Antoine Bootz & Chris Lehrecke

Antoine Bootz’s talents earned him simultaneous success in both fine art and commercial photography worlds. He has enjoyed many solo and group shows of his photography in his native Paris and New York City, his adoptive home. He has also worked on advertising campaigns and editorial projects with Calvin Klein, House & Garden, La Redoute and many others. Bootz has photographed for Ralph Pucci for over 20 years, including the photography for the RALPH PUCCI books, Show and Wall.

Chris Lehrecke’s talent as a designer and his exquisite skill as a craftsman have firmly established him within the New York design community. Although a member of a generation of furniture designers who came of age in the 1980s, he has pursued a stylistic direction antithetical to the highly individualistic and often intentionally provocative work that characterized much of the innovative design of that decade. Marked by clarity and restraint, his furniture exemplifies a rational yet organic approach to design. His latest “Weimar” collection, noticeably different for Lehrecke because of its strong colors, was inspired by the architecture of his youth, as built by his father, and the shapes and palette of the Bauhaus. All of his woodwork is made in his studio in upstate New York. He frequently collaborates with his wife, jewelry designer Gabriella Kiss, who fabricates bronze hardware, as on their “After the Storm” collection utilizing trees felled in storms.