Winning spots on Interior Design magazine's Hall of Fame and being celebrated by both Architectural Digest and Metropolitan Home as among the world's most influential designers, Vincente Wolf creates spaces that are at once grand and inviting. Mixing elements from all over the world, he has designed private spaces for Prince and Princess Von Furstenberg and Clive Davis, as well as commercial spaces such as the Beverly Hill's Luxe Hotel and NYC's L'Impero Restaurant, winning him the 2003 James Beard Foundation Award for outstanding restaurant design.
Despite his long list of successes, Wolf proudly points out that he never graduated from high school. I think this is part of his charm - being unbound by the rigid vision of others is something that really shines through in his spaces. By mixing French chairs with minimalist tables, on the other side of which are richly upholstered comfy couches, all opposite architectural pieces mounted on iron rods, Wolfe creates rooms which are decidedly personal, elegant, and relaxing all in one breath. "My design is a blending. It's not just arranging furniture in a room. It's like a sentence that has a lot of different words, and each word - like chair and table - is individual until you put them all together and you end up with a thought" (Wolf). Placing a long stone bench in the shower, a flat-screen on an easel, turning a side table into a vanity with a sink...these are all striking and inspired pieces that are incredibly easy to live with.
To date, Wolf has published two books: Learning to See (Artisan, 2002) and Crossing Boundaries: A Global Vision of Design (Monacelli Press, 2006), with a third due out by the end of the year.
Despite his long list of successes, Wolf proudly points out that he never graduated from high school. I think this is part of his charm - being unbound by the rigid vision of others is something that really shines through in his spaces. By mixing French chairs with minimalist tables, on the other side of which are richly upholstered comfy couches, all opposite architectural pieces mounted on iron rods, Wolfe creates rooms which are decidedly personal, elegant, and relaxing all in one breath. "My design is a blending. It's not just arranging furniture in a room. It's like a sentence that has a lot of different words, and each word - like chair and table - is individual until you put them all together and you end up with a thought" (Wolf). Placing a long stone bench in the shower, a flat-screen on an easel, turning a side table into a vanity with a sink...these are all striking and inspired pieces that are incredibly easy to live with.
To date, Wolf has published two books: Learning to See (Artisan, 2002) and Crossing Boundaries: A Global Vision of Design (Monacelli Press, 2006), with a third due out by the end of the year.
source: www.vicentewolf.com
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