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fresh, and creating narratives to drive projects. STATS: Architect D. Stanley Dixon, Atlanta, 11-time winner of the ICAA Philip Trammell Shutze Award; ICAA Addison Mizner Medal award winner. Architect and designer Lauren Rottet, L.A., NYC, Houston, the only woman elevated to Fellow status by both American Institute of Architects and International Interior Design Association. Architect Drew Davis, partner Kligerman Architecture & Design, NYC; previous tenure at Peter Pennoyer Architects; Yale School of Architecture. Rebecca Birdwell, moderator; design industry leader and strategist; former managing director of Design Leadership Network. Seen: Visual Comfort's Meredith Treybig, Anne Berger, and Grace Hofer; as well as Marie Flanigan, Susanna Moldawer (Birdwell's college roommate), Courtney Hill Fertitta, Nadia Palacios Lauterbach, Pamela O'Brien, Cathy Chapman, Greg Roffino, Linda Eyles, Emily Ann Harrison, Meredith Ueckert, Cindy Witmer, Samuel Roberts, Ally Ondarza, Sydney Manning, Nicole Rose, and Anna Quintero, Abbi Parker, and Linley Stroud. Anne Lee Phillips Eye of the Architect Takeaway: • "A view is free," said Lauren Rottet. Always make sure you're capitalizing on what the natural environment has to offer. Stan Dixon calls them "borrowed vistas." • Collaboration between designer and architect is key. The best designs are created "when the interior designer buys into the narrative with you." — Stan Dixon • "Architecture is as much about experience as getting the proportions and the drawings right." — Drew Davis • Don't limit yourself and your clients by having only one style. David Adler is Dixon's design icon in part because of the diversity of his designs. "We design to the person and the location." — Stan Dixon • The landscape can inform your eye as much as the homes you grew up around. Davis was raised in Texas, where "the prairies were dotted with beautiful live oak trees that divided shape and shadow. That formed opinions about how a house relates to a landscape and how important shape and shadow is." Pamela Marshall Mary McDonald at Patterson Flynn Karen Rogers Cammie Marrs at Sanderson and Culp Stan Dixon, Meredith Treybig, Lauren Rottet Rebecca Birdwell, Drew Davis at Visual Comfort Magen Pastor at Roche Bobois Laurann Claridge, Stacy Bain, Andrée Chalaron Robertson & Kyra Hartnett, Bradley Belen at Hästens Trisha Allen Courtnay Tartt Elias at Kravet Greg Fourticq & John Cone at James showroom Dennis Brackeen Jenna McPhail at Shabby Slips Mia Smith Catherine Olasky at OKA Bill Stubbs at Kravet Randy Powers at Patterson Flynn Dinner Deborah Scott Anna Brockway at Park House (Continued) 99