Photography by Eric Laignel.Īnother factor to take into account was Nadja Swarovski’s well established tastes, notably a penchant for white. Considering the inherent energy factor of Swarovski, Valerie Pasquiou notes, “We just couldn’t over-design.” In the gallery, Niels Bendtsen chairs flank an Antonio Citterio table. “It’s such a pleasure to work with that many windows,” Blumenfeld says, particularly when showcasing a product that’s “very shiny, very glittery” in response to light. It helped that the location, high up in a tower with relatively small floor plates and windows on three sides, provided a bounty of sunshine to the two-level, 13,000-square-foot space. So Perkins + Will’s principal at large, Joan Blumenfeld, and Valerie Pasquiou Interiors & Design made sure that their scheme was perfectly calibrated between glam and calm. If your scheme is overly blingy, however, it runs the risk of echoing that famous line from Valley of the Dolls: “Sparkle, Neely, sparkle!”
Especially when your primary client contact is the jet-setting style maven Nadja Swarovski, one of the company’s five executive board members. When you’re designing the New York office of Swarovski, the Austrian crystal manufacturer that was founded in 1895 and has in recent decades become a fashion and jewelry powerhouse, you can be sure of that.
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