“From hearing him passionately tell his team to always ‘fight for design,’ to watching him sketch on a packed L train so intently as if all alone.”
“He just had to make a scene and put on a crazy costume even though I gently suggested not to,” Allen recalls lightheartedly, noting that he also had a flare for the poetic.
“BIG talent, BIG hair, BIG heart!”-that’s how editor in chief Cindy Allen remembers Luzietti, adding, “The only thing that could possibly outshine Nick’s stellar design work, was his outsized personality.”Īlways erring on the side of eccentric, Luzietti opted to forgo traditional black tie attire when he accepted Interior Design’s Hall of Fame award in 2009. But his immense impact in the industry-and warm personality-continues to live on, especially among the many friends and colleagues he mentored throughout his career. Nick Luzietti, Interior Design Hall of Fame inductee and design principal at VOA Associates, now Stantec, passed away recently at the age of 76.