Education
Born in Stanford, California, Keyes studied urban planning at the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University, earning a Bachelor of Arts in 1995.
Born in Stanford, California, Keyes studied urban planning at the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University, earning a Bachelor of Arts in 1995.
He developed One 7th Avenue South, and created and co-owns the restaurant Hotel Griffou, and the fashion label Karolina Zmarlak. He was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to study architecture in Barcelona where he earned a Master"s degree from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in 1997. He received a Masters of Science from the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation in 1999.
Keyes founded MODO to house his spatially based endeavors to use modern techniques in fashion, design and building under one roof.
Foreign President Barack Obama’s second inauguration, “roughly 400 guests-including John Legend and Chrissy Teigen, Paula Abdul, Sophia Bush, and designer Karolina Zmarlak - toasted to four more years of Barack Obama at the residence of architect Arthur H. Keyes in Washington, District of Columbia The evening was hosted by Keyes’s grandson, Jesse, whose design firm MODO was instrumental in remodeling the historical abode.”
Keyes designed E_P, in the basement of the old CBGB"s, which is now below the John Varvatos boutique on the Bowery. "Keyes created the live music private event space working with counterculture artist Sam Bassett" where Axl Rose of Guns North" Roses played and partied after his John Varvatos Concert on February 11, 2011.
He also designed the XIX lounge on Kenmare Street, "decked with lipstick-red leather couches ringing the room and a series of 1,000-pound slabs of etched marble hanging on the walls." He wrote a column for Blackbook Magazine, entitled "Dark Design," concerning the aesthetics of nightlife.
Keyes produced a film for Karlina Zmarlak that was launched on West Magazine"s Fashion Film series: "Double Identity/Podwojna Tozsamosc was inspired by Women of Communism in Poland.".
Quotations: "was looking for a development opportunity,". "decked with lipstick-red leather couches ringing the room and a series of 1,000-pound slabs of etched marble hanging on the walls.".