Tour David Berliner's brooklynmuseum office, which features pieces by Joel Tanner Hart and Leon Polk Smith, plus Andy Warhol wallpaper
Photo: Seth Caplan A corporate office can be a downer. Or as David Berliner, the Brooklyn Museum’s president and chief operating officer, politely described the office he inherited when he arrived in 2016, “It was not designed. Let’s just say that.” But his co-worker Anne Pasternak, the museum’s director, had raised the bar with her office, so Berliner knew he had to up his game too. “I was inspired by Anne’s office. It was gorgeous. So that was my point of departure.
One of the perks of working at the Brooklyn Museum is being able to spend personal time with some of the treasures in storage, if permission is granted from the curators, of course. Above, a bust of American statesman Henry Clay, by Joel Tanner Hart, is reflected in one of the many mirrors from the museum’s collection that hang above Berliner’s desk. The Andy Warhol wallpaper from Flavor Paper can be seen up close in detail.
Berliner admired the Eero Saarinen table in Pasternak’s office, and then he thought, I have a Saarinen table; maybe it could work here? “So I brought my kitchen table and chairs to work,” he says. The Warhol wallpaper reflects the abundance of natural light in the room. Photo: Seth Caplan “The first thing we did was pick the art,” Berliner says, citing the large Leon Polk Smith painting Black Anthem , above two chairs that he poached from home.
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