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Leonardo Ledesma: Consulting for Arts Sake
While other boys bonded with their fathers at ball games, Leonardo Ledesma’s dad took him to museums, operas, ballets and plays. This early art education would shape his destiny. During his final year at USC’s School of Architecture, he began helping his struggling artist friends by selling their work. With a passion for visual arts, he immersed himself in the local Los Angeles art scene and realized he had a gift for finding art collectors in both corporate and private spheres.
Trading designing space for enhancing space, in 1993 he founded Art Seen, an art consulting business specializing in professional art procurement. Being a success in a niche business for 17 years, Fabrik Magazine asks Leonardo, the 40-year-old affable art consultant, what it takes to make ‘art seen.’ Fabrik sits down with Leonardo and discusses the art of art consulting…
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W Hollywood
What better reasons for a party? On June 10, 2010, Fabrik Magazine and Art Seen hosted a swanky blowout at the new W Hollywood Hotel in honor of Leonardo Ledesma’s Art Seen website launch.
Under the orange glow of the LA sky, women donned the latest fashion trend of miniskirts paired with gladiator-themed heels on [...]
Carver ApartmentsAlthough Los Angeles has the highest homeless population in the U.S, the non-profit organization Skid Row Housing Trust is a major reason why homelessness is on the decline in our city. Skid Row Housing Trust (SRHT) has tirelessly endeavored for twenty years to provide permanent supportive housing to homeless people in downtown Los Angeles [...]
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A Tête à Tête with Philippe Starck
Philippe Starck
Indisputably the most famed designer of our time, French born Philippe Starck recently declared, “Design is dead.” Perhaps his era of designing toothbrushes, juicers and thousand-dollar Louis chairs is no longer but Starck design is definitely not extinct. Rather, it is exploding to a higher consciousness. [...]
Sam Nazarian’s newest Los Angeles venture, the SLS Hotel (which stands for Style Luxury Service), is the first hotel where Philippe Starck’s design is omnipresent in every detail. The Bazaar, the public open space lobby, offers shopping in the Moss gift shop, dining at Jose Andres’ four-star restaurant, socializing with friends in Bar Centro or [...]
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