COLLABORATION
DESIGN DNA
BRINGING IT ALL HOME
Nonagenarian architect Gerald Luss gives input on a collaborative design exhibition staged in his former home. By Rachel Gallaher Photographed by Michael Biondo ARCHITECT GERALD LUSS IS BEST KNOWN FOR HIS DESIGN OF THE INTERIORS OF NEW YORK’S TIME & LIFE BUILDING—which achieved
cultural-icon status after being used as the setting for AMC’s fictional television series Mad Men—but it is his first freestanding architectural project, a house in Ossining, New York, that is bringing him a wave of late-in-life headlines. The house, which Luss built for himself and his family in 1955 (they no longer live there), is the current site of At The 64
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Luss House: Blum & Poe, Mendes Wood DM, and Object & Thing, a collaborative exhibition featuring works by international artists and designers. Organized by art galleries Blum & Poe and Mendes Wood DM, along with art-and-design-fair platform Object & Thing, the showcase follows in the footsteps of last year’s At The Noyes House, an exhibition in New Canaan, Connecticut, that used midcentury architect Eliot Noyes’ house to display work from contemporary artists. »
FROM TOP: At The Luss House: Blum & Poe,
Mendes Wood DM, and Object & Thing. Works pictured [left to right on wall]: Lucas Arruda, Untitled (from the Deserto-Modelo series) (2020); Matt Connors, Short Tom (Tuned) (2012); [foreground]: Green River Project LLC, Aluminum Round Table and Aluminum Chair (2021); micaceous clay vessels by Johnny Ortiz (2021); glass vessels by Ritsue Mishima (2007–2012); [background]: Ritsue Mishima, Lemuria (2018); Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, Systemic Grid 124 (Window) (2019); Green River Project LLC, Aluminum and Leather Lounge Chair (2021). Architect and designer Gerald Luss.
