Imagine a former Ralph Lauren accessories designer who turned his passion for collecting unusual and macabre art, including osteological specimens (skulls/bones), ephemera, and taxidermy, into a career. Now picture him, Ryan Matthew Cohn – who is widely known in the circles of antiques, collectors, and oddities around the globe and as an expert on the Discovery/Science Channel Oddities reality show, with his glamorous wife, Regina Marie Rossi, who when they met, over the purchase of a Tibetan Kapala skull, was an executive at L’Agent Provocateur and had previously worked with the effervescent punk fashion designer Betsey Johnson.
To complete the visual, picture a modern-day, ultra-creative (and hilarious) “Gomez and Morticia Addams-like” millennial couple, living among their very own 4000+ “oddities” art collection (ready for any international museum) in their 4000 square foot Italianate-architecture-styled home in Westport, CT (literally down the street from where Martha Stewart used to live)—the grounds also include a chapel and 2-bedroom cottage (close to the train station so that they can ‘escape’ to NYC at a moment’s notice).
Why do you need to know all of this?
Just in time for Halloween and to put the ossified cherry atop the gothic cake, they are releasing a book, The Witch’s Door: Oddities & Tales from the Esoteric to the Extreme (October 1, 2024; Chronicle Prism; ISBN 978-1797229584; $30.00; Hardcover)
