“They’re meant to look like they’re dancing,” says Kim Mupangilaï, reflecting on the eight works in her inaugural solo show at Manhattan’s Superhouse gallery this past summer. Kim Mupangilaï at home in Brooklyn with some of her new furniture pieces and vintage carved-wood sculptures. The narrative theme takes its most literal form in the pattern A Life Reflected, Fulk’s hat-tip to historic delft tiles, which allows clients to create a completely bespoke carpet based on their own personal lives and loves. Sonic Wave and Sonic Spruce, the most abstract offerings in the line, pay homage to the power of music and sound, while Zellige puts a snappy contemporary twist on traditional Moroccan tile work and colors. Or Surrealist Garden, a trippy dreamscape that nods to the folkloric and allegorical imagery of pictorial tribal rugs. Consider Saint Joe’s Dome, a loosely illustrated rendition of the soaring ceiling of the deconsecrated Romanesque Revival church in San Francisco that houses Fulk’s Saint Joseph’s Arts Society. Predictably, Fulk’s new five-piece collection for The Rug Company, titled Divine Inspiration, is positively brimming with history, fantasy, and delightfully idiosyncratic interpretations of old-world forms and iconography. Whether I’m designing a house that stands for generations, a hotel for thousands of guests, or a party that lasts only a few hours, it’s all about creating a genuinely transportive environment and experience,” says the free-spirited conjurer. “I instinctively built a business around storytelling. Photo: Courtesy of The Rug Companyįor AD100 mainstay Ken Fulk, every great design starts with a compelling narrative.

138 new native trees intercept 80,000 gallons of stormwater runoff and provide protective shade throughout the park.AD100 designer Ken Fulk at the Saint Joseph’s Arts Society, with pieces from his line for The Rug Company. 3.3 acres of permeable surface, together with a 7,500-square-foot rain garden and a community garden combine to harvest and reuse stormwater. To mitigate Houston’s heat, humidity, and frequent flooding, climate resiliency is essential. The generous tree canopy provides protection from the sun and, from the tree house, thrilling views of the park areas below. It is wrapped around relocated forty- to seventy-year-old legacy live oak trees. The children’s garden at the heart of the park features a 150-foot-long tree house that rises at an ADA-accessible grade. A promenade along the north side of the park connects game areas, decomposed granite seating courts and a performance stage and pavilion. High visibility into the park from the street signals openness and activity, and multiple access points lead visitors directly to the main social gathering areas. Built with public funds and sustained primarily by private lease agreements, the park features two activity lawns, a performance pavilion, dog park, water features, community garden and rain garden. This project remakes a forty-year-old park in Houston to provide better public access and address flooding issues.

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