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An architecture aficionado, he hired the artist turned architect Vito Acconci design to design his warping metal walled gallery in New York in 2002 and has commissioned Zaha Hadid to design both a retail and condominium building that he is developing on Hoxton Square in East London and a concept car that he plans to build for himself.

Schachter is known for promoting emerging artists -- he was an early champion of stars like Cecily Brown and Andrea Zittel -- originally in shows around New York, then at his own Manhattan gallery, conTEMPorary, and now at the Kenny Schachter Rove gallery in King's Cross. An architecture aficionado, he hired the artist turned architect Vito Acconci design to design his warping metal walled gallery in New York in 2002 and has commissioned Zaha Hadid to design both a retail and condominium building that he is developing on Hoxton Square in East London and a concept car that he plans to build for himself.

Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York The Triennial looks at the breaking development and future horizons across the fields of design practice, from architecture, interiors, and landscape design to produce design, graphic design, and fashion.