Schweitzer BIM
Eating Out..... West...
The Border Grill, Santa Monica
Campanile
Ciudad
Border Grill
Las Vegas, Nevada 1999
Photo: Douglas Hill
The 1999 Border Grill in Las Vegas, located in the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino, is Josh Schweitzer's latest restaurant. it is a 13,000 square foot two story restaurant with 350 seats divided between three dining rooms and a large pool side patio on the ground floor, and on the second floor a cantina and bar overlooking the dining rooms with a patio overlooking the 11 acre pool complex of the hotel.
Photo: Douglas Hill
The interior colors of pink, brown, orange and yellow celebrate the bold use of color in Mexican architecture and the entire space is animated with murals by artists, Su Huntley and Donna Muir, who have worked with Schweitzer BIM on several other projects.
Photo: Douglas Hill
Schweitzer BIM designed the large hanging lamps in the dining rooms, the chairs and tables for the dining rooms, cantina and patios, the bar stools and tables, the tableware including glassware and china and the uniforms for the wait staff.
Schweitzer BIM Projects:
Joshua Tree
Aloha
As part of the work of Schweitzer BIM, Josh Schweitzer has also designed furniture and light fixtures for many projects. He has also designed eyeglass frames produced by l.a. Eyeworks, a line of tableware for Swid-Powell and a line of jewelry for ACME Studios.
In collaboration with artists Su Huntley and Donna Muir, Josh Schweitzer has designed sets for an opera which opened in Munich, Germany in 1994.
Schweitzer, principal of Schweitzer BIM, grew up in the Midwest. He graduated with a Bachelor of Economics degree from Pitzer College in Claremont, CA and then attended the Architecture School of the University of Kansas from which he received his Master of Architecture degree in 1980. Since then he has been a guest lecturer and critic.
