Her parents, Gabriel and Tonye, were lawyers; her mother, social and fashionable, also owned a chain of costume-jewelry stores and designed children's clothing.
For the Milan fair, he took standard shelving brackets, inexpensive and available at most hardware stores, and designed a series of clip-on accessories, including a lamp, a bench and a vase.
Mr. Zemaitis's most aggressive move at Phillips, and at Sotheby's, was his decision to promote and sell work by young living designers, whose sales outlets typically have been retail design stores and contemporary design showrooms.
Like farmers' markets and organic grocery stores, museums and design conferences tend to attract a narrow slice of the world.
He works in a lumber store and designs and builds furniture.
The heyday of Soho as an art neighborhood spanned from the mid-70s to the mid-90s, when ever-spiraling rents sent galleries packing for desolate west Chelsea, and stores, mostly fashion and design stores, took their place.
"But now, as a manufacturer, they wanted to own and operate their own stores and use design as a way of creating branding".
Soon after the Oscars on Sunday the new owners will make some changes, to both the mix of stores and the design of the complex.
SHOP If Vesterbro is the Brooklyn Heights of Copenhagen, Norrebro is the grittier Williamsburg, with its hodgepodge of antiques stores and offbeat design shops.
