Yachts International

IN HIS GENES

Scientists long ago figured out that we carry DNA from both our parents. Frank Laupman, founder and director of Omega Architects in the Netherlands, feels that his success is very much the product of both his mother and his father.

“My mother was an interior designer and an artist, and my father was a manufacturer who invented and designed machinery for mass production,” Laupman says. “My work reflects an equilibrium between my private and personal artistic ideals, and communal values.… I enjoy creating something not

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