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From: "Architexturez." <admin-in@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 00:00:34 +0530
'I don't feel I'm selling ... I'm sharing'
Publisher and one-time sexpert Elena Ochoa is a power behind Norman
Foster's success and one of a growing cabal of influential architects'
wives. Now she's about to launch a fabulously upmarket new magazine - a
snip at £37.50
Deyan Sudjic
Sunday January 8, 2006
The Observer
Elena Ochoa wears a discreet grey tailored suit, with a silver watch,
and keeps her striking red hair scraped back from her face. Her
glass-topped desk holds a single stack of books, carefully positioned
next to an outsize vase of white flowers. Amid all this wholesome
minimalism, she chain-smokes Marlboro Lights.
Ochoa is in her London office on her way back from Moscow, in town just
long enough to change planes for New York, and then on to a family
holiday in St Moritz. Her eight-year-old daughter wanders in, face
painted from a birthday party. We are here to talk about C, the
exquisitely produced and elegantly designed photography magazine she
launches next Saturday with a party at the Serpentine Gallery. But it's
hard to ignore the unseen presence of her husband. Ochoa, the
fortysomething Lady Foster of Thames Bank, is married to Norman Foster,
one of the most successful architects on the planet and founder of a
600-strong architectural practice.