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Memoirs of a Perfectly Imperfect Fourth-Floor Walk-up
New York magazine
|June 19-July 2, 2023
Alex Tieghi-Walker, founder of the gallery Tiwa Select, had just gotten his Noho apartment the way he wanted it when his lease ended.
SINCE LEAVING London in 2016, Alex TieghiWalker, founder and creative director of the gallery Tiwa Select, has lived in "a shack" in Sonoma, in a drafty barn in Berkeley (which always gave him splinters), in a house in L.A.'s Echo Park that would flood when it rained, and, currently, in New York, though no longer in this fourth-floor Noho walk-up, which he recently had to leave when the lease was up. "I think this inclination to rough it comes from growing up in a beautiful but crumbling Victorian house with no shower and chimneys that made a strange whooshing noise when it was windy," he says.
Then again, he's always been on the move. "When I was a child," he recalls, "we did a lot of traveling, and I spent my entire childhood going to archaeological sites and museums and seeing art collections and houses."
This story is from the June 19-July 2, 2023 edition of New York magazine.
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