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“You aim for the jugular,” says industrial designer–turned-artist Gaston Marticorena of the life-size mural of a giraffe featured on one wall in his massive rental near the Holland Tunnel. Sharpie-ink drawings of Boy Scouts also become dartboards in his ever-evolving bi-level space, which is divided into a downstairs atelier, and an upper living area shared with his dachsund, Allora, and roommate Mark Kroeker.
Alongside his edgy housewares, some of which are currently on display at a private midtown gallery, Marticorena also exhibits an unabashed love of kitsch, tempered by natural elements like plastic-wrapped hay bales and tumbleweed lamps. His favorite piece—a candy container from Target in the likeness of Star Wars’ C-3PO (“the original gay robot”)—is treated like a bust of Buddha in his Zen-like bedroom, and his refrigerator, draped in a Louis Vuitton monogram, nods to the urban jungle of Canal Street.
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