Art Brokerage: (1907-1999) Born in New York City in1907, Altina Schinasi Miranda Carey was brought up in the “circumscribed world” created by the wealth of her father, Moussa Schinasi, a Turkish immigrant to the United States and the inventor of the cigarette-rolling machine. A changeling, over the course of her nine-plus decades, Altina became a sculptor, filmmaker, entrepreneur, mother, window dresser, designer and inventor. Though she would continue to register patents for inventions until late in life, her great breakthrough came early on when she created and marketed the Harlequin eyeglass frame that defined glamour in the late 1930s. In 1939, Miranda won the Lord & Taylor Annual American Design Award for her avant-garde transformation of the eyeglass frame into a proper fashion accessory. A walk down the street occasioned this design breakthrough; finding herself underwhelmed by the lackluster frames in an optician’s window, Altina set out to create a frame that conveyed whimsy, mystery and romance. Once she had set up production and negotiated deals with department stores, she opened an office where she oversaw marketing and distribution, until the next creative project called. Altina continued to paint and sculpt, eventually establishing herself in Santa Fe, New Mexico where she married her fourth husband, painter Celestino Miranda, and lived the final years of her illustrious life.