PRESS RELEASE
February 2005
Jensen & Halstead expands its services to provide space planning
and interior design
Chicago firm joins forces with Studio One Design to offer clients
more choices in healthcare and senior living facilities
Chicago -- Jensen & Halstead Ltd., Chicago’s premiere 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 opportunities
before they’re built," said Redwine. "We're energized by our combined
potential," she added.
The new division of J&H offers a comprehensive package of services
including initial consultation, space planning, interior design, procurement
and implementation.
