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Revel In New York: Jim & Hester, Interior Designers

July 28, 2010 7:20 PM

Produced by Scott Newman and Marc Santo

Jim Walrod is a self-taught designer whose projects have ranged from designing hotels like The Standard in LA and The Thompson LES in New York, to consulting on period furniture for Ang Lee’s film, “The Ice Storm”.

In the 90′s, he co-owned a furniture store where he met and befriended Mike D of the Beastie Boys, who referred to Jim as his “Furniture Pimp” in an issue of Rolling Stone. That meeting also led to a design job with Mike’s art collecting mom, Hester, that would challenge Jim’s concept of taste and change the way he approached design forever.

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