Architect James Wines answers Curbed's 21Questions
Photo-Illustration: Curbed. Photo: Courtesy James Wines New York’s “21 Questions” is back with an eye on creative New Yorkers. James Wines is the founder of SITE, an architecture-and-environmental-arts firm known for BEST Products’ postmodern retail stores, Shake Shack’s Madison Square Park outpost, OFF-WHITE boutiques in Tokyo and Gwanggyo, and 1980s fashion designer Willi Smith’s showrooms.
Posters, mainly, because the room gets flooded with light. Some are about SITE’s early work and promotions for lectures. I probably have a couple hundred posters from different places I’ve lectured. My drawings are very delicate, so they’re hung in darker parts of the apartment.I actually had a very successful early career as a sculptor. I was doing public art. I called it “plop art,” for art in a plaza, and that was the beginning.
I’m not really a collector. I would love to be one, if I could afford it. I have an early Claes Oldenburg drawing, but that’s about it.Robert Rauschenberg, whom I admired tremendously for his inventiveness — I would say he’s the artist I admire most. I had relatively few interactions with him when SITE designed an interior renovation for his studio at 381 Lafayette St. The design wasn’t that innovative because he wasn’t that into architecture.
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