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Masterworks of the Jazz Age architect whose residential buildings are as significant in their impact on the character of New York as the skyscrapers of Wall Street.. Known and celebrated for many of the apartment buildings on Park Avenue, Fifth Avenue, and in Sutton Place - 82 in NYC, including the storied 740 Park, sometimes called the richest and most powerful address in New York and whose famous residents included John D. Rockefeller Jr. - Candela's work is at once timeless and profoundly of its time. Classical in styling and even modest on the exterior, it is on the insides, in the apartment interiors, the floorplans, the extraordinary and frequently luxurious arrangements of rooms and space, where his designs set a standard that serves as a benchmark and aspirational goal of taste and refinement.
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David grew up in New York surrounded by taste and people talking about it, which for a young person was both a good and a bad thing (his father owned the fabric house Cowtan & Tout) . From an early age he was interested in architecture, furniture, cars, and the history of each.Since dropping out of Harvard Architecture School and founding his studio in New York in 2000, he has specialized in residential decoration in no particular style. It might be said that David's work is known for trying to bring to modernism a touch of warmth and personality, and to traditionalism young energy and a dash of the exotic. For a project to be successful he believes in the importance of getting the architecture right, but that good decoration should also be a portrait of the person who lives there. His projects have been published in Vogue, Elle Decor, House Beautiful, House & Garden, and Veranda, as well as several books.In 2002 David launched NettoCollection, a pioneering line of modern children's furniture which channeled the style and beauty of pieces from the 1930's and 50's to lift the aesthetics of a whole industry.As a writer on the history of architecture and design, from 2010-2012 he worked for Deborah Needleman as contributing design editor to the Wall Street Journal. Since her move to The New York Times he has done so for T, the New York Times Style Magazine.David Netto Design LLC is now active in LA with projects on both the east and west coasts. David lives with his wife Elizabeth and two daughters in a small but dazzling Neutra house--which started as a portrait of its owners but is now more a portrait of their children--in Silver Lake, and welcomes your interest.
