{"id":103224,"date":"2015-12-14T18:17:32","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T18:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/designwire\/peter-ippolito-and-gunter-fleitz-2015-hall-of-fame-inductees\/"},"modified":"2022-12-12T12:32:36","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T17:32:36","slug":"peter-ippolito-and-gunter-fleitz-2015-hall-of-fame-inductees","status":"publish","type":"id_news","link":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/designwire\/peter-ippolito-and-gunter-fleitz-2015-hall-of-fame-inductees\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Ippolito and Gunter Fleitz: 2015 Hall of Fame Inductees"},"content":{"rendered":"

Identity architects. That\u2019s what Peter Ippolito<\/a> and Gunter Fleitz<\/a> call themselves. Their Ippolito Fleitz Group<\/a>, headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany, gives to every project its own distinctive character, from demolition to graphics. Consider the contrast be-tween two projects in Hamburg alone: a sophisticated canteen for Germany\u2019s oldest news magazine, Der Spiegel<\/em>, and a rough-and-humble concept for the fast-casual restaurant and organic food store WakuWaku. Both of those projects, incidentally, were honored with Interior Design Best of Year Awards<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s move on to Frankfurt. For the European headquarters of Innocean Worldwide Corp., a South Korean advertising agency owned by the Hyundai Motor Company, \u201chigh energy\u201d topped the list of client requests. Ippolito and Fleitz took that directive literally, installing a seesaw and swings in the reception area. For Phoenix Real Estate Development, the partners transformed a 1990\u2019s office tower, infusing the lobby shared by all tenants with a healthy dose of pizzazz and the company\u2019s own quarters with wit and whimsy\u2014as in tropical-looking greenery filling vitrines to imply: \u201cIt\u2019s a jungle out there in the real-estate business.\u201d One of the many jokes at Holyfields, a fast-casual restaurant with touch-screen kiosks for taking orders, is the drinking fountain marked Holy Water.<\/p>\n

Yes, offices and restaurants\u2014for a slew of top-tier companies\u2014are how we best know this forward-thinking firm. That\u2019s not nearly all, however. When Linden-Apotheke Ludwigsburg, a pharmacy in a small city outside Stuttgart, was facing competition from chain stores and the Internet, the owner approached Ippolito Fleitz for a revamp to coincide with a new focus on homeopathic products and natural cosmetics. \u201cTo convey trust or someone who cares for you, we began by making it clean and white,\u201d Fleitz says. Then came a ceiling fresco of abstracted medicinal herbs, in medieval colors, and a granite floor similar to the cobblestone streets.<\/p>\n

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A Munich dental office illustrates the firm\u2019s holistic approach: giving the practice the name Weissraum, meaning white space, developing communications materials, and carrying out a full-scale renovation to create a contemporary interior complementing the Jugendstil building. The project also represents the firm\u2019s expansion into the health care sector. \u201cWe love doing things we\u2019ve never done before,\u201d Ippolito enthuses. That was even more true for the Palace of International Forums, a convention-cultural venue in Tashkent, a city that neither Ippolito nor Fleitz had ever visited. The partners won the competition, for an immense new building, with\u2014an interiors proposal paying homage to Uzbekistan\u2019s design traditions.<\/p>\n

On the residential front, the duo transformed part of a former military barracks in Esslingen, Germany, into a loft for a family. Much farther afield, a partnership with a Shanghai developer entails so many high-end residential projects that Ippolito Fleitz just opened a studio in the city.<\/p>\n

And don\u2019t forget retail. In New York, the first location in a planned international rollout for Slvr, an edgy clothing brand from Adidas, is all facets, angles, and zigzags. Meanwhile, plum velvet envelops Moscow\u2019s Tailor Shop, which occupies what was once a ventilation shaft in a mall. \u201cThe compact size sparked the idea of a walk-in jewel box,\u201d Fleitz says. Storytelling is, well, very much a part of the Ippolito Fleitz story.<\/p>\n

As for Ippolito and Fleitz\u2019s own story, they were roommates while studying architecture at different universities in Stuttgart. Ippolito went on to work at Studio Daniel Libeskind<\/a> in Berlin, Fleitz at Steidle Architekten<\/a> in Munich. In 2002, the two launched their firm, its initial projects focusing on branding and communications. The scope grew to architecture\u2014and the staff to 51. Both Ippolito and Fleitz work on every project, firmwide. \u201cGunter is organized and calm,\u201d Ippolito says. Fleitz notes of his colleague, \u201cPeter is courageous and trusts the emotional side of design.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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