- Shankman Window at Rug + Kilim, 240 East 59th St, NYC
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BACHELOR by d.a.l.e was recently chosen by the wonderful Rug + Kilim to design one of their windows on 59th street here in NYC. With great excitement we began our task and first on the list was to choose a bachelor to be the subject of our window. Immediately Peter Shankman‘s name came to mind, getting his emails from HARO, Help a Reporter Out, three times a day you can imagine he was an easy choice. When I contacted Peter, whom I had never met, his response was pitch perfect and I think quintessentially Peter ” This could be fun! “
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- Peter Shankman, social media entrepreneur
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Peter is a great subject, full of life and fun and driven to excel in all his adventures. I walked into his apartment and was taken, as most would be, by the three 52″ flat screen tv’s on one living room wall. This really is a bachelor pad. Peter says that he uses the two flanking tv’s as screens for his apple laptop and the one in the center is an actual tv. Listening to Peter is an adventure in itself, his mind works quickly and moves from topic to topic … and when we landed on his passion for skydiving he fired up his laptop and began showing me videos of several of his jumps, he has been on 250. After watching the first one I understood immediately how addictive the rush would be and in much the same way my nephew will pop off a roller coaster a bit wobbly and say “let’s go again”, it is clear that the same feeling happens post-skydive. With that I knew that we needed to have screens in the window showing Peter’s skydives.
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When the idea of the screens came up we called Larry Bedrosian of Bedrosian Media Solutions. He suggested and installed the sleek LED tv’s you see in the window with 2minute videos running continuously of Peter’s skydiving adventures.
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- Leather Lounger, Designer Maarten van Severen, courtesy of SUITE NEW YORK
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Then the work of designing the window began. We selected a very special chaise designed by Maarten van Severen in the 2006 that is exclusive to our friends at SUITE NEW YORK.
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Rug + Kilim's Shaggy Rug
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Having selected this chaise, which is slender and legs that are a bit spiky, the rug would need to be plush, super plush! in order to create the feeling of sexy, luxury and Susan Iszak of Rug + Kilim knew just the rug, their luxurious Shaggy rug.
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- vintage Reggiani Spiral Lighting Fixture, courtesy of LAS VENUS
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Wanting a slight 1960′s bachelor vibe, but not over the top, we selected a vintage Reggiani cascading fixture from the 1960′s that we found at Las Venus. The fixture creates a sense of verticality and whimsy, and adds a bit of sparkle to the window.
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- Deborah Goodman Davis Fine Art Consulting
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When thinking about the art for window I enlisted the talents of the art consultant and my friend Debbie Davis. She has an impeccable eye and she has the uncanny talent of knowing just what you are looking for even though you are not fully able to articulate it.
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- SIMON NORFOLK, Hadron Collider 3, courtesy of Bonni Benrudi Gallery
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When I described Peter and his love of technology almost immediately she sent over photographs of the Hadron Collider by Simon Norfolk. Instantly knowing this was perfect. And Debbie worked with the Bonni Benrubi Gallery to secure the loan.
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- Lasso Sculpture by SkLO
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Wandering around the first day of the New York Gift Fair, I was taken with the brilliant work of SkLO Studio. Karen Gilbert loved the idea of their work being in a window in New York, as they are based in Heraldsburg, California.
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- custom wallpaper by dale cohen designstudio
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After having fallen in love with Simon Norfolk’s Hadron Collider photos, I began to look around for scientific photos of the collider and began to play with these images as pattern. This is the product of playing around and around with some of these images creating wallpaper for the window.
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Working with Rug + Kilim installing this window and working with their product was great. They make everything easy and find a way to solve every problem. And Peter Shankman was the perfect subject for our window installation and for launching the newly re-named www.BACHELORbydale.com.
