ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
ART HISTORY BARCELONA-BORN ARTIST LLUIS LLEO KEPT HIS EAST VILLAGE DUPLEX APARTMENT PURE TO LET ITS PERIOD DETAILS SHINE TE X T JILL SIE R ACKI
PHOTOG R APHY COSTAS PICADAS
"IT’S AN INTERESTING BUILDING," says artist Lluis Lleo. He spent more than a decade moving up and down East 10th Street before a casual acquaintance with the owner of his current five-story brownstone helped secure Lleo and his family the Tompkins Square Park-facing duplex. “For some reason it has good energy and it’s always been full of creative people.” After taking up residence, Lleo discovered he wasn’t the first artist to call this East Village apartCONTINUED ment home. “A very good art dealer from Madrid, Guillermo de Osma, who was
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