Juan Montoya (interior designer)

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Juan Montoya
Born
Education Parsons School of Design, New York City
Website www.juanmontoyadesign.com

Juan Montoya is a Colombian-born architect based in the United States, who specializes in residential interior design. His career began in the 1970s in New York City, and he has been recognized as a minimalist designer of modern homes with an eclectic style.

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Career

Juan Montoya was born in Colombia and studied architecture in Bogotá and at Parsons School of Design in New York, where he received an honorary doctorate. [1] He founded his practice in New York in 1978 [2] and undertakes projects world-wide. As well as designing interior spaces, his firm also deals with furniture and carpet design. [1] His firm is currently headquartered in East 59th Street, New York. [3]

His designs are characterized as bold, minimal and relaxed and he states that he is influenced by the work of Jean-Michel Frank and Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann as well as Gunnar Asplund, Louis Kahn, and Emilio Terry. [2] [4] [5] He often employs Art Deco designs and Greek elements as well as Mayan style details. [2]

Projects

One of his early works, undertaken at age 34 in 1979, was the restoration of a Greenwich Village apartment building. The extensive renovation was commissioned by a couple who selected Montoya to undertake the renovation of the Queen Anne Style apartment, despite his reputation as a modernist designer. His material sample submissions consisted of white, bright red, gray flannel and green velvet as well as exposed brick and modern furnishings. [6] More recent projects include the Lucullan office at the Medallion Financial Corporation [7] and Caribbean style residences in the Dominican Republic and New York. [8] [9]

Bibliography

Three collections of his work have been published, including [2] La Formentera, [10] [2] which documents the design of his own home near Garrison, New York and Juan Montoya, which is a collection of his works.

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References

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  6. Geniesse, Jane (5 July 1979). "A Minimalist Does the Unexpected". The New York Times.
  7. "The Guy Who Helps Paint the Town Yellow". The New York Times. 4 February 2004.
  8. "Love At First Site: Juan Montoya's NYC Pied-a-Terre For a Long-Time Client". 1 March 2012.
  9. "House Tour: A Dominican Republic Retreat". 26 March 2014.
  10. "La Formentera". The Monacelli Press. September 2018.