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Designer, activist, academic,
and author of Lo—TEK,
Design by Radical Indigenism.
A leading expert of Lo—TEK nature-based technologies for climate-resilience.
Her eponymously named studio brings creative and conceptual, interdisciplinary thinking to urban projects and corporate clients interested in systemic and sustainable change. Julia regularly teaches urban design at Harvard and Columbia University.
Polly King Office and Showroom
in Union Square, New York
Date: 2019
Location: New York City, NY
Project Team: Watson Salembier
Client: Watson Salembier
Watson Salembeir designed the interior landscape design for the Polly King office and showroom to amplify an iconic mix of business and beauty.
With spaces in several cities across the globe, a signature international style imagined with a palette of color and texture, that is reflective of local climate, culture, and style. Reflecting the sustainable ethos of the company, a design concept is envisioned that works collaboratively with a gradient of public to private program from the showroom to the office. The interior landscape will amplify Polly King’s identity, by exploring color, texture, three-dimensionality, seasonality and sustainability, with a strong connection to the earthly realms of the multiple senses. All surfaces are spaces for design intervention, including floors, walls, ceilings, and the in-between inhabited by architectural elements such as curtains and screens. Living systems can blur boundaries, screen spaces, and dampen noise while improving health and well-being.
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