Doctoring Up Design

This is Doctoring Up Design, the official podcast of Design Hardware and Flooring. The showroom has been here on 3rd Street in Los Angeles since 1985 serving the design community and part of our commitment to this vibrant and talented group of creatives includes showcasing talent and allowing for peer to peer, long form conversations. These conversations showcase the talents and processes so that others in the community can learn and so clients who are listening can find their perfect designer.

We host Day of Design events each season with a new group of creatives to showcase their work. We met at the showroom in July. And in this episode, you are going to hear from two amazing creatives, Shirry Dolgin of ASD Interiors and Leslie Shapiro Joyal of Shapiro Joyal Studio.

More clients are embracing remote design work, which is good because that is the direction the industry is going and the best designers who understand this trend are best positioned for success. Many designers fear that artificial intelligence is going to take their jobs. That’s not going to happen for a very long time, if at all. If designers don’t win projects, it will most likely be to design professionals who know how to do the work, and know how to do it most efficiently.

A major part of understanding remote design is application of techniques and strategies to both have the work designed and build relationships with those upon whom one will depend to supply product and complete the work.

Shirry Dolgin is what I would call a designers-designer. She is so well versed in the business, trained and experienced to complete any style or extent which a client might challenge her. There is far more to it and while we covered a great deal, we can’t cover everything we’ve learned in just 30 minutes with Shirry. But this was a solid start. 

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Thank you, Shirry. Amazing. I have known Leslie Shapiro Joyal for many years, seen her work and admire her design and the way she approaches the business as well as the craftsmanship. I know you will too.

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Thank you, Leslie and Shirry for making the tie to have this important conversation. . Check out the Instagram feed, @DesignHardwareandflooring for more information about these amazing creatives, the show and the showroom. Thank you Michele Solomons and Avi Balsam with Design Hardware for your continued and unwavering support of the design and architecture community. And thank you for listening to the podcast. I love hearing from you, love learning about new products and guests you think should be featured on the podcast, so email me, you will find a link in the show notes along with links to all of our guests and their work in addition to Design Hardware, where you can find everything you could want for your next project.

This is Doctoring Up Design, the official podcast of Design Hardware and Flooring. The showroom has been here on 3rd Street in Los Angeles since 1985 serving the design community and part of our commitment to this vibrant and talented group of creatives includes showcasing talent and allowing for peer to peer, long form conversations. These conversations showcase the talents and processes so that others in the community can learn and so clients who are listening can find their perfect designer.

Architecture is an art form that is also serves a primary function, that of shelter, workspace, centers for learning, social spaces and gathering places. This is a form of art with a language all it’s own. Long debated is which comes first, form or function. But that’s not quite the right question to be asking these days. A better question might be, for whom does it serve and how can the space serve their individual needs both now and into the future. American society has learned to move to a new shelter space in the same way that a hermit crab moves to a new and bigger shell. We’re not hermit crabs and this model has only served to increase costs and decrease availability of housing. How to think differently about architecture achieve different results.

At a recent Day of Design at Design Hardware, I had the opportunity to catch up with longtime friend and an incredible architect, Anthony Poon or Poon Design. Do you have a friend who challenges you in areas where you consider yourself to be well versed?  Someone who thinks the way you do about art, architecture, design and music? Anthony is a friend of mine who does that and he happens to be an extraordinary talent, keep listening and you’ll hear why.

Here are some of the topics we discussed during our chat:

Thank you, Anthony . Check out the Instagram feed, @DesignHardwareandflooring for more information about the show and the showroom. Thank you Michele Solomons and Avi Balsam with Design Hardware for your continued and unwavering support of the design and architecture community. And thank you for listening to the podcast. I love hearing from you, love learning about new products and guests you think should be featured on the podcast, so email me, you will find a link in the show notes along with links to all of our guests and their work in addition to Design Hardware, where you can find everything you could want for your next design project along with ideas and suggestions. Until the next episode, be well.

