Chennai, India born, New York City based Suchi Reddy founded Reddymade Architecture and Design in 2002 and has steadily grown to become a leader in forward-thinking design, experimenting with both materials and color choices. Their varied commissions exist beyond New York, with projects in Los Angeles, Miami, and even Reddy’s place of birth, Chennai. Just recently, the firm completed a temporary installation in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park that featured 7,000 spinning pinwheels that filled the mostly green space with mesmerizing blurs of yellow. If that project isn’t familiar, you’ve probably caught glimpses of their work in the pages of New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Interior Design, Elle Decor, and Architectural Digest India, over the years. Let’s see what this architectural force finds inspirational in this week’s Friday Five. Pierre Chareau and Bernard Bijvoet: Maison de Verre, Paris, France, 1932 \ Photo: Architectural Press Archive / RIBA Collections
1. La Maison de Verre, by Pierre Charreau

Nestled in the depths of the fabled seventh arrondissement of Paris lies one of my favorite works of architecture, the Maison de Verre, by Pierre Charreau. This house, built in the early 1930s, represents to me the complete integration of architecture and design. Uniting the concepts of both privacy and openness, with every detail exquisitely in tune with the structure of the building, it remains a constant reminder of the confluence of ...