Lady LUX

You may have heard their company name; cryptic as it might be, it’s not so easily forgotten. And if you stayed in a hotel of their design, their inimitable style would no doubt linger in the mind. The design team of Yabu Pushelberg has left their stamp on more than one institution worldwide-hotels, restaurants, and retail outlets alike. Among them, the Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts, St. Regis Hotels, Jean-Georges Von Richten, Louis Vuitton, Kate Spade, Bergdorf Goodman, Tiffany & Co., Carolina Herrera, and Lane Crawford Beijing and Hong Kong, W Hotels, Thompson Hotels, Park Hyatt International, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group, St. Regis Hotels, Peninsula Hotels. The list does indeed go on and on.

Now, all their beautiful work has come together in their new book, Yabu Pushelberg. With text by William Norwich, contributing editor to VOGUE and former Style & Entertaining editor of The New York Times Magazine, George Yabu and Glen Pushelberg are able to showcase their complete roster of projects in one place. With offices in New York and Toronto, the firm has been creating distinctive environments for a diverse and high-profile clientele for years now. They are cool and unmistakable: sleek gray rooms punctured with crystalline mod chandeliers; swerving cool green store walls support glass objets; entryways composed of multiple elements speak to a new mindfulness of the environment; repeating circular motifs form a new cool classicism in restaurant dining rooms; bulbous hanging lamps drop in the middle of a space like water; mirrored and glass Deco cases with a forest-like backdrop form a new kind of retail environment. It’s facets like these that makes the work of Yabu Pushelberg’s at the same time bold and subtle.

Their eponymous book debuted in October, and became an instant hit with the design community, as well as those who merely love to grace their coffee tables with tomes such as this. Available online and at select traditional and specialty booksellers ($70USD). It’s no wonder that the firm has been inducted into the Interior Design magazine Hall of Fame and won a James Beard Foundation Award for excellence in restaurant design, among many many other awards on its shelf.

Among the firm’s recently finished projects are the Thompson Hotel’s Smyth Hotel in New York City’s SoHo, and Tiffany & Co. on Wall Street in New York City. And there are multiple projects yet to come: The Park Hyatt Hotel in Mumbai; four hotels and four residences for the Four Seasons worldwide; St. Regis Hotels in Bal Harbour and Mexico City; W Hotels in Guangzhou, Milan, and the U.A.E., and the Printemps Department Store in Paris. Keep your eye peeled, wherever you are in the world. They just might be there.

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