Richard Pandiscio

design

interview by GLENN O’BRIEN
portrait by ALEXIS DAHAN

 

Richard Pandiscio is one of the few people I would describe as being princely. He has art-directed magazines, designed books, created ad campaigns, and in recent years he’s been involved in real estate projects that engage serious architects. I recently had the good luck to have my book, How to Be a Man, produced by my dream publisher, Rizzoli. When they asked me whom I wanted to design and illustrate it, I chose Richard Pandiscio and Jean-Philippe Delhomme, because I knew that Richard would make a book that was classical and modern, and elegant and witty  — one that would call to you from across a bookstore, yet be eminently readable. We’re neighbors in a small Connecticut town that has two modernist houses — one is owned by Richard Pandiscio and Todd Eberle, the other by my wife…