Yurman

Evan Yurman and his wife Ku-Ling are strolling the grounds of the Amagansett estate of Evans parents, David and Sybil Yurman, when he comes across a sculpture, a sturdy pillar of two interwoven stainless steel lines that stands tall against the vast landscape.

- Erik Maza

“If it weren’t for that sculpture, I wouldn’t be here,” he says. The piece, it turns out, was made by the Dutch-American artist Hans Van de Bovenkamp, in whose studio David and Sybil met, in September 1969. The way David and Sybil tell it, in a scene straight out of Nora Ephron, Sybil had reluctantly come to the studio from Martha’s Vineyard for a job interview— she wanted to keep living on the island instead of moving to New York—when she noticed the young David, then studio manager, working on his own. “You saw me when you walked in? I never heard your story,” David says. “You never asked me!” Sybil replies.