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ing, when asked how long it had
taken her to finish the frame.
Lowy CEO Larry Shar, a sharplydressed man with the bald head and
Brooklyn accent of Lloyd Blankfein,
wasn’t impressed. He can afford to
be patient with his 4,500 antique
frame inventory. They get older
and more valuable by the day. But
he has to make sure that with the
workers he pays by the hour—to re-
ART
store old frames, craft new designs
and reproduce antiques—are doing
their jobs efficiently.
“The only correct answer to
that question,” he told Huffington,
“is not fast enough.”
For the last 105 years, Lowy has
been one of the premier framers in
New York, if not the world. When
the Metropolitan Museum of Art
acquires a new Velazquez, or the
estate of Max Weber is putting on
a big retrospective, or a Slovakian
collector buys a $10 million Cail-
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A Lowy’s
artisan
applies
23-karat
gold leaf to a
frame using
a traditional
water gilding
technique.