Welcome to Doctoring Up Design, the official podcast of Design Hardware and Flooring in Los Angeles. I’m Josh Cooperman, I host and produce this show in addition to planning and executing the activities around our quarterly Day of Design events. These have become well known for a few reasons, and if you listen to the show, you know. We invite extraordinary design talent and brands to come into the showroom and share their thoughts and ideas revolving around actionable steps they take to ease the pain points within the design process. These conversations strengthen the design business in Southern California and beyond. 

This episode of the show features:

 Letecia Ellis Haywood | Letecia Ellis Haywood Interior Design

Mary Patton | Mary Patton Design 

 Amy Pigliacampo | Amy Pigliacampo Interiors

Thank you Letecia, Amy and Mary  . Thank you Michele Solomons and Avi Balsam fro Design Hardware. Check out the Instagram feed, @DesignHardwareandflooring for more information as it’s released. Thank you Michele Solomons and Avi Balsam with Design Hardware for your continued and unwavering support of the design and architecture community. And thank you for listening to the podcast. I love hearing from you, love learning about new products and guests you think should be featured on the podcast, so email me, you will find a link in the show notes along with links to all of our guests and their work in addition to Design hardware, where you can find everything you could want fro your next design project along with ideas and suggestions. Until the next episode, be well.

Welcome to Doctoring Up Design, the official podcast of Design Hardware and Flooring in Los Angeles. I’m Josh Cooperman, I host and produce this show in addition to planning and executing the activities around our quarterly Day of Design events. These have become well known for a few reasons, and if you listen to the show, you know. We invite extraordinary design talent and brands to come into the showroom and share their thoughts and ideas revolving around actionable steps they take to ease the pain points within the design process. These conversations strengthen the design business in Southern California and beyond. 

This episode of the show features; 

Alina Wolhardt | Wolf in Sheep Design 

Elaine Morrison | Elaine Morrison Interiors

Lauren Meichtry | Elsie Home

I hope you enjoy the following conversations.

Alina, Elaine, Lauren

Thank you Alina, Elaine, and Lauren. Thank you Michele Solomons and Avi Balsam fro Design Hardware. Check out the Instagram feed, @DesignHardwareandflooring for more information as it’s released. Thank you Michele Solomons and Avi Balsam with Design Hardware for your continued and unwavering support of the design and architecture community. And thank you for listening to the podcast. I love hearing from you, love learning about new products and guests you think should be featured on the podcast, so email me, you will find a link in the show notes along with links to all of our guests and their work in addition to Design hardware, where you can find everything you could want fro your next design project along with ideas and suggestions. Until the next episode, be well.

This is Doctoring Up Design, the official podcast of Design Hardware and Flooring. Today really is a treat. I am going to share some of the conversations for our Spring 24 Day of Design at Design Hardware. This day of design also provided for an incredible opportunity to sit and chat with some of the designers working on this years Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts. We discuss the project house this year, but also chat about design houses in general as well as the challenges that go along with participation in a project like this.project. I was joined by:

Margaret Lalik | Margaret Lalik Design and Decor @Margaret_Lalik_Design_and_Dec

Rachel Scheff | Rachel Scheff Design Studio @Rachel_Scheff_Design_Studio

Rebecca Hansen | Rebecca J Hansen @RebeccaJHansen

Ashleigh Miranda | AYM Interiors @AYMInteriors

Shari Tipich | Shari Tipich Decorative Design & Artistry @ShariTipich

Steven Cordrey | Cordrey Collection @CordreyCollection

You are going to hear inside stories from this years showcase. And it is spectacular. Make sure to check the show notes for information about the Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts.

What an amazing group! Loved this, hopefully you did as well. Thank you to all of the amazing creatives who shared of themselves and their work. Check the show notes to see their work and this remarkable house. Thank you to everyone at the Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts for being so wonderful to work with! 

Doctoring Up Design is the official podcast of Design Hardware and was created to address the pain points affecting the design and architecture community. Diagnosing these issues and providing practical insights to address them, that is our mission. #DoctoringUpDesign is available everywhere you find your favorite podcasts. Thanks for listening.

This is Doctoring Up Design, the official podcast of Design Hardware and Flooring, you home for the finest in design forward building materials and finishes.

