Thierry despont biography of michael

          Naturally curious and intellectually rigorous, Despont was known to delve deeply into the history of a place before starting a project....

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        1. Admired for work like restoring the Statue of Liberty, Despont's design legacy extends farther than the public projects he worked on.
        2. Naturally curious and intellectually rigorous, Despont was known to delve deeply into the history of a place before starting a project.
        3. Michael Goldman has been practicing architecture for over 40 years, focusing exclusively on High-End Residential projects for most of his career.
        4. Thierry Despont was an old boss of mine.

          5. Thierry Despont

          French architect (1948–2023)

          Thierry Guy Despont (19 April 1948 – 13 August 2023)[1] was a French architect, artist and designer who lived and worked in New York City.[2][3]

          During the 1980s, he was the associate architect for the restoration of the Statue of Liberty.

          He then went on to remodel the Herbert N. Straus House at 9 East 72nd Street on Manhattan's Upper East Side for the billionaire Leslie Wexner of Limited Inc. fame (a home which later gained additional notoriety as the abode of Jeffrey Epstein).[4][5]

          Among the high-profile buildings in Manhattan he had designed the interiors for are 220 Central Park South, 53W53 (the interiors of the condominiums), and the Woolworth Building.[6]

          In the early 2000s, he designed the interiors for Gordon Ramsay's restaurant, the eponymous Gordon Ramsay at Claridge's in London.

          In 2005 he did alterations to The Promenade restaurant at the Dorchester, inc