A creative force with a flair for style and design.
I’ve designed showrooms, stores, and window displays for fashion brands, including Giorgio Armani and John Varvatos. I’ve also styled product and models for photo shoots and runways.
Additionally, I’ve created site-specific installations and floral designs for weddings and events. For a Mondrian-inspired soiree, I silk-screened prints of cereal boxes in primary colors—Fruit Loops (red), Corn Pops (yellow), and Frosted Flakes (blue)—to cover the walls of Pittsburgh’s Warhol museum.
Backstage buzzed about my sets and costumes for a revival of Tennessee Williams’ In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel, calling them "heightened," "evocative," and an "immeasurable asset.”
And my passion for vintage home decor has turned my apartments into showcases, earning features on design blogs and multi-page spreads in the books Five Flights Up and The Find.
Handcrafted
Creating Characters
If These Walls
Could Talk
Color Stories
Establishing a Mood
Tabletop Stories
Language of Flowers
Garden Pots and Plots
Exhibitions
Still Life and On-Figure Styling
Visual Essays and Interviews
The Drift
For “the lit mag of the moment” (The New York Times), I offered a brief analysis of the costumes from the 1988 film, Mystic Pizza: One t-shirt, three ways.
For Gothamist, I contributed photos of one of my favorite places—Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery—in all its autumnal glory.
For Green-Wood’s quarterly newsletter, I shared a fleeting spring moment: a snow-like drift of fallen pink cherry blossom petals on the steps of a mausoleum.
Essays and Interviews on Vintage Style and Design
Will the collapse of a plaster ceiling cure a lifelong collector of his obsessive interest in vintage bric-a-brac? (“Readers Write” in The Sun)
“Sneak Peeks”
“A Day in the Life of Master Michael Quinn”
