DAVID MAYERNIK
LTD.
Design, for me, involves anything that can be imagined by drawing.
—David Mayernik
DECORATIVE ART exist at the intersection of fine art & design, encompassing objects, frames, & ornamental pictures.
STAGE SETS for period staging of Baroque opera unite all the arts.
ARCHITECTURE & URBAN DESIGN encompass the design of urban spaces, buildings, interiors, and the landscape.
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THEORETICAL PROJECTS are displays of what is possible, if not probable, in today's world.
ARCHITECTURE PRO BONO
Architecture for Good
Solving Rome's Urban & Refugee Challenges:
TEMPORARY HOUSING in A PERMANENT BUILDING
A project for the city that is also for people. Fixing the problems of modern urbanism, and providing dignified temporary housing. Using the tools of the past to solve modern problems.
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Rebuilding the Renaissance
THE PAINTING MUSEUM OF LUCCA is housed in the Villa Guinigi: a fifteenth-century villa in an urban context, because it is within the later circuit of city walls. A long, symmetrical bar with a central loggia, it has lost its garden context and presents a rather arid first impression to the street entrance. This design (left) shows how the actual condition (below) could be transformed into an enticing Renaissance garden.
The built world is a collaborative enterprise. It all starts with design, or disegno in Italian, from which all works of substance begin. I have had the privilege of collaborating in my built work and decorative projects with outstanding craftsmen, builders, and collaborating architects. In parallel with my built work I maintain an interest in imaginary, theoretical, or polemical projects, whether pro bono—for the public good—or for my own edification. The architects and designers whom I emulate always maintained this balance, or tension, between what can be built and what should but may not be built. That was how art progressed...
