El Medio Bluffs Residents Awarded “Design Legends” at Ceremony in NYC

Husband and wife design duo Stanley Felderman and Nancy Keatinge of Felderman Keatinge + Associates, El Medio Bluffs residents since 2000, were honored with the award title of Design Legends at the 37th Annual Interior Awards in New York City on Friday, Jan. 29.

The Interiors Awards are the architecture and design industry’s most prestigious recognition of singular and collective design achievements and are hosted by Contract Magazine.

“We are grateful to be recognized as design leaders and look forward to continuing to challenge the status quo and move design forward,” Keatinge said.

This award signals another milestone for the pair, whose reputation as leading innovators has spanned over three decades. This award serves as a clear indicator of their prominence within the industry—both past and future-tense.

Known as pioneers of the “total design concept,” Felderman and Keatinge have built an empire on the focus of building an environment that is most suitable for living and working, on a client-focused case-by-case basis.

“The risk in architecture and design is not in being different or innovative,” Felderman said. “The risk is in remaining static and predictable. Our goal is not to replicate the familiar—comforting as that may sometimes be. Our goal is to provide a bridge to the future.”

In the past, Felderman Keatinge has been recognized for a variety of awards, including “Best Executive Office Design” from Interiors magazine, the Southern California Development Forum (SCDF) Design Award, “Restaurant of the Year” from Restaurant and Hotel Design magazine, the RAS Industrial Design Award and an Honor Award from the Los Angeles chapter of The American Institute of Architects.  Most recently, in 2015 Felderman Keatinge won the top interior honors at the 45th Annual Los Angeles Architectural Awards from the Los Angeles Business Council for their work on the Legendary Entertainment offices.

In addition to Legendary Entertainment, some of Felderman Keatinge’s iconic clients include Mattel, Creative Artists Agency, Core Media Group, MTV Networks, Disney, Universal Music Group, Samsung Corporation, Sony, Roth, Pillsbury Winthrop, Sheppard Mullin and Drago Centro.

Their work has been featured in the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum.

–JACQUELINE PRIMO