CEO: Antonio “Nino” Vendome Antonio is a Manhattan real estate developer whose collaborated with Phillip Johnson in the 1990's. Together, they played a key role in the nascent movement of “architecture as sculpture” or “habitable sculpture.”  Antonio hails from Italy, which he feels is central to his love of art, family, and humanity.  Antonio is best known for the role he played immediately after the attacks of September 11, 2001 and his community outreach through the summer of 2002. He turned his family restaurant “Nino’s American Kitchen” into a relief center that served hundreds of thousands of free meals twenty-four hours a day to firefighters, police officers, Red Cross workers and others at the World Trade Center site.