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Sausalito interior designer Barry Brukoff has a passion for contemporary architecture. Best known for his unique residential designs, which have been showcased in numerous magazines and coffee table books, Brukoff says his approach is "experiential as well as aesthetic". Avoiding the trendy or stylistic, his award-winning designs have a timeless quality. "We designed by imagining the experience of moving through space, seeing how the light will answer, exploring what the response of the client will be." Brukoff says.

Light, in fact, isn't the important element in every Brukoff design. "Early in my design career, it became apparent to me that the only way to truly create a custom interior design project is to be able to create the lighting design as well as the rest of the interior design." says Brukoff, who also holds a degree as a certified residential lighting consultant.

"The most successful spaces we've designed are the spaces in which architectural lighting design has been given its full import," Brukoff told MILLIONAIRE . "It is the vehicle by which the design work is experienced. It allows the architecture to take form and it allows for clients to have great flexibility in the many moods which lighting is capable of creating."

"The only way to truly create a custom interior design project is to be able to create the lighting design as well as the rest of the interior design...".

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Brukoff's passion for contemporary architecture is reflected in the way he works with architects. An advocate of the interior – exterior design collaboration, he often works as consultant to architects and frequently uses an architectural consultant on his own large-scale projects. The results are dramatic interiors that seamlessly integrate with the architecture and appear to have been created by the same hand.

In addition to contemporary interior design and architectural lighting design, Brukoff also is a custom furniture designer, art consultant, and photographer. He studied painting, sculpture and design at the Chicago Art Institute.

Brukoff says his early career as a sculptor is reflected in his custom furniture and lighting fixture designs. He works with a variety of craftsmen to create original sofas, tables and cabinets, often using a variety of sculptural materials such as steel, granite and cast glass. "Having an extensive background in designing furniture for manufacture, we are fully conversant with the detailing of upholstery and cabinetry construction," Brukoff says. "Our team of craftsmen is capable of creating interior furnishings of exceptional quality under our design direction, allowing them to integrate seamlessly with the architecture."

Brukoff Design Associates has been acknowledged as one of the top interior design firms on the West Coast. Among the many awards his firm has garnered over the years are the First Place Award from IIDA international Residential Interior Design competition (2000), a Gold Nugget Award in Best Custom Home division (1997), a first-place award in Pool and Patio Design(1992), four AIA Honor Awards of Merit for residential and other designs, and three S.M. Hexter First Place Awards in national design competitions. He also received two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts for a hospice design study.