At the Abingdon, a West Village condominium conversion, Flank brought in 2Michaels to furnish the model apartment and Masters & Pelavin to provide artwork. (Photo courtesy Interior Design Magazine)

Hermine Ford’s work was included in an article by Craig Kellogg that featured a new interior design managed by Jennifer Masters of Flank.

In what was once a nursing home in the West Village, “Today, the entire ground level is a forest of glinting steel studs under a ruined ceiling peeling with loose-leaf size sheets of paint,” writes Craig Kellogg, “It takes a supreme effort to imagine the multimillion-dollar duplex maisonette slated to occupy the space when the building reopens as the 10-unit Abingdon condominium. To assist with the visualization, Flank—the architecture firm and real-estate developer and broker—hired interiors specialists 2Michaels to design the model apartment.”

“This conversion project couldn’t be more different from a ground-up Flank building two blocks away,” continues Kellogg, “Complete with original limestone quoins and meticulously reproduced fanlights, the neocolonial redbrick facade might belong to a bank on Main Street, U.S.A.—though what’s actually across the street is quaint Abingdon Square’s wrought-iron gates and carefully tended paved paths. Long before being adapted for senior citizens, the building was the YWCA’s Laura Spelman Hall, a residence for single women. Each window once belonged to an individual bedroom. Now the rambling, family-friendly floor plans benefit from multiple sun-splashed exposures.”

The dressing room’s stool by Ico Parisi and work on paper by Hermine Ford. (Photo courtesy Interior Design Magazine)

Kellogg writes that the job of filling empty walls went to Jennifer Masters’s husband, Todd. “At his gallery, Masters & Pelavin, he mounted a viewing of 50 possible works to lend, and 2Michaels picked out 15. Of special note are the rows of ephemera-filled acrylic boxes, composing an installation in the entrance, and the lead-wrapped timber columns forming a sculpture in the living room”

To read the full article including slideshow click here.

An artist, Spencer Finch, helped design the curtain wall sections; photography: Eduard Hueber/Arch Photo.

Hermine Ford’s work is among the 500 works created by 70 artists for the new 1.6 million-square-foot John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, which was featured in the August Issue of Interior Design Magazine.

Costing $1.1 billion to construct, the Perkins + Will design, comprises an eight-story base connected by two 12-story towers, the Charlotte R. Bloomberg Children’s Center and the Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan Tower for adult care.

A welcome desk’s Hermine Ford work in ink, graphite, and gouache on paper; photography: Keith Weller/Johns Hopkins Medicine.

“At every turn, thought-provoking art greets the eye,” writes Laura Fisher Kaiser for Interior Design Magazine, “This collaborative process characterized the project from the get-go—a joint effort involving designers, an art consultant, artists, and the client, not to mention the donors. The adults’ tower honors the founding president of the United Arab Emirates. Bloomberg Philanthropies funded the children’s center. It’s named in memory of the mother of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a Johns Hopkins University alum, and he insisted that art be integrated into every aspect of the architecture, furnishings, and gardens.”

To read the full article including a slideshow of images click here.

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Untitled (270-11), 2011

STOREFRONT (16 Wilson Avenue, Brooklyn) is pleased to present new paintings by Hermine Ford. A fully illustrated color catalogue of paintings from 1970 to the present will accompany the exhibition. An opening reception for the artists will be held Friday, April 22, from 6-9PM. Storefront is open weekends 1-6PM or by appointment by calling 646-361-8512.

Preview or purchase the fully illustrated color catalogue of paintings from 1970 to the present.

Related Press:
“Hermine Ford’s enchantment,”
by Sharon Butler, Two Coats of Paint
May 3, 2011

The entire edition if “ii ss” published by Granary Books, a collaboration by Hermine Ford and poet Kathleen Fraser, has been acquired by libraries throughout the United States. View the full list of these collections.

Granary Books, producers and promoters of new works exploring the intersection of word, image, and page is scheduled to publish Hermine Ford and Kathleen Fraser’s collaboration “ii ss” in 2010-2011 season.

The book will premiere at the  Codex International Book Fair from February 6 to 9, 2011