Luxury In Full Effect

Kathy Kuo founded Kathy Kuo Home in 2012 after realizing the lack of supply for well-crafted and sustainably-sourced furniture readily available online. Kathy Kuo Home is an exquisitely curated online retailer for designer furniture and home decor guaranteed to elevate the clients' home living. Kathy Kuo Home additionally offers premium online interior design services and high touch customer relations. Kathy is an award-winning interior designer and entrepreneur based in New York City. For...

Douglas Hanson, AIA launched his Los Angeles based firm, HansonLA, in 2010. He has worked with some of the world’s leading architectural firms designing major cultural, commercial, and residential projects in Asia, Europe, and North America. In Hanson’s current role as President of HansonLA, he is the Design Principal on various residential and commercial projects, and the Master Plan Architect for City Market of Los Angeles, a 10 acre, mixed-use development in the Fashion District, and the...

Elizabeth Sanchez Vaughan is the founder and Principal Designer at In-Site Interior Design, an alumna of Parsons School of Design, and an Allied Member of the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID). She is a U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) Accredited Professional of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED-AP) in Commercial Interiors. For more show notes and all links mentioned in the episode, go to https://davidjfrangioni.com/podcast/elizabeth-vaughan

Dan Brunn is the founder of Dan Brunn Architecture firm, founded in Los Angeles, California in 2005. Dan Brunn Architecture designs and develops commercial and residential projects worldwide and prides itself on crafting architecture that respects the site and provokes a sensuous interaction with the environment. DBA focuses on purposeful modernism that heightens the user’s understanding and connection with the space. For full show notes, head over to...

Brian Wickersham is the owner and lead architect at AUX architecture in Los Angeles, California. AUX is a design studio started in 2008 committed to the thorough investigation of functionality, spatial qualities, and materiality in the built environment and with a specialty in creative problem-solving. To read of the rest of the show notes, head over to https://davidjfrangioni.com/podcast/brian-wickersham

James Heimler is the principal architect at James Heimler Architect Inc in Southern California. He has received many awards for design excellence and community service throughout the years, including the 30-year award for Community Service by San Fernando Valley American Institute of Architects in 2012 and the Los Angeles Certified Green Business Award by the city of Los Angeles in 2014. James Heimler Architect Inc, JHAI, is one of the leading sustainable design LEED-AP certified...

With us in this episode we have philanthropist and mentor, Dwyane Wade Senior, sharing his motivational story on being a father in Chicago in the 1980s. With an alarming rate of gang violence and drug usage at the time, Dwyane tells us about the importance of a strong mentor's presence in the lives of the youth and its following positive effects. His own personal experience with quite literally running from different gangs and refusing their requests to join them lead him to create the...

In this episode, David Frangioni sits down with Glenn Gissler, interior designer and president at Glenn Gissler Design, and discusses Glenn's journey of manifesting his childhood dreams of being an interior designer. He tells us all about how he entered the field of Interior Design, the ups and downs he encountered along the way, and how he got to create designs of luxury for clients such as Micheal Kors and Calvin Klein. "What we do is to create what I call the context for [the clients']...

In the last episode of this two-part series, Billy Amendola, musician and editor at large of Modern Drummer Magazine, tells us about how he became the editor of a magazine known as "the Bible of drummers, " the difficulties in his journey, as well as some crazy experiences he had along the way. "The map and the terrain will never match," he says while talking about his road to success. What was Billy's plan and what terrain did he face instead? How did he end up playing on stage with Ringo...

In the first part of this two-episode series, we hear from Billy Amendola, musician and editor at large of Modern Drummer Magazine, and his life as a drummer from Brooklyn. Billy tells us all about his life and his personal development, as well as the development of his band, Mantus. How did a Brooklyn-born band go from playing Punk Rock at CBGB to making Disco hits that become wildly successful in Canada? Where did they go from there? Tune in to find out more about being a studio musician,...

In this episode, we hear from Todd Hanson, CEO of Audio One, and the origins of his audio-video technology company. Listen in to learn more about Audio One, its activities in the luxury market, the importance of customized products and customer service, and developing a world-class team. Find out how this work lead to projects involving celebrity clientele including the Osbornes and Shaquille O'Neal, amongst many others. **What you'll hear about on this episode:** - The origins of Audio...

Listen in to learn about our hosts David and Justin as they share with you how they met, their dynamic life stories, and a few keys to their success in the music and entertainment business. What you'll learn on this episode: - How did David & Justin first meet? (1:31) - The first project together: Maholan Estates Project (4:48) - Why you should listen to the show (5:58) - Justin’s Background & Life Story (6:16) - David’s Background & Life Story (16:34) - The Secrets of Success we plan...

David Frangioni introduces the show that taps into the minds of those operating at the top of the luxury market. Available to download and listen to on any podcast player. For full show notes head on over to luxuryinfulleffect.com