Curator Nu Nguyen
Base partner Geoff Cook met Nu Nguyen through a mutual friend in New York City. Since then, he has heard her described several times as “that good looking Asian girl who walks around with Michael Ovitz at openings.” Ha. What little they know about the razor-sharp curator to the Ovitz collection … more
Photographer Michael Mundy
Base partners Geoff Cook and Dimitri Jeurissen met photographer Michael Mundy over a decade ago and have over the years collaborated with him on commercial and personal projects. After several run-in’s around the neighborhood, we thought it was high time for an interview!
Base: First of all, tell us a bit about yourself. What is your background? Where are you from and what was your life like growing up?
Michael Mundy: Just a kid from New York. I’ve been told I was a bit wild but mainly had a lot of fun. … more
Cameron Platter
Partner Geoff Cook stumbled upon Cameron Platter’s work on his gallery’s website (whatiftheworld in Cape Town, South Africa, which also represents Base fave Dan Halter). Aside from opening a new show at the gallery, helping his wife to deliver a premature baby by emergency c-section, renovating his house, Platter amazingly found time to deliver an insightful and often comical interview with us.
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Cameron Platter
Base Partner Geoff Cook stumbled upon Cameron Platter’s work on his gallery’s website (whatiftheworld in Cape Town, South Africa, which also represents Base fave Dan Halter). Aside from opening a new show at the gallery, helping his wife to deliver a premature baby by emergency c-section, and renovating his house, Platter amazingly found time to deliver an insightful and often comical interview with us.
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Eva Jeanbart-Lorenzotti
Eva Jeanbart-Lorenzotti first met Base partner Geoff Cook years ago when her company, Vivre (previously named L’Art de Vivre), was known as a niche catalog. Today the catalog has moved online and Eva herself has become a respected, international arbiter of style. We sat down with Eva to discuss fashion, her personal style, and what it takes to run a luxury company in today’s competitive environment.
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Eva Jeanbart-Lorenzotti
Eva Jeanbart-Lorenzotti first met Base partner Geoff Cook years ago when her company, Vivre (previously named L’Art de Vivre), was known as a niche catalog. Today the catalog has moved online and Eva herself has become a respected, international arbiter of style. We sat down with Eva to discuss fashion, her personal style, and what it takes to run a luxury company in today’s competitive environment.
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Sanaz Azari © Sébastien Reuzé
Read this interview in English.
Sanaz Azari, qui vient de réaliser son premier film, a reçu le Grand Prix du Public au Festival International de Cinéma de Nyon 2010 pour son documentaire Salaam Isfahan. Perçu comme une investigation personnelle dans la relation qu’a Sanaz avec l’Iran, où elle est née, Salaam Isfahan a été tourné, par pure coïncidence, lors des élections iraniennes de 2009. Tout le long du film, les événements se déroulant suite aux élections influencent inévitablement celui-ci et donnent lieu à une seconde histoire. Sanaz nous a accordé un peu de son temps pour nous parler de ce premier film et de ses futurs projets.
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Jesse Sugarmann in his Plymouth Voyager
Jesse Sugarmann loves cars. Always has. In his 20 years of driving, more than 100 cars have passed through his hands. Imports and domestics, sedans, wagons, coupes, campers, trucks… It’s a revolving door of (almost exclusively used) vehicles. He’ll buy a car, drive it around for a while, see what it can do and can’t do. At any given time he’s the shepherd of upwards of eight ’mobiles, juggling parking and maintenance and registrations, and deciding each day which one to drive as if it were pants.
But autos for Jesse are more than an accessory or way to go places; they’re objects with distinct personalities, machines you get to know. Each car is born out of its own set of circumstances and considerations and into its own unique existence. Each feels, looks, smells, and sounds differently and acts and reacts in its own way. Each comes equipped with its own personal history and larger context. Each is a time capsule and a doorway to a different experience, and a unique way of seeing and interacting with the world.
In Jesse’s video work he often uses the auto wreck as an entry point to these considerations. But rather than these cars being in a wreck due to being in the wrong place at the wrong time, Jesse places them in artificially precarious positions then restores them to their appropriate spaces. … more
