Interior Design

Posted: 08/01/2011

Mies van der Rohe chairs surround a Florence Knoll table in the dining room. Photograph by Eric Laignel.

Mies van der Rohe chairs surround a Florence Knoll table in the dining room. Photograph by Eric Laignel.

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On the Gold Coast

From the Magazine:
Three centuries of art and design keep congenial company in the Chicago apartment of Gensler's Carlos Martínez.
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At the Chicago apartment of Gensler principal and firmwide design leader Carlos Martínez, prints by Le Corbusier and Victor Vasarely flank the doorway between an anteroom and the dining room. Photograph by Eric Laignel.

The living room’s micro-scaled track system shines halogen light on Ed Paschke’s Mandrix and Ellsworth Kelly’s Black Over Yellow, prints paired over the Ludwig Mies van der Rohe sofa. It faces a cocktail table by Martínez, set beneath an Atelier Oï pendant fixture. Photograph by Eric Laignel.

Mies van der Rohe chairs surround a Florence Knoll table in the dining room. Photograph by Eric Laignel.

The anteroom’s plasterwork was restored. Photograph by Eric Laignel.

In the living room, Mexican folk art rests on a stack of books about Cuba, Martínez’s birthplace. Photograph by Eric Laignel.

A print by Ed Paschke hangs above the quarter-sawn white-oak wainscoting in the dining room. Photograph by Eric Laignel.

Paschke’s print Pump and René Porto- carrero’s gouache and ink drawing Flora line the hallway to the bedroom, where Guillermo Delgado’s ink, crayon, and watercolor drawing of Martínez’s partner, Michael Tirrell, appears above a mohair-upholstered vintage chair. Photograph by Eric Laignel.

The diptych in the master bedroom is a framed textile, Repeat Classic Print by Hella Jongerius. Photograph by Eric Laignel.

White-oak built-ins line the passage to one of the bathrooms in the master suite. Photograph by Eric Laignel.

A Gene Davis lithograph accompanies the entry hall’s vintage credenza. Photograph by Eric Laignel.

In the breakfast room adjacent to the kitchen, chairs by Charles and Ray Eames gather near a photo blown up for a Gensler tribute to Julia Child. Photograph by Eric Laignel.

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