Wonderful WORLD
In 2020, when Covid hit New York, Richard Christiansen, the Australian-born founder of boutique think-tank, bookstore and brand agency Chandelier Creative, remembers watching as his warp-speed world was sucked into the vortex of a contagion.
“I never get super-emotional, but I had run this advertising agency for 20 years and was so tired of always being on planes, always being out of alignment,” he says of the hyperactivity incurred by helming offces in Los Angeles, Paris and New York. “It took Covid to crumble that machine. To be honest, the pandemic was the best thing that ever happened to me.”
Recalling a friend in Los Angeles simultaneously enlisting his aid for local farmers whose income had lost to
