marks & frantz

Marks & Frantz featured in Luxe Magazine

Lisa Frantz — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 22:31:14 +0000

We are very excited to have our latest project featured in this season’s New York Luxe Magazine! The article features our renovation of a 1920′s Tudor home in Greenwich Connecticut. The story was written by Cathy Whitlock and features photographs by Michael Partenio.

Trade secrets! From Set Decoration to Interior Design

Lydia Marks — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 14:38:16 +0000

Please join us tomorrow at the D&D for a talk: “From Set and Screen to Living Room: The Set Decorator and the Interior Designer.” I will be on a panel discussion with Cathy Whitlock, film historian, designer Marshall Watson (his line at Lewis Mittman has graced the sets of the new Katie Couric show). and Ann Maine, editor in chief of Traditional Home, will be the moderator. For more information and the address, click here.

City Modern: A Celebration of New York Design

Lydia Marks — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 22:00:52 +0000

We are really excited to be a part of the “CITY MODERN” STUDIO TOUR / OCTOBER 2 with Hellman Chang. We will be at their open studio with them tomorrow from 2:30 to 4:30 to talk decorating trends and obsessions and how to make your own home look glamorous and new again.

In collaboration with Dwell and New York Magazine, Hellman-Chang is opening the doors to their Brooklyn studio and offering unprecedented access to visitors. Take a peek at the designers in their natural habitat, learn more about the creative process and even try your hand at woodworking.

Come enjoy some nibbles and wine and check out the gorgeous Hellman Chang collection. We look forward to seeing you!

Design*Sponge Interview

Lydia Marks — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 14:41:53 +0000

Yesterday I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Grace Bonney of Design*Sponge. We talked about set decoration, interior design , and of course, wallpaper!

The radio station, Heritage Radio, where we did the interview was really great – in the back of the super popular Brooklyn restaurant Roberta’s Pizza. Check out Heritage Radio’s great programming here. I hope you enjoy the interview!!

Art & Science

Lydia Marks — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 14:17:26 +0000

There is a bridge between science and art and it is Ernst Haeckel. Haeckel sketched and painted watercolors of various organisms such as sea anemones, jellyfish, and cnidaria. If you are like me and know your favorite periods of furniture better than your marine life, here is the definition of cnidaria! And here are some of his amazing works.

He selected the subjects for his work based on organization, from the scale patterns of boxfishes to the spirals of ammonites to the perfect symmetries of jellies and microorganisms. I particularly like this one – the tentacles reminded him of his late wife’s long flowing hair!

And a few more. Enjoy.

Array Magazine Features Marks & Frantz

Lydia Marks — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 00:58:33 +0000

We are very excited to have been interviewed for Array Magazine’s Summer issue! The article features our work at The Top of the Strand, several private residences, and a show house. The interview highlights our background in print and film design and discusses how we approach our projects. The story starts on page 16!

Array Magazine

Amy Helfand rugs

Lisa Frantz — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 13:16:28 +0000

We were wowed (as usual) by our friend Amy Helfand’s beautiful hand-knotted, hand-carded, hand-spun and pot-dyed rugs at her ICFF booth and yesterday, the NY Times wrote a feature on Amy and “Her Natural World.” Check out the article here!

Garland

Adrift

Toward Chi Wong

Prayer

and for more information on Amy’s rugs and her beautiful artwork, take a look at her website, www.amyhelfand.com

Summer of 2012 and Marks & Frantz is enjoying good company

Lisa Frantz — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 22:07:54 +0000

Past issues of Array Magazine have featured some pretty fabulous figures in the world of interior design: New York’s current reigning queen of color; Ghislaine Vinas; Mad Men’s Bryan Batt; design world luminary, the architect David Rockwell and founding editor of Domino Magazine; Deborah Needleman…just to name a few. And guess who’s going to grace the pages of Summer 2012? Stay tuned!

David Rockwell

Deborah Needleman

Ghislaine Vinas

Mad Men's Bryan Batt

ICFF “Best in Show”

marksandfrantz — Tue, 22 May 2012 12:53:41 +0000

This year was a good one for the International Contemporary Furniture Fair, but my hands-down favorite booth was Lindsey Adelman. I have been obsessed with her lighting from day one, but this year, Lindsey’s work has evolved into something completely different. Many of you may have seen her story in the NYTimes Design issue, they described her new collection as “a revelation of her dark side.” I call it complicated, intricate, jewel-like and sculptural. Her hardware is exquisite and her finishes have graduated to include powder-coated candy colors! Her collection has grown to include jewelry, hardware, curiosity vessels and enviable objets d’ art! We have used her older, hand-blown glass fixtures in both Sex and the City and in a penthouse loft in Soho, stay tuned for many more Lindsey Adelman appearances in future projects, I’m completely obsessed!

Boom Boom Burst

Marina Ceiling Medallion

Blow

Woodchuck Pendants

Stalactite Candelabra

Catch

Curiosity Vessels

NYDC Pick of the Month

Lydia Marks — Mon, 21 May 2012 21:11:48 +0000

We love the Gladis Chair from Aqua Creations and made it our “pick of the month” for the New York Design Center. See it here.