How the Pandemic Will Change Interior Design
Pandemic Driven Design Early in my career I had the privilege to work on many of the historic theaters in NYC. Theaters such as the Apollo Theater, The Belasco Theater, and the Beacon Theater. These goliath's of ornament were in such contrast to the white, sterile designs of Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, and Eileen Gray that were espoused by my professors in Architecture school. In rebellion against their doctrine of architecture I embraced the ornamentation of these theaters in all of its glory. Swimming in beautiful, velvet damasque, the delicacies of intricate murals, and the rose colored glass of Tiffany light fixtures I ate up the visual feast put forth on display by these theaters. I wondered how the architects of the day could have eschewed such beauty in favor of the cold, humanless spaces of modernism. As much as I appreciated their designs for their ingenuity and their greatness, their rejection of ornament was a philosophy that I could not understand or...
