Collectors Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi have a thing about Rome

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THE NEW YORK TIMES
Show Us Your Walls
By Ted Loos
The architects Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi in their Brooklyn apartment with “KISS,” from a former Times Square adult movie theater; Luigi Rossini’s etching of the Capitoline Hill in Rome; and Lucio Pozzi’s “Parallel Puppet” (1981), a work on paper. Credit Harrison Hill/The New York Times
NEW YORK CITY---For the married architects Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi, who have run their own firm for 26 years, the current state of the kitchen in their Brooklyn Heights apartment — deeply mid renovation — is an anomaly. Inside the clean-lined apartment, much more the couple’s style, hangs what Mr. Manfredi called “stuff we’ve collected over the years,” and several pieces have a distinct Italian flavor. ”A grouping on the opposite wall includes a “KISS” sign from a former Times Square adult movie theater; Luigi Rossini’s 1823 drypoint etching of the Capitoline Hill in Rome; and Lucio Pozzi’s “Parallel Puppet” (1981), a work on paper. These are edited excerpts from the conversation. [More]
On the wall, clockwise from top left, are a print by Tara Donovan, a photograph by Thomas Roma, a topographic map of Rome and a photograph by Geoffrey James. Credit Harrison Hill/The New York Times

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