Beauty & Mischief: The Design Alchemy of Blackman Cruz

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With a keen eye for evocative design, Adam Blackman and David Cruz have been delighting audiences in their Blackman Cruz showroom with their passion for acquiring showstopping furniture, lighting, decorative arts, artifacts, and iconography for over thirty years. Gravitating toward the rare, dramatic, and playful, these purveyors of "life enhancers" create environments with objects that captivate with their multisensory design aesthetic and unusual provenance. With a design ethos that runs the gamut from operatic to telenovela, their pieces are rarely perfect but always entertaining. From a pair of chairs from Al Capone's retreat to a rare 1930s Arturo Pani desk to the one-of-a-kind creations of designers such as Carlo Bugatti, Jos "Pepe" Mendoza, Mike Diaz, Lika Moore, Jane Hallworth, and Gianni Vallino, among others, Beauty & Mischief showcases the merchants' predilection for the quirky and the quintessential, inviting readers to indulge their senses and curate their own spaces.

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Adam Blackman and David Cruz are the creative driving force behind Blackman Cruz, the Los Angelesbased gallery and showroom. They both live in Los Angeles.
Stacie Stukin is a freelance arts and culture journalist. She has written for publications such as the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, National Geographic, Architectural Digest, and W magazine, among others. She lives in Los Angeles.
Ryan Murphy is a six-time Emmy-winning television and film writer, director, and producer. His work has also garnered two Grammys and a Tony, and he is the recipient of the Carol Burnett Television Achievement Award. Murphy lives in Los Angeles.