Natasha Esch

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Natasha Esch was the president of Wilhelmina Modeling Agency for five years from 1993. She is now an interior designer and the co-founder owner of a shop in Sag Harbor, New York. [1] Since 2010, she has lived in the Hamptons and Park City, Utah, with her husband, Matt Coffin, and their daughter and son.

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Early life

Esch was born in Canada, grew up in Germany, attended a boarding school in Switzerland and studied business at Babson College in the USA. [2] [3]

Wilhelmina Modeling Agency

After graduating, at age 21, her father, Horst-Dieter Esch, a German businessman with interests in the construction industry made her president of the modeling agency Wilhelmina Models that he had purchased in 1989 for around 4 million dollars. [2] Over a five-year period, Esch oversaw management of this worldwide $20 million operation with subsidiaries in Los Angeles, Miami, Paris, Munich and Hamburg. Esch wrote the Wilhelmina Guide to Modeling, [4] Wilhelmina's Modeling & Acting Dictionary [5] and Wilhelmina's World of Child Modeling. [6]

Natasha Esch Design Interiors

In 1997, Esch moved to the West Coast where she started her own Los Angeles-based interior design firm, Natasha Esch Design Interiors in 1999. She has bought, developed and sold six high-end residential homes located in the Hamptons, West Hollywood, Bel Air and Malibu, California.[ citation needed ] Her designs were featured in Elle Décor, House Beautiful , House & Garden and Los Angeles Times Magazine . She was also featured in the book Style and Substance: The Best of Elle Decor. [7]

MONC XIII

In 2010, Esch and her family moved to The Hamptons where, in 2012, she opened MONC XIII, a retail store in Sag Harbor that sells goods for the home sourced from around the world. [8]

MONC XIII has been featured in Goop, [9] Remodelista, [8] Martha Stewart Living, Elle Décor, [10] Architectural Digest, [11] Hamptons Cottages & Gardens, [12] Dan's Hamptons, [13] Hamptons Magazine and Dujour. [14]

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References

  1. ↑ MONC XIII website
  2. 1 2 Stein, Jeannine (March 26, 1993). "Natasha Esch's parents wanted to buy her a business she would enjoy..." Los Angeles Times. Retrieved March 10, 2016.
  3. ↑ Steinhauer, Jennifer (February 2, 1997). "The New Wilhelmina Wears a T-Shirt". New York Times . Retrieved March 10, 2016.
  4. ↑ Wilhelmina Guide to Modeling
  5. ↑ Wilhelmina's Modeling & Acting Dictionary
  6. ↑ Wilhelmina's World of Child Modeling
  7. ↑ Margaret Russell, Style and Substance: The Best of Elle Decor, Filipacchi Publishing, 2009 ISBN   1933231602, 9781933231600
  8. 1 2 Christine Chang Hanway, "A Hamptons Design Shop via LA", Remodelista, July 20, 2012. Retrieved September 6, 2012.
  9. ↑ "Monc XIII", Goop
  10. ↑ [ dead link ]Elle Decor
  11. ↑ Raul Barreneche, "Natasha Esch Opens a Home-Design Boutique", Architectural Digest, May 31, 2012
  12. ↑ "New Kids on the Block", Cottages and Gardens, June 11, 2012
  13. ↑ Dan's Hamptons
  14. ↑ Chadner Navarro, "Hamptons Home Design Stars", Dujour, n.d.
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