On the show today, Why is it so hard to build in California? Joan Barton, founder of Dirty Girl Construction and SheSpoke, a platform that explores the stories and successes woman-owned, operated and worked side of the construction and design industry.

This gathering took place at Design Hardware in February 2024 and features Catie Cassazza of CRL Construction, Lauren Howley of Howley Design Build, Shannon Sheehan of Citizen Properties and of course, Joan Barton for a feature length conversation about the trials, tribulations and challenges behind building in California. It also showcases why you need a strong contractor, like these. 

Thank you Joan, Catie, Shannon, and Lauren. Thank you ichele Solomons and Avi Balsam fro Design Hardware. Check out the Instagram feed, @DesignHardwareandflooring for more information as it’s released. Thank you Michele Solomons and Avi Balsam with Design Hardware for your continued and unwavering support of the design and architecture community. And thank you for listening to the podcast. I love hearing from you, love learning about new products and guests you think should be featured on the podcast, so email me, with ideas and suggestions. Until the next episode, be well.

This idea is a simple on really. Gather some very talented designers, place them around a table, drop the topic, hit the little red button and see what happens. This is the idea I came up with in 2017 after years of attending industry events and leaving with a sense of disappointment that the formal conversations didn’t yield the same amazing dialogue that the informal ones did. When creatives come off the stage, the audience leaves and they are just chatting amongst themselves, it was pure gold. I wanted to capture that. We hold these events regularly at Design Hardware. We record them and publish them to Doctoring Up Design, the official podcast of Design Hardware. 

We gathered on February 29th, in partnership with ASID-LA, we gathered some amazing creatives to discuss the rapidly changing nature of the design industry and how the rapid changes and evolving tastes are changing the game. You are going to hear an open and honest conversation, the likes of which you rarely hear. Which is exactly why we do this. The ASID - Los Angeles Chapter

The following conversation features;

Cheryl Vines | Mesa Design Group

Jaqueline Steinberg | Eve Mode Design @JackieSteinberg

Lenora Mahle | Mahle Design @LenoraMahle

Mark Cutler | Cutler Schulze @CutlerSchulze

Juliette Schatan-van der Meijden | Curated by Juliette @CuratedbyJuliette

Nicole Schulze | Cutler Schulze @CutlerSchulze

Philip Nielsen | Nielsen Dye @NielsenDye

We are talking about important issues that include;

Doctoring Up Design is the official podcast of Design Hardware and was created to address the pain points affecting the design and architecture community. Diagnosing these issues and providing practical insights to address them, that is our mission. Now, the audio was recorded live and if you would like to know ore about each of the participants, check the show notes for links and check @DesignHardwareandFlorring on Instagram where you can lear more about each of our participants.

#DoctoringUpDesign is available everywhere you find your favorite podcasts. Thanks for listening.

This is Doctoring Up Design, the official Design Hardware podcast. I’m Josh Cooperman and today we are continuing our conversation about safety and security in residential design. This topic is not being discussed to scare you or to make anyone uncomfortable. To the contrary, there are a few ideas here that are extremely important and incredibly timely.  Here’s the idea…we live in a civilized society, but not necessarily a safe one. Weather patterns have changed and it would be crazy not to address those changes by preparing for the worst  potential outcomes, right? Technological advances have made the modern American home stronger, more efficient, more comfortable and highly performative. And, it continues to get better. Our society has become more dangerous. It’s just the way it is. So, if you are a homeowner listening to this, and safety is important to you, keep listening. If you are a designer, architect or builder, you have a remarkable opportunity to increase your firm’s profile, create a new value proposition, a brand extension that will set you apart by offering something that is not widely offered by the design trade at large. And, you will generate more revenue in the process. If this is of interest to you. This is what you heard in the last episode of the show.

