175. Tony Freund

Tony Freund is Editorial Director and Director of Fine Art at 1stDibs, which operates at the intersection of design, collecting, taste, and cultural storytelling. Freund has spent decades chronicling the world of design, collecting, and connoisseurship, helping to shape the editorial voice of one of the world’s leading online marketplaces for art and design. He brings a deep, nuanced view of how we live with objects — and what they say about us.
He and Zuckerman discuss the connoisseur’s eye in a digital world, the evolving meaning of luxury, the power of objects to connect time, place, and people, beauty, storytelling,
and why objects — whether functional, historical, or sublime — continue to hold cultural power!