When Thomas Pheasant was 22, he found himself admiring the same Madison Avenue window display as celebrated designer Angelo Donghia , who happened to be standing next to him. “What I loved about him was that he had a very strong voice, and he had a very strong connection to this whole idea of taking the past and classical forms, but creating these new shapes that were very fresh, clean and sometimes overscaled,” he tells host Dennis Scully on the latest episode of The Business of Home Podcast . “Here was this New York creator that I admired very much, who was doing it on a big scale. The idea that he had his furniture collections, and he was doing interiors—he was representing this ideal that I would have loved to have had for myself.”

Pheasant didn’t know then that his career was hea

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