A few years ago, Nazarian decided to call his company S.B.E., after his lawyers suggested that its previous name, Samyboy Entertainment, lacked gravitas, and in January he hired the French designer Philippe Starck to design restaurants, clubs, and hotels for him.
The loo experience has become as important to the people who design restaurants in New York as gleaming open kitchens were in the 80's.
Over the course of the second half of the century, Glaser steadily expanded his interests to include magazine design, restaurant and retail store interiors, and visual identity systems.
He went on to design restaurant interiors for the Café Costes (1984) in Paris, Manin (1985) in Tokyo, Theatron (1985) in Mexico City, and Teatriz (1990) in Madrid, among others.
I started designing restaurants exclusively, by coincidence.
AvroKO, the firm that has designed restaurants like Beauty & Essex on the Lower East Side, is designing the lobby and apartment interiors.
In addition to making art, Hirst wrote books, designed restaurants, collaborated on pop music projects, and experimented with film.
Mr. Andrea has designed restaurants and nightclubs in the Hamptons and the addition to Tavern on the Green in Manhattan.
Mr. Rockwell's ubiquitous firm, the Rockwell Group, has designed restaurants (A Voce), theaters (the Kodak in Los Angeles), even airport terminals (Jet Blue's at J.F.K. International).
"That really impacts your kitchen layout," said Mitchell E. Sawasy, executive vice president of Rothenberg Sawasy Architects, a Los Angeles firm that has designed restaurants for the Carl's Jr. chain.
To be fair, Evan, 30, and Oliver, 33, have been occupied with other things, like designing restaurants (among them, Telepan Local in TriBeCa, Ramona in Greenpoint and a project for Stephen Starr in Philadelphia).
