Matano is the director of industrial design at the AcademyofArtUniversity in SanFrancisco, and back in the late '80s, he led the design team that made a splash with the Mazda Miata.
Peter Schifrin, a member of the U.S. fencing team in the 1984 Olympics, is a longtime sculptor who has done numerous commissioned pieces and teaches sculpture at the AcademyofArtUniversity in SanFrancisco.
The AcademyofArtUniversity in SanFrancisco is showing a collaborative collection sponsored by UBIFRANCE, the French Trade Commission, on Friday at Lincoln Center in an effort to boost the profile of French mills in the United States.