Pierre Raguideau was in his mid-30s when he decided to open a gallery. As a child in the historic French city of Nantes, he’d been taken to antique shops by his parents, which “probably sparked my interest in beautiful furniture”. But it was encountering pieces by the likes of Hans Wegner, Børge Mogensen and Finn Juhl as an adult in Paris that really caught his imagination. The snag was that his then-wife was also harbouring ambitions to become an art dealer. “We decided it probably wasn’t a good idea if both of us launched our own businesses, because we needed to live.”

By Sanford L. Smith + Associates
Sep 13, 2022 · 6 min read

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By The Idea Boutique
Nov 24, 2020 · 2 min read

Story and photography courtesy of Mark Weaver and Wade Weissmann   

By The Idea Boutique
Nov 24, 2020 · 3 min read

“It turns out I love figurative things,” claims Murray Moss, when describing his first acquisition, a Royal Copenhagen porcelain statue of Leda and the Swan purchased from dealer Barry Friedman. “I’m pretty sure it was $324,” he says, adding, “I smoked an entire pack of cigarettes before I went inside to buy it.” Friedman concurs: “Moss was a very good client, would always buy something, and had good taste for someone so young.”

By Sanford L. Smith + Associates
Nov 16, 2020 · 4 min read

This spring, the Brooklyn-based lighting designer Lindsey Adelman went on a ski trip to Utah with her husband and son. They didn’t leave the western state again for many weeks. “Everything turned upside down right after we arrived,” she says of her timing, “so we stayed on and did a lot of hiking.” She also created hundreds of artworks – “I did paintings incessantly; ordered watercolor paper in bulk and used it all up” – after which she decamped to the Hamptons to complete a two-year-long evolution of a lighting collection called Paradise. By midsummer, she had also received one of the biggest private commissions of her career.

By Sanford L. Smith + Associates
Nov 16, 2020 · 8 min read

I’m writing this having just come in from the garden on a crisp, sunny day. Wrapped in a blanket, I’ve had hot chocolate and spiced carrot cake with a friend and it was, as she commented, the epitome of autumnal hygge.

By The Perthshire Magazine
Oct 31, 2020 · 4 min read

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By ELLA Inspires Magazine
Sep 7, 2020 · 2 min read