MICHAEL ON DESIGN

Michael McCloskey Design Group is pleased to announce once again, that one of our homes has been selected as a New England Dream Home by the wonderful folks at NECN TV. This is a special honor as another of our homes was profiled just two months ago! This new show airs Sundays at 10:00 AM and 7:00 PM, and weekdays at 3:00 PM. Check your local listing for the NECN channel in your area. Enjoy the video!

Offering a panoramic view of Marblehead Harbor, passersby delight in imagining themselves relaxing on the front patio of this magnificent home. The traditional gray clapboard exterior blends perfectly into the fabric of the town’s historic district. But those who enter the residence of Elaine and Jim Alt are in store for a surprise that both calms the senses and ushers the outside in with distinctive elements of nature: light, curves, textures. This transformation is truly an achievement in modern design. The one-of-a-kind floating staircase is not to be missed. NECN’s New England Dream Home takes you on a private tour…

 

Read more about the philosophy behind the design in this feature article from New England Home.      

Jim Kapelson, one of the three 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 four of their stores and come up with something more progressive and reflective of the line of high-end European men’s fashions his stores carry. Having just returned from Italy and observed how the Italians market their clothing, I said sure!

We 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 two 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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‘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. (more…)

 

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. (more…)

For those of you who haven’t seen our new ad in Northshore Magazine yet, I’m posting it up so you can see our in-house graphic work done by Jonathan Schnure and myself. Nice job, Jon. I’m also including pictures of the rest of the house so you don’t have to guess. All the best, Michael

Last  month John Filippelli, senior editor from Kitchen and Bath Design News contacted us and asked what we thought was happening in the K&B industry.  We gave him our thoughts and sent a few pictures. Apparently John liked what we had to say and printed 3 bath images. We’re very proud to be considered a leader in this industry and want to thank our clients and designers Jane Wykoff and Lucia Pinque for their talent in making these spaces beautiful, unique and functional.

Although we enjoy working in the modern vernacular, we enjoy designing homes that look traditional as well. In fact the way we look at it, the ‘traditional’ home shown on these pages is a modern building; it’s just proportioned and detailed using familiar or ’traditional’ materials and finishes. (more…)