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"\"Make It Fabulous\" by William T. Georgis\nThe AD100 talent discusses his just-released monograph and why his work is more than just edgy\n\"The first floor of my New York townhouse is interesting because you see a lot of the stuff that juices me up,\" says AD100 architect and interior designer William T. Georgis. \"A crazy Richard Dupont sculpture of himself on the kitchen counter, a beautiful portrait Alex Katz did of me back in the '90s. The space not only is wowee-looking but also really comfortable.\"\nFor his beach home in La Jolla, California, Georgis conceived a space that reflects a narrative inspired by the country's westward expansion. \"It's the story of who we are. I've been collecting furniture for years. I have 1,500 square feet of storage in New York filled with stuff, and I wanted to use some of it here\u2014like settlers almost, bringing their prized possessions with them but also adjusting and adapting to a Western perspective.\" To reflect his love of an Asian aesthetic, Georgis used Japanese tea paper on the ceiling and commissioned Italian glassmaking firm Seguso to blow Japanese-style lanterns.\n\"Most of the clients I work with are collectors of modern and contemporary art,\" says Georgis. \"They have voracious appetites and their collections are not static. While in some circumstances I work around a specific piece, most of the time that's not the case, because people are constantly buying and moving things around.\"\n\"This is a classic cabinet of curiosities,\" Georgis explains. \"For the paneling, which is from an early-20th-century mansion off Fifth Avenue, I ebonized the wood, and I blew out the scale of the room by mirroring the ceiling and then by making curtains out of stainless-steel chain mail. There's rabbit-fur carpet, a modern sectional version of a Chesterfield sofa in tufted leather, dinosaur bones, dioramas from a Scottish museum. The client's reaction was, \u2018More! More! More! Bring it on!' This is a toned-down photograph with only a fraction of what's been jammed into the room now.\"\nFor the office of a hedge-fund manager in New York's Seagram Building, Georgis created a unique context for doing business. \"The client is not afraid. He wanted something special. In his office I wanted to explore the idea of precious metals and bodily fluids\u2014a Michele Oka Doner sterling-silver table with a blood-splatter carpet. It's a crime-scene-pattern rug I designed, made of long silk woven by V'Soske. And I did the bullet-riddled commode\u2014basically I took a .45-caliber pistol and started shooting glass.\"\nGeorgis found the perfect solution for a client who felt that all the powder-room ideas he presented were too tasteful and pretty. \"She saw a sample of the gunshot mirrors I had done and said, \u2018That's what I want,'\" explains Georgis. \"I came up with an entire narrative of a deranged aging starlet going in there and feeling that the mirrors were lying to her and pulling a pistol out of her clutch and obliterating the lies. I'm blessed with clients who are \u2018out there.'\"\nIn the same residence, Georgis conceived a serene bedroom with upholstered walls and curtains in a nubby raw silk. He approached the classic problem of where to put the ball gowns with his command of the decorative arts. Georgis worked with artist Nancy Lorenz to create a screen to conceal the closet beyond.\nIn the case of a client who bought a traditional log-cabin house in Montana, Georgis took inspiration from Hollywood westerns and added milled logs to the home's existing Sheetrock and plaster walls. \"Let's grab the bull by the horns and bring more of the logs in,\" Georgis remembers thinking. But to avoid the mountain-lodge clich\u00E9, he included an unusual mix of furniture, including 20th-century Czechoslovakian chairs, a Biedermeier stool, French ceramic lamps, and a Richard Serra drawing.\nThe monograph also covers Georgis's architecture, including this summer residence for a friend who was feeling vulnerable after a divorce. Georgis described the project as \"a haven\u2014to protect her.\" Paula Hayes created the landscape design, which carries on the perception of walls and screens defending the home.\nAnswering a client's request for a swimming pool on the upper level, Georgis devised a plan for this unorthodox East Quogue, New York, home that allows for views of both the ocean and bay.\n\nMake It Fabulous: The Architecture and Designs of William T. Georgis (Monacelli Press, $50)"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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