“How a Design Firm Found Crafstmanship in Noodles” More
Point of View: Metropolis Blog
Inspired by Skyline's autumn Soba Noodle-making workshop with Sonoko Sakai of Common Grains, Metropolis Magazine featured a thoughtful synopsis of the event, capturing the spirit of the two companies' shared goals of crafting quality goods with a creative panache.
How a Design Firm Found Inspiration In Noodles showcases workshop highlights and photographs, including the backstory of how Skyline came to know and appreciate the work of food writer, author, and Japanese cooking instructor, Sonoko Sakai. Based in Los Angeles, Sakai is leading the Japanese food and culture project Common Grains, advocating for sustainable and healthy living through the tradition and pleasure of eating grains and vegetables.
Sakai's careful, but skilled and determined nature, along with her regard for the environment, reflects Skyline's own ethos of innovative, sustainable, quality craftsmanship. Read more here.
Photos: Kelsey Lindsey
An Evening with Henry Domke More
Designing for Healthcare
On September 30th Skyline Design hosted a gathering for healthcare designers in its Merchandise Mart showroom, Suite 1060. The event centered on the life and work of Henry Domke, a physician-turned-photographer whose nature images inspire tranquility and healing in hospital settings.
An informal discussion shed light on Henry’s professional history, preferred photographing techniques, and insight on evidence-based design, including thoughts on the best themes and colors for patient healing.
Skyline has worked with Henry since 2007, transferring his remarkable artwork onto the medium of glass. And indeed, Henry’s art radiates on glass – his work in the showroom displayed this perfect union.
To read more, download the Press Release
View his images exclusively for our Botanica collection
View his full collection of nature photography at Henry Domke Fine Art
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Best of NeoCon Gold Awards
With the opening of its first permanent Chicago Showroom in the Merchandise Mart, Skyline Design is proud to announce its acceptance of two Best of NeoCon 2013 Gold Awards from Contract Magazine.
Skyline Design launched its Digital Glass Portfolio at NeoCon 2013, winning best product in both the Wall Treatments and Surfacing Materials/Finishes categories.
The Skyline Digital Glass Portfolio offers a selection of images for digital printing on glass by eight commissioned artists, photographers, and designers from across the United States. The initial launch represents the first phase of an ever-growing collection, with the work of new artists to be added.
Skyline Design is proud to build on its history of creating collaborative partnerships with celebrated artists, architects, designers and photographers, to realize their creative visions with architectural glass. For the Digital Glass Portfolio, Doug Fogelson, Bryan Nash Gill, Bill Sosin, and Herman Yu have drawn inspiration from the natural world, creating patterns and textures based in sources as varied as raindrops, tree rings, and skeletal winter branches. Other artists, including Jim Krantz, Anne Lindberg, Sonnenzimmer, and Thirst, redefine manmade elements—fabrics, letters, symbols—into immersive environments.
Visit us at Merchandise Mart Suite 1060 to view the collection. Information coming soon; contact sales@skydesign.com to learn more.
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Pratt Students Visit Skyline
Pratt Design students led by Interior Design Professor Jon Otis visited Skyline this year at NeoCon, and were given a tour of the Skyline factory and design studio where they learned how the glass products they specify are created and manufactured.
At NeoCon, KnollTextiles Creative Director Dorothy Cosonas and Skyline Creative Director Deborah Newmark offered an informative and inspiring presentation about the new KnollTextiles Glass Collection, which translates iconic textile patterns to architectural glass. It was an exciting and educational experience for the students and Skyline.
Back at our headquarters, General Manager Vipul Bhagat toured the students through Skyline's manufacturing facilities to show them firsthand how our glass is produced. They were able to see and feel the glass to understand the different techniques and capabilities we can offer for working with the material.
This was the second year we collaborated with Mr. Otis to provide his students a valuable learning experience, and we look forward to many more years to come! Thank you to Jon and Pratt for your continued interest in Skyline Design.
Please contact us if you are also interested in taking a factory tour.
