Co-Founder & Design Director

Visionary behind Artencia; architect, technologist, and serial entrepreneur with three successful exits. Member of the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects and a sought-after speaker with over 600 presentations worldwide.

Steven is a serial entrepreneur and member of the prestigious College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects. Over the past 38 years, Steve founded or co-founded seven companies and has successfully exited four:

Architecture Firm: BBA Architects, Inc.

Construction Management Company: BBA/Build, LLC

Software Company: Orange Loft, LLC

Software Company: BQE Software, Inc.

Currently, Steve provides business consulting services to AE firms through his consultancy at The Well-Designed Firm and oversees operations for VBAA, including computer technology, back-office, and accounting.

Steve earned his Master of Architecture degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Syracuse University.

Co-Founder & Director of Cultural Strategy

Victoria Burns, a Northwestern University graduate in art history, has shaped her career with over 30 years of expertise in the international art market. She currently divides her time between the Los Angeles and New York offices of Victoria Burns Art Advisory (VBAA).

With a deep commitment to building collections that reflect each client’s unique vision, Victoria specializes in guiding private collectors to acquire works that align with their personal tastes and are well-positioned to retain or grow in value. Her private clientele spans major U.S. cities, including Los Angeles, Detroit, Chicago, New York City, Miami, Dallas, Phoenix, and Driggs, ID, where she provides tailored, expert advice on Modern and Contemporary Art across all media.

In addition to her work with private clients, Victoria consults for prestigious corporate and institutional clients, enhancing their fine art collections and developing educational programs. Her notable clients include the Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine, the MacArthur Foundation, Harris Associates, Children’s Memorial Hospital, Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, and Hines Developers.

Victoria is an Executive Board Member of The Association of Professional Art Advisors. Believing passionately about supporting artists as part of strategic philanthropy, she is also a Co-Founder of Angeles Art Fund. 

Co-Founder & Director of Hospitality

Linda (Burns) Coleman's career has spanned strategic and creative marketing for both television and advertising agencies. She was an Executive at firms in NYC and Chicago, each led by extraordinary women (Mary Wells Lawrence and Charlotte Beers), who became her mentors. They sparked her creativity and entrepreneurial spirit and she ultimately was the Founder and President of a business which disrupted and brought clarity to the design industry's obscure fee and billing practices.

She is an intrepid traveler (not a tourist on preplanned or group travel). She's gone from A (Australia) to Z (Zanzibar) and brings vast knowledge of the finest global hotels and wellness businesses, of roads less traveled, and the value of learning a country's unique culture and philosophy through the Masters of crafts as varied as beer brewing, Japanese whisk making, and female African tribal use of textiles, colors and styles as a means of communication.

She serves meaningfully on important Boards focusing on clinical trials for cancer research at University of Chicago Hospital, After School Programming for Chicago's inner city students, Facing History & Ourselves, Human Rights Watch, and finally the creation of the break through funding strategy for The Putney Student Travel Open Door Scholarship programs.