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Jordan & Paul Ferney
New York, NY
NEW YORK,
NEW YORK
What do you get when two people who each grew up with artist parents meet, fall in love and build a life together? The crazy-colorful, art-filled NYC home of Jordan and Paul Ferney. From her mother, Jordan learned clever ways to create cheery spaces without spending a...
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Marie Cox
Raleigh, NC
RALEIGH,
NORTH CAROLINA
When Raleigh resident Marie Cox began collecting art in 2013, she was an only child, or so she thought. Last year, more than any new art acquisitions, the discovery of hidden branches of her family tree — four siblings she didn’t know she had! — rocked her...
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Dustin Patrick Smith & Burton Buffaloe
Raleigh, NC
RALEIGH,
NORTH CAROLINA
A recent YouTube video for Raising Buffaloes, the family vlog Dustin Patrick Smith and his husband Burton Buffaloe launched this summer, finds the handsome Raleigh couple en route to “test drive an Alpaca.” What the less imaginative among us might call a tour of a local...
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David Agger + Kalah Espinoza
San Francisco, CA
SAN FRANCISCO,
CALIFORNIA
In the early stages of California couple Kalah Espinoza and David Agger's art collecting journey, proximity was paramount. For David, it began with on-the-job exposure to multiple genres of art while working at art auction house Butterfield & Butterfield. Even closer to home, he started collecting work...
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Tift Merritt
Raleigh, NC
RALEIGH,
NORTH CAROLINA
Nothin fancy, Nothin fake / Nothin wasted and no deal to make / What you need is what you want to take / And what you take, you use. Though Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Tift Merritt was probably not writing about collecting art in her song Sweet Spot, those lyrics do...
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Anna & Amir Barzin
Chapel Hill, NC
CHAPEL HILL,
NORTH CAROLINA
Collector and commercial photographer Anna Barzin has almost convinced herself that she’s not a real artist, but we have discriminating evidence to the contrary. To start, the way she captures light in her portrait work is beyond masterful. And from the ‘takes one to appreciate one’ category, in...
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Nick Olsen
New York, NY
NEW YORK,
NEW YORK
Nick Olsen's final project in architecture school was a media center shaped like a life-size wedding cake, complete with real icing and plastic columns. The in-person critique included words like ‘failure’ and ‘waste of a college education,’ but the silver lining was the push it gave him...
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