See How a St. Louis House Was Transformed Into a Vibrant Arts Club
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Published on: February 24, 2021
Gallerist and art consultant Susan Barrett has dreamed up a space in which more is never enough.
Eight years ago, long before you and everyone you know inhaled the smash-hit Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit, the multihyphenate creative force Susan Barrett was making chess cool in her hometown of St. Louis. Barrett, an architect and painter by training, was at the time the founding executive director of the World Chess Hall of Fame; a non–chess player herself, she dreamed up an exhibition, “A Queen Within: Adorned Archetypes,” that melded fashion and chess.
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