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.

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 ...

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