In addition to an Emmy, Franklin Getchell has received more than thirty other honors,  including seven Emmy nominations, a Peabody, a Christopher, and the Japan Prize.

He is a senior executive with experience across a wide range of business disciplines. 

To date, he has had four distinct careers. For ten years he was an actor, on stage and television, including commercials, plus print and radio advertising. Classically trained, in New York and the UK, including at the Royal Shakespeare Company, he toured the country, did musical theatre, and eventually went to Hollywood, doing episodic police dramas. 

He is a writer. Of advertising copy, for two years, of television documentaries and drama, for twelve years, of newspaper and magazine articles and books, for thirty years, including co-authoring Please Do Not Touch (Rizzoli, 2018). 

He is a producer, director and television programmer, for twenty five years. In the US, UK, France, Malaysia and Japan. He was responsible for over 800 hours of television, and in his tv career, had programming on PBS, NBC, CBS, ABC and HBO in the US, and on four cable satellite channels in the UK (one of which he created), as well as Discovery Channel Europe. For six years, he was in charge of Sesame Street. 

He is a retail executive, for fifteen years as President of Moss. 

And, exploiting the experience and expertise gained from all that came before, he is a high level Consultant, and Advisor, over a broad range of topics and fields. 

His professional expertise extends to marketing and branding, business development and corporate management. His own company, Getchell Intellectual, had clients in both the public and private sectors, and while in the UK, he had a regular column in Broadcast, the industry weekly newspaper. He was a frequent speaker at media conferences, festivals and trade shows.

He is a graduate of Harvard, and attended Columbia and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts.

PRESS

"Moss--impresario, provocateur, and inventor of the store-as-museum concept--is the retailer most responsible for transforming Soho and taking high-end design mainstream."  - Metropolis 2012

 

"Arguably the best design store in America"                                           - The New York Times 2003

 

"Once in a hundred years, a shopkeeper may emerge with a vision powerful enough to alter the culture…. If a new design revolution results, it will have started at 146 Greene Street in the shop called Moss".                  - The Washington Post 2003

 

“(Moss) is a source of enlightenment to New Yorkers about the history and culture of furniture and designer objects. ”  - Intramuros (cover story) 2000

 

"Moss is the world's best design store for the simple reason that its owner, Murray Moss, treats it as a personal obsession."                                                                                  - Sunday Telegraph 2004

 

“...one of the most influential retailers in America."                                        - Departures 2005

(Moss has) “become the best (and I’ve chosen that superlative carefully) design store in the world.” -Alice Rawsthorne, International Herald Tribune 2007

“His shop and his New York gallery are considered the best of the United States." - Architectural Digest France 2009

"Murray Moss is the Pied Piper of avant-garde design, the Soho Savonarola of Sottsass, the Don King of Droog. For someone who is neither a designer nor a manufacturer, he exerts a profound influence on the elite New York design scene."                                                   - Interior Design 1999

New York Magazine THE CUT:

Inside a Design Icon’s Colonial Castle Where Snow White’s Dwarfs May Have Died

1stDibs Introspective Magazine:

Murray Moss Moves to America

Regarding Murray’s lectures at RISD:

Modern Magazine

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