Dakota Tracht

2025 Mazda Dealer Summit

Creative Director: Alex Calle

Art Direction: Dakota Tracht

Production: Christopher Laue (Continuum Live)

In collaboration with Hidden Lemons, my work for the Spellbound Bar included the Interior Design, Art selection and framing, styling, sourcing of vintage and antique memorabilia, project management and installation of the project aboard Princess Cruises.

A fully immersive experience, guests can request a song by the self-playing piano, watch posters come alive, open the fireplace by saying a magic word, watch a magic show, and find hidden clues the mysteries of the Magic Castle.

The residential library inside of Hoyne House in Chicago’s Wicker Park is more akin to an interactive art installation. While the library houses the family’s small collection of books, the goal of this library was to act as an artistic backdrop to the family room with an open-concept kitchen.

Scope: library shelf design and art direction (inspired by Chicago’s Aqua building by Jeanne Gang), LED lighting design and sourcing, book installation design, book sourcing, installation.

This residential remodel in Chicago was a refresher to an already well-loved home. Built in the early 1900’s, the home had good bones, and the goal was to modernize it in a full remodel, re-furnishing, and decor.

Scope: interior design remodel, space planning, fabric and furniture sourcing, project management, styling, CAD drawings.

The goal of this remodel in Chicago's iconic Gold Coast neighborhood preserving the space's vintage elements, while modernizing the layout.

Scope: interior design remodel, kitchen remodel, furniture and textile selection, floor sets, styling.

The interior design of this home centered around the couple’s extensive pre-Columbian and modern art collection. Wall colors were chosen to highlight the paintings, textiles and decorative items they loved. Furniture was chosen to compliment the artwork, and add a level of sophistication to the home.

Scope: furniture layouts, fabric and furniture sourcing, kitchen remodel, project management, styling, color, CAD drawings (kitchen and bookshelves).

Utilizing proprietary photographic technology, the Woven Glass collection was created to mimic the texture of a soft woven piece of cotton.

Patterns were created in photoshop with photo data from textile samples shot in 3D macro-photography.

ViviTela brings the rich feel of textiles to glass. Using emerging digital technologies and new methods of stack printing, my goal was to re-create the physical texture of a fabric through printing. Through a process of macro-photography and digital enhancement, I was able to “weave” fabrics digitally.

Texture in the print casts shadows, mimicking textiles. This product category offers the visual softness of a textile, with the durability and cleanibility of glass.

Design Lead: Dakota Tracht

Project Management: Dakota Tracht

Production: Forms and Surfaces

https://www.forms-surfaces.com/vivitela-mesh

Textile Design and Color: Dakota Tracht

Garment / Apparel Design: Dakota Tracht

Production: Millma Bolivia (La Paz, Bolivia)

www.millma.com

Glass as a material can feel cold, and digital processes as a focal point in design can often times result in graphics that look and feel non-specific. The process of dyeing fabric yields a different result every time. Showcasing hand-processes, enhanced by digital design, I hand-dyed fabrics to scale, and used large scale scanners to capture the texture of the physical fabric. The Shibori line created a unique collection of textile-based glass designs for experimental spaces.

Design: Dakota Tracht

Project Management: Dakota Tracht

Production: Forms and Surfaces // Vivid Glass

https://www.forms-surfaces.com/vivitela-shibori

Adding texture and textiles to furniture was a collaboration between myself and Luke Martin, furniture designer at Forms and Surfaces. At Forms and Surfaces, interfacing with the furniture department meant balancing the design of my colleagues with personal expression. In 2018, we produced our first upholstered product: a collaboration with Sunbrella, where I led design of custom fabrics to pair with our standard furnishings.

Textile Design and Color: Dakota Tracht

Textile Production and Manufacturing: Sunbrella

Furniture Design: Lucas Martin

https://www.forms-surfaces.com/vaya-textile-chair

Patina color collection development: Dakota Tracht

Furniture Design: Lucas Martin

https://www.forms-surfaces.com/factor-chair

Textile and Color: Dakota Tracht

Apparel: Tamara Malas

Production: La Paz, Bolivia Artisanal Collective

www.tamaramalas.com

Design and Color: Dakota Tracht

Production: Dakota Tracht

Fully Fashioned Knitwear

100% Alpaca

Fashion collection made from hand woven and hand knitted fabric.

Wool, alpaca, silk, leather.

Design and Production: Dakota Tracht

Dip dyed and hand sewn goose feathers.

https://www.vogue.com/fashion-shows/spring-2014-ready-to-wear/marchesa#collection

Screen Prints

Pigment on Cotton