OLDS MASTERS
Samsung World Headquarters - Seoul, Korea
The corporate staff at Samsung World Headquarters in Seoul, Korea needed a fun place to unwind on their restaurant level. Kay Lang and Nadel Architects, Los Angeles designed “Cactus” CA. Bar & Grill and chose The Olds Masters to fill their “space-age” look with montages of American Pop Culture in all its forms – Sports, cars, Americana and highway culture in the Bar Area segued into Hollywood and music in the Stage Area to T.V., convenience products and food at Open Dining to toys and games in the Game Room.
Bistro M. - San Francisco, CA
Michel Richard’s signature restaurant in San Francisco, Bistro M (now M.Point) at the Hotel Milano, was designed as an earthquake retrofit following the Loma Prieta quake of 1989. The dynamic angles of soffit and steel beams lent itself to an abstracted montage called “San Franciscobilia”, 125 feet of images for which the city is famous. Now under newer management, the mural is one of the few elements retained in the remodel of the bar/restaurant.
Hyatt Regency - Chicago, Illinois
The Ballroom of this Wacker Drive hotel in downtown Chicago was entered through a dismal parking garage below ground level. The Olds Masters were solicited to design and paint onsite an “Italian Terrace Garden at Night” on the random surface of concrete block and heating ductwork. Painted rose treillage and formal gardens with statuary along with cobblestone paving and lighting grid transformed the space.
Pompeiian Dining Room - Private Residence
As an adjustment to “previous attempts” by the owner of this Victorian San Francisco residence, the Olds Masters were called in to create a Pompeiian design on cracked plaster walls with separate Bacchanale-themed canvases as well as the trompe l’oeil effect of a Roman ceiling with rusted grates and sky.
