“I’ve always had a strong passion for architecture,” says Breck Dangler, who grew up in the Islands and traveled the world before launching his own successful building firm on Maui in the late 1970s. Over the next several years, he installed hundreds of kitchens. When the time came to add design services to his portfolio, he found it a natural progression. “That practical knowledge of all aspects of construction comes into play when design has to integrate into the actual project,” Dangler says.
Karl D. Gottling ASID Industry Partner's attention to detail is evident at his interior design and antiques showroom, Gottling Ltd., in Maui's Wailuku town. A collection of stone statues has just been removed for shipment to the mainland, and the empty space they left is causing him concern. “It's distracting me,” he laughs, clearly conscious of appearing obsessed as he moves to rearrange some items into the statues' place. “I have to fix it.”
The Waikïkï War Memorial Natatorium (as it is now known) had its origins in the Roaring Twenties. During this high-flying era after World War I, everyone wanted to forget all about combat and carnage. On the mainland, flappers (girls) and hep cats (boys) enjoyed jazz, the Charleston (a dance), and fashionable cigarette smoking. On the Islands, and indeed across America, a craze for natural-water swimming was taking hold.
Over the past year or so, "going green" has become a very big social trend, and also very big business. By now, almost every type of commercial entity from hybrid-powered automobile manufacturers to non-toxic cleaning product sellers are loudly proclaiming themselves part of the "Green Revolution."
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Karl D. Gottling ASID Industry Partner's attention to detail is evident at his interior design and antiques showroom, Gottling Ltd., in Maui's Wailuku town. A collection of stone statues has just been removed for shipment to the mainland, and the empty space they left is causing him concern. “It's distracting me,” he laughs, clearly conscious of appearing obsessed as he moves to rearrange some items into the statues' place. “I have to fix it.”
The Waikïkï War Memorial Natatorium (as it is now known) had its origins in the Roaring Twenties. During this high-flying era after World War I, everyone wanted to forget all about combat and carnage. On the mainland, flappers (girls) and hep cats (boys) enjoyed jazz, the Charleston (a dance), and fashionable cigarette smoking. On the Islands, and indeed across America, a craze for natural-water swimming was taking hold.
Over the past year or so, "going green" has become a very big social trend, and also very big business. By now, almost every type of commercial entity from hybrid-powered automobile manufacturers to non-toxic cleaning product sellers are loudly proclaiming themselves part of the "Green Revolution."
