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House• March 28, 2008

Steven Steinberg

Steven Steinberg is the owner of a New York Central Art Supplies, which, for artists, is a New York institution, if one can call a store such a thing. The business was started by his grandfather in 1905 and it has been in the family ever since. Even if you are not an artist, there is […]...

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Eva Zeisel

House• March 14, 2008.
Eva Zeisel was born in 1906 in Hungary and grew up to become a world-renowned designer, initially working with ceramics, but later on working with all kinds of other materials, including glass, textiles, metal and wood. She might say, though, that her favorite material is ‘air’, the medium in which she first ‘sees’ the form of […]... READ MORE
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Gisue Hariri

House• February 15, 2008.
Gisue Hariri and her sister Mojgan, came from Iran to the United States in the 1970s to study architecture and now run their own highly successful firm, Hariri & Hariri-Architecture. Totally unafraid of the highest of high technology, one of their best-known projects was their Digital House, a ‘conceptual project’ where dinner can be prepa... READ MORE
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Philip Gorrivan

House• February 9, 2008.
Over the course of all our interviews with interior designers we have been struck by the long hours they keep and how incredibly hard they work, and although he wasn’t complaining in the least, Philip Gorrivan has the extra responsibilities that come with having two school-age children, a daughter aged eight and a son of five. Add […]... READ MORE
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Ellen Graham

House• January 18, 2008.
A photographer all her life, Ellen Graham has met and photographed the beautiful people of the latter half of the twentieth century. How gorgeous they were. And so many of them! Flipping through the proofs of her forthcoming book, with the somewhat bittersweet title ‘The Way We Were’, we were hard pressed to name the Warren Beattys, […... READ MORE
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Scott Salvator

House• December 14, 2007.
Interior designer, Scott Salvator landed the tricky job of re-doing one of New York’s most beloved night spots, the Café Carlyle, and acquitted himself admirably in pulling off the feat of ‘bringing it into 2007 whilst maintaining 1955’, which was when it was added to the Carlyle Hotel was an intimate cabaret venue featuring legendary perf... READ MORE
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Hunt Slonem

House• December 7, 2007.
Walking off the street at the blasted heath end of West 10th Street into Hunt Slonem’s studio space (if one can call 89 rooms a studio space) was a bit like that moment in The Wizard of Oz when Dorothy and the gang step into glorious Technicolor, and it’s slightly unsettling. Walking through each room is like […]... READ MORE
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Rufus Albemarle

House• November 30, 2007.
Rufus Arnold Alexis Keppel, the 10th Earl of Albemarle, is known socially as Rufus Albemarle, very posh, very tall, sort of bows and air kisses your hand (if you’re female) when he meets you … oh … with one of us being British and one of us being a seen-it-all New Yorker, we couldn’t help but […]... READ MORE
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Kenny Lane

House• November 16, 2007.
We got the impression that famed jewelry designer Kenny Lane didn’t particularly enjoy being interviewed by us—but then, when we said we were done, he seemed to want to go on, so we’re not sure. He was wittily defensive for the most part, with only occasional glimpses of the warmth and charm for which he is known. […]... READ MORE
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Paula Scher

House• November 9, 2007.
Paula Scher is a graphic designer whose work you have probably seen on a regular basis all over New York, logos (Citi), posters for big shows (Bring in Da Noise, Bring in Da Funk) as well as hundreds of other designs that make up the visual static of our city. She is also an artist, painting […]... READ MORE
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Harry Benson

House• November 2, 2007.
A joy it was to interview Harry Benson, the photographer who has spent a lifetime documenting the huge stories, the big-name people as well all the crucial no-name people whose story in pictures can sometimes change a whole perspective. A true son of Glasgow, he came to the States in 1964 to follow the Beatles on their […]... READ MORE
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Dakota Jackson

House• October 19, 2007.
One of the interesting things about this job is that we never really know what we are going to end up talking about with our interviewees. Dakota Jackson was a case in point because we thought we were going to be mainly talking about furniture design and ended up talking about magic—and a love of plumbing. A […]... READ MORE
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Deborah Buck

House• October 12, 2007.
Deborah Buck, owner of the eclectic Madison Avenue store Buck House, as well the adjacent gallery, is gregarious and sunny, a happy person who knows how lucky she is. She started out as a painter and still has a little studio in her apartment, but she also said that she finally gave herself permission to do […]... READ MORE

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