Although not a household name, Tommy Zung, founder and president of New York–based Studio Zung, wears more than one hat. Yes, he is an academically trained and licensed architect, but he’s also the owner of a design store in Soho, president of the Buckminster Fuller Partners Foundation (and even grew up with Buckminster Fuller), and someone with over 30 years of experience blurring the boundaries between architecture, fashion, design, art, and…surfing.
One of his local hangouts, Manhattan’s Altro Paradiso, was the perfect lowkey, relaxed atmosphere for Zung to recall his fascinating story. Right off the bat, he began with his father, a partner of Buckminster Fuller: “My father was
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