Daniel Kucan on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition from WCHS-TV8

		Sunday, May 18, 2008 10:03:19 AM

	EXTREME MAKEOVER: HOME EDITION

	TY PENNINGTON Design Team Leader and Carpenter

	PAUL DiMEO Designer and Carpenter with Attitude

	PAIGE HEMMIS Designer of Carpentry and Nuts & Bolts

	TRACY HUTSON Designer for Shopping and Style

	MICHAEL MOLONEY Designer of Interiors and Glamour

	CONSTANCE RAMOS Designer of Building and Planning

	PRESTON SHARP Designer of Exteriors and Big Ideas

	TANYA MCQUEEN Designer

	ED SANDERS Designer and Carpenter

	EDUARDO XOL Designer and Landscape Artist

	DANIEL KUCAN Designer

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Daniel Kucan
Designer on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

From the age of seven, Daniel Kucan grew up in a strict theater conservatory in Las Vegas where he began his education in design and carpentry. Over the next eleven years, he developed an edgy, dramatic style and quickly became known as an artist who made rules up as he went along. Going from one extreme to another, Kucan then attended New York University, where he added a hip, global perspective to his style and embraced the East Village rock and roll aesthetic of the downtown crowd.

After graduating from NYU, he moved back to the west coast and became the lead designer for Hollywood's ultra current and eclectic Mortise and Tenon on La Brea, where his sense of neoteric cool found a warm home among the trendy Hollywood elite. With the ability to actually construct the furniture he designs, his creations take on a fresh and personal vibe that makes each one a distinct and unconventional work of originality.

Combining a strong sense of tradition with an urban mentality, Kucan has little use for the prosaic, choosing instead to redefine the relationships between line, texture and spatial semblance. He is also a prolific world traveler, and often gains inspiration from the most obscure sources. This global awareness has instilled in Kucan a tenacious commitment to building in recycled and renewable materials, often resulting in striking compositions of offbeat character.

He currently lives in LA in a Spanish Revival home of his own restoration with his girlfriend and two smelly hound dogs. An expert in Chinese martial arts, he still occasionally fights competitively, with often disastrous results.

PERSONAL INFORMATION
HOMETOWN: Las Vegas, NV
BIRTHDATE: October 16

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