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Article: Back in the studio: former film production designers Stephen Alesch and Robin Standefer abandoned Los Angeles and the silver screen for their own New York design studio.
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- Interior Design
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- March 1, 2005
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Some creative types seem to know what they want to do with their lives from the moment they're cognizant. Others, such as designers Stephen Alesch and Robin Standefer, follow a meandering path.
The two met on location in Los Angeles during production of a 1994 Judy Davis movie, The New Age. Alesch was drawing plans and supervising construction. Slanderer was the production designer. Her sets were a tour de force, partly because she borrowed 10 million dollars' worth of original pieces, by artists such as Ed Ruscha and Sam Francis to dress the movie's principal location, a clean-lined house in the Hollywood Hills. The project was a foreshadowing of the duo's ...