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Ebullient and intellectually vigorous, Lee F. Mindel has maintained his Manhattan firm’s creative vitality since the passing of his collaborator, Peter Shelton, in 2012. As modernists in the late 1970s, the two men pioneered the transformation of prewar apartments and 19th-century townhouses into airy, crisply tailored contemporary homes that retained a sense of their historic character. “We wanted to liberate spaces and fill them with light, respecting their integrity while making them relevant, functional, and beautiful,” Mindel wrote in his introduction to the firm’s monograph, published by Rizzoli last spring. Whether devising a shingled beach house, a private jet, or a penthouse in a new glass tower, the architect insists on crafting the total environment, typically sprinkling in a few 20th-century Nordic furnishings, one of his great passions. In addition to a robust roster of current projects that includes the Marquand, a luxury residential building in New York City, Mindel is developing products for Knoll, Nessen Lighting, Waterworks, and V’Soske. sheltonmindelom

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