by Alissa Ponchione | Nov 2, 2015 | People
Ömer Acar has worked his way up the hotel ranks—from assistant restaurant manager to director of F&B to his current position as the corporate director of asset management for Western Europe at Katara Hospitality. The Qatar-based hotel owner, developer,...
by Alissa Ponchione | Nov 2, 2015 | People
What was your inspiration for the pieces in your recently opened New York exhibition, Palimpsests? I did a painting in my Biennale di Venezia exhibition where I first painted a copy of [Italian master] Titian’s ‘Pietà’ and then I painted over the top of it with...
by Alissa Ponchione | Nov 2, 2015 | People
A former human rights lawyer and executive secretary of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa, Paul van Zyl took a slight career turn in 2010 (though he is still a law professor in New York and Singapore), when he co-founded luxury fashion brand...
by Alissa Ponchione | Nov 2, 2015 | People
R. Donahue “Don” Peebles is founder, chairman, and CEO of the Peebles Corporation, the largest African American-owned real estate development company in the U.S. Its portfolio includes hospitality properties such as the Bath Club and Royal Palm South Beach in Miami...
by Alissa Ponchione | Nov 2, 2015 | People
Your projects, such as the ‘sails’ of the Louis Vuitton Foundation, express a sense of emotion and movement. What are some of the feelings you wanted to capture in Foggy, the yacht you recently designed for your friend, developer Richard Cohen? I wanted to try to...
