Sixty Minutes with the Design Mind of Lauren Rottet – Part II
In architectural jargon, ‘space’ means a three-dimensional area. Reliably true for some time, it is less so if the architect-designer is Lauren Rottet. She might be first among her peers in mentioning our country’s space agency, NASA, in a sentence involving the words ‘new hire’ and ‘furniture designer.’ How the founder of Rottet Studio brought NASA into an hour-long discussion in her NeoCon showroom for the new Rottet Collection on the Merchandise Mart’s third floor manifested in three revelatory phases: choosing wisely, admiring liberally and launching intelligently. Only questions on choosing, admiring and launching drifted about the backstage space that morning. The answers came years earlier in decisions about the firm’s core triumvirate. There is a long design history between Rottet Studio’s Los Angeles principal Richard Riveire, AIA, NCARB, and Ms. Rottet. They have worked together for over 25 years, beginning their careers together at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Then …
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