From The Wickenburg (Ariz.) Sun By Scott Turner Sun Editor “Hello there, I didn’t hear you come in,” an Old West storekeeper says, welcoming visitors to “the best general store around.” He asks visitors if they just arrived from the train and suggests they can stay at the Vernetta Hotel just down the […]
Quatrefoil is coming up on two anniversaries. One — celebrating our 32nd year in business — arrives this fall. It’s an opportunity to express our great appreciation to clients (past and current) who have made our work both an honor and a source of pride. The second anniversary is one […]
Quatrefoil Design Director and Firm Principal Michael Burns recently presented a Flash Session on “Designing Museum Experiences in a Post-Pandemic World” at the Texas Association of Museums 2020 VIRTUAL conference. Click on the link below to watch Michael’s presentation.
Dear friends and colleagues, We are going through an event that is unprecedented in our lifetimes and across our industry. The aftereffects of this pandemic — physical, financial, emotional, cultural — are going to be felt for years to come. Quatrefoil has taken several important steps in response to the […]
Quatrefoil Associates is proud to announce that, effective immediately, Michael Burns, Bernhard Mueller and Roula Tsapalas have joined the ownership team and are now Principals of the firm, which will mark its 30th anniversary in October. Roula, Michael and Bernhard have made tremendous contributions to the growth of Quatrefoil over […]
Nestled in the quiet foothills and mesas of the east side of northern New Mexico’s Jemez Mountain lies the Manhattan Project National Historical Park (MPNHP), an area with seventeen “sites of importance” at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), as well as thirteen sites in downtown Los Alamos. The County of […]
By: Amy Kehs You probably know the Wright Brothers invented the airplane. You may immediately think of Dayton, Ohio, their hometown and site of their bicycle shop, or Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, where they accomplished their historic first flight in 1902. College Park, Maryland was also an important site for […]
For much of the last month, the Quatrefoil team has been hard at work putting the finishing touches on our work for the Museum of Boulder in Colorado. The permanent exhibit, the Boulder Experience Gallery, opened to the public the weekend of Nov. 17 and the initial reviews from local […]
The Textile Museum’s all-purpose Learning Center Museums increasingly cite flexibility as a key requirement for their exhibition spaces. They define flexibility in a variety of ways including more adaptive interior space, updateable content, and more durable, interactive and multipurpose exhibits. Quatrefoil’s recent work for the Textile Museum in Washington, D.C. […]
Michael Burns Today, when people in museums ask us to design a “permanent” gallery our response is different than it once was. “Permanence” is a term people use to indicate resilience, or longevity, but permanence, in an age of rapid change is no longer a matter of simply building sturdy, […]
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