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ON THE COUCH

John Chamberlain Estate

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Frequency: 1 episode/13d. Total Eps: 8

ON THE COUCH invites you into the inspiring worlds of today’s cultural leaders. Join host Alexandra Fairweather as she sits down with guests on one of artist John Chamberlain’s iconic foam couches to discuss the big ideas and unseen details that shape creative life. For decades, Chamberlain carved his sculptural foam couches for friends and art world luminaries like Donald Judd and Andy Warhol, creating gathering spots, conversation pieces, and symbols of connection within a vibrant creative community. Today, that legacy lives on through ON THE COUCH as visionaries sit down for intimate conversations that will make you rethink how culture is created, consumed, and reinvented.

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Akari Endo-Gaut - “80% Fantasy, 20% Truth”

Season 1 · Episode 7

Tuesday, August 11, 2026 • Duration 35:48

Akari Endo-Gaut is a stylist, designer, and curator who has spent her career refusing to pick one lane. She’s dressed Alex Katz, designed the room at the two-Michelin-starred restaurant Al Coro, and written for Sotheby’s Magazine. The thread through all of it is a conviction that an object carries time—and the older it is, the more honestly it speaks. One detail says everything: a Cartier ring from her mother that she has never once taken off—not at the beach, not on a shoot, not anywhere. It feels fitting, then, that Akari is seated on one of John Chamberlain’s iconic foam couches, the same couch host Alexandra Fairweather grew up on. Her crib was a miniature of it, in the kitchen of Chamberlain’s studio.

Follow our host: https://www.instagram.com/alexandrafairweather/

Follow our guest: https://www.instagram.com/akariendogaut/?hl=en

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To learn more about the estate’s work and mission, visit: https://www.john-chamberlain.com/
Media inquiries: chamberlain@dadagoldberg.com

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Timestamps:

0:00 – Introduction

0:27 – Meet Stylist & Designer Akari Endo-Gault

1:32 – Growing Up in Japan: Kimono, Ceramics & Tradition

4:41 – Inside Her Father's Architecture Studio

5:47 – Le Corbusier & Studying French Literature in Tokyo

8:02 – Moving to Paris: First Impressions

10:31 – Why Vintage & Antique Objects Matter

11:20 – Studying at École des Beaux-Arts in Paris

12:49 – Producing Fashion Shows for Dior & Michael Kors

14:06 – How She Became a Fashion Stylist

15:21 – Styling Painter Alex Katz

17:53 – The Meaning Behind Her Mother's Ring

20:11 – From Fashion Styling to Restaurant Interior Design

24:25 – Black Mountain College & Josef Albers Research

30:28 – Career Advice for Creatives & Slowing Down

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Fernando Mastrangelo - “Let Me Make A Statement”

Season 1 · Episode 6

Tuesday, July 28, 2026 • Duration 56:07

Artist and designer Fernando Mastrangelo has built one of the most original studio practices by transforming everyday and natural materials like sand, salt, silica, and crushed glass into collectible works held in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum and the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum.

In this episode, he joins host Alexandra Fairweather on an original Chamberlain couch to discuss the origins of great art and design. From Drift, Fernando’s first collectible series inspired by the glaciers and landscapes of Patagonia, to the new landscape work he’s showing at Cristina Grajales this Fall, his work takes a clear stance on our relationship with the natural world and the environmental issues shaping it.

Follow our host: https://www.instagram.com/alexandrafairweather/

Follow our guest: https://www.instagram.com/iamfm/?hl=en

Listen to Fernando’s podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/design-discord/id1817191053

Stay up-to-date with the John Chamberlain Estate:

Follow: https://www.instagram.com/johnchamberlainestate/
To learn more about the estate’s work and mission, visit: https://www.john-chamberlain.com/
Media inquiries: chamberlain@dadagoldberg.com

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David Salle - “Attention is a Fleeting Resource”

Season 1 · Episode 5

Tuesday, July 14, 2026 • Duration 34:28

David Salle is one of the leading postmodern painters of the last forty-five years, whose layered, colliding images will make you question everything you thought you knew about how images hold meaning. What most people don't expect: David has spent the last several years training artificial intelligence on his own body of work, then using what it generates as the raw material for new paintings — not to automate art, but to find a new language for it that you've never seen before. The results break every rule of anatomy, continuity, and logic, and they are unlike anything else being made right now. Seated on one of John Chamberlain's iconic foam couches, he and host Alexandra Fairweather talk about what it means to spend a lifetime in conversation with art history – including your own.

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Follow our guest: https://www.instagram.com/david_salle/?hl=en

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Follow: https://www.instagram.com/johnchamberlainestate/
To learn more about the estate’s work and mission, visit: https://www.john-chamberlain.com/
Media inquiries: chamberlain@dadagoldberg.com

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Timestamps:

00:27 Introductions

02:15 David’s upbringing and early career

07:42 Being pigeonholed as an artist

10:27 Using AI in art

18:08 How David trained AI to think like him

Sasha Bikoff - “If You Can’t Find It, Create It”

Season 1 · Episode 4

Tuesday, June 30, 2026 • Duration 29:50

Sasha Bikoff’s rooms don't just look extraordinary — they make you feel as if you've stepped out into a dream. What most people don't know about Sasha is that before she ever touched a floor plan, she was working the desk at Gagosian Gallery — one of the most competitive rooms in the art world. That training in how serious collectors see art and experience space is felt throughout all of the interiors she creates. She studied fine art and art history in Washington and Paris, and her projects now span Milan, Marrakech, Palm Beach, and her beloved New York. In this episode, she joins host Alexndra Fairweather on one of John Chamberlain's couches for a conversation that feels exactly like one of her rooms: one you won't want to leave.

