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Written by Judy Seckler
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RENAISSANCE MAN
WING T. CHAO
An enduring legacy at disney
When a guest visits a Disney resort anywhere in the world and notices Disney character art in the fabrics, the furniture, the carpets, the marble, light fixtures and the wrought iron grille work, a smile is almost sure to follow.
So many of the details that surprise and delight children and adults alike and make their entertainment experience special are the works of Wing T. Chao, who was the chief architect and master planner for Disney.
For almost 37 years, Chao created hundreds of projects worth more than $8 billion. Chao’s touch can be seen everywhere you look: the resorts, the parks, the restaurants, the retail shops, the vacation clubs, the entertainment centers, the Disney Cruise Line, the sports centers, the office buildings and the new planned communities.
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Written by Lynn Morgan
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NORCROSS FURNISHING LEADER MAKES
THE WORLD A BETTER AND BEAUTIFUL PLACE
Mark Norcross wants to make the world a better place. The president and CEO of Mark David, the High Point, North Carolina–based furniture company, understands the hospitality industry from both sides: as an international traveler whose brief takes him from Beverly Hills to Beijing and as the supplier of high-end furniture with high-end finishes to some of the most luxurious hotels and resorts in the world. He uses his success, connections and business acumen to support a wide variety of humanitarian causes and institutions, locally and across America.
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Written by Sherry Dean Curreri
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President and General Manager, History
Nancy Dubuc has transformed History. Now president and general manager of the cable network—which she has been helming since January 2007—Dubuc has creatively steered the network from one that only looked back in time to one that also shows history in the making. By launching testosterone-driven, tough-guy programming like Ice Road Truckers and Ax Men and powerful specials like “102 Minutes That Changed America,” which recently won three Emmy awards, Dubuc is responsible for green-lighting ten of the top-rated series and five of the highest-rated specials ever for the network. Under her, History’s Web traffic is up by more than 400 percent.
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Written by Vladmir Nemirovsky
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“The Cool School” presents a cinematic take on the explosion of the Los Angeles art world at midcentury. Director Morgan Neville discusses the film, its significance, and why he chose to point his lens at SoCal.
A half a century ago, Los Angeles emerged from its origins in the artistic blasé to become the embodiment of art world hip. Billy Al Bengston, Ed Ruscha, Dennis Hopper, Larry Bell and Ed Kienholz, to mention some of the coolest cats, threw the art world for a loop, managing to nudge the NewYork crowd off its perch at the art world mountaintop.
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A & L Highlights
Frank Otto 02 November 2009, 00.00 Alexis De Mond Artists 
First, there is music. Then, images—sapphire and emerald shapes emerging from beneath the ocean’s light. Finally, a mermaid appears. We are taken on a journey across continents—from Africa to subways of an unkno
George Yepes was born in Tijuana, Mexico and raised on the tough streets of East Los Angeles, where he overcame ten years spent in one of the area’s toughest gangs to become, in the words of the New Times LA, “the c
Most of us have seen works of art that for some reason made us mad—put off by those who produced it or declared the stuff noteworthy to begin with, or perhaps because we just didn’t get it. Los Angeles gallerist Patri
UCLA’s Hammer Museum presents the epic concoction of artist Phoebe Washburn
While New York-based installation artist Phoebe Washburn’s work has at times drawn comparisons to that of other scavenger artists like Thoma
CEO and Wallis Annenberg Director, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Career Highlights
As Chief Executive Officer and Wallis Annenberg Director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Michael Govan oversees
Is Gerald Wiegert’s Vector WX-8 the next great supercar?
It makes normal sports cars look like slugs. Even other high performance vehicles look like slouches in comparison. It’s the Vector-Avtech WX-8, ultimate
No room in the modern home has evolved as radical- ly in the past century as the kitchen. Far from the hot, cramped spaces of yesteryear, the kitchen is now supposed to project an image of the good life, of family traditi
Designer Marguerite Rodgers is never one to miss an opportunity, though she has been known to see opportunity in strange places. “Some of my best work comes out of solving a problem,” the Philadelphia-based designer
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