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Photography: Kat Teutsch, Styling & Art Direction: Studio Marcus Hay

Main Photo: Photography: Kat Teutsch, Styling and Art Direction: Studio Marcus Hay

People are always asking us where did you get that amazing prop in that shot, I want it!, Where can I find it? The Get the Look sections on http://www.studiomarcushay.com in the Color and Trend Forecasting sections come to your aid, It's here we profile some of our more popular shots and dish the dirt on where to shop for the same or the like. 

From our very popular New York Stories series comes the image of one of our lovely ladies, Wren Sakura's bedroom, With a trending palette of red, mint and blue/gray. This story was shot with the intention of reflecting Wren's love of bird watching, Shop our guide to find out where we sourced the key pieces that make up this shot.

This shot was photographed by the wonderful Kat Teutsch. 

Get the Look!/ Studio Marcus Hay

Main image: Photographed by Jim Bastardo, Stylng: Studio Marcus Hay

Main image: Photography: Kat Teutsch, Styling and Art Direction: Studio Marcus Hay

New to our Color & Trend Forecasting section on www.studiomarcushay.com, We have a small feature that pops up every now again within the section on the website called Get The Look, It's purpose is to highlight some of the key items that are featured in some of the more popular Studio Marcus Hay images. We often get a lot of emails out of the blue asking us where we sourced certain items, Hopefully in this case this section will help those writing to ask us.

At Studio Marcus Hay we love to create a narrative to as many images as we can, A story behind an image is always captivating even if subtle. Our top Get The Look featured here was shot for a recent Design Within Reach catalog,This time it was a Studio Marcus Hay favorite: Doris Day who inspired the look for this image featuring Muuto shelving. This look is particularly inspired by her show The Doris Day Show that ran from 1968-1973. We wanted to capture Doris's spirit within our scheme for the shot with a sunny and innocent 
interpretation of an entryway complete with Doris's bike and head scarf.

The second Get The Look is from our New York Stories series, You can see more here. It's part of the Edna Indigo Greenleaf series. A lover of botanical, Edna resides in the West Village. 

Look out for more Get the Looks in the future at www.studiomarcushay.com   

New York Stories/ Red and Mint Color Trend/ Wren Sakura

Photography: Kat Teutsch, Styling and Art Direction: Studio Marcus Hay

Photography: Kat Teutsch, Styling and Art Direction: Studio Marcus Hay

Photography: Kat Teutsch, Styling and Art Direction: Studio Marcus Hay

Photography: Kat Teutsch, Styling and Art Direction: Studio Marcus Hay

Photography: Kat Teutsch, Styling and Art Direction: Studio Marcus Hay

Photography: Kat Teutsch, Styling and Art Direction: Studio Marcus Hay

Photography: Kat Teutsch, Styling and Art Direction: Studio Marcus Hay

Photography: Kat Teutsch, Styling and Art Direction: Studio Marcus Hay

Working with Photographer Kat Teutsch is always a pleasure and once again we got together to collaborate on another of our New York stories series. This time it was Wren Sakura that captured our attention.

The New York Stories came about due to the inspiration experienced all around us as a result of living in one of the worlds greatest cities and living amongst some very interesting people with some very interesting back stories. When witnessing someone on the street in NY or people watching in general as one does, at Studio Marcus Hay we are always fascinated with imagining someones back-story and how they got to be living in the Metropolis.

You certainly get to experience some bright and bold personalities in the city, Wren is quietly strong, here is her story.

Born in Syracuse, New York, Wren grew up there as a child before moving with her parents to Manhattan as a young teenager when her father, A Doctor was relocated for work.

Her passion for birds started at a young age when Wren went bird watching as a teenager with her parents in The Catskills who owned a cabin for weekend getaways, NY. Born on the 11th of June in 1952 to a Japanese father and an American mother from Virginia, Wren still to this day keeps the cabin in The Catskills and a studio apartment on the Lower East Side, Manhattan where she likes to further explore her passion for birds, pot plants and all things natural.

