DIANA DELGADO

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DAVID HICKS

David Hicks, MDIA, is the principal of David Hicks, an internationally acclaimed interior, building and garden design studio founded in 2002. He is assisted by a team of Interior Designers and Architects providing design experiences for private residences, residential developments, hotels, restaurants, retail stores and offices.

Hicks is known for his attention to detail and the constant evolution of his trademark; modern luxury. He is a highly regarded authority on design and is regularly called upon for speaking and judging engagements, most recently serving as a judge on the Australian Channel Nine network's Interior Design series, "Home Made".

With an eye for detail, interest in architectural space and the decorative, David has created a unique sensibility which he applies to all his projects. No two projects are the same yet all have an underlying commitment to excellence and quality.

Hicks' constant international travel and understanding of the decorative arts and furniture enables an extra edge to his design work while also providing clients access to his treasured finds. Whether it a rare antique or vintage piece of furniture or monumental ceramic urns for the garden, his discerning eye has enabled him to build up an enviable international list of contacts and suppliers.

David spent his formative years in Malaysia, growing up as an expat in Kuala Lumpur, attending the English School. Upon his return to Australia, senior study led him to his passion for Architecture and Design. After settling on a career in Design, David was accepted to study his Bachelor of Arts in Interior Design at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) graduating with honours.

David Hicks currently works Internationally and is based in Melbourne and Sydney, in Australia, and in Los Angeles, America.

MAX DUPAIN

Sunbaker 1937


At Newport 1952


Bondi 1939


Dupain received his first camera as a gift in 1924, spurring his interest in photography. He later joined the Photographic Society of NSW, and when he left school, he worked for Cecil Bostock in Sydney.


By 1934 Max Dupain had struck out on his own and opened a studio in Bond Street, Sydney. In 1937, while on the south coast of New South Wales, he photographed the head and shoulders of a friend Harold Salvage lying on the sand at Cullburra Beach. The shot, entitled Sunbaker, became Dupain's most famous piece.

However, it was not until the 1970s that the photograph received wide recognition. It was purchased in 1976 by the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra and has become an iconic national image.


LATER YEARS

During World War II Dupain served with the Royal Australian Air Force in both Darwin and Papua New Guinea as a camouflage officer. The photographs he took at this time could be separated into those that were work-related, and those for his personal collections. Dupain’s experience with the deceptive nature of camouflage during the war appears to have significantly impacted his post-war work, which can be defined by its commitment to truth and clarity.

In 1947, these feelings were reinforced when he read a book Grierson on Documentary which defined the need for photography without pretence. The catchcry was "the creative treatment of actuality". Dupain was keen to restart the studio with this new perspective and abandon what he called the "cosmetic lie of fashion photography or advertising illustration". Refusing to return to the "cosmetic lie" of advertising, Dupain said.

"Modern photography must do more than entertain, it must incite thought and by its clear statements of actuality, cultivate a sympathetic understanding of men and women and the life they live and create."

His documentary work of this period is exemplified in his photograph "Meat Queue". He used a more naturalistic style of photography, "capturing a moment of everyday interaction [rather than] attempting any social comment".

Dupain also worked extensively for The University of New South Wales[6] and CSR Limited and made many trips to the interior and coast of northern Australia.

In the 1950s the advent of the new consumerism meant that there was plenty of promotional photography for advertising and he attracted clients from magazines, advertising agencies and industrial firms. In between this he devoted time to pursue his love of architecture, and began architectural photography which he continued most of his life.

PHILIPP SCHAERER

Philipp Schaerer

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MALENE BIRGER

FRANK FEATURES

Frank Features is the passion of Kerryn Fischer and Luanne Toms. As a past editor of Elle Decoration South Africa, launch editor of Real Simple South Africa and National Geographic Traveller South Africa; Kerryn is a stylist, writer and editor whose long time collaboration with stylist, designer and creative director, Luanne, has resulted in a wealth of collaborative experience in décor, fashion, lifestyle and travel publishing. Their collective creative instinct and strong maverick eye is evident in every feature that they, and their team of stylists and writers, produce with South Africa’s top photographers.

MARIE OLSSON NYLAND

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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