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Occupation: Architects
Instagram: @fowlkesstudio
Hometown: Washington, D.C.
Studio Location: Washington, D.C.
Describe what you make: Fowlkes Studio makes buildings, interiors, and furniture to live well in.
The scale matters less than the ability of a building or object to celebrate craft and have a point of view.
The most important thing you’ve designed to date: Our children!
Describe the problem your work solves: We strive to streamline and rationalize overwrought circulation patterns, visual noise and mundane details and replace them with intelligent solutions that both make sense and inspire.
Share the project you are working on now: The childhood home of an artist and his wife who would like to honor the eclectic and whimsical spirit of his artist parents, while creating a new template for their family (that has air conditioning)!
A family compound on Lake Champlain consisting of somewhat bland existing buildings that we aim to imbue with personality and soul.
What you absolutely have to have in your studio: Our dog, Levon.
What you do when you’re not working: Hike and cook dinner for friends
Sources of creative envy (dead or alive): Hugh Jacobsen, Willie Nelson, Arne Jacobsen, Carlo Scarpa, Edmund de Waal
The distraction you want to eliminate: Social Media, the current administration
Concrete or marble? both!
High-Rise Or Townhouse? Townhouse
Remember Or Forget? Forget
Aliens Or Ghosts? Ghosts
Dark Or Light? Light
