Annabelle Selldorf

Annabelle Selldorf (born July 5, 1960 in Cologne ) is a German architect , designer and interior designer . She has lived and worked mainly in New York City since starting her studies .

Life

Selldorf is the daughter of the Cologne designer and architect Herbert Selldorf. Her grandmother Ludovica Seligmann had an interior design shop called Vica back in the 1950s . Selldorf still sells furniture and furnishings based on the designs of her father and his own designs under this name.

Selldorf graduated from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York with a Bachelor of Architecture and then went to the Syracuse University of Florence in Florence . There she graduated with a Master of Architecture .

Selldorf became known in 2001 with her designs for the renovation and conversion of a historic city palace for the Neue Galerie New York Museum for German and Austrian Art in the Upper East Side of Manhattan . In the last 25 years she has been able to realize dozens of designs both in the USA and in Europe for residential buildings, interiors for libraries, museums, art galleries and salesrooms etc. as well as for example a waste treatment plant in Brooklyn.

Selldorf runs her architecture office on Broadway in New York under the name Selldorf Architects . She is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in Washington, DC and was elected a member ( NA ) of the National Academy of Design in Manhattan in 2012 .

Prizes and awards

• Medal of Honor from the American Institute of Architects, New York Chapter.
• 2017 member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters .

Executed projects

• Reconstruction of the Neue Galerie New York Museum for German and Austrian Art, Manhattan, New York City, a building constructed in 1914 by the Carrère & Hastings architects.
• Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute , Williamstown (Massachusetts) , USA.
• Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University , Manhattan, New York City.
• Sunset Park Material Recovery Facility , 30th Street Pier, Brooklyn , New York City. Waste treatment plant.
• 200 11th Avenue, Manhattan, New York City. High-rise residential building with parking space in front of the apartment door.
• 520 West 19th Street, Manhattan, New York City, residential high-rise.
• 10 Bond Street, Manhattan, New York City. Residential building.
• 415 West 13th Street, Meatpacking District , Manhattan, New York City. Addition and conversion of a former warehouse for mixed use.
• Interior of the Urban Glass House , 330 Spring Street, SoHo (Manhattan) , New York City. (2005) Architect: Philip Johnson .
• David Zwirner Gallery, West 20th Street, Manhattan, New York City.
• Hauser & Wirth Gallery , Manhattan, New York City.
• Michael Werner Gallery , East 77th Street, Upper East Side, Manhattan, New York City.
• Haunch of Venison , London. Renovation of the gallery in 2011.
• Acquavella Galleries , Manhattan, New York City. Modification.
• Berg'n , conversion of a former garage into a beer garden in Crown Heights , Brooklyn, New York City.
• Fondazione Ortamila, Venice . Conversion of a medieval building into the Foundation's guest house.
• Le Stanze del Vetro: Conversion into a museum of a former boarding school on the Venetian island of San Giorgio Maggiore by the Fondazione Giorgio Cini .
• Boutique for Yves Saint Laurent in Paris, Rue de Grenelle.
• Conversion into a gallery of the former residence of the Bishop of Ely in London from 1772 for the London branch of the Thaddaeus Ropac gallery .

Web links

• Website of the architectural office (en.)
• To the project of the waste treatment plant (en.)
• Go to project 10, Bond Street (en.)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Portrait The Gentlewoman (.pdf)
2. ↑ nationalacademy.org: Living Academicians "S" / Selldorf, Annabelle, NA 2012 ( Memento from March 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on July 15, 2015)
3. ↑ Academy Members. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed January 21, 2019 . 
4. ^ The art world in their tent in FAZ of October 14, 2013, page 32