Toronto’s jet-setting design duo George Yabu and Glenn Pushelberg will be recognized for their award-winning design portfolio as DXI 2015 award winners on November 7.
DX Intersection, a fundraiser for Toronto’s Design Exchange now in its fourth year, spotlights excellence in the field. As honorees, interior design firm
Yabu Pushelberg joins Frank Toskan, co-founder of MAC Cosmetics, who took home the prize last year.
Here in their home town, Yabu Pushelberg are known for projects like the
Avenue Road furniture showrooms,
The Room at Hudson’s Bay and the
Four Seasons Hotel. But they’ve probably been busiest beyond our borders, working most recently on interiors for Ian Schrager’s Miami Beach
Edition Hotel, unveiled during last year’s Art Basel,
Lane Crawford flagship women’s fashion store in Hong Kong (and before that Shanghai) and
Siwilai retail boutique in Bangkok. Upcoming projects where Yabu Pushelberg will be doing interiors for Four Seasons include in a 185-room hotel in Tribeca, New York, and a 263-room hotel in Kuwait, the first Four Seasons offering in that country.
“With offices around the planet but still residing in the six, George Yabu and Glenn Pushelberg oversee one of the most recognized design firms in the world,” states the Design Exchange news release.
The duo are also curating “interactive installations and ethereal interventions” at this year’s DX Intersection, which is themed “Kismet.”
Source: Design Exchange
Writer: Paul Gallant