You heard from Garett Winn, and Matt Terry from Safe room. This is part two of that conversation. In part one, we discussed the very basics of beginning to plan out your safe room design and the very basic ideas around that design itself. In February of 2024, Garrett, Matt and I met again, this time in person at Design Hardware to discuss these very ideas with far more depth and texture. We covered a lot of ground and if you are considering a safe room for your home or as I designer, you want to offer this as part of your services, you are going to want to hear this. It’s great information that not only provides a much needed service, but it also creates new revenue streams for designers, architects and builders. Those in real estate should also give a listen. This could be the reason why buyers would select one property over another. We are going to get to that, right after this.

Thank you Garett and Matt with Saferoom for your time and expertise. This was part two of a series that we was held live from the Design Hardware showroom in Los Angeles. Check out the Instagram feed, @DesignHardwareandflooring for more information as it’s released. Thank you Michele Solomons and Avi Balsam with Design Hardware for your continued and unwavering support of the design and architecture community. And thank you for listening to the podcast. I love hearing from you, love learning about new products and guests you think should be featured on the podcast, so email me, with ideas and suggestions. Until the next episode, be well.

This is Doctoring Up Design, the official Design Hardware podcast. I’m Josh Cooperman and today we are continuing our conversation about safety and security in residential design. This topic is not being discussed to scare you or to make anyone uncomfortable. To the contrary, there are a few ideas here that are extremely important and incredibly timely.  Here’s the idea…we live in a civilized society, but not necessarily a safe one. Weather patterns have changed and it would be crazy not to address those changes by preparing for the worst  potential outcomes, right? Technological advances have made the modern American home stronger, more efficient, more comfortable and highly performative. And, it continues to get better. Our society has become more dangerous. It’s just the way it is. So, if you are a homeowner listening to this, and safety is important to you, keep listening. If you are a designer, architect or builder, you have a remarkable opportunity to increase your firm’s profile, create a new value proposition, a brand extension that will set you apart by offering something that is not widely offered by the design trade at large. And, you will generate more revenue in the process. If this is of interest to you…keep listening.

On the show today, you are going to hear from Garett Winn, and Matt Terry from Saferoom. We are discussing the inner working s for creating an inner sanctum. Seriously, you don’t have to be a super hero, super-villain, actor or tycoon to have one. Having a dedicated safe room is not a cheap proposition, but it’s not out of the realm of possibility either. What is your safety, peace of mind and overall security worth? The answer is different for everyone. It’s personal. And it starts with an education. And you are going to get that, right after this from Accurate Lock and Hardware #Saferoom #Design #Architecture

Thank you Garett and Matt with Saferoom for your time and expertise. This was part one of a series that we will be continuing live from the Design Hardware showroom in Los Angeles. Check out the Instagram feed, @Design Hardware for more information as it’s released. Thank you Michele Solomons and Avi Balsam with Design Hardware for your continued and unwavering support of the design and architecture community. And thank you for listening to the podcast. I love hearing from you, love learning about new products and guests you think should be featured on the podcast, so email me, [email protected] with ideas and suggestions. Until the next episode, be well. 

I’m Josh Cooperman and this is Doctoring Up Design, the official podcast of Design Hardware with a continuation of the last episode. Resetting the scene for you. In the last episode of the podcast, we were speaking with HMC Architects, Kirk Rose and James Krueger about the thought and elements behind designing for safety and security. The world can be a dangerous place and there is an ongoing conversation about safety in design. The one thing that you can count on is the need to put a priority on designing for the unthinkable.

The conversation you are about to hear is a continuation of these ideas and it includes, Kirk Rose, Healthcare Practice Leader at HMC as well as Sergio Lechuga, Director of Interior Design at HMC. We met in person at Design Hardware and to check out some of the video clips of our conversation, please go to @DesignHardwareandflooring on Instagram. We are going to get to the conversation, right after this.

Thank you Kirk and Sergio for your time and expertise, thank you Bruce Boul with HMC for making this incredible conversation happen. Thank you Michele Solomons and Avi Balsam with Design Hardware for your continued and unwavering support of the design and architecture community. And thank you for listening to the podcast. I love hearing from you, love learning about new products and guests you think should be featured on the podcast, so email me, [email protected] with ideas and suggestions. Until the next episode, be well.