the interiors of this Manhattan restaurant by New York studio AvroKO. Contemporary artwork from emerging talents, curated by Chief founding member Tze Chun’s Uprise Art, plays a pivotal role, and striking pieces placed at entries are among the many design threads linking all three. There is also the grounding signature rich green hue, lounges layered with vintage finds, and central cocktail bars that spark spontaneous banter. The prefunction area features a custom wall inspired by the Brutalist shapes found in 1970s-era architecture. This principle is apparent in the use of textiles, such as a custom installation above the bar influenced by jogakbo, a style that uses patchwork to create flowing patterns and shapes. A wooden flooring system known as daecheong runs through the restaurant, from the bar area at the front to the open dining space behind.
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The principal, Jon Otis, was my professor at Pratt, and continues to be a mentor to this day. He was the one who suggested that I would be a good fit at AvroKO and introduced me to the partners. With large-scale renovation projects, briefs can be tricky—it’s not the easiest feat to carve out a fresh new vision comprehensively complementary to existing bone structure. Such was the challenge for the revival of The Scott in Scottsdale, Arizona, a resort formally known as Firesky Resort & Spa. Further in, a centerpiece staircase inspired by one in Portman’s home spirals up around a three-story bronze artwork by Arnaldo Pomodoro that was salvaged from the original construction.
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An open kitchen anchored by a wood-fired oven acts the nucleus of Zou Zou’s as it spans one side of the interior, mirrored by the bar on the opposite side of the space. Shuttered for a three-year renovation, the Waldorf Astoria New York is expected to reopen in 2020. Since 2008, Hilton has added 30 properties to the Waldorf Astoria Hotels & Resorts umbrella. Rapid expansion means another 20 are underway, all planned to seduce the five-star hospitality market with the most exclusive addresses, targeted programming, and, of course, thoughtful design. Syncing the interior architecture meant reducing rectilinear or symmetrical lines, which would have clashed with the modern building; instead, curves dominate. One of the more prominent Art Deco elements is an arched promenade connecting two sides of seating situated along the facade in the 110-seat Brasserie restaurant, also on the 16th floor.
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Projects the partners are currently working on include the Inn at Mattei’s Tavern in Los Olivos, California for Auberge Resorts Collection and the transformation of an old Whiteleys department store building into the first London property for wellness-focused brand Six Senses Hotels Resorts Spas. Responsibilities are shared (they take turns spearheading the financials), disagreements morph into hugs (ensuring bad feelings don’t fester), and working as a collective is balanced by separate studios with autonomy. They also respect each other’s ambitions and seek out ways of nurturing them. “Someone says, ‘I feel like I need to do that,’ explains Farmerie, “and then we say, ‘Let’s figure out how.’” Even when these experiments fail, there is no blame cast.
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It gets them back to their “create as a collective” value, focusing on the happiness of their team while also creating memorable moments for their clients. Under this umbrella, the partners are cultivating the community-driven Hospitable Living concept, a fusion of residential, guest, and member programming anchored by F&B outlets. Contrasting patterns and textures define the 75-seat restaurant, with vibrant blue and green tiling installed alongside dark woods below soaring, arched ceilings clad with wood paneling. Off-white plaster serves as the backdrop for wrought iron light fixtures as well.
They discussed continuity of design, self-propelled projects, and why it’s important to glue things down in a restaurant. Exploring those shifting desires and how they might intersect, is the main driver of AvroKO’s evolution over the last 20 years. Take a Saturday afternoon spin through Manhattan’s Chelsea gallery district and there’s a good chance you’ll spot Matthew Goodrich. “I’m happiest wandering through museums and galleries, learning about the human experience through objects and artifacts from other periods,” the AvroKO chief creative officer says. Indeed, his focus on art and human connection, layered on top of studies centered on Quakerism, art history, and exhibition design, have led to his creation of such noteworthy hospitality hotspots as Gotham West Market, Amada, and new hotel brand Arlo (read about Arlo Hudson Square in our November issue). This ultimate goal of connectivity in our design is to ensure that hospitality backdrops are not simply passive reception spaces where people dine or sleep, but that they create emotionally transcendent experiences, however tiny or even subliminal, allowing the energy of the spaces to shift and evolve timelessly.
With 171 rooms and suites, two restaurants, and a lounge by Fu, the 430,000-square-foot property in the Magnolias Ratchadamri Boulevard development has been seven years in the making. The hotel occupies levels six through 16 and 55 through 57 of a 60-story tower (which also includes 316 luxury apartments) that a team of architects from Gensler, DI Designs, and the Beaumont Partners conceived as the three-dimensional petal of a magnolia flower. A 2014 addition to Bangkok’s skyline, the tower evokes movement thanks to the twist on its uppermost floors. Here, at the hotel’s three highest levels, are an additional restaurant and two bars by New York–based design firm AvroKO. It’s impressive that the quartet has not only endured for two decades but that the partners remain a united front—and still ambitious as ever—especially when considering they’ve done so amid tremendous growth.
Between the panels Lindsay Kaplan appears on and the advice-dispensing coffee dates she agrees to, the cofounder of Chief, the exclusive network that arms C-suite women with tailored guidance and resources, sometimes marvels at her path to leadership. The Jay’s top-floor penthouse suite, dubbed the Nest, spans 1,660 square feet. AvroKo, a studio that focuses on hospitality, completed Oiji Mi, an upscale Korean dining spot in the Flatiron District – an area once home to over 100 social clubs during the Gilded Age. In the Canal Club restaurant, where cuisine, appropriately, has a Cuban twist, arched banquettes are upholstered in a shimming gold velvet—a challenging material for a heavy-traffic environment. Patience paid off, and the result is both “stain and rub resistant—not typical for that fabric form,” notes AvroKO principal Kristina O’Neal. The material palette references “Chief’s values of fortitude, belonging, and longevity.
“We were tasked with a significant modernization makeover, yet needed to preserve the original Spanish Revival–inspired architecture,” explains Greg Bradshaw, principal at AvroKO, the architecture and interior design firm that spearheaded the 190,000-square-foot renovation project in the heart of Scottsdale’s Old Town district. Likewise, so are the Bull & Bear restaurant (seating 80), The Loft bar, (seating 70), and the intimate Champagne bar (seating 34), found on floors 55 through 57 respectively. Nearly a decade ago BUILD sat down with three of AvroKO’s four partners at their then recently opened Gotham West Market in Manhattan. At that time, their work tackled everything from architecture and furniture to graphics and fashion.
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A mélange of custom furniture and vintage finds make up the reception lobby and coffee bar. The third-floor terrace might be the property’s best ambassador for making Patunoff’s vision for the Jay a reality. “Everyone identified this outdoor space as [a great] opportunity for San Francisco,” Bradshaw says. The rooftop venue extends the interior story to the open air, with an impressive bar made of concrete and sculptural tiles, plush sofas and seating vignettes, sleek firepits, and lush landscaping with sculptural aloes, cacti, and other native California plants. The conference and meeting space on the second floor is where Caserta’s fashion influence is felt most keenly, with colors and patterns suggestive of the clothes she might have sold from her Mnasidika boutique in Haight-Ashbury. One room is wrapped in blue and red polka dots, for example, while the gold room boasts warm mustard accents.
In the Champagne Bar, which we access by pressing an intricately carved wooden sculpture activating a hidden door, I spot a vintage leather rocking chair, wood carvings from local Thai artisans, and custom half-moon sectional sofas expansive enough to encourage interaction with strangers. There are also vintage paint tools—tins filled with brushes, tool carousels, kits of pastels, pencils, and watercolors, and bottles of tinted-glass inkwells. “The dirty process of creation is really beautiful,” says Harris, who studied art—some of the framed pieces on walls are works of his own along with AvroKO partners Kristina O'Neal, Adam Farmerie, and Greg Bradshaw. The 360 guestrooms, meanwhile, feature simplified echoes of the sharp angles and bold patterns found elsewhere. Slatted wooden room dividers and closet doors were inspired by the building’s façade; custom carpet shows off oversized shapes with gentle curves and texture to soften the Brutalist language.
The firm's recent projects have included a members' club in Chicago and an eatery and entertainment space in Nashville. Among these bespoke designs are pendants suspended straight above the tables, bead-like sconces and chandeliers that arc out from a central column. From the wide array of plantings, to the tropical landscapes depicted in vintage artwork, to wallpaper bursting with palm leafs, greenery abounds. Calling to mind prewar apartments, the New York clubhouse in Manhattan’s Flatiron District, for example, features decorative trim moldings and a penthouse amplifying the views of surrounding mansard roofs. The West Hollywood iteration channels its past as a puppet theater and mixes a preserved wall of celebrity signatures dating from the 1940s with an olive tree-shaded courtyard. In Chicago, an abundance of exposed wood honors Fulton Market’s warehouse roots.
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"Oiji Mi's design recalls these classic Manhattan social clubs through bold marbles, rich leather and velvet fabrics and dark walnut woods, but reimagines them to represent the fusion of Korean and American culture," said the design studio. The firm’s most recent initiative, Hospitable Inc, centers on the firm’s notion of Hospitable Thinking, a philosophy that revolves around the transformative power of hospitality, helping guests experience a combination of delight, significance, and comfort while becoming part of the larger whole. “We have been used to collaborating with each other for so long that it came naturally,” explains Bradshaw. Much of this hands-on experience has helped the partners be better collaborators with their clients, and they pride themselves on longterm relationships with the likes of Rob Katz and Kevin Boehm from Boka Restaurant Group and Quality Branded Restaurants’ Michael Stillman.
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