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Dorian Lapadura is a 20th century design cognoscente. In 1995 he closed his custom mural business in New York City and moved to Michigan to live in Frank Lloyd Wright's Goetsch-Winckler home. Six months later he was renting Frank Gehry's Spiller residence in Venice, followed two years later by a stint in a Gregory Ain house in Mar Vista. "I wanted to spacially experience each of these classic homes," says LaPadura, who plans to someday build his own home in Malibu.
His latest address, which he shares with girlfriend Frances Vincent, is a loft in the 1919 Kress building overlooking Broadway's Historic Theater District. "If Jean Cocteau were alive today, he'd be living in a loft downtown and eating breakfast at Clifton's," says LaPadura, referring to the...