Boutique Design - July/August 2019 - 4

EDITORIAL
Publisher/Vice President
Boutique Design Group
Michelle Finn
michelle.finn@emeraldexpo.com

BY MARY SCOVIAK, EDITOR IN CHIEF

Editor in Chief
Mary Scoviak
mary.scoviak@emeraldexpo.com
Art Director
Kelly Farrar
kelly.farrar@emeraldexpo.com

HOT STUFF
Boutique Design's edit team may not have
known that the winter of 2018-19 would be
nearly five miserable months of snowstorms,
ice storms and acute cabin fever when we were
writing our calendar last year June. But we did
know how ready we'd be to ditch the status quo
after Memorial Day and tick some new things
off our (sand) bucket lists. What better way
to celebrate summer than to indulge in some
guilty pleasures?
Our London-based international editor Alicia
Sheber decided to shoot for the stars-or at least
one stellar giant in particular: the legendary
designer, Jacques Garcia. Leveraging her fluency
in French, Sheber used the opportunity for an
exclusive interview to get an in-depth understanding of this icon's creative processes and
find out how he keeps opulence from becoming
ostentation. Get your celebrity fix in "Master's
Mind" (page 14).
Associate editor AnnMarie Martin took a
side trip to visit once-counter/now-mainstream
culture darling, ink queen Megan Massacre-
the subject of our Exit Interview (page 55). Toni
Stoeckl, global brand leader and vice president,
Distinctive Select Brands, Marriott International,
told me tattoo parlors would be popping up in
Moxy Hotels (see "Meta Design" in the January/
February 2019 issue). That wasn't just to needle
me. He meant it, and tapped Massacre as the
right ambassador for the brand's youthful irreverence. Martin gets this TV star/skin artist
talking below the surface about everything from
her insecurities to how she wants her working
environment to look, feel and sound.
Special projects editor Oriana Lerner got the
lowdown on how design changes are getting a
different kind of party started in velvet-rope,
no-nobodies-allowed clubs such as the reimagined Bootsy Bellows in LA. In "Sunset Strip
Down," (page 24), you'll see a new take on nightspots where no one's hiding in the karaoke room
and everything, and everyone, is purposefully

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Special Projects Editor
Oriana Lerner
oriana.lerner@emeraldexpo.com

on display. The backdrop of the endless succession of photo-op moments (with or without
burlesque/pinup shots of co-owner/actor David
Arquette's mom from her first career) plays with
the contrast between chill daytime California
cool and (v)amped-up after dark WeHo.
Since summer's are all about being social, our
team started some sizzling conversations with
both hotel companies and designers. Lerner digs
down into a cool new Japanese art hotel offer in
"The Art of Business," (page 30), then pulls back
the (tent) flaps on Collective Retreats' earthfriendly new shelters ("Happy (Un)Campers,"
page 6.) Sheber plays up her French connections with a report on the latest young/hot/
Euro chic Mama Shelters ("Mama's Boys," page
8) and a wrap-up of plans for NEWH's first Parisian chapter ("Savoir Faire," page 12). Martin got a
doctoral level how-to from DLR Group for taming
the toughest reuse projects ("Scene Weaver," page
18) as well as best-practice advice from Nunzio
Marc DeSantis Architects for newer firms that
want high-visibility projects-and what concepts
are scoring with big-name clients ("Fresh Cuts,"
page 10). Contributing editor Alicia Hoisington
gets credit for making you succumb to some
major retail (contract?) therapy with her roundup
of gotta-have-it lighting (page 34) and wish-youhad-it-at-home outdoor FF&E (page 44).
Let's face it, we're all visual people. So, check
out art director Kelly Farrar's designs in this
issue. It's her eye that puts you in the picture and
guides your project tour.
Yeah, we love summer.

Associate Editor
AnnMarie Martin
annmarie.martin@emeraldexpo.com
International Editor
Alicia Sheber
Contributing Editor
Alicia Hoisington
Senior Production Director
Nan McDowell
Production Manager
Terri Hill
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(770) 291-5481
Boutique Design Marketing Director
Sandi Luppert
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Executive Vice President
Joe Randall

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