Read a Poem to a Client Over the Phone
Read a Poem to a Client Over the Phone
This is an example of one of the many services we can provide to clients of Imperial Services.
I.S. Consultant Dan Nelson
I.S. Consultant Dan Nelson
8 x 10 in.
Consultant Dan Nelson (above, on assignment in Italy) has been with Imperial Services since 1998, when he founded the western Connecticut presence of the group. He brings two decades of experience in art and thirty years of service-based work. He offers services in the categories of Strategizing & Guidance, Self-Improvement, Oral Servicing, Love Life, Content Generation, and Heavy Lifting, among others.
Imperial Services Office
Imperial Services Office
An Imperial Services office displaying a print of a Rorschach inkblot. Hermann Rorschach (1884 – 1922) was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst whose education in art helped to spur the development of a set of inkblots that were used experimentally to measure various unconscious parts of the subject's personality. His method has come to be referred to as the Rorschach test, iterations of which have continued to be used over the years to help identify personality, psychotic, and neurological disorders. Rorschach continued to refine the test until his premature death at age 37.
Eilshemius
Eilshemius
Louis