MICHAEL ON DESIGN

Jim Kapelson, one of the 3 brothers who along with their dad runs the family clothing business, Kaps Menswear, called me one day and asked if I would take a look at all 4 of their stores and come up with something more progressive and reflective of the line of high end European men’s fashions his store carries. Having just returned from Italy and seen how the Italians market their clothing, I said sure!

We went through all the properties and decided that we would built the first prototype at the Atrium Mall in Chestnut Hill.

The idea was to ‘frame’ each line of clothes and provide a gallery of frames each highlighting a different line or brand of clothing. The store front was in fact designed as 2 deep frames in which mannequins and other types of displays could be shown. Between the storefront displays was a double glass door surrounded by another mahogany frame which you walked through to enter the store.

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TripKing was a start up company specializing in planning trips for American drivers. Basically the idea was to help drivers sight seeing along the way, book hotels, find restaurants and other places of interest that would make their journey more interesting, rewarding and entertaining.

TripKing leased a 4,000 sf warehouse space in Salem MA and asked us to come up with something different, interesting and visually unique.

We looked at the 4 brick walls in the long rectangular space, the rows of narrow deep symmetrical windows, high wooden ceiling and exposed timber frame and decided it all looked very, regular, ordinary and predictable. [Read more →]

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‘But Doug, we really don’t ‘DO’ medical office buildings.’ ‘That’s why I want you on this project.’

That’s how our involvement with Dr. Doug Halsted and the Orthopedic Trauma Group started.

Doug had just optioned a couple acres of rugged hillside land across the street from his existing office at Centennial Office Park and was thinking about planning a holistic health center for his practice and others as well. When Doug called I was thrilled but a little apprehensive. Doctors in this part of the world aren’t’ really know for their creative office settings. Plastic Surgeons in LA, definitely; orthopedic surgeons in New England, I’m not so sure. [Read more →]

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