In what has become an annual tradition, Curious Objects host Benjamin Miller capped off January with a panel discussion at the Winter Show. This year’s edition was named “Catching the Bug: Enriching Your Life Through Collecting,” and featured three distinguished collectors and the objects they live by and through. The Hawkes bowl belonging to conservator Lloyd Zuckerberg, interior designer Marcy Masterson’s Italian side chair, and the Etruscan hand mirror of artist and educator Thomas Lollar provide evidence not only of the discernment of their owners, but of some twenty-five hundred years of design history.
Thomas Lollar has collected art and objects, which serve to connect him to a deeper understanding of history, since his youth. Along with being an artist, he is on the faculty of Teachers College/Columbia University. He served as Director of Visual Arts (1990–2010) at Lincoln Center in New York, and was twice an Artist/Visiting Scholar at the American Academy in Rome.
With an experienced eye for identifying new trends and with an extensive knowledge of the history of design, Marcy Masterson’s style is grounded in thoughtful historical research and traditional methods and materials—an interdisciplinary approach to creating contemporary interiors. She has particular expertise in twentieth-century modern furniture and twenty-first-century limited edition avant-garde design, as well as a strong background in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century traditional English and Continental furniture and decorative arts. Masterson’s firm, based in New York, continues to design curated interiors throughout the United States and abroad.
Lloyd Zuckerberg has a keen interest in old things, including buildings, people, and objects. He is a board member of the New York Landmarks Conservancy and Old Westbury Gardens, a member of the Institute of Classical Architecture and Art, and was deputy project manager for the restoration of Grand Central Terminal. In 2002 Zuckerberg published Jose M. Allegue: A Builder’s Legacy and Hotchkiss, The Place, an architectural history of the Hotchkiss School, his alma mater. He has degrees from Tufts University and Harvard Business School.
