About

I first walked into my future employer’s home at 15. She was a retired painter and art educator; her late husband, a Merchant Marine chief engineer, had spent years bringing home shipping containers of objects from around the world.

Their 1880s, thirty-room mansion was overflowing with European glass, Asian porcelain, carved African sculpture, and textiles from India and the Pacific. I was lucky to spend four days a week there for the next three years.

By the time I began selling art and antiques in the early 2000s, I was already working as a graphic designer. School had trained my eye to see how form, color, texture, and craftsmanship—even small deviations within—shape our emotional responses.

Over time, I realized I’m most drawn to objects that align with that design sensibility and sit just outside the conventional. When those overlap, the result can is magical—something you feel instantly, whether it’s a stray-bristle brushstroke or a perfectly placed (accidental) gash.

I’m grateful for the collectors, scholars, and fellow dealers who’ve supported me, and proud of what this practice has become: sometimes great, sometimes weird, always rooted in that magical overlap.