One Design Center Place
Suite 541
Boston
JUST BECAUSE DIANA LEVINE FINE ART PUTS HUNDREDS OF ARTWORKS INT INTO HOTELS, CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS AND HOLLYWOOD MOVIES DOESN’T MEAN ITS OWNER DOESN’T PUT EQUAL IMPORTANCE ON THE NEXT CUSTOMER WALKING THROUGH HER
DOOR. “NO MATTER HOW SMALL OR HOW LARGE A SALE, I HAVE TO TAKE THE LITTLE ONES,” SAID DIANA LEVINE, WHOSE BUSINESS IS STRATEGICALLY LOCATED IN THE BOSTON DESIGN CENTER.
“Maybe I’ll just sell two posters for $75 each but I don’t know where
those might lead,” said Levine. Indeed, one such sale eventually
led to her furnishing artwork for the entire home of a corporate executive. “That’s why you never ever know. It started with a poster for his office.”
Levine’s corporate art consulting career began in 1977. She followed the lead of her mother, Raye Landis, an early innovator in the field who counted filling all 26-floors of the New Jersey Public Service Electric & Gas Company building with works by New Jersey artists amongst her greatest successes. “I was fortunate that my first big client as a corporate art consultant was Prime Computer,” Levine said. “They had bought out Computervision and I was hired to redo their headquarters. I worked so hard to make it work.”
In 1987, she decided to bypass Newbury Street and open her own gallery
showroom in the newly opened Boston Design Center on the South Boston
waterfront. She’s still an important piece of what the center offers: one-
stop shopping for building architects as well as individuals looking to remodel or build a new home. “In 2008, being in the Boston Design Center makes my gallery entirely different than