Jorge Arango

3408 Fenimore Ave. Mohegan Lake, NY 10547 USA
22 Years Experience

Professional Experience

A prolific writer, editor and stylist for over 20 years specializing in interior design--published in all the top design magazines--but also travel (including articles about Cuba, Antigua, Mexico, Morocco), food, art and profiles. I am also author of two books about design (Harlem Style, 2002, and Ex Arte, 2009) and was founding editor of Westchester Cottages & Gardens magazine. Extremely professional, always on time, good at quick turnaround, my work always views its subject from a new, interesting angle and is consistently meticulously researched.

Expertise

Book Author 8 YearsEditor 20 YearsWriter 20 Years

Specialty

Food 10 YearsHome & Garden 10 YearsLifestyle 10 Years

Industries

Magazine - Large Consumer/National magazines 10 YearsMagazine - Local/Regional magazines 10 YearsMagazine - Trade magazines/publications (B2B) 5 Years

Media Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)

  • Metropolitan Home (10+)
  • Robb Report magazines (10+)
  • robbreport.com (6-10)
  • Westchester Cottages & Gardens (6-10)
  • House & Garden (3-5)
  • Renovation Style (3-5)
  • Modern Magazine (1-2)
  • Luxe (1-2)
  • 1stdibs.com (1-2)

Corporate Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)

  • Guest House Retreat & Conference Center (styling) (10+)
  • Skidmore, Owings, Merrill (styling) (1-2)
  • The Four Seasons (styling) (1-2)

Associations

AvantGuild

Other Work History

Lifestyle Editor, Essence magazine; founding editor, Founding editor, Westchester Cottages & Gardens; associate food editor, First for Women magazine; lifestyle editor, Essence magazine

Foreign Language Skills

Spanish, some French and Italian

Unions

Freelancers Union

Computer Skills

MS Word, Quark Xpress, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Reader

Equipment

Canon PowerShot A610 digital camera, PowerBookG4, Olympus voice digital recorder

References

Upon request

Book Excerpt

Chapter 18 from the book Ex Arte, about the work of Geoffrey Bradfield (Panache Publishing, 2009). This chapter is about the design of his Palm Beach apartment.

Profiles

Profile of world-renowned antiques dealer Carlton Hobbs

Travel

An impressionistic travel essay about Havana.

Antiques

Report on the emerging market for 20th century Mexican furniture.

Building/Design

The story of how Judge Judy and her husband built their 24,000-square-foot dream home in Greenwich, CT...in just 90 days.

Design

An article about how a blended family began building their new life together from the ground up in a new shingle house in Old Westbury, Long Island.