“This is a pretty humble desk, a hand-me-down, from Ikea I think. It’s probably meant to be a kitchen table, though it’s solid, like a butcher’s block. I have a little ode to the Yale Center for British Art in the center of the wall: a water spaniel by George Stubbs; a horse called Pumpkin [...]
“My studio is opposite a park in the east Willamsburg…I usually bike there with my dog Sprout in the basket. My husband Bill has a studio in the same building, when we are lazy or it’s too cold or hot we drive our white Volvo Snoopy up there. My favorite thing about my studio is [...]
“This is my desk at home. It’s an illustration that I commissioned from Mikey Burton for last year’s f8 Conference.” “This is the Facebook Analog Research Lab—as viewed from the entrance. The lab is about 3 blocks from my apartment in a warehouse next to one of Facebook’s office buildings.” “This is the dark room of the lab [...]
“My study is my apartment in Brooklyn–it’s the furthest room from the front door. We live on the fourth floor and I look out onto our pink fire escapes, the building across the street and a sliver of Bartel Pritchard Square (which is actually a circle). It’s usually a bit of a mess—mostly it’s full [...]
“The studio for me has always been a second bedroom of a regular home. I’ve never had what one thinks of as an “ARTIST’S STUDIO.” Once working in a suburb of Houston, Texas, I am now in the Los Angeles area. This studio is new to me. I have a piece in-progress that I started over [...]
Duncan Quinn (DQ) is amoung a handful of people responsible for the resurgence of men’s tailoring in the USA. Although Duncan hails from London, his formative years were spent learning about life in the South of France. Past and present DQ devotees include alt rockers Green Day, LeBron James, Sean Combs, Adrian Grenier and other celebrities. Quinn continues [...]
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