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BACHELOR New York City has a reputation for magical moments. Most commonly, they
are exemplified on the big screen in the vein of romantic music and a hand-
some couple against the landscape of Central Park, misty in the haze of early evening’s dusk. For Ron Marvin, visiting Manhattan from his main-stay of San Francisco, his moment unfolded in a quiet walk home from a dinner in Tribeca, unfamiliar in his whereabouts and trusting a faith in direction. “I had no clue where I was going, although I felt so incredibly at peace,” Marvin recalls. “I thought to myself, ‘Ron Marvin, you are going to start taking trains to work, not planes back to California.’ And with that, I decided to quit my job and move to New York.” Lo and behold, that faith in direction brought Marvin much further than simply home to his friend’s place on Wall Street. A former visual merchandiser for the likes of Williams Sonoma, Pottery Barn and the now defunct Hold Everything, interior design had always been his most innate passion; remaining an itch he had yearned to scratch since childhood. “I used to lie awake at night, mentally rearranging my parent’s house, trying to come up with an argument to con83
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vince them to put in a waterfall,” Marvin says, noting that at a time when his peers had spreads of Farrah Fawcett on their bedroom walls, he snoozed comfortably against a headboard covered in Marimekko fabric. Fast forward to current day and the modern, chic design he created for friend Rick’s apartment in the trendy Meatpacking District. Infused with Marvin’s now known and well respected aesthetic of a classic, masculine appeal, tailored lines and deep, muted colors, it proves testament to the extent of Marvin’s talent, his keen eye for styling, and the fact that fate has a funny, marveling way of materializing childhood dreams. Rick, a long time friend of Marvin’s, employed him to design his newly con-