Architectural Digest USA - 11.2019

Matt Gagnon
Working in the offices of Gaetano
Pesce and Frank Gehry taught Matt
Gagnon, as he reflects, “the value
of thinking about design across all
scales, materials, and fabrication
methods.” A self-described tinkerer,
the Lincoln Heights–based designer
has created furnishings for Nike;
a series of stacked light totems that
have made their way into Peter Marino
boutiques for Chanel and Vuitton;
and, most recently, a 65-foot-long,
illuminated, interactive map of the
solar system for NASA’s Deep Space
Network facility at Jet Propulsion
Laboratory in Pasadena. “I think about
objects in terms of architecture,”
he says of his approach, “specifically
how objects occupy, shape,
and transform a physical space.”
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