Max-Steven Grossman

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Today we’d like to introduce you to Max Steven Grossman.

Hi Max Steven, so excited to have you with us today. What can you tell us about your story?

After finishing high school in Bogota, Colombia where I’m originally from, I didn’t know what career I wanted to follow in my life. My dad worked in textiles so I studied textile engineering in Philadelphia. After college, I took a six months trip to Southeast Asia this trip opened my eyes to the wonders of nature and how beautiful our world is. I returned to Colombia and I started working with my dad very soon I was feeling office life was not something I desired. I fortunately found a camera canon A-1 film camera in the office and started to take photography classes. From then on all I wanted was the weekends to come so I could leave the city and take nature pictures.

You may not be able to eat in Gwyneth Paltrow’s dining room or hang on Oprah's Montecito patio, but with more A-list decorators branching into restaurant interior design, you can tap into the style of the stars. Many designers best known for the celebrity projects in their portfolios have recently expanded to projects at eateries around the world. It’s an opportunity to showcase to a wider audience their prowess in pattern mixing, furniture and art sourcing, and creating a mood where you want to linger long after the final course. Because restaurants, of course, are about more than just design. These spaces also serve as places to gather for cocktails or enjoy delicious food. Below, we gather some examples of spaces where you can indulge in style.

View images of our recent collaboration with Wecselman Design at the Ritz-Carlton Residences in Miami Beach.

This gorgeous model villa Z includes work by Donald Baechler, Dan Christensen, Gabriele Evertz, Max-Steven Grossman, Jane Manus, Donald Martiny, James Austin Murray, Udo Noger, Donald Sultan and Tigran Tsitoghdzyan.

View Max-Steven Grossman's permanent bookscape installation at Planet Word Museum.

Planet Word, a revolutionary museum dedicated to the power, beauty, and fun of language and to showing how words shape the human experience, opened its
doors to the public. Housed in Washington, D.C.’s historic Franklin School, Planet Word is the world’s first voice-activated museum, featuring immersive galleries and exhibits that will engage visitors of all ages in experiencing words and language from a wide range of perspectives. General admission is free.

View images of our recent collaboration with Wecselman Design at One Park Grove, Miami.

This stunning model unit includes work by Lluis Barba, Stanley Boxer, Lynn Chadwick, Dan Christensen, Max-Steven Grossman, Jane Manus, Donald Martiny, James Austin Murray, Udo Noger, Ernest Trova, Tigran Tsitoghdzyan and Bernar Venet.

Azure Development's $2,190,000 show house in Delray Beach hosts thirteen artworks from Sponder Gallery's roster of important artists.

Artists Include:

Stanley Boxer, Dan Christensen, Max-Steven Grossman, Kysa Johnson, Jane Manus, Donald Martiny, James Austin Murray, Udo Noger, Tigran Tsitoghdzyan and James Walsh

The 2018-2019 edition of Mizner's Dream is available, featuring an editorial about Max-Steven Grossman.

By The Book

Max Steven Grossman is a celebrated digital photographer. But he's also, in a more unorthodox sense, a librarian. Each photograph is his signature series, Bookscapes, is a collage of related books - extravagant coffee-table tomes, biographies, critical compendiums, art history surveys - that do not exist outsite the artist' imagination. As art professor Natalia Brizuela wrote in a 2017 essay about Grossman's work "The books in every image have never quite been placed in that way except in the virtual space of his computer... When looked at from a close distance, you can see that the each book spine has a distinct image quality, revealing their different provenance, their composite or collage character." 

Read the full text (pages 120-123) here.

Browse An Artist's Meticulously Constructed Imaginary Bookshelves

We all know, as the saying goes, that you can’t judge a book by its cover. What viewers new to the work of photographer Max Steven Grossman may not initially realize is that you can’t judge his photographs by their appearances, either....