With all its recent developments - new restaurants, bars, apartments, and a new social scene has sprouted in the Arts District in Downtown Los Angeles. Among th...
As the creative director for MacKenzie-Childs, Rebecca is responsible for leading the design and artistic mission of this vibrant, cutting-edge home furnishings company. Managing a team of talented designers, she has been responsible for the most extensive and successful product launches in the company’s history. Passionate about her work and an inexhaustible fountain of energy, she leads her creative team with boundless enthusiasm and an engaging and buoyant personality. Her extensive world travels, experience, and lifelong fascination with the designer’s process give her a unique perspective focused on the redefinition of “Home.”
Chris Bangle was born in Ravenna, Ohio, USA in 1956. After attending the University of Wisconsin and graduating from Art Center College of Design (Pasadena, California), Bangle began his career at Opel in 1981. He then moved on to Fiat in 1985, where he designed the brazen Coupé Fiat. In 1992 he was named the first American Chief of Design at BMW, where he was responsible for bringing the designs of BMW, Mini, and Rolls Royce into the twenty-first century. After resigning from BMW in 2009, he moved to Clavesana (near Turin, Italy), where he founded Chris Bangle Associates, a design consultancy and management company, together with his wife Catherine.
