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CULTURED 51 2 3 LIVE FROM LONDON Frieze London (October 15-18) is shaking things up this year, and not just through an interior redesign by Universal Design Studio. For the first time, Frieze will present "Live," a series of interactive and performance-based installations designed to inspire and challenge fairgoers. Projects include Adam Linder's Choreographic Service No. 2, a real-time interpretive dance performance, and the late Robert Breer's Floats, originally developed for the 1970 World's Fair, (pictured here) where sculptures slowly move to make onlookers feel like they are actually the ones moving. frieze.com TONY TOME More than a quarter century has passed since billionaire financier Jimmy Goldsmith tapped Robert Couturier to design his Mexican estate, Cuixmala. The project solidified the Frenchman's year-old, New York-based interiors studio and catapulted it into notoriety. Couturier has kept up the high profile since that first splash, resisting colleagues' insistence that he publish a monograph. "Most of these surveys are pretentious," he laughs. The designer finally succumbed to pressure with "Robert Couturier: Designing Paradises" out from Rizzoli in October. To create a more humble connection with the reader, the first half of the book explores his residence in Kent, Connecticut, in intimate detail. The latter spans Couturier's professional portfolio, whose multiple interpretations of luxury further reflects his grounded attitude. "A person shouldn't just receive dogma from the interior designer," he says of lacking arrogance as a matter of trade. "A house should be a reflection of self." —David Sokol Robert Couturier's home garden in South Kent, Connecticut PHOTO COURTESY OF GB AGENCY (FRIEZE); COURTESY OF RIZZOLI