Cool House with AMO’s Samir Bantal

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🗓️ 26 October 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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The only badge we respect. This week, the boys are coming to you live from Stone Island’s new Chicago flagship opening with the store’s designer, creative director of AMO, Samir Bantal. Samir was willing to debase himself in public to explain what exactly AMO is and how it relates to the legendary OMA, cooked Air Force 1s, disrupting architecture’s typical timeline, discovering Stone Island through Web 1.0 viral videos, what it was like creating one of the most beautiful and exciting new stores in the world, the role of retail in 2022, shouting out the middle, the global fandom of Stone Island, the most stylish and underrated cities in the world, Rem Koolhaas’ low-key comedy god status, designing stores in WhatsApp with Virgil Abloh, his surprising entry into the GOAT building conversation, foundational advice for all aspiring creatives, his grunge phase, the Hugh Hefner school of interior design and much more on this intellectual and inquisitive episode of The Only Podcast That Matters™.

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0:00.0	This is Jon and Hill and you're listening to the only podcast that matters.
0:18.4	Chicago!
0:20.3	We are joined by the Baron of Buildings, the Blueprint Prince.
0:23.8	His kidneys must be blocked because the drip is stony.
0:26.1	The Don Dot of Dimensions, the Maestro of Materials,
0:28.8	the Don Dot of Drafting, the King of Cads, he puts the Sheikin Chicago,
0:32.6	how you say bad design in Spanish, Mino Abo, the aesthetic is Copacetic,
0:36.6	he supports the Oma Omis, partner of the only bad refug with Creative Director of Amo,
0:41.7	which designed this beautiful store run tonight.
0:43.6	Samir Bontal, Samir, how the hell are you?
0:46.2	Give it up for Samir! Let's go! He's nervous!
0:50.7	I need self-doubting.
0:52.1	Yeah?
0:52.5	I need self-doubting.
0:53.2	We'll slow it down a little bit. We'll slow it down a little bit. Don't worry.
0:55.2	Samir, thank you so much for debasing yourself in public with us.
0:59.0	We normally don't talk to people of your caliber, so we appreciate you.
1:03.0	You did amazing work. The store is gorgeous.
1:06.4	The first thing you want to do, because we're in Stone Island,
1:09.2	we've got to do a fit check. Tell us everything that you're wearing.
1:12.3	Do you want to start top down or do you want to go bottom up?
1:16.1	There is a correct answer.
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