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Born
August
9,
1953.
Raised
in
Clark,
New
Jersey.
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Graduated
High
School
1971.
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Taught
stage
craft
in
the
Clark
Public
School
System
and
the
Union
County
Regional
High
School
System.
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Designed
and
built
sets
and
props
for
twenty-nine
full-scale
theatrical
productions
at
various
dinner
theaters
and
resorts.
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Worked
for
Arrow
Displays,
creating
and
installing
trade
shows
and
other
visual
merchandising
projects.
Eight
years.
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Moved
to
Manhattan
in
1979
and
worked
nine
months
for
Spaeth
Displays
(creators
of
animated
Christmas
windows
for
Saks
Fifth
Avenue
and
Lord
&
Taylors.)
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Began
own
firm
with
partner,
Earle
Jay
Goodman,
creating
a
10,000
square
foot
production/design
studio/showroom
facility
serving
the
retail,
hotel,
restaurant,
and
amusement
park
industries.
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Provided merchandising, store planning and attraction design and
production. Photographs of installations can be seen in our on-line Portfolio,
and a list of projects and customers can be reviewed in "Clients".
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During
this
phase
of
career,
was
published
extensively
in
books
e.g.
World’s
Best
Store
Design,
newspapers,
trade
and
general
interest
magazines,
from
Orlando
Sentinel
to
Playboy
Magazine,
and
was
interviewed
on
radio
and
television.
Was
honored
with
the
cover
feature
article
in
Interior
Design.
Selections
and
reprints
can
be
read
at "Press".
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In
1985,
design
emphasis
changed
to
Real
Estate
when
professionally
introduced
to
several
prominent
Manhattan
real
estate
developers
who
contracted
for
model
apartments,
sales
offices,
building
standards,
corridors
and
lobbies.
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In
all,
produced
nearly
two-hundred Model
Homes.
This
lead
to
doing
developers
private
residences,
and
to
private
apartments
and
homes
for
people
who
saw
the
models
and
other
customer's
homes.
The Residential
customer
list
rather
says
it
all.
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By
1995,
had
branched
into
another
area
of
specialization: Catering,
with
some
important
projects. Also
designed
and
produced
a
restaurant
that
was
still
touted
in
2003
as
the
Best
Ambience
by Zagat
Review.
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In
1997,
was
brought
to
South
Florida
by
customers,
and
decided
to
relocate.
While
still
producing
projects
in
New
York
such
as
the
Akwesasne
Mohawk
Casino
in
1999,
currently
enjoys
living
and
working
in
sunny
Florida.
