Friday, February 15, 2008

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 […]... READ MORE

Saturday, February 9, 2008

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 […]... READ MORE

Friday, January 18, 2008

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 […]... READ MORE

Friday, December 14, 2007

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 […]... READ MORE

Friday, December 7, 2007

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 […]... READ MORE

Friday, November 30, 2007

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 […]... READ MORE

Friday, November 16, 2007

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 […]... READ MORE

Friday, November 9, 2007

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 […]... READ MORE

Friday, November 2, 2007

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 […]... READ MORE

Friday, October 19, 2007

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 […]... READ MORE

Friday, October 12, 2007

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 […]... READ MORE

Friday, October 5, 2007

Kenneth Rendell

House• October 5, 2007.

Kenneth Rendell is easily one of the world’s foremost dealers in historical letters and documents as well as the go-to expert when it comes to judging whether or not a document […]... READ MORE

Friday, September 21, 2007

Thomas Britt

House• September 21, 2007.

The exclamation point key on the keyboard was almost worn out at the end of writing up this interview because that’s how Thomas Britt talks – almost solely in exclamations and emphatic […]... READ MORE

Friday, September 14, 2007

Scott Bromley

House• September 14, 2007.

Scott Bromley is most famous for having designed Studio 54, but he has also designed a vast range of other buildings: high rises when he worked for Emery Roth & Sons, […]... READ MORE

Friday, September 7, 2007

1100 Architect

House• September 7, 2007.

You’ve definitely seen some of the work done by David Piscuskas and Juergen Riehm of 1100 Architect: the Irish Hunger Memorial in Battery Park, the MoMA store in mid-town, or the renovation […]... READ MORE

Friday, August 31, 2007

Memories of Summer

Social Diary• August 31, 2007.

By the time you’re reading this, over in London, the memorial service at the Guards Chapel in St. James’s Park marking the 10th anniversary of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales may […]... READ MORE

Thursday, August 30, 2007

Mystery of The Greystone Mansion Murders

Social History• August 30, 2007.

Greystone, the Doheny mansion which sits on the hillside above Doheny Road on the eastern edge of Beverly Hills is now a park, so named officially in 1971.When it was built,in […]... READ MORE

Friday, August 24, 2007

Michele Oka Doner

House• August 24, 2007.

Michele Oka Doner is justly known for her exquisitely beautiful public commissions such as the ‘Radiant Site’ at the Herald Square subway station and ‘A Walk on the Beach’, at the […]... READ MORE

Friday, August 17, 2007

Fairfax & Sammons

House• August 17, 2007.

Anne Fairfax and Richard Sammons live in a little house in the Village that once belonged to Armand Hammer, the flamboyant (and highly controversial) industrialist and art collector. There can’t be […]... READ MORE

Friday, August 10, 2007

Tord Boontje

House• August 10, 2007.

Tord Boontje, the designer is unusually well known. Even if you do not know his name, chances are you will recognize his distinctive, delicate, and at times, edgy work. The New York […]... READ MORE

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