CROBAR IMPRESARIO RETURNS Designer, nightlife impresario and Big Time founder Callin Fortis – primarily known for designing and branding the international and award-winning brand of Crobar night-clubs – is combining fashion, music, branding and architecture into one package with new company Big Time Design. View Article: [qodef_highlight background_color="#000000" color="#ffffff"]Pacha Magazine Back Issues[/qodef_highlight] View...
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COVER STORY: 6TH ANNUAL CLUB WORLD AWARDS Big Time Design wins the Best Nightclub Renovation and gets nominated for Best Nightclub Interior Design for their work on Cameo Miami. View PDF: [qodef_highlight background_color="#000000" color="#ffffff"]Club Systems Awards[/qodef_highlight]...
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COVER STORY: NIGHTLIFE'S 30 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE The iPod of nightlife might not be the perfect analogy, but it certainly matches the type of brand recognition crobar enjoys. The anticipation with which the industry awaits creators Ken Smith and Callin Fortis’ next move puts the duo on top of our list. View...
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COVER STORY: CAMEO - MIAMI'S HOTTEST NEW CLUB Cameo is the brainchild of Callin Fortis, club owner and designer (Big Time Design), and, with his business partner, Ken Smith, the force behind the Crobar clubs in Chicago, New York and Miami. View Article: [qodef_highlight background_color="#000000" color="#ffffff"]Lighting & Sound Magazine[/qodef_highlight]...
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CLUB DESIGNERS With Cameo, Chicago kingpin Callin Fortis undid his crobar creation and remade it in the likeness of the Palladium of the past. Picture Wright retrofitting the insides of Burnham & Root’s Rookery while dancing to a “dirty disco” beat. It’s the hallowed hollowing of a classic core to make...
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CAMEO, MIAMI The start of 2007 saw a new venue, Cameo, join the competitive Miami club scene. A replacement for the popular Crobar club, it is a collaboration between two of the cities most successful operators, Louis Puig; (of, among others, Space club) and the Crobar team of Ken Smith and...
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“It’s going to happen,” says designer Cal Fortis, who is sitting in a small office in the Cameo Theatre, chain-smoking Marlboro Light 100s, talking about his attempt to remake his world-famous crobar nightclub, of which he is a part owner, into a whole new nightclub that looks as little like...
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HEAVY When asked what his favorite aspect of his job is, Crobar brand Co-owner and Co-creator Ken Smith says nothing of mingling with celebrities, rubbing elbows with the greatest DJ talent on earth or knowing that his brand is on the verge of becoming internationally established. “The people,” he says. “It...
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THE CLUBS THAT CALLIN BUILT There is sociology to good nightclub design. How people move through space while they are dancing is critical. Because New York is one of the biggest melting pots in the world, we felt the way we would generate the most excitement was to create a metaphorical...
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CLUB DESIGNERS Callin Fortis and Lionel Ohayan, December 2003 crobar is one of a crop of new superclubs that have been unleashed on New Yorkers over the past couple of years. Like many of the other venues, it is located in Manhattan’s destination du soir. Chelsea, and is the third crobar...
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