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Thursday, March 17, 2005

AT HOME WITH
"ONE OF DOWNTOWN'S
NEW POWER COUPLES"



New York Times, House and Home:


"A mushroom sculpture by Takashi Murakami springs up from the carpet of the media room. On the wall at the end of the table where the family eats supper each night is a self-portrait of Cindy Sherman as a clown, a picture that has particular resonance for Ms. Levy, whose first job was working as a clown at children's parties. Nearby a lifesize orange rat by the renegade sculptor Tom Sachs, fashioned out of torn-up Hermes gift bags and with a matching syringe clenched in its teeth, adorns a side table.

...Sam's father is Fermin Vilanova, a Spanish advertising executive who lives in Barcelona. 'He's an extraordinary father with a very warm heart,' Ms. Levy said. 'He comes to see him every month, and they speak twice a week. ...There was no way I was going to have a child without a present father.'"