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by Adam Charlap Hyman and Laura Kugel
A podcast by interior designer Adam Charlap Hyman and antiques dealer Laura Kugel, featuring guests who are usually irreverent, often idiosyncratic, and always experts in their corner of decorative arts and interior design. Loosely defined, the field becomes a springboard for conversations spanning art, design, collecting, antiques, theatre, architecture, history, and photography. While the topics may vary, each conversation possesses the same emotional and ideological core: to interrogate the forces that drive our material culture.
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- Yesterday39 min
Episode 13: Suzy Slesin
In Episode 13 of Handle with Care, Adam and Laura speak with Suzy Slesin, writer, editor and publisher. Throughout her incredibly dynamic career, Suzy served as the Director of Communications and Advertising Manager at Knoll, an editor and writer at New York, Esquire and House & Garden magazines, Managing Editor of Industrial Design Magazine, Editor-in-Chief of HomeStyle, then Editor of O at Home, an Oprah magazine, and for 17 years, she was an editor and reporter for the Home Section of ...
- Sep 28, 202631 min
Episode 12: Mitch Owens
In Episode 12 of Handle with Care, Adam and Laura speak with design historian, editor, and writer Mitch Owens on the occasion of the release of the September/October 2026 issue of The Magazine ANTIQUES, for which Adam served as Guest Editor. Mitch, once the Editor in Chief of this paper of record for collectors, has also held senior positions at The World of Interiors, Architectural Digest, and ELLE Decor during his impressive career. Highly respected within the world of decorative arts and...
- Jul 2, 202634 min
Episode 11: Ralph Rucci
In Episode 11 of Handle with Care, Adam and Laura meet the great couturier, Ralph Rucci, who founded his company Chado Ralph Rucci in 1994. Rucci was the first American designer in more than 60 years to be invited to show in Paris by the French Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture, then showing his collections for the next five seasons. Recording from his Upper East Side apartment lined with plate glass mirrors, and simultaneously perusing the scrapbooks he makes after each collection, Ralph...
- Jun 18, 202639 min
Episode 10: Lucas Zwirner
This conversation with Lucas Zwirner was recorded on the occasion of "Set in Stone", the collaborative exhibition between David Zwirner and Galerie Kugel, which closes on June 26th. In this episode, Adam speaks with Lucas and Laura about growing up in major art-dealing families and why family galleries continue to thrive in the art market. The conversation also explores whether taste can be inherited, the role of art books in our increasingly fast-paced world, and how one should cultivate t...
- May 7, 202633 min
Episode 9: Felix Burrichter
In Episode 9 of Handle with Care, Adam and Laura speak with the brilliant Felix Burrichter: curator, editor, publisher and founder of PIN—UP: The Magazine for Architectural Entertainment, a first of its kind publication where Felix now serves as Editorial & Creative Director. Recorded ahead of PIN—UP 40, the Spring/Summer 2026 Issue and the magazine’s 20th anniversary, Felix discusses the early days of PIN—UP, what it is like to create each issue from scratch, his collaborations with gues...
- Apr 30, 202636 min
Episode 8: Marie-Anne Derville
In Episode 8 of Handle with Care, Adam and Laura meet interior decorator, furniture designer, scenographer, and friend of the pod Marie-Anne Derville, who has in recent years become one of the most interesting and widely followed decorators in the industry. Over tea in her wonderful apartment in the centre of Paris, they explore her distinctive and intuitive way of approaching interior decoration and her own practice. Marie-Anne discusses her early days in the world of design alongside Pierr...
- Apr 23, 202632 min
Episode 7: Louis Bofferding
Episode 7 of Handle with Care is really the show’s pilot. Adam and Laura interviewed Louis Bofferding over a year ago, in his fabulous Manhattan treasure trove. Louis is a dealer in art and design, an art historian, and an inimitable storyteller. He specializes in the lesser-known or forgotten stories of artworks and has a rare ability to set the scene and transport you back to the moment an object was made. The trio discuss the cornerstone topic of provenance, not from a legal perspective b...
- Mar 5, 202633 min
Episode 6: Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn
In Episode 6, Adam and Laura visited Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, founder of Salon 94 and Salon 94 Design, at her home on 94th Street — configured as part gallery, part entertaining space, and part family home. In her beautiful living room, surrounded by a painting by Julie Mehretu, a table by Diego Giacometti, a steel bow stool by Maria Pergay, and a whimsical ceramic gourd by Taxile Doat, they discussed Jeanne’s views on cross-collecting, the need for a renewed generation of design patrons, an...
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A podcast by interior designer Adam Charlap Hyman and antiques dealer Laura Kugel, featuring guests who are usually irreverent, often idiosyncratic, and always experts in their corner of decorative arts and interior design. Loosely defined, the field becomes a springboard for conversations spanning art, design, collecting, antiques, theatre, architecture, history, and photography. While the topics may vary, each conversation possesses the same emotional and ideological core: to interrogate the forces that drive our material culture.
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