In particular, they wanted to develop a new art collection and asked us to design a house that would allow them to do that-without knowing what the art was yet, because the architecture itself would help guide them in collecting and then displaying the art. We recently designed a new house for a couple who are art collectors. Goldstein spoke to Skolnick about what art should do in a space, what drives him crazy about other people's houses, and why artists tend to have the messiest collections. To find out more about what goes into the perfect setting for a major art collection, Artspace editor-in-chief Andrew M.
It's a rarefied process that has entailed traveling with the couple to art fairs, with an interior designer and art advisor in tow. Lately, Skolnick-who has also designed more than 60 museum spaces around the world-has been working on a beach home for one of America's top collecting couples, both building the residence and helping them build their collection. Among his clients are the artist power-couples Eric Fischl and April Gornik and Susan Rothenberg and Bruce Nauman he has also built homes for the legendary critics Robert Hughes and Robert Rosenblum. Many of his projects can be found along the breezy shores of Long Island, where he is a part of an entrenched art scene that stretches back to the days of Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock.
The architect Lee Skolnick is hotly pursued by some of today's biggest collectors and most acclaimed artists, largely for a simple reason: he designs buildings that are expressly tailored to the ideal display of art.
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