Handle with Care

<p>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.</p><p><br /><br /></p>

Episode 1: Dominique Nabokov

In Episode 1, Adam and Laura visit legendary photographer Dominique Nabokov at her New York flat. Dominique’s first interior photography series was commissioned by The New Yorker in 1995, when the magazine asked her to capture “portraits” of notable New Yorkers by photographing their living rooms, but free of their residents. The result, later dubbed “interior photography portraiture,” featured the homes of Susan Sontag, Allen Ginsberg, Oscar de la Renta, Diane von Furstenberg, Joan Didion, a...

11-18
32:42

Teaser with Astrid Malingreau

For this teaser episode, Adam and Laura are joined by friend of the pod Astrid Malingreau, who spearheads design gallery Friedman Benda in Paris. The tables are turned as she interviews them to answer one simple question about Handle with Care: why do we need a podcast about interiors and decorative arts? Follow our adventures @adamcharlaphyman and @laurakugel_

11-12
20:10

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