JAMES RADIN - DESIGNER

James Radin interior designer to the stars including film maker Nancy Myers shot to fame after the hit movie Something's Gotta Give staring Jack Nicholson & Diane Keaton.

Myers who produced Somthing's Gotta Give in 2004 is a romantic comedy set in the Hamptons. However the movie itself was overshadowed by the set decoration and interiors selected to create the home for Erica Barry played by Diane Keaton.

James has a smooth contemporary style that fits in well with the lavish lifestyle of the Hamptons....to see more of his work James Radin.



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MANOLO VALDES

Master Spanish painter, sculptor, and printmaker Manolo Valdes was one of the founding members of Equipo Cronica, the highly influencial Pop Art group of 1906's Spain. With the death of fellow founding member Rafael Solbes in 1981, Valdes has reinvented himself as a soloist and has emerged as one of the foremost living Spanish artists.

His newly refined, expressive style is often centered on art-historical motifs, but without the political overtones and slick painting style that had characterized Equipo Cronica's work. By quoting figures from well-known works of art, he revitalizes these familiar images by taking them out of their original context. In both paintings and sculptures, he inflates the figure's size, abstracting form and minimizing detail, while incorporating a lot of roughly applied paint and unusual materials.

He lives and works in New York and Madrid

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JUAN MONTOYA -DESIGNER

Juan Montoya is thoughtful and courteous and, despite having really ‘lived’ in what many may think of New York’s Studio 54 heyday, has retained a certain reserve that seems to come from what he described as his conservative family in Colombia. His design sensibility is international and sophisticated, fed partly by his split existence between the U.S. and Paris, where he owns an apartment. His New York apartment, which he shares with his Swedish partner, Urban Karlsson, is small and serene, with little explosions of color or shape to delight the eye.
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EVA HESSE

Born in Hamburg in 1936, Eva Hesse and her family fled in 1938 to escape the fate of Germany’s Jews and settled in New York City. She was determined to be an artist from an early age, striving at first to be a painter.

She began to create startlingly original configurations that exploited the properties of cheesecloth, rubber, plastic, tubing, cloth, and other materials. Hesse achieved a level of success attained by few women of the time. By 1963 she had had her first one-woman show; by 1968 she had gallery representation.

She died in 1970 of a brain tumor. Two years after her untimely death, the Guggenheim Museum held a retrospective of her work—the first such exhibition organized around a woman.

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