Headliners

-- Interior Design, 4/1/2010 12:00:00 AM

4BI Bruno Moinard

"Bravo, Bruno!"

PRINCIPAL: Bruno Moinard.
COMPLETED PROJECTS: Hermès headquarters, Tenniseum, and apartments, all in Paris; Cartier boutiques in Paris, Madrid, Los Angeles, Tokyo, and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Spink auction house in London; Julius Baer Group offices in Zurich, Munich, and Moscow; Kiora Ristorante in Tokyo.
CURRENT PROJECTS: An office in Paris; residences in Cairo and Hong Kong; Mary of Nazareth cultural center chapel, cafeteria, and boutique in Israel; hotels in Chengdu, China; Parker and Waterman boutique and shop-in-shop concepts.
ONSTAGE:Moinard dreams of designing opera sets.
ON THE ROAD:"I sketch everything I see—a fellow passenger asleep, my taxi driver, the view from my hotel room."
41 Avenue Montaigne, 75008 Paris, France; 33-1-56-88-21-00; brunomoinard.com.

SAQ

"Through the Looking Glass"

PROJECT ARCHITECT: Roel Dehoorne.
COMPLETED PROJECTS: Kwint restaurant in Brussels; a residence in Roeselare, Belgium; Ferrer store in Nieuwpoort, Belgium; Die Kunstbar in Cologne, Germany.
CURRENT PROJECTS: The master plan for a mixed-use complex in Brussels; a mixed-use complex in Berlin.
YOUTH:Dehoorne draws inspiration from playing with his 1-year-old son.
AGE:He greatly admires his mom.
44 Arenbergstraat, 1000 Brussels, Belgium; 32-2-300-59-10; saq.eu.

Studios Architecture

"Guess Who's Back in Style?"

PRINCIPAL: Chris Mitchell, AIA.
ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL: Sandra Mitchell, IIDA.
COMPLETED PROJECTS: University of California, Santa Barbara engineering building; Walt Disney Theatre in Burbank, California; Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York; Greenland Group in Shanghai.
CURRENT PROJECTS: A house in L.A.; U.C. Santa Barbara arts building; Lotus Center Museum in Shanghai; Chengdu Luxe Lake villas in China.
HONORS:Interior Design Best of Year Award; IIDA awards.
HE WEARS:American vintage jeans with bespoke dress shirts from Shanghai.
SHE WEARS:Pencil skirts and sky-high heels topped off with pearls, also from Shanghai.
370 South Doheny Drive, Suite 201, Beverly Hills, CA 90211; 310-385-1560; studiosarchitecture.com.

212box

"Sex on Heels"

PRINCIPAL: Eun Sun Chun.
PRINCIPAL: Eric Clough.
COMPLETED PROJECTS: Mystery and Seize sur Vingt boutiques in New York; Into boutique in Singapore.
CURRENT PROJECTS: Residences in New York; Baj resort in Barbados, British West Indies.
HONORS:Interior Design Best of Year Awards.
HER LOUBOUTIN:"I love how the toe cleavage makes your feet sexier."
HIS LOUBOUTIN:"Full-price bondage—ooh la la."
30 Vesey Street, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10007; 212-233-9170; 212box.com.

Isay Weinfeld Arquitetos

"Day or Night"

PRINCIPAL: Isay Weinfeld.
COMPLETED PROJECTS: Hotel Fasano, Nonno Ruggero restaurant, and Livraria da Vila shop, all in São Paulo, Brazil; Forneria restaurant and Forum shop in Rio de Janeiro; Las Piedras Villas & Hotel Fasano bar in Punta del Este, Uruguay.
CURRENT PROJECTS: A bar and an apartment building in São Paulo; Hotel Fasano in Salvador, Brazil; Square 9 Hotel in Belgrade, Serbia.
ON THE TABLE:Weinfeld loves the tabletop decor at Estudio Manus in São Paulo.
AT THE TABLE:He always orders the pizza at London's Story Deli.
175 Rua André Fernandes, 04536-020 São Paulo, Brazil; 55-11-3079-7581; isayweinfeld.com.