Mitchell Rales

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Mitchell Rales (born c. 1956) is an American businessman and billionaire. He has been a director of Danaher Corporation since 1983.

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[edit] Biography

[edit] Early life and education

Mitchell Rales grew up in Bethesda, Maryland and graduated from Walt Whitman High School in 1974.[1] He earned a degree in business administration at Miami University of Ohio in 1978.[2]

[edit] Career

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[edit] Glenstone Museum

Located on 125 acres of landscaped lawns, meadows and woods in Potomac, Maryland, this private art museum designed by Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects provides a home for a collection of modern and contemporary masterworks assembled by an American industrialist. The structure, which is part of an assemblage of buildings and outdoor sculpture, stands across a three-acre pond from the client’s home, guesthouse and pool house. The 22,000-square-foot museum is a multiple volume, single-level structure clad in zinc panels and French limestone. A large, naturally lit sculpture gallery is the organizing element for a sequence of 18-feet-high gallery spaces with state-of-the-art museum environmental controls, and an administrative office suite. The sculpture gallery is also the gathering space for receptions and special events and opens onto a terrace overlooking the pond and grounds. Support space to one side of the galleries includes high-density art storage, temporary holding space, a service dock and a catering kitchen.

Visitors to the museum grounds must first pass through the estate’s entry gatehouse, and then drive along a maple tree-lined road, passing between two commissioned sculptures by Richard Serra and Tony Smith. The cobblestone entry court, anchored by another Richard Serra piece, has views of the pond, the residence and a commissioned Ellsworth Kelly totem sculpture which acts as the site’s fulcrum.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Murphy, Carolyn and Lynn Stander. "We Knew Them When", Bethesda Magazine, September 2005. 
  2. ^ Kiger, Patrick J.. "The good guys: Steven and Mitchell Rales have quietly brown-bagged their way to fortunes worth half a billion dollars. But they'd rather you didn't know that. Or them.", Regardie's Magazine, November 1994. 

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