David Rockwell has designed hotels, restaurants, museums, sets for numerous Broadway shows and even the venue for the 93rd Oscars. But the renowned architect had never designed a space for magicians. ‘They are unusual, eccentric people,’ muses the Wallpaper* USA 400 honoree. ‘We don’t think anyone has ever designed for them.’ That has officially changed with the opening of The Hand & The Eye, a 36,000 sq ft venue dedicated to magic, set within Chicago’s McCormick Mansion, a stately Renaissance Revival edifice that dates from 1895.
Read more and learn about David Rockwell’s storied career as a child magician, here.