Chicago, February 18--Jensen & Halstead Ltd., a leading Chicago healthcare architecture firm, has joined forces with Studio One Design, an interior design firm also concentrating in healthcare and senior living facilities.
As of January 2005, Studio One Design became a division of the Chicago-based Jensen & Halstead (J&H) and moved to their offices.
"As a team, we’re able to enhance each others’ talents and skills, and provide a more comprehensive package for better service and a higher level of design for our clients," said J&H Senior Principal David Dastur. "We share the same approach to creating health care environments that are welcoming, warm and comfortable," he added.
J&H and Studio One Design have worked together on more than 100 projects, including the Evanston-based Presbyterian Homes, Chicago’s Advocate Illinois Masonic Hospital and Kankakee’s Riverside Medical Center. Both firms share a philosophy of working hard to become the client’s partner, advisor and problem solver, Dastur said.
Since the firm’s inception in 1868, J&H has been a leader in implementing the latest technologies in architecture. The founder of the firm, Major William LeBaron Jenney, designed the first steel skeleton skyscraper. For more than four decades, J&H has been designing, expanding and modernizing healthcare and senior living facilities.
Studio One Design, an eight-person firm, was founded in 1984 by Julia Redwine, a Registered Interior Designer in the State of Illinois. "We can work in any new or existing space, but working with the architects from the beginning allows us to develop concepts and identify potential design problems before they’re built," said Redwine. "We’re energized by our combined potential," she added.
The new division of J&H offers an inclusive package of services including initial consultation, space planning, interior design, procurement and implementation.
