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ONLINE content
ARBITERS
Questions for Stephen Knoll
A Girl's Best Friend
BON APPÉTIT
Questions for Nobu Matsuhisa
Questions for Tony Esnault
the new Le Cirque interview Iké Udé
BUSINESS OFF THE WALL
Questions for Nicholas Callaway
Questions for John Hunt
FASHION
Chinatown photography Norman Watson
Passions of Rihanna photography Iké Udé
KULTURE & ART CINEMA
Dominique Swain Lolita Has A Tattoo interview Brandon Judell
Jared Leto My Bashed-up Life On Screen interview Brandon Judell
Zoe Saldana No Regrets interview Brandon Judell
KULTURE & ART PHOTOGRAPHY
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders portraits backstage at Olympus Fashion Week interview Valerie Steele
Francesco Clemente Impermanence of The Self interview Johan Falkman
Roger Szmulewicz Looking at Pictures interview Parker Stephenson
questions for JOHN HUNT
John Hunt photography Dwayne Rodgers
click image to enlarge Name:
John Hunt.
Education:
I stayed awake just long enough to graduate with an honors degree in Economics and Public Administration from London University. Now I know better and next time I would read History or Philosophy at Cambridge.
Residence:
Manhattan — currently the greatest location on earth
Ideal Residence:
The Hacienda de San Antonio in Colima, Mexico, a gorgeous 19th century plantation beneath two active volcanoes, one always covered in ice and the other in fire. The house has a fountain courtyard, gardens like the Alhambra, a bullfighting ring, a pool to rival Hearst castle, an open air theatre and a few thousand acres of lush vegetation, riding trails, fishing streams and its own coffee plantation.
Marital Status:
Polygamous: married once to my wife and once to my work.
Vitae:
I suffer from a professional version of A.D.D. I like to make things, so I started in brand management at Procter (acquired by Starbucks), an internet consulting company (Syzygy—floated on the German stock market) and an e-commerce software company (Obongo - acquired by AOL Time Warner). I am currently building a new luxury goods brand (www.orielwines.com) and a new luxury resort in the Caribbean (www.amanyara.net). Go figure.
Your ideal dream vacation?
Sailing a Wally Yacht around the Aeolian Islands.
What’s your dream job?
For sheer pleasure it’s tough to beat my current gig making fine wines and luxury resorts, but for something more meaningful I wouldn’t mind a chance to shake up the U.N. (so long as I could have weekends off and take long summer vacations with my family).
The only reason to go to the Oscars is to walk down the red carpet and create a stir (not top of my priority list). But if I was going to do it I’d want to do it well, so I’d wear silk pajamas and a cape made of that funky new flexible video screen textile so that I could be covered in movies as I moved.
Is sartorial appearance equally as important as one’s character or substance?
Mutton dressed as lamb is still mutton…. Lamb dressed as mutton isn’t a great idea either.
Who is/are your favorite fashion designer/designers?
My favorite designers include architects Luis Barragan, Santiago Calatrava and Shigeru Ban. My Favorite fashion designers include Issey Miyake, Badgley Mischka and Zac Posen.
What is your favorite way of spending money on lifestyle?
Fine wine and travel combine handsomely; grapes only grow in great climates and great cultures then grow up around them.
Is greed a moral or political issue?
That depends upon who is being greedy. Politics balances opposing strategies while morals are about absolute rights and wrongs. Greed can be political and immoral at the same time.
What was J.P. Morgan’s legacy and why is this kind of person a rarity in today’s financial arena?
Morgan was an unparalleled financier. He helped pay off U.S. Civil War debt, he averted a banking panic in 1907 and he was indirectly responsible for the creation of the Federal Reserve. He helped build the railroads that helped build the economy that ended WWII, and he cemented New York’s global position in the art world. Wealth has now exploded, debt has become acceptable, art has been snapped up and infrastructure is well established, so it’s a tough act to follow.
If you could wear any outfit to work, what would it be and why?
Entrepreneurs are burdened by the tyranny of choice. I don’t have to wear a suit so I have to decide what to wear every day. My ideal may be standard-issue prison stripes so that I don’t have to make any unnecessary decisions. Failing this, perhaps a wardrobe of identical crisp white t-shirts and loose dark blue suits from Comme Des Garcons?
What are your favorite hangouts?
When I am feeling sociable I love breakfast by the pool on the roof at Soho House in New York, lunch at the Voile Rouge in St Tropez and dinner on the terrace of the Villa San Michele in Florence. I have to keep secret the places I like when I’m feeling reclusive but one of them would be reading by the pool at Amanyara, in the Turks & Caicos.
What would you rather be doing besides your present job?
I would rather spend less time on work and more time on family, friends and findings solutions to human problems.
Favorite Artist?
I love the work of the Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto and the American sculptor James Turrell. Both deal in concepts of time and beauty that stimulate even as they calm the frazzled mind of 21st century man.
What are the limitations of wealth?
That we might confuse it for something important in and of itself…!
John Hunt photography Dwayne Rodgers
click image to enlarge Name:
John Hunt.
Education:
I stayed awake just long enough to graduate with an honors degree in Economics and Public Administration from London University. Now I know better and next time I would read History or Philosophy at Cambridge.
Residence:
Manhattan — currently the greatest location on earth
Ideal Residence:
The Hacienda de San Antonio in Colima, Mexico, a gorgeous 19th century plantation beneath two active volcanoes, one always covered in ice and the other in fire. The house has a fountain courtyard, gardens like the Alhambra, a bullfighting ring, a pool to rival Hearst castle, an open air theatre and a few thousand acres of lush vegetation, riding trails, fishing streams and its own coffee plantation.
Marital Status:
Polygamous: married once to my wife and once to my work.
Vitae:
I suffer from a professional version of A.D.D. I like to make things, so I started in brand management at Procter (acquired by Starbucks), an internet consulting company (Syzygy—floated on the German stock market) and an e-commerce software company (Obongo - acquired by AOL Time Warner). I am currently building a new luxury goods brand (www.orielwines.com) and a new luxury resort in the Caribbean (www.amanyara.net). Go figure.
Your ideal dream vacation?
Sailing a Wally Yacht around the Aeolian Islands.
What’s your dream job?
For sheer pleasure it’s tough to beat my current gig making fine wines and luxury resorts, but for something more meaningful I wouldn’t mind a chance to shake up the U.N. (so long as I could have weekends off and take long summer vacations with my family).
Entrepreneurs are burdened by the tyranny of choice.
What would you wear to the Oscar Awards?
The only reason to go to the Oscars is to walk down the red carpet and create a stir (not top of my priority list). But if I was going to do it I’d want to do it well, so I’d wear silk pajamas and a cape made of that funky new flexible video screen textile so that I could be covered in movies as I moved.
Is sartorial appearance equally as important as one’s character or substance?
Mutton dressed as lamb is still mutton…. Lamb dressed as mutton isn’t a great idea either.
Who is/are your favorite fashion designer/designers?
My favorite designers include architects Luis Barragan, Santiago Calatrava and Shigeru Ban. My Favorite fashion designers include Issey Miyake, Badgley Mischka and Zac Posen.
What is your favorite way of spending money on lifestyle?
Fine wine and travel combine handsomely; grapes only grow in great climates and great cultures then grow up around them.
Is greed a moral or political issue?
That depends upon who is being greedy. Politics balances opposing strategies while morals are about absolute rights and wrongs. Greed can be political and immoral at the same time.
What was J.P. Morgan’s legacy and why is this kind of person a rarity in today’s financial arena?
Morgan was an unparalleled financier. He helped pay off U.S. Civil War debt, he averted a banking panic in 1907 and he was indirectly responsible for the creation of the Federal Reserve. He helped build the railroads that helped build the economy that ended WWII, and he cemented New York’s global position in the art world. Wealth has now exploded, debt has become acceptable, art has been snapped up and infrastructure is well established, so it’s a tough act to follow.
If you could wear any outfit to work, what would it be and why?
Entrepreneurs are burdened by the tyranny of choice. I don’t have to wear a suit so I have to decide what to wear every day. My ideal may be standard-issue prison stripes so that I don’t have to make any unnecessary decisions. Failing this, perhaps a wardrobe of identical crisp white t-shirts and loose dark blue suits from Comme Des Garcons?
What are your favorite hangouts?
When I am feeling sociable I love breakfast by the pool on the roof at Soho House in New York, lunch at the Voile Rouge in St Tropez and dinner on the terrace of the Villa San Michele in Florence. I have to keep secret the places I like when I’m feeling reclusive but one of them would be reading by the pool at Amanyara, in the Turks & Caicos.
What would you rather be doing besides your present job?
I would rather spend less time on work and more time on family, friends and findings solutions to human problems.
Favorite Artist?
I love the work of the Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto and the American sculptor James Turrell. Both deal in concepts of time and beauty that stimulate even as they calm the frazzled mind of 21st century man.
What are the limitations of wealth?
That we might confuse it for something important in and of itself…!
