Tim Street-Porter

2 months ago | curbed.com | Tim Street-Porter |Wendy Goodman

In the 1980s, graphic and furniture designer Dan Friedman began living what he called “a double life.” A pioneer of postmodernism, he’d become a regular among downtown galleries and clubs; his friends included such artists as Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Kenny Scharf and photographer Tseng Kwong Chi. But by day, he consulted with corporate clients; for around 20 years of his life, he lived not in a bohemian Soho loft but on Fifth Avenue in a classic white-brick West Village co-op.

Nov 17, 2024 | worldofinteriors.com | Tim Street-Porter

When The World of Interiors featured Tony Duquette’s Malibu home, known as Sortilegium, in 1997, his beloved estate, visited by everyone from Greta Garbo to the socialite Doris Duke, was just a memory. Antique Venetian gondolas, Georgian shop fronts from Dublin, windows from Garbo’s guest-room, treasures from the MGM studio backlot where Duquette had worked as a set designer – all these had been reduced to ashes four years earlier by the Green Meadow wildfire.