James John Walrod (August 25, 1961 – September 25, 2017) was often referred to as a “design guru". A self-taught interior design consultant and collector of rare and unusual art, design and pop culture works, Walrod was also considered an expert in the field of mid century and Postmodern design.
In the 1980s, Walrod was an assistant art director for the Italian fashion house Fiorucci Mike D of the
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originally coined another of his monikers “the furniture pimp”, used by the press in '' Rolling Stone'' magazine. Walrod was born in 1961 in Jersey City, New Jersey and died in 2017 in New York City of a suspected heart attack.
Projects
Walrod consulted on interiors for architects Jean Nouvel an Richard Gluckman and his collaboration with boutique hotelier, Andre Balazs, resulted i The Standard Downtown LA hotel.
Walrod worked with club and restaurant impresario team Eric Goode and Sean MacPherson. to creat The Park restaurant. and after 9/11 he designed the interiors o Colors restaurant, which is operated by the former employees of the
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restaurant in the World Trade Center. Opened in 2006, Colors was "inspired by the optimism of the
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", according to Walrod.
Walrod designed Nolita'sbr>Steven Alan Annex the additions to the line of hipster fashion and lifestyle emporiums of designer Steven Alan completing projects in the West Village, a Steven Alan Upper West Side and NoLita.
Latterly, Walrod's commercial projects included designin Gild Hall a business class hotel in the financial district of Manhattan, and Thompson LE Thompson LES , on the Lower East Side of Manhattan on Allen Street, for the Thompson Hotel Group. He also co-curated a show at Cooper Union, in cooperation with the Drawing Cente Drawing Center on Paul Rudolph's drawings for a
Lower Manhattan Expressway
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Additionally, Walrod worked on various residential projects featured in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, an Architectural Digest
Retail and film
One of his furniture and design retail ventures in the 1990s was Form and Function in Tribeca with partners, Fred Schneider of The B-52's and Jack Feldman. For Ang Lee's 1997 film ''
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Index
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