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About
Adam D. Tihany
Adam D. Tihany established his studio in New York, in 1978. Adam D. Tihany International is a multi-disciplined design studio whose experience and expertise encompasses every aspect of design from commercial and residential interior architecture to furniture, products, exhibitions and graphics.
Born in Transylvania in 1948, Tihany was raised in Israel. After his requisite three year service in the Israeli army, he moved to Milan attending the Politecnico diMilano, School of Architecture and Urban Planning. Upon graduating, Tihany apprenticed in several design studios across Europe, acquiring experience with furniture, lighting, product and interior design. He worked with Ettore Sottsass on two documentary films about design and architecture. He was the art director for the design magazine Rassegna Modi Abitare Oggi and upon moving to the U.S. became design director of the New York firm Unigram.
Considered the preeminent hospitality designer in the world today, some of Tihany's most celebrated projects include: the world famous four-star Le Cirque 2000 and Jean Georges restaurants, both in New York; Bice restaurants worldwide; the renowned Gundelin Budapest; Wolfgang Puck’s Spago Las Vegas, Chicago, Mexico City and Palo Alto for Wolfgang Puck; Osteria del Circo for the Maccioni family in New York; Monte’s four-story private club in London; the Dan Eilat Hotel and Resort in Eilat, Israel; Baretto in Paris; Biba and Pignoli restaurants for chef Lydia Shire in Boston; New York’s Shun Lee Palace Chinese Restaurant; Inagiku Japanese restaurant and Oscar’s Restaurant, both at the Waldorf-Astoria; Louis’s in Charleston for Chef Louis Osteen; 160 Blue in Chicago; numerous residential, corporate and retail spaces including Moschino’s flagship store on Madison Avenue; and the design, conception and expansion of Tihany’s own Remi Restaurants and Regata Cafes worldwide.
Recent projects include the renovation of the historic King David Hotel in Jerusalem; a boutique hotel, The Time, in New York; Le Cirque and Circo at Bellagio Las Vegas; Chef Thomas Keller’s Bouchon Bistro in Napa Valley; Charlie Palmer’s Aureole at Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas (with the famed Wine Tower); renovation of Aureole flagship in New York City; Wolfgang Puck’s new Trattoria del Lupo at Mandalay Bay; the public areas of The Disney Wonder Cruise Ship; a new bar, café and restaurant for the Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park, London; The Sea Grill at Rockefeller Center; One CPS at New York Plaza’s hotel, and Artisanal, a new bistro for Chef Terrance Brennan. Currently Tihany is working on the redesign of Fred Leighton Estate Jewels on Madison Avenue and several projects overseas.
Tihany also has licensed lines of furniture and accessories for numerous companies. The Pace Collection offers four successful collections of his residential furnishings, including the Le Cirque and Monte’s Collections. Villeroy & Boch has produced many of Tihany’s custom-designed china for restaurants and his two retail china series, "Il Mago" and "Archipiatti", as well as Tihany’s popular silver-plated cigar holders and ashtrays. In 1998, Christofle Silver of Paris began production of Tihany’s famous "Bombay Sapphire Martini Glass". To follow its fantastic success, Christofle will release the extended Tihany Barware Collection in 2000. New products also on the market are chairs from McGuire Furniture of San Francisco and B&B Italia, a unique fiber optic landscape lighting fixture by Lucifer Lighting, door hardware from Valli & Valli and a new form of china from Schönwald Porcelain of Germany. Soon to be available are rugs.link™, his first collection of rugs for the residential market through M & M Design International, and restaurant linens from Frette.
A recognized authority, Tihany is often the subject of book and magazine articles, a featured lecturer and judge of design competitions,and is co-author of the book, Venetian Taste, published by Abbeville Press. He has been nominated as Chairman of the Masters Degree Program at The School of Visual Arts in New York; in 1991, he was inducted into The Interior Design Hall of Fame; in 1997 was installed into the James Beard Award’s Who’s Who of the most influential people in the restaurant industry; was recently the subject of CNN’s "Pinnacle" program; and has received the 1999 Innovator of the Year Award from Nation’s Restaurant News. Tihany is the subject of Tihany Design, a 320-page monograph, published by The Monacelli Press in November 1999, that features more than forty of his projects from the 1980’s and 1990’s.
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