:: design we love :: Finkel’s ART THIEF

Some of you may remember journalist Michael Finkel, who was fired from the NYTs when he altered a story embellishing the truth in 2005 about West Africa. Or some of you may remember his odd comeback when he wrote True Story, a book he authored about a criminal fugitive from Oregon who fled to Mexico using Finkel’s name as a nom du guerre in hiding. The Art Thief: A True Story of Passion, Obsession, and a Monumental Crime Spree is his most recent book and we devoured it like the main character devoured artwork with his eyes, eventually stealing over 200 works of art from dozens of European Museums in broad daylight with his girlfriend. Swords, weaponry and paintings literally crammed under his clothing - it’s a story you can’t even imagine to be true!