Benjamin A. Ascher and Gideon Gelber, class mates at Cornell University’s College of Architecture, had known each other for almost 20 years when they decided to start Studio g&a in 2005.
Ben had spent his career in Boston designing and administering the construction of large highly technical laboratory research facilities, offices and new construction homes (some are pictured on this website under offices and labs.) These projects included elements as divergent as café dining rooms, and deionized water delivery systems. Succeeding in the field of technical facilities design requires an intensely rigorous approach to documentation and project management. Ben had become known in the Boston area, not just as a master of this demanding project category, but also for the ability to imbue these projects with warmth, comfort and a modern sensibility appropriate to the kind of companies that sought his services.
Gideon spent 9 years working for Dennis Wedlick Architect LLC in New York City, helping them build their firm from a 3 person office when he joined in 1996 to one of the nation’s most respected residential firms. After serving as stylist for Wedlick’s widely successful monograph The Good Home, Gideon established the interior design practice there. He started a department that renovated and furnished lofts and apartments (some of which are featured on this web site as Tribeca loft, Warm Retreat, and Purple Penthouse.) and expanded the practice in the urban market. The modern clients Gideon met, and the way they were appropriating New York’s old city fabric for new purposes, were the inspiration for our warm modern approach.
Studio g&a was founded to combine rigor and creativity to address this emerging progressive clientele. Their requirements for innovative solutions in New York’s challenging spaces, their need for the integration of extensive information and audio visual technologies, and their demand for the most up-to-date and socially responsible materials and finishes, put their projects outside of the mainstream of most residential design. Project by project, year by year these challenges have driven the warm modern philosophy to evolve.
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