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ROBERT CANBERG
RENOWNED REAL ESTATE GURU JOINS NEST SEEKERS INTERNATIONAL
By lara hilton
Robert Canberg began his career in the Hamptons residential-luxury real estate market many years ago, developing a comprehensive knowledge of the local luxury markets both east and west of the canal while specializing in luxurious waterfront properties. Born and raised on the East End, Canberg truly understands the unique lifestyle differences the Hamptons and the North Fork have to offer. This firsthand experience and knowledge have allowed him to serve all his clients at the highest level. His love for real estate motivated him to learn the family business of developing and selling highend luxury real estate. Subsequently, Canberg added commercial real estate and expertise to his skill set and personal portfolio by developing and selling both highend residential and commercial properties on both the North and South Forks. This allowed Robert to build a very large and diverse clientele base quickly.
His hard work and his unparalleled dedication and passion for his clients, along with his out-of-the-box thinking, have earned Canberg the 2018 Master Marketer of the Year Award at the annual Privet Hedge Awards in Southampton.
We sat down with Robert Canberg to learn more about what drives his passion for real estate.
Why do you love your job?
It’s really simple: I get to help my clients and make a difference in their lives. Period. There is nothing more satisfying for me than knowing I’ve made a positive impact in their lives. It’s always been and will always be about my clients, their needs, their goals, and seeing their goals through to the end. Being of service to them, laserfocused on their needs is extremely gratifying for me. When their goal is reached, nothing is better than seeing your client come back to you, smiling ear to ear, praising your hard work with a job well done. Nothing.
People love working with you and your team. What makes you different?
For starters, we think way outside the box. In fact, with us there is no box. We also do not accept the word no or the words it can’t be done. Our commitment to you is to find the yes.
Sold & Closed: 3 Halsey Farm Drive, Southampton Village, Last asking $9,495,000 Sold: 124 Dune Road, Quogue, The highest sale ever West of the Canal, $22,500,000
New to Market: 20 Cove Neck Lane, Southampton, $2,495,000 New to Market: 131 Malloy Drive, East Quogue, $1,975,000
We are a solution-driven and global team. Our creativity and marketing ability along with our global platform are truly unmatched. When you add all of that to an unparalleled work ethic and passion to serve our clients at the highest level possible, good things happen. For us, it’s being laser-focused on the needs of our clients from start to finish, doing whatever it takes to achieve their goals.
Do you have a favorite town in the Hamptons?
Yes! All of them. Each is unique in its own way and offers something different. I couldn’t pick just one.
How would you describe your work style in three words?
Relentless. Driven. Passionate.
Any fun plans in the Hamptons this summer?
Yes. I am excited to announce that we are launching our new Canberg Team Office and headquarters in the heart of Quogue Village, ideally located next to the Quogue post office so you can’t miss us. I’m also happy to announce my team has expanded across the pond into London, so I’m very excited to collaborate there and directly introduce our spectacular Hamptons portfolio to our British neighbors. It’s going to be a very busy summer and fall season for sure.
Nest Seekers International
roBert CanBerG
Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker
robertcanberg.com nestseekers.com 4 Midland Street, Quogue 631.816.0998 robertc@nestseekers.com
THE ARTIST GUY STANLEY PHILOCHE
By JaMes saloMon
Guy Stanley Philoche, Remember Your Innocence: Grumpy Bear, Mixed Media on Board Guy Stanley Philoche, No Comment Series: Kimberly T., Mixed Media on Canvas
NEW YORK CITY
Funny thing about love . . . it’s almost always complicated. We can get into family, friendship, or intimacies, but right now let’s talk about a special place, the city of New York. All cliches aside, New Yorkers know it’s not the most beautiful city, or certainly the most lovable in a cozy charming way, but they also know that New York is alive and exciting and everchanging. When I’d come home from the airport I’d get chills as I crossed the bridge into the city. I’d ask the driver to take the outer lane so that I could get the full-scale panorama as a world of opportunity.
Living and working here has been the dream of generations from all over the world, including the artist Guy Stanley Philoche, one of the millions who have made New York City their adopted home. He was three when he came to the United States with his family from Haiti, settling in Connecticut. He learned English by looking at comic books and watching cartoons on TV, artistic influences seen in his work today.
He went to the Paier School of Art in Connecticut and then to Yale. As an artist he struggled at first, but then found great success. He has an important body of work held in public and private collections.
ICONIC THINGS
Philoche was having dinner with friends who were down on New York and venting about their reasons for wanting to leave (part of New York’s cyclical nature). “I was just sitting there, listening to it and thinking What are they talking about? I went back to my studio and said to myself, ‘New York, I still love you! and let me remind them why I still love you. And that’s when I started to paint these iconic things,” said Philoche.
SUBWAY PIZZA RAT
The result is his series Painting New York With Love. The compositions are framed as Polaroid pictures with “LOVE NYC” in lipstick red on the lower right. “I chose this compositional framework because Polaroids are so nostalgic to me. Before phone cameras, you could take a Polaroid and get instant gratification with the result,” he said. “And they were fun, these little machines. The noise of the film rolling out, anyone old enough knows that noise. And I always wrote something on the bottom, where your thumbs went. So it all made sense for me.”
The series covers the icons of New York in all their high and low culture. Subway pizza rat — that adorable looking
mafia boss creature? He’s there. The black-and-white cookie is present (Seinfeld once had a great conversation with George Costanza about it). Chinese take-out containers. Famous New York artists like Warhol, Basquiat, Koons, among a couple of dozen others.
Philoche has other bodies of work, but he says this New York series feels very dear to him.
WHAT IS YOUR WHY?
Philoche has a genuine and sincere warmth, but with a no-bullshit street style. His ideas come from the right place, and love is foremost. He even spent over $70,000 buying art from emerging artists, doing this to support and encourage young artists, ever grateful for his own considerable success. For an artist who has had considerable commercial success and attention, I needed to ask, What is your why? His answer was, “Who in their right mind would want to be an artist? There are times when I wish I had a more straightforward, simpler life. It’s in your blood, it’s in your DNA. I’ve made so many personal sacrifices by being an artist, but it’s something that I have to come to terms with. I want my work to provoke, inspire love, inspire happiness.” Like all love, it’s complicated.
Philoche Studios philochestudios.com @guystanleyphiloche
SANDY COHEN
HOTTEST ARTIST ON THE MARKET
By Veda falMouth
Sandy Cohen, Compliance, charcoal, 42 in. x 60 in., $75,000
Internationally famous Hamptons artist Sandy Cohen never fails to deliver new and innovative ways to enjoy her riveting and emotional art. Every piece reflects and plays off a social construct or observation of popular culture.
Her work is known for attracting a very broad clientele. Bankers, CEOs of well-known corporations, fashion designers, film producers, hip-hop artists, royals, actors, and more. In fact, her popularity has grown so quickly over the last few years that she was invited to speak about her work at a museum. Most recently, the Stern family — NYU Stern School of Business benefactor — and others in their social circle acquired several of her paintings as investment pieces to add to their multimillion-dollar art collections. This will skyrocket the value of her work as well as establish Sandy Cohen as an artist whose name you’ll want to add to your collection while you still can.
Social Life magazine editors have been enormous fans of Sandy Cohen’s work since her early days of painting. We knew she’d make it big!
