Yabu Pushelberg

Yabu Pushelberg is an international design firm, with studios in Toronto and SoHo, New York, founded in 1980 by Glenn Pushelberg and George Yabu. Focused teams of design and project management personnel specialize in interior, furniture and product design for the hospitality and retail industries. The firm also does residential projects.

Yabu Pushelberg has designed the interiors for the Four Seasons in Toronto and Tokyo; the W Hotel, Times Square, New York; the St. Regis Hotel, San Francisco and Bal Harbour; the Viceroy Maldives Resort; the Edition Hotels & Las Alcobas, Mexico City.

Retail projects include Bergdorf Goodman, New York; Barneys New York; Louis Vuitton, Hong Kong; Lane Crawford Home, Hong Kong; Printemps, Paris; and Tiffany & Co. Ltd, Wall Street, New York.

In 2010, Yabu Pushelberg opened an office in Guangzhou, China.

Yabu Pushelberg also designs furniture for companies such as the Toronto and New York retailer Avenue Road Furniture

They focus on the use of contemporary art in their projects, commissioning artists to create large-scale installations, including Toronto's Dennis Lin and Montrealer Pascale Girardin.

Yabu Pushelberg supports charities including New York’s Hetrick Martin Foundation for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth and have organized a major fundraiser for Toronto’s Casey House Foundation.

In 2003, George Yabu and Glenn Pushelberg received honorary doctorates from Ryerson University. They also established a major endowed scholarship at the university for a fourth-year student whose projects demonstrate innovative critical thinking and creative problem solving skills.

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