Kudos and champagne clinks to Lance Raney and David Droese — the designers of our January feature house, in fact — who have been thrust into some very good company. Seems the gents' dapper New York store for menswear ace Billy Reid, above, has been singled out by Sportswear International Magazine as one of the "world's best new fashion stores" in its book Open: The Store Book, volume two. The other honorees? A Phillip Lim shop in Tokyo, a Comme des Garcons branch in Los Angeles, a John Varvatos store in New York and an Emilio Pucci outpost in Shanghai. Heady, to be sure — but it's not just retail stores where Droese Raney Architecture excels: Just witness Angie Barrett's incredibly sophisticated new penthouse at One Arts Plaza, another project by this dynamic Dallas duo. Bravo to Lance and David.
Click here to see more of Billy Reid's Bond Street store in New York.
Click here to see Angie Barrett's penthouse in PaperCity.