Giovanna Gigi Cassilly This is Me

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   Published on: 3/18/2006   Last Visited: 3/24/2006

   Bob and Giovanna Cassilly invite us in
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   Bob and Giovanna Cassilly invite us in By Susan Fadem SPECIAL TO THE POST-DISPATCH 03/18/2006
   
   Bob and Giovanna Cassilly Bob and Giovanna Cassilly, reflected here in a mirror, together designed their loft above the City Museum. Bob, the museum's co-founder, is currently creative director there, and Giovanna is an artist.
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   Cassilly, a classically trained sculptor, is the museum's creative director.
   
   Giovanna "Gigi" Cassilly, 34, a Providence, R.I., native and Bob's wife of four years, likewise comes from an artistic background. While living in Los Angeles and then Seattle, she learned to work on a grand scale, making something from next to nothing, within a budget, on a tight deadline and preferably with Hollywood potential. As a painter, she sold work to actor William Shatner and to Anthony Kiedis of the Red Hot Chili Peppers band.
   
   As costume designer for "SLC Punk!", a late '90s film about two punk rockers in Salt Lake City, she developed rubber handbags. To market those purses, she moved to St. Louis, where her brother, Steven Zompa, and her parents, Henry and Joan Zompa, had relocated. >
   
   Ironically, Gigi had lived during an earlier stint here in studio space at 701 North 15th Street.
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   Giovanna has done wonders. If it were up to me, I'd live in a hovel. She made this a house.