Wacky, Colorful Home Promises Fun for All Ages
With a children's slide shooting down from the attic, a pair of beds that look like space pods, blue rubber floors and pink walls -- not to mention a museum's worth of contemporary art and design -- one easily could mistake the London home of Kenny Schachter and Ilona Rich for an avant-garde playground.
With a children's slide shooting down from the attic, a pair of beds that look like space pods, blue rubber floors and pink walls -- not to mention a museum's worth of contemporary art and design -- one easily could mistake the London home of Kenny Schachter and Ilona Rich for an avant-garde playground.
Schachter is known for promoting emerging artists -- he was an early champion of stars like Cecily Brown and Andrea Zittel -- originally in shows around New York, then at his own Manhattan gallery, conTEMPorary, and now at the Kenny Schachter Rove gallery in King's Cross.
An architecture aficionado, he hired the artist turned architect Vito Acconci to design his warping metal walled gallery in New York in 2002 and has commissioned Zaha Hadid to design both a retail and condominium building that he is developing on Hoxton Square in East London and a concept car that he plans to build for himself.
Wacky, Colorful Home Promises Fun for All Ages
With a children's slide shooting down from the attic, a pair of beds that look like space pods, blue rubber floors and pink walls -- not to mention a museum's worth of contemporary art and design -- one easily could mistake the London home of Kenny Schachter and Ilona Rich for an avant-garde playground.