Ike Kligerman Barkley is a New York and San Francisco-based company, compromising of forty extremely talented designers and architects of diverse backgrounds: inter alia John Ike, establisher of Ike Kligerman Barkley’s interior department, Thomas Kligerman, who together with Ike formed Ike Kligerman Barkley Architects, John Barkley, architect and watercolorist, John James Toya and Alexander R. Eng, a Senior Associate.
Ever since its creation in 1989, the company earned numerous awards, notably the New York Chapter AIA Honor Award, the DDB Stars of Design Award, the ICAA Julia Morgan Award and the ICAA Stanford White Award. Ike Kligerman Barkley concentrates on creating not only personalized residential houses, but also public buildings. Not limiting itself to USA, Ike Kligerman Barkley designed projects around the world.
John Ike, Thomas A. Kligerman, and Joel Barkley are widely known for their stunning mix of modern luxury with its well-lighten, spacious accommodations and historical undertones of the Arts and Crafts movement, Art Deco, Modernism, Colonial Revival and Shingle Style. Robert A.M. Stern, famous architect, once wrote that Ike Kligerman Barkley speaks “architectural languages of the past with a sure command of grammar and syntax and a rich vocabulary of form and detail.”. Pairing traditional methods with high tech and best materials, designers from Ike Kligerman Barkley create unforgettable and timeless interiors, which charm even their most demanding clients.
Ever since 1995, the company has been featured in Architectural Digest’s “AD100 Designers and Architects”. In 2010, the company published its first monograph, Ike Kligerman Barkley: Houses, while their second book, The New Shingled House, debuted in 2015. Its impressive portfolio can be viewed on company’s webpage, http://www.ikekligermanbarkley.com/portfolio
