Robin Drake
Biography
Robin Drake is a partner in Drake & Boucher Inc. in New York City, which has developed brand identities for Harry Cipriani, Aquascutum Inc., and Stow Davis Furniture. The firm also designed trade show exhibits for Esprit, the Steelcase Design Partnership, and the Container Store at the South Street Seaport Museum. Drake & Boucher were participants in a show at the Cooper Hewitt Museum entitled Materialis, which presented new materials used by design offices in the U.S. The firm has completed designs for Nienkamper furniture, Stylex Furniture, and Heller, all in Chicago's Merchandise Mart. The firm also designed the 4,000 square foot Heller Gallery in New York's Meatpacking District.
Drake designed New York traveling exhibits with works from the Wolfsonian Museum in Miami, the John Soane Museum in London, the Center for Jewish History, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. He also worked as exhibit design consultants for the Italian Cultural Institute In New York and the Gallery of the New York School of Interior Design.
Drake has had numerous works published in the New York Times design section, appeared in two Interiors Magazine cover stories, and was featured in Loftstyle by Suzanne Slesin. He was the subject of a television news interview by Roz Abrams about his design for an edible architecture competition.
Drake is on the advisory board for graduate Interior Design at Moore College of Art in Philadelphia and is currently an advisor for The Hunterdon Art Museum in Clinton New Jersey. He has a Master of Science degree in Art Education from Pratt institute.