DANIEL LIBESKIND
"Daniel was one of the clients that I was most proud of conquering, since it was his look, as an architectural genius, that delighted me with my work - which for me is a great honor.
At an exhibition of my jewelry at BistroMAC, inside the Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC), my wife Gabi attended and noticed that two people accompanied him helping him in the translation of my brochure and other things. He looked exotic, in a completely black outfit and his blond hair stood on end.
While Daniel analyzed the pieces, the woman who was with him asked Gabi about them. He stopped for several minutes at each exhibitor. Daniel later stated that he was interested in some of those jewels. Curious about the figure, my wife asked who he was because he had not yet recognized him and heard the answer promptly: this is Daniel Libeskind - who was anonymous in Brazil to personally know the works of Oscar Niemeyer. Then she quickly called me and told me who was at the exhibition looking at my pieces and for a moment I couldn't believe it. Even more surprised and honored to hear that he had separated fourteen pieces!
He chose the pieces he liked for himself, his wife and wife, asked who the jewelery artist was and asked to have them delivered to the hotel where he was staying, in the city of Rio de Janeiro. The motoboy was accompanied by a security guard and took, next to the jewels, a letter of his own hand signed by me, emphasizing my admiration for the artist and the honor that it was to acquire my work.
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We had no further contact and he continued his journey through Brazil, passing Niemeyer's monuments. This day was immortalized in my memories. "
- Bruno Latini
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ABOUT DANIEL
" Daniel Libeskind, born on May 12, 1946 in Lódź, Poland, the son of Holocaust survivors, is an architect who became an American in 1965. He is a student in the 1965 class (1965 alumnus) of the Bronx High School of Science. He has lived in Berlin with his wife Nina and their three children since 1989. His architecture uses a language of imposing angles, intersecting geometries, fragments, voids and lines in an exuberant way. He was the architect of several museums and galleries, including the Jewish Museum in Berlin, the Felix Nussbaum Museum in Osnabrück, the Imperial War Museum North in Manchester.
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He developed the project for the One World Trade Center (formerly known as Freedom Tower), the central tower of the new World Trade Center complex, which is under construction at Ground Zero. "