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Article: Savoir Faire.(Brief Article)
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- Interior Design
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- May 1, 2000
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Avram Lothan of DeStefano+Partners deftly conjoins two disparate buildings to provide optimum space for the Alliance Francaise de Chicago.
CONTEMPORARY FRENCH INTERIORS prompted the palette; Pierre Ghareau's Maison de Verre inspired the curtain wall; and a franglais manner of presentation, though more americain than anglais, earmarks the building style--clearly there's a French connection here. Indeed there is, for the client is the Alliance Francaise de Chicago; and the designer, Avram Lothan of DeStefano+Partners, is a devotee of French contemporary architecture and its sympathetic ways of rationally applying modern technology. The Alliance Francaise is ...
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