By Alix Cohen
Woman Around Town
July 25, 2011
Joy Liotta Horvath learned to sew from her mother and to upholster from her father. She’s restored antique leather fire buckets for collectors, antique French leather club chairs for decorators and currently does restoration work for the antique department of Ralph Lauren in New York. For her own atelier, Gioia Handbags, she designs and creates functional artwork otherwise recognized as handbags.