Seven patterns rediscover iconic textiles on glass More
Skyline Previews The KnollTextiles Glass Collection
The KnollTextiles Glass Collection is an iconic collection of seven patterns that rediscover the nonchalant luxury of classic textiles. Linear, undulating, textural, playful, and organic designs translate textile weaves onto glass with a range of scales and opacities. Historic yet timeless, these eco-friendly patterns are well suited for corporate and healthcare environments. Each is offered in two glass techniques, or create your own custom look. Preview at NeoCon Booth 8-6106 for a fall 2012 launch.
Learn more. Monday Morning Quarterback June 4-10 issue, page 69
Skyline sponsored an engaging and educational event with Knoll, Tandus, and Suzanne Tick following NeoCon More
An evening with Suzanne Tick
Skyline sponsored an inspirational evening with Suzanne Tick, Knoll, and Tandus at the Gensler Chicago offices on the last day of NeoCon. The exhibition and weaving workshop, held in the Rotunda of the famous Louis Sullivan building, featured pieces from Suzanne Tick’s recent “Salvage” exhibition, while engaging designers in a weaving class about technique, structure, and material. The positive atmosphere– set by an upbeat music mix and Tick’s contagious optimism– revitalized the spirits of participating architects and designers following the busy week of NeoCon.
Tick began with a brief description of her work, having first picked up weaving in college with materials inspired by her father’s scrap metal yard. She went on to work for KnollTextiles and Tandus Flooring, specializing in material development for commercial and residential interiors, and again recently picking up weaving perhaps when her father– an original source of inspiration– moved into her home two years ago.
As it turns out, architects– people she’s worked with throughout her career– found the new pieces exciting and inspiring, and both NBBJ and Gensler have since commissioned pieces from her. Seeing this as an educational opportunity, she began leading workshops in Gensler’s NY offices to teach the craft of weaving. We were so fortunate to have had the opportunity to create a similar experience with Tick this year, and with talented designers from Knoll, Tandus, and Gensler.
Photography: Scott Shigley
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New York Showroom
Skyline Design is excited to announce the opening of its expanded showroom in the New York Design Center. Sharing space in Aristeia Metro’s showroom with contract fabric supplier CF Stinson and seating manufacturer Source, Skyline Design showcases its sophisticated, sustainable architectural glass in a range of techniques, opacities, designs, and aesthetics. Featuring twelve full-height glass panels in award-winning patterns, two walls of samples from select case studies and collections, and a photographic glass wall with artwork from nature art photographer Henry Domke (pictured below), the showroom offers an unparalleled opportunity to experience Skyline’s designs in their various applications. Contact christine@a-metro.com for more.
New York Design Center
200 Lexington Ave #1416
New York, NY 10016
Cleo Mobile Magnetic Markerglass and The KnollTextiles Glass Collection honored More
Interior Design Best of Year Award Finalists
Two of Skyline's new products are finalists in the 2012 Interior Design Best of Year Awards.
Cleo Mobile Magnetic Markerglass is a finalist in the Office Accesories category.
The KnollTextiles Glass Collection is a finalist in the Building Products category.
Please stay tuned. Winners will be announced live at the Best of Year Awards ceremony in NYC on November 29th.
AST III/Vitracolor daisies enliven healthcare space More
"Exciting New Takes on the Boring Old Floral"
Skyline joins Interiors & Sources magazine in celebrating Spring with a look at impactful floral design. St. Joseph's Women's Hospital by HKS features Skyline's AST™ and Vitracolor® processes, to create bold, colorful, graphic displays on glass. Our partial height Organics™ Seeded Eucalyptus™ pattern creates modest privacy for patient rooms. Photographer: Blake Marvin.
"Exciting New Takes on the Boring Old Floral"
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#1 Brand in Architectural Glass 2012
We’re pleased to announce that Skyline Design was selected as the most preferred brand in architectural glass for the second year in a row by the readers of Contract magazine. We appreciate the many architects and designers who answered an open-ended survey and voted for Skyline again.
Contract Brand Report 2012
Skyline Design featured on pages 70-71
