40 Bond Street
New York, NY

Glass Façade Design Consulting

In keeping with renowned architectural team Herzog & de Meuron’s reputation for innovative, strikingly detailed metal and glass façades, the duo’s first New York City project called for curved, green custom glass to cover the entire surface of this exclusive, multi-story condo building. The vision was to simulate a glass skin vacuum-stretched over the vertical and horizontal façade beams, which would, in turn, lend structural support to the frame. In order to figure out exactly how to do this, Joseph Jaroff was part of a team of professionals consulted for his expertise in custom glass fabrication and cast glass and lamination techniques. Joe offered a number of ideas that were critical for the technical realization of the design and sourced the manufacturer that was ultimately able to help the architects meet the budgetary needs of the project while maintaining the sophistication of their aesthetic goals.

For the past thirty-eight plus years, Jaroff Design, under the management of founder Joseph Jaroff, has led the design, fabrication, installation and coordination of custom architectural glass and metal for the construction, architecture, interior design and art communities.

Joe received a BFA in Metalwork and Sculpture from RIT’s prestigious School for American Craft and studied Art History at Harvard University. During the time he was a student, Joe received several grants for public art projects including those from the National Endowment for the Arts and New York State Council for the Arts.

After graduating, Joe moved to New York City to pursue an art career, supplementing his income with architectural metal and glass design and fabrication work for contractors and commissioned projects. This early work led Joe to the realization that he could fill an unrecognized need within the building and arts community through blending his skill sets of designer, fabricator, coordinator and project orchestrator.

Jaroff Design has developed and realized design solutions for projects by architects such as Tony Chi, Herzog & De Meuron, Richard Gluckmann, Peter Marino, Toshiko Mori, Polshek Partnership Architects, Ennead Architects, S.O.M., Phillipe Stark, Adam Tihany, Annabelle Selldorf, Andrew Berman and The Rockwell Group among many others.

Fashion Clients include showrooms and flagship locations for Armani, Issey Miyake, Alexander McQueen, Ralph Lauren, Donna Karan, Stella McCartney, Barneys, Louis Vuitton, Van Cleef & Arpels, YSL and Chanel.

Fine dining clientele have seen JD work at Asiate, Le Cirque, The Sea Grill, 11 Madison Avenue, Bruno’s Wine Club and the Hudson Hotel Bar. Cultural clients include Jazz at Lincoln Center, MOMA PS1 and New York City Center.