Paris “La Ciudad de Las Luces” y Adrián Sierra García “El Sr. Luz Parisino”

                                              

Todas ciudades importantes cuentan con un Sr. Luz y Paris no puede ser  la excepción puesto que fue aquí en donde  la reputación de París como la "Ciudad de las Luces" se conformó siendo así el centro intelectual durante el Siglo de las Luces. 

"La Ville-Lumière", como se llamaba entonces, París fue el lugar en donde nació el Siglo de las Luces y fue famosa como centro de la educación y de las ideas en toda Europa.

En Paris hay mas de 296 sitios iluminados como hoteles, iglesias, estatuas, fuentes, monumentos nacionales y edificios. 37 puentes, bellos y románticos bulevares como “Campos Elíseos”,  la Plaza de la Concordia hasta el Arco de Triunfo  y desde luego la maravillosa Torre Eiffel.

Por su parte El arquitecto mexicano Adrian Sierra García es como estas personas que llamamos “un personaje”,  es difícil separar su obra de su personalidad. 

A veces arquitecto, a veces artista, siempre humano, sabe cómo transformar el espacio, el volumen y la percepción con este deseo implícito de introducir un elemento de sueño, y para incluir todos y la participación de todos. Aunque multilingüe (Inglés, español, francés), Adrian utiliza el lenguaje universal de la luz para expresarse, en este cruce visual, sin palpables y sensible; sus obras encarnan su  propia voluntad de alcanzar y tocar todos y cada uno de nosotros. 

El es extravagantemente exigente y meticuloso por lo que su obra incorpora el progreso y la tecnología de la era en la que vivimos.

Adrian Sierra Garcia, quien es artista / diseñador mexicano-estadounidense, es  Arquitecto egresado de “California State Polytechnic University, Pomona CA”. Vive y trabaja entre Los Ángeles y París. 

Diseña y construye obras de arte efímero a gran escala para eventos. También practica  instalaciones artísticas monumentales permanentes que crean nuevas experiencias que transforman día a día los espacios que nos conducen a estados de comunicación, reflexión y el asombro. 

El cometido de sus obras son celebrar y fomentar la paz entre comunidades a a través del factor sorpresa utilizando el elemento universal de la luz.

En una sociedad donde el tiempo de ocio desaparece rápidamente, Adrian nos ofrece

experiencias audaces y empíricas que nos permitan romper con las situaciones inconscientes de monotonía y cotidianidad. 

Tiene a bien la utilización de espacios públicos  como su propio lienzo, lo que le permite acceder a nuestro mundo multicultural con la esperanza de transformar nuestra manera en que percibir la vida cotidiana interactúan no sólo con su arte, sino también entre nosotros mismos.

Adrián Sierra García crea obras de arte dinámicas basadas en principios arquitectónicos que dividen el espacio de luz y color para involucrar al público de una manera profunda. Adrian trata de ejecutar un arte que es a la vez

abstracto y físico.

Adrian Sierra García

                                                                            

                           -Erika Winters-

2014 Retrospective

A review of the year 2014; the work obtained good choices and the opportunity to do even better.

I am ready for a new beginning in 2015 and excited about the opportunity to continue my adventure!

Showing good times and environments that will be kept. These are the things I achieved in 2014 and which will continue in this New Year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJSyhcyYQyQ

The dedication to my work led me to achieve new challenges in my career. In 2014 I finished the decoration of a 7k sq. ft. residence in Beverly Hills, CA. I started this project in 2013 and I had so much fun with the opportunity to share good moments with my client choosing, buying and making decisions.

With my design and construction firm in Los Angeles CA, I have being able to approach bigger and substantial clients. In March 2014, I started the design and decoration of a 13k sq. ft. office in Agoura Hills, CA. I spent all year planning, designing and decorating. I worked very close with my client. He was so pleased with the results, he asked me to design the gardens with a plaza area including the water features and the main lobby for the building of the office.

“Erika Winters Design expands its horizon to Los Angeles CA.” This is the phrase I used in 2011. Since then, I have not stopped working and seeking for more horizons.

Among the projects this year, my firm started and finished a Carwash and a 76 Bella MarketPlace Gas Station both in Long Beach, CA, a Circle K convenience store in Placentia, CA, a Bella MarketPlace in San Marcos CA, and a Bella Marketplace in Victorville CA.

Beside all, I love to write as a hobby, I express myself writing for MasarikTV.com.  I am able to share personal and professional experiences of my traveling, art and museums visits, long nights designing and my practice in the field! 

http://masaryk.tv/80441/la-aventura-de-montar-un-despacho-en-los-angeles-california

Fortunately, media in Mexico and USA published my work too.

http://contractormag.com/plumbing/southern-california-gas-station-johns-go-glam

Take a look! My portfolio was voted most popular by the Houzz community. Badge of Best of Design 2014.   

We are closing the year with a new image for erikawintersdesign.com so come and visit us!!

I thank you all for your trust, friendship and confidence.

Enjoy

Erika Winters












Photo: Paul Redmond Photography

New York: when love comes through the eyes.

Writing is not that easy, but in the past few years I have being training myself because the need to express my experiences, feelings, ideas and concepts.

Today I like to share with you some of my writing...

 I always remember my dad used to tell me that travel was everything: "¡Hija! si no has viajado no has vivido." He was the one who took me on my first trip to New York City. We arrived at the airport and took the bus straight to Central Station at Port Authority, on 42^nd Street (which was very extravagant at the time). And I remember my first reaction, emerging onto the street and seeing the New York Times building, was to look up in amazement at the architecture from different periods contrasting with the blue sky. We were visiting in early March, at the start of spring, just as the city was beginning to thaw. It was one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen.

I confess: I fell for Manhattan right there and then. And ever since that first trip to the city that never sleeps, I have not lost my sense of wonder. My last visit was no exception, because this time it was my turn to show my children the magic of the “Big Apple.”

The days went by a whirl, at the cutting-edge of architecture, art, history and fashion, days that I’m sure my children will remember forever.

Apart from visiting contemporary art museums such as the Guggenheim and the MomA, the Frick Collection and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, we also toured the Chelsea art galleries to take in some contemporary conceptual art. 

  We walked the High Line, the mile-long linear park built on a disused railway line, enjoying great architecture and design from every angle. We admired the impressive combinations of concrete, wood, innovative materials and vegetation that have been turning Manhattan into an awe-inspiring and sublime city, not just in its exterior spaces but also in its sober, elegant and modern interiors; my fellow interior designers here are using bold colors and fantastic textures. The furniture and decorative objects have been perfectly chosen to convey a sense of “ordered chaos” in which everything always looks like it belongs, due to that fact that is openly visible and available to all the senses. And so to take advantage of all the Big City has to offer, we entered all the hotels, restaurants and bars that our legs could carry us to; we wondered at the interiors full of majestic marble, luxurious carpets, magnificent candelabras and beautiful bronze filigree work found on many of the handrails and doors.

 

 We visited a range of hotels, from those with the longest histories and traditions such as the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, the Pierre Hotel and the Plaza Hotel, to the more contemporary and modern Standard, High Line, ACE Hotel, NoMad Hotel, and the Bryant Park Hotel in the American Radiator building. We also explored every corner of Noho, Soho, Greenwich Village and Tribeca.

And since every trip must have an element of surprise, the three of us headed to the Upper West Side where my children and I ended up dining on hamburgers and milkshakes at Tom's Restaurant, just like Jerry Seinfeld, Elaine Benes, Cosmo Kramer and George Costanza use to do. 

 Our trip coincided with various important events, including the Spring-Summer 2015 "Design Fashion Week" in Manhattan. The catwalks were overflowing with incredible designs, prints and colors: this season’s three most important aspects, which are being combined in free-spirited and geometric forms, with great contrasts. Primary colors again! Yellow, Blue and Red are the dominant colors.  Black and White are the canvas for the rest of the palette.

I think the Venezuelan designer Carolina Herrera deserves all the praise this season. However, ultimately everything is relevant, especially here in the capital of art, fashion, design and the avant-garde, since trends and fashion are made by the people who wear what is created by the catwalk and underground designers.  

And it is even truer to say, fashion changes every day.

                          







                             



                             Enjoy
                          -Erika Winters-