Thomas Schoos Design

THOMAS SCHOOS DESIGN ---- West Hollywood-based lifestyle design firm, Thomas Schoos Design, offers consultation for residences, restaurants, lounges, nightclubs, hotels, boutiques and furnishings. In 1996, lead designer Thomas Schoos and business partner Michael Berman launched the Thomas Schoos Design (TSD) lifestyle brand, incorporating all of the Schoos projects and initiatives into a single line. The TSD brand provides a range of services for residential and commercial clients, particularly in the hospitality industry. These services include interior design specializing in original concept and design identity, architecture, space planning, landscape design, concept proposals, log/name development, and graphic designs ranging from business cards to menus. The TSD team includes a staff of interior designers who specialize in architecture, interiors, landscapes, textiles, landscape, and construction project managers. Schoos and his business partner Michael Berman opened their first retail store on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles, CA in 1996. After demand for the Thomas Schoos style grew, the company closed their retail outlet to focus specifically on product and interior design and moved the TSD outpost to a larger studio on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood, CA. In addition to interior workspace for project design, the TSD design studio features gardens with gazebos and palapas, outdoor cooking facilities, covered dining areas, and outdoor gathering spaces tucked into a multi-million dollar collection of aviary and plant life. THOMAS SCHOOS ---- Thomas Schoos was born in Neuerburg, Germany and graduated from a university in nearby Düsseldorf. After graduation, Schoos apprenticed as a stone sculptor, although painting was his true passion. He transitioned into the fashion industry, where he was charged with painting backgrounds for window displays and showrooms. In 1994, Schoos left his native Germany and set out to Los Angeles, where he currently resides and operates his eponymous lifestyle design firm with business partner Michael Berman. RESTAURANT PROJECTS ---- Thomas Schoos Design has projects in prominent cities including Los Angeles, New York, Miami, and Las Vegas, among others. Schoos’ breakthrough project was Midtown Manhattan’s TAO Asian Bistro that opened in 2000, which emerged as the third-largest grossing restaurant in New York. In September 2005, TAO Las Vegas was recreated with over 40,000 square feet of restaurant and nightclub space at the Venetian Hotel. In Vegas, Schoos recreated his signature 16-foot tall TAO Buddha from the Manhattan location, expanding its height to 20-feet and positioning it as the focal point of the 400-seat TAO Asian Bistro. TSD also designed Koi restaurant in Los Angeles, as well as O-Bar in West Hollywood--voted Best Restaurant Design 2004 by Angeleno magazine--a project which Schoos and Berman also own and operate. Other Los Angeles projects include Citizen Smith, Wilshire Restaurant, Empress on Sunset, and The Penthouse, atop the Schoos-remodeled Huntley Hotel in Santa Monica. TSD is also responsible for the redesign of Table 8 in Los Angeles. HOTEL PROJECTS ---- In 2004, TSD began the redesign of Santa Monica's Huntley Hotel and its rooftop restaurant, The Penthouse, which was completed in 2006. The Huntley Hotel was later named by Condé Nast Traveler in its 10th Annual “Hot List,” of the World’s Top New Hotels. TSD is also the firm behind the redesign of The York and The Maxwell Hotels in San Francisco, renamed Hotel Vertigo and Hotel Frank, respectively, both of which are slated to debut Summer 2008. OTHER PROJECTS ---- Other TSD projects include LAX nightclub at the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas, as well as TAO Beach at the Venetian Hotel. TSD has designed 40-plus stores for Aveda, the national beauty products retailer. Schoos has also been instrumental in the promotion of Arzu Rugs, a non-profit endeavor that supports the weaving of rugs by Afghan women as a means of escaping poverty and oppression. Thomas Schoos designed a line of nature-inspired couture rugs for Arzu's "Hope by Designer" collection. RESIDENCES ---- TSD residential projects include the Miami home of record producer Tommy Mottola (subsequently purchased by P. Diddy) and the Southern California estates of Will Smith & Jada Pinkett-Smith, Courtney Cox & David Arquette, Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson. FindArticles - Schoos views: designer Thomas Schoos started by selling his creations on the street. Now he's among the city's most sought-after interior designers Los Angeles Business Journal, May 30, 2005, by Rachel Brown FindArticles - The Tao of Vegas: studio Gaia and Thomas Schoos Design follow parallel paths at Tao Las Vegas. Interior Design, April, 2006, by Scott, Debra See Also David Thomas Pisarra Graft Architects Gwynne Pugh Urban Studio Piet Boon Steve Galerkin

 

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