DESIGN + CULTURE

S2 E7  |   IN THE DESIGN LOUNGE

Meet the Designer Who's Use of Color Has Become His Trademark

After designing more than 35 hotels in six years within the Graduate Hotels Brand, designer and artist Andrew Alford meets us in the Lounge to talk about how he came into the field, life after a major career shift, and where his design path is taking him now. 

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Pierre Yovanovitch launches furniture brand

French designer, and 2020 GRAY Awards judge, Pierre Yovanovitch has launched his first-ever furniture brand with a wide-ranging collection inspired by Provence—the region in southeastern France where he was born. Launched last month with a special installation at the historic Académie de l’Architecture building in Paris’s Place des Vosges, Pierre Yovanovitch Mobilier offers 45 pieces of furniture (including lighting and accessories) and build’s off the designer’s two decades of creating custom pieces for his high-end interior architecture projects, which include the Le Coucou Hotel in Meribel, France, the Quinta Da Corte hotel and winery in Portugal, and the Kering Headquarters in Paris. Combing Yovanovitch’s love of art and nature, and his signature understated elegance, the new collection is quintessentially French with a contemporary edge. 

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