Follow our host: https://www.instagram.com/alexandrafairweather/

Follow our guest: https://www.instagram.com/sashabikoff/

Sasha’s book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/784194/high-vibe-design-by-sasha-bikoff/

Stay up-to-date with the John Chamberlain Estate:

Follow: https://www.instagram.com/johnchamberlainestate/
To learn more about the estate’s work and mission, visit: https://www.john-chamberlain.com/
Media inquiries: chamberlain@dadagoldberg.com

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Timestamps:

00:26 Introductions

01:24 How Sasha got into interior design

03:41 Sasha’s first client: her mom

Misha Kahn - “Curious Person at the Party Energy”

Season 1 · Episode 3

Tuesday, June 16, 2026 • Duration 38:32

Artist and designer Misha Kahn’s furniture and lighting feel less like objects you own and more like creatures you coexist with — and once you've seen them, you'll never look at a chair the same way again. What most people don't know about Misha: he was given a sewing machine at age five, and started making clothes. That instinct to fabricate something from nothing, using whatever material is at hand — foam, fiberglass, glass, metalwork, cement, textiles — has driven him from that childhood bedroom all the way to the Whitney, the Walker Art Center, and the Dallas Museum of Art. In this episode, Misha joins host Alexandra Fairweather on one of John Chamberlain's foam couches — and if you've ever wondered whether the things around you could hold more beauty and more meaning, this conversation is for you.

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Follow our guest: https://www.instagram.com/mishakahn/

Stay up-to-date with the John Chamberlain Estate:

Follow the John Chamberlain Estate: https://www.instagram.com/johnchamberlainestate/
To learn more about the work and mission of the John Chamberlain Estate, visit: https://www.john-chamberlain.com/
Media inquiries: chamberlain@dadagoldberg.com

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Timestamps:

00:27 Introductions

02:37 Growing up in Minnesota

05:13 Creating playgrounds

7:07 The “parallel wonderland” of Misha’s work

9:49 Misha’s greatest virtue and vice

Daniel Arsham - “An Invitation to Rethink Your Position in Time”

Season 1 · Episode 2

Tuesday, June 2, 2026 • Duration 31:35

Daniel Arsham is one of the most commercially and conceptually ambitious artists alive, whose work asks a question that will stop you in your tracks: how will today be viewed a thousand years in the future? His work, often exploring decay and fictional archaeology, utilizes materials like crystal and volcanic ash to make modern objects appear ancient. His new book, Future Relic, is unlike anything you'll read this year: part memoir, part business manual for artists, built from decades of moving between gallery walls and global brand collaborations to personal projects, like his new cafe in Dubai. In this episode, he and host Alexandra Fairweather sit down on one of John Chamberlain's couches for a conversation that invites you to rethink your position in time.

Follow our host: https://www.instagram.com/alexandrafairweather/

Follow our guest: https://www.instagram.com/danielarsham/?hl=en

Stay up-to-date with the John Chamberlain Estate:

Follow the John Chamberlain Estate: https://www.instagram.com/johnchamberlainestate/
To learn more about the work and mission of the John Chamberlain Estate, visit: https://www.john-chamberlain.com/
Media inquiries: chamberlain@dadagoldberg.com

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Timestamps:

00:27 Introductions

01:33 How Daniel got into art

02:20 Chamberlain’s photography

03:47 Growing up in Miami

Jon Gray - “The Plate is a Passport”

Season 1 · Episode 1

Tuesday, May 19, 2026 • Duration 48:53

ON THE COUCH's first-ever guest is Jon Gray — co-founder of Ghetto Gastro, the Bronx-born collective that uses food to spark conversations about culture, race, power, and belonging. Jon calls himself “the dishwasher,” but his work has moved from the block to the museum to the boardroom, merging food, art, fashion, design, and music into a cultural movement. What many people don’t realize is that Jon doesn’t think of food as his product — he sees it as his medium, using it to tell stories that will make you rethink every meal you've ever eaten. In this episode, he’s seated on a foam couch by John Chamberlain — the perfect setting for a conversation about making art from everyday materials.

Follow our host: https://www.instagram.com/alexandrafairweather/

Follow our guest: https://www.instagram.com/ghettogray/

Stay up-to-date with the John Chamberlain Estate:

Follow the John Chamberlain Estate: https://www.instagram.com/johnchamberlainestate/
To learn more about the work and mission of the John Chamberlain Estate, visit: https://www.john-chamberlain.com/
Media inquiries: chamberlain@dadagoldberg.com

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Timestamps:

00:20 Introductions

1:51 Origin story of Chamberlain’s Shelter Island studio

2:51 Jon’s early discovery of art

4:32 Jon’s dream place to live

7:20 G SPOT, Jon’s new gallery project

9:29 How to make museums more accessible

Coming Soon - ON THE COUCH

Season 1

Monday, May 11, 2026 • Duration 00:38

ON THE COUCH invites you into the inspiring worlds of today’s cultural leaders. Join host Alexandra Fairweather as she sits down with guests on one of artist John Chamberlain’s iconic foam couches to discuss all aspects of creative life. In the debut season, you’ll hear from bold thinkers and creative polymaths like artists Daniel Arsham and David Salle; designers Misha Kahn, Sasha Bikoff, and Fernando Mastrangelo; fashion designer Alexander Wang; architect Annabelle Selldorf; and Jon Gray, Co-Founder of Ghetto Gastro. Each conversation sheds different light on how bold, original, and even seemingly impossible ideas come to life – and If you’ve ever wondered how legacy is truly built, this series is for you.

Tune in to episodes of ON THE COUCH via Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon, YouTube, or wherever you prefer to stream. New episodes drop every other Tuesday starting May 19.

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