This year, Duman also helmed the design of Helena Anrather’s new Bowery storefront, moving from a second-story space in the same neighborhood to a new location and tripling in size.ĭuman’s big break came in 2014, when he was introduced to Richard Prince by the artist’s former studio manager.

Wood again turned to Duman to work on his gallery’s new upstate outpost that will be located in an 18th-century barn in Germantown, New York, and is slated to open in September. Zhang then connected Koray to Mendes Wood DM co-founder Matthew Wood when that Brazilian gallery decided to open up shop in a 7,000-square-foot Tribeca space last fall. Perhaps for this very reason, the founder of the Lower East Side firm Büro Koray Duman has compiled an impressive list of clients filled with artists and gallerists, many of whom became aware of his practice through word of mouth.Ĭandice Madey-the founder of an eponymous space located at a Rivington Street storefront initially designed by Duman in 2016, for her former gallery On Stellar Rays-recommended him to artist Miranda Fengyuan Zhang, who was in search of an architect for her upstate studio-cum-house. “A great aspect of working with artists is that they, like people in my field, obsess over a detail and will not let that be overlooked,” he told Artsy. Architect Koray Duman’s designs for the art world have taught him that there’s a kinship between artists and architects.

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