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HYLAND firm, and by 1981 he had designed his first restaurant, marking the beginning of a life defining the job description of a restaurant and hospitality space designer. Developing as a designer in Milan, at a time when there was little opportunity to design, formed the groundwork of Tihany's deep understanding of innovation and detail. In need of work, Italian designers would take on every aspect of a project, no matter the size. From packaging to advertisements, it was the control over the details surrounding the design that ultimately contributed to the more powerful finished product. "People would ask me: What do you design? And I would say: What do you have? Tell me the problem, I'll give you a solution. What are you, they'd ask: an interior designer, an architect, a product designer, a graphic designer, a fashion designer? You can't be all of these things." Tihany is, in fact, all of these things. Behind the designer is yet another designer and though similar, all dimensions of Adam Tihany are unique and equally inspiring. In 1997, Tihany inspired many New York socialites when he assisted Sirio Maccinoi in moving the celebrated Le Cirque restaurant from East Sixty-Fifth Street to The Villard Houses in the New York Palace Hotel. The Villard Houses were built in the late 1800s and have been a designated historical landmark since 1968. Well preserved by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, the building and