Favorite restaurant for design
Matsuri in New York
I think best on
Any train (provided it’s not too crowded): a landscape flying by seems to be the ideal stimulant for thought, not too distracting and not a bore either.
Guilty pleasure
Luxemburgerli cookies from Spruengli in Zurich
Greatest lesson learned
Having guts always works out for me
Hotel I love for design
21c Museum Hotel in Louisville
Recently completed A book about the culture of a big car manufacturer [BMW] that comes with a remote control and can be driven around the room
Currently working on A documentary film on my own happiness
Happiness is Finding something that’s bigger than me and dedicating my life to it
Latest billboard commission I am proud of The motorized board for Levi’s placed on Houston and Lafayette Streets in New York
Books on my nightstand The Perfect Friend by Martin Suter; Freedom by Jonathan Franzen; and Life by Keith Richards
I am inspired by People I meet who enthusiastically love to do things that are worthwhile doing
My perfect day
Getting up
at 6:00 a.m, enjoying a cigar and a large pot of coffee looking out
over the Sayan Ridge in Indonesia, going for a walk through the jungle
with my neighbor, then sketching up an idea for a chair, visiting the
local museum and figuring out which of the hundreds of wood carvers in
the neighboring village Mas would be ideal to carve the chair, discuss
the details with the carver and his family, and then go to dinner with
friends at Terrazzo in Ubud.
