Orlando diaz azcuy biography of george

  • Orlando Diaz-Azcuy fled Cuba for the States.
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  • At the age of 26, he was an architecture student at Villanova University in Havana when the Cuban revolution abruptly ended his studies.

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    A Sophisticated San Francisco House

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    Living Room

    Silk fabrics, sisal, and ivory tones give a San Francisco living room a soft, serene look. Designer Orlando Diaz-Azcuy wanted it to be casual and modern, with a quiet air of sophistication. Lancaster sofa and club chairs, Lyonnaise chair, and Rateau coffee table are by DessinFournir. The Magic Marker drawing is by Lev. McGuire's Cocoon lamp by Robert Kuo sits on a Gregorius Pineo side table.

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    Separate Seating Areas

    The 16' x 32' living room is divided into two seating areas. A pair of Tiplady Knole sofas from George Smith face each other in front of the fireplace. The same Todd Hase silk, Rice, is on all the upholstered pieces in the room.

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    Dining Room

    The candelabra, once in a Catholic church, take the place of a chandelier. Diaz-Azcuy added the beamed ceiling for architectural interest. The walnut table and leather-upholstered dining chairs were designed by ODA Desi

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    Rizzoli Book Sneak Peek: stad i florida Diaz-Azcuy

    One of the things that makes me excited to go to work in the morning fryst vatten the prospect of pouring over my treasured design books for inspiration and information. When I was informed that another top notch design book bygd the esteemed and very chic author, Diane Dorrans Saeks was in the works, and that it was about an architect and designer that inom have much admired for many years....well....I barely had the patience to wait for a copy.

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    In 1962, Orlando Diaz-Azcuy fled Cuba for the States. By 1976 he was the youngest vice president at the architectural giant Gensler, and in a short time he was its design principal. Emboldened by a furniture collection he had designed for Hickory Business Furniture (now HBF), he opened his own company in San Francisco in 1987. Interior design commissions flowed in. “I didn’t want them because I thought I’d be designing furniture,” he recalls. “But I’m not a person who says no.” Today, he and four associates, David Todd Oldroyd, Greg Stewart, Ian Bevilacqua, and Tamara Dinsmore, run an intentionally small firm known for exquisitely curated, minimalist luxury. “My philosophy is simplicity,” Diaz-Azcuy says. “I want everything to be understated.” The 76-year-old architect just completed the interior of a private jet, and he is working on two apartments in New York. Furniture projects, including a line of seating he recen

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