Never enough… Enough already!

Staff -- Interior Design, 12/1/2001 12:00:00 AM

For our annual survey, opinionated (and humorous) designers looked beyond the politics and sounded off on the year's cultural highs and lows, sharing what they couldn't get too much of and what made them cry out, "No more!"

Jon Otis

Object Inc., New York

Never enough

Simplicity

Ecology

New York City

Ettore Sottsass

Love

Enough already

Architectural egos

'60s & '70s retro design

Implants

Boy bands

GoodmanCharlton, New York

Never enough

Phantom Towers by Myoda and LaVerdiere

Björk

Gehry's downtown Guggenheim

New York public schools

Hiro Yamagata at Ace Gallery

Enough already

Corporate branding

Models looking miserable

Designers' signature collections of preexisting furniture

1,000-room "boutique" hotels

John Bricker

Gensler, New York

Never enough

Richard Serra's tilted arcs

The new H-Zip bracelet at Hermès

No More Drama by Mary J. Blige

The New York City spirit and strength

A smile (a sincere one)

Enough already

Too many logos on a handbag

Too many logos on a person

Safety-pinned T-shirts as fashion

"Too cool to care" behavior

Jeffrey Bilhuber

Bilhuber Inc., New York

Never enough

Homemade apple pie

Blue (the color, not the mood)

Masses of fresh-cut flowers smashed into simple containers

Mariah Carey in Glitter—ouch!

Enough already

Frank Gehry's "recycled Fresca can" aesthetic

Sickeningly nostalgic retro-designed vehicles

Uncooked fish (sushi, sashimi)

Benjamin Noriega-Ortiz

New York

Never enough

JetBlue

The Frank Gehry exhibition at the Guggenheim

Clear acrylic

The Hudson hotel

Enough Already

The running "crawl" on news screens

Pointy shoes

Cast resin

Christian Liaigre knockoffs

Georg Andersen, ASID

Georg Andersen Associates, Conway, AZ

Never enough

The decline of beige

Renewed patriotism

Generosity

People who serve others

Enough already

Bad faux-finishing

Shabby chic

Pseudo-craftsman architecture

Skimpy window treatments

Flaming "pillar" candles

Jeff Lincoln

Jeff Lincoln Interiors, New York

Never enough

Punta del Este

Chocolate brown

Glazed linen

Rudolph Giuliani

The Sopranos

Enough already

Celebrity journalism

Boutique hotels

Designer "home collections"

Nestor Santa-Cruz

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Washington, DC

Never enough

Jean-Michel Frank inspirations

Fresh flowers

Burberry check

Gretchen Bellinger's Pullman Cloth fabric

Vintage design books

Enough already

Jean-Michel Frank aberrations

Cappuccino bars in corporate reception rooms

The "grandma's attic" aesthetic

Designers who take credit for others' work

Boutique hotels

Constantin Gorges

Constantin Gorges, New York

Never enough

Curb Your Enthusiasm on HBO

MoMA's Andreas Gursky exhibition

Britney Spears dressed as Elvis

Friends and family

Serenity

Enough already

Real-estate developer architecture

Censorship in the 21st century

People canceling travel plans

Laura Kirar

Tru, New York

Never enough

CNN

Brooklyn

My friends

Serena's at the Chelsea Hotel

Life

Enough already

CNN

New York society scandals

Biomorphic design

Underage, underdressed pop stars

Hate

John Barman

New York

Never enough

New York City

The color red

Mid-century glass

My pug, Buster

The Concorde

Enough already

2001

Beige

St. Barths

Low-carb diets

Roberto Guzman & David Khouri

Comma, New York

Never enough

The Simpsons, now more than ever

Wireless anything

Women with curves

Version next.0, even if it's lame

New York City, now and forever

Enough already

Feng shui—banish evil spirits and good design

Michael Jackson's comeback…to 1983

Diesel's "drink urine" ads

Burkas (women dressed in their finest upholstery)

$12 cocktails

Ads for Viagra, penis enlargement, and antianxiety drugs

Robin Kramer

Kramer Design group, New York

Never enough

Fire-engine red

The Producers

Marfa, Texas

iPod

Enough already

Fire drills

Reality TV

Getting to Marfa

Dot-com

Tsao & McKown

New York

Never enough

Jersey

Large showers and deep tubs

Thoughtfully planned kitchens with communal work areas

Authenticity

Enough already

Felt

Cartesian furniture arrangements

Nostalgic futurism

Dewey Ambrosino

Los Angeles

Never enough

Rainbows and robots

Show ponies

Dramas of bruised vanity or conscientious failure

Lunatic exaggerations

Enough already

Creative facial hair

Art damage

Troy Halterman

Troy, New York

Never enough

Robert Venturi

Lust fabric from Pollack

Lacquer

Super graphics

Douglas fir

Enough already

Wenge

Frosted glass

Anything brown

All-white interiors

Leopard print

Mark Oller & Victoria Kirk

MOVK, New York

Never enough

New Yorkers

Apple and Jonathan Ive

Herzog & de Meuron

The New York restaurant Craft

The Sopranos

Enough already

Belly buttons

"It" hotels

Boy bands

Leather blazers

Reality TV

Clodagh

Clodagh Design, New York

Never enough

Farmers' markets

Ambient techno music

Interns

Herzog & de Meuron

Johnny Depp

Enough already

"Brand-new" colonial homes

New York noise pollution

Sealed buildings

Zealots

Michael Jackson

Tammy Chou & William Paley

Tony Chi & Associates, New York

Never enough

Money

Love

Friendship

Holidays

Peace

Enough already

Junk mail

Celebrity chefs on TV

Telemarketing

Cell-phone calls in restaurants