• What: AT's New York Design Meetup
• September Guest: Fritz Karch - editorial director, collecting, Martha Stewart Living
• Members: 1,146 and growing
• When: 6:30-9pm, Wednesday, September 16
• Where: Knoll Showroom, 76 9th Avenue, Floor 11, NYC
The Fall Season is upon us, and kicking it off, we've got a fabulous guest, the collecting guru from Martha Stewart, Fritz Karch. We're also going to continue doing what we started last month and cure one room a month with Group Apartment Therapy and provide time for lots of networking...
"Fritz Karch's office looks just as you might imagine. It's piled high with his latest finds, a fascinating mix of exquisite things and intriguing oddities. Ask him about virtually any vintage item, and he'll tell you the story behind it. For our collecting articles, Fritz, who started at Martha Stewart Living in 1992 and is now the editorial director of collecting, chooses topics that educate and delight. He then arranges objects related to the topics and captures their quirky and beautiful personalities in photos. Collecting is about "reusing and recycling," Fritz says. "There's so much wonderful stuff in the world." In addition to being a lifelong collector (or, as he says, "hunter and gatherer"), Fritz is a dealer specializing in twentieth-century dinnerware, among many other things. His preference, he jokes, goes toward four categories: broken, large, heavy, and useless."
Love his work, but I already like any man who can pull off that getup.
view avianmission's profile
Fritz needs to go visit the boys at GQ...
...he's making my screen vibrate!
view bepsf's profile
love his sense of humor. rock on...
view I Love Upstate's profile
Serious beard envy.
view JefferyK's profile
He's not bad with that shaggy beard and teh slightly tossled hair but my God, that getup, stripes everywhere and none of it go together except barely by color and then add in the plaid... Eccentric indeed. :-)
I DO like a guy who has a good bear or goatee or mustache anyday but the shaggy, not so much but he pulls it off alright by my standards.
He sounds like a very fun and interesting guy!
view ciddyguy's profile
Seriously? People take design advice from a man who dresses himself like this? There's quirky and then there is...um, whatever he is trying to pull off. He looks like every painting student I ever went to school with. Gah.
view Peggasus's profile
I was groovin' with the outfit until I saw the waistband was starting to curl out, exposing the white underside. Suddenly sharp & playful crossed the border to eccentric and ... shut my mouth I'm being too judgmental.
view kushkush's profile
The outfit kicks ass and is genius!
view Aulaire's profile
Anyone who doesn't understand, love and giggle over the whimsy and humor and style of this mans dress sense needs an injection of anti-venom.
He's awesome. I love a striped sheep in the flock.
view zoebee's profile
Glad to see this. I saw Fritz Karch spotlighted on Martha Stewart's site a few months back and wondered why I couldn't find out more about his style. Speaking of, isn't there beauty in looking undone? It's refreshing to see such a playful style on someone works at the empire of fussbudgetry.
view CarrieO's profile
Glad to see this. I saw Fritz Karch spotlighted on Martha Stewart's site a few months back and wondered why I couldn't find out more about his style online. Speaking of, isn't there beauty in looking undone? It's refreshing to see such a playful style on someone works at the empire of fussbudgetry.
view CarrieO's profile
This man is amazing. The outfit rocks but more importantly is his eye for collecting. Is he married?
view cheryl1's profile
Martha Stewart is a felon and should not be mentioned in AT.
view tanguera's profile
Yes, Martha Stewart is a felon and the guys who pulled down Wall Street and the economy roam free. Heaven protect us from judgments like tanguera's!
And God forbid that any felon should ever be mentioned, because if someone is a felon they are ipso facto 100 per cent evil. Dunk the witches in the pond until they tell the truth!
Back to Fritz Karch. Interesting man. He's not only good at what he does, he's good at getting along with people to have lasted at MSO since 1992 ... and it's pretty obvious he remains his own man.
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