Working now at a Japanese bookstore in the city, Wren likes to spend her weekends in the country or at The Natural History Museum where she has been a member for over 45 years, even donating some of her wildlife finds such as rare birds eggs and feathers.

Wren is a Gemini, Childlike and spirited, She appears on one hand to be birdlike herself in nature but like a lot of New Yorkers she still knows how to pack a punch when she needs too. Wren does look young for her age and often gets mistaken for someone much younger than her years.

She has a weakness for Chocolate Chip cookies from City Bakery.

Hope you enjoy our lovely lady Wren and her story. 

NEW YORK STORIES/ Black, White and Gold Color Trend

Photography: Kat Teutsch

Photography: Kat Teutsch

Photography: Kat Teutsch

Photography: Kat Teutsch

Photography: Kat Teutsch

Photography: Kat Teutsch

Photography: Kat Teutsch

Photography: Kat Teutsch

Photography: Kat Teutsch

Photography: Kat Teutsch

Photography: Kat Teutsch

Photographer Kat Teutsch and I have continued our series with a new fictional lady of New York: Ophelia Sable Le Blanc, You can read more about her story below: 

Ophelia Sable Le Blanc, Born May 12th, 1952

Ophelia grew up in affluent Chicago suburb of Oak Park, While she did not live in a house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright of whom designed many of the houses and buildings of more prominent folk, She always wished she had.

An Architectural buff, Ophelia had dreams of attending school for Architecture but somehow never managed to get there settling instead in New York where she was attracted to mood of the 1960’s where her jet black bob and big charcoaled eyes made an impression at the Fashion Magazines where she worked in the Art Department eventually building her way up to a Director position.

Partly retired now, Ophelia still dabbles in Design and holds classes at a prominent Design School for Graphic Design. She loves her coffee black and her cocktails strong, Her signature black bowler hat makes an appearance at times when the mood is upon her.

I wanted to go with a much more graphic stark quality with this lady, I always love the combo of classic black and white, but it always adds a twinkle of pizazz when gold is involved!

NEW YORK STORIES/ Rose and Citrus Color Trend

Photography: Kat Teutsch

Photography: Kat Teutsch

Photography: Kat Teutsch

Photography: Kat Teutsch

Photography: Kat Teutsch

Photography: Kat Teutsch

In our continuing series of narrative stories based and inspired by New York women, Photographer Kat Teutsch and I got together a couple of weekends ago and shot the next in our batch. This time Goldie Rose Smyth was born. These shoots are produced as a result of meeting or observing from afar the array of characters here, Constantly I am inspired by just a glimpse of someone on the street who you know has a long story to tell. New York is famous for it's eccentric personalities and thankfully the city is still full of them!  

Here is Goldie Rose's story, It went like this: 

Goldie Rose Smyth, born August 23^rd 1946

Goldie Rose grew up in Sunnyvale, Texas, in the 1970’s she moved to Queens, NY, moving to Long Island City. Born and bred American, Goldie quickly got employed in Manhattan as a Secretary for a very busy Law Firm. She was had a solid chiseled kind of beauty and in her day her look was all cats eyes and larger than life brassy hair. A look she still keeps. 

She’s not much of a traveler but has collected mementos from her vacations, largely spent in Florida or Mexico, Still Single, In her late 60’s now, Goldie Rose is largely retired but still pulls in a bit of Book Keeping from home from her old boss’s son, Gary. She usually sticks to an all fruit diet to keep her weight down but can’t resist feeding her leftover office addiction of donuts. Since 1979 Goldie Rose has smoked her first pipe, swapping her Menthols for her signature orange pipe. One thing not many people know is Goldie Rose is also a champion roller skater and still likes to skate in Central Park on Sundays when the weather is good. 

It's really fun to get into the mind of an imaginary person, Maybe it's a bit eccentric of me? I do know however Kat and I get a kick out of having a narrative to work from and the possibilities are endless, Watch out for some more of our ladies! 

Thanks to again Prop Workshop for helping us with the wonderful backgrounds  and some props at a generous discount.