The Chef's Palette 2020

Alireza Razavi (1970) is a registered architect in France (DPLG 1996), a licensed professional in the USA (Registered Architect NYS 2005) and a Chartered Architect in the UK (RIBA 2016). He holds a Master’s Degree from Columbia University in New York (MSAAD 1998) and a Master’s Degree from the Ecole Nationale des Arts Décoratifs in Paris (Aii 1997). Early work collaborations include Eisenman Architects, Agrest & Gandelsonas, Shigeru Ban Architects, François de Menil Architects and senior project manager at FTL-Happold in New York. Alireza Razavi is a member of the American Institute of Architects.

Lisa Sauve is Principal and Co-Founder at Synecdoche Design Studio, an award-winning boutique design-make architecture studio in Ann Arbor that works in the fields of interior design, buildings, and furniture fabrication. She serves on the board at the Ann Arbor Art Center and is a planning commissioner for the city, both efforts to inspire culture and design in the city.

Mike cofounded Heliotrope Architects guided by the belief that good design is rooted in its use, time and place, and great design transcends it. Mike is a registered Architect in the State of Washington, Oregon, and New York and a member of the American Institute of Architects. Past and recent work includes Design Lead and Principal-in-Charge of numerous residential and retail projects as well as restaurants Ma’Ono, Joule, The Whale Wins, and retail stores for evo, Filson and Shinola.

He works on interior design for public and commercial places. Over 500 (five hundred) public places realized among bars, restaurant, discos, discobar, pubs, cafés, shops, cinemas, summer gardens but even the inside of private houses and design of objects and lamps. INTERIOR DESIGN In the last years he designed some of the main nightclubs in Milan like Byblos Milano (awarded as best club in Italy 2013 by Fashion TV), El Carnicero Milano and Ibiza, Basara, G Lounge, Tocqueville13, Shocking, Eleven, Luminal, Roy, Deseo and Spirit, Sali&Tabacchi in Reggio Emilia, Nikita and Fluid in Bergamo. FORMAT DESIGN He took care of concept and the image of some chains of bars as John Martin Italy, Guinness, Kulmbacher, as well as having contributed to the creation of some Italian brands like Botega Caffè Cacao, C House Coffee Shop, Pizzikotto and Shi's present with a lot of shops in Italy and abroad. SHOP RETAIL In the retail field he designed some fashion and accessory shops like Luxury Mall, the biggest designer labels outlet of the Sardinia, awarded as best retail project in 2009.