Industrial designer Stephen Burks answers Curbed's 21Questions
At the risk of dating myself, I did displays for Barneys in the early ’90s. The store had these funny windows all the time and it was like you were always in Christmas-window-display mode coming up with wacky ideas. As a young student from Chicago, it was thrilling to see the inner workings of presentation and display on the scale of the Madison Avenue flagship.Warm colors attract and comfort me, so the orange, red, and yellow side of the spectrum. Terra-cotta is my favorite color of all.
. It’s a solid-oak cube with intricate joinery that must weigh 200 pounds. It’s really dumb in the simplicity of the idea, but it’s incredibly sophisticated in its execution. I remember when I brought it home, I thought,. You don’t want to talk about how much it costs or what it does. It’s become a side table that someone occasionally stubs their toe on.About 20 years ago I met Fran Lebowitz at a party. She was the most New York of all New Yorkers I’d ever met.
with Teruo Kurosaki, who discovered Marc Newson and introduced Philippe Starck to Japan. I wish I kept that good thing going.I had to sell a Lynette Yiadom-Boakye drawing during the recession. It was heartbreaking, but it kept my studio going. A friend bought it from me and he refuses to sell it back, though I don’t think I could even afford it now.I struggle with restaurants in New York. Everything is so overhyped, overpriced, and the service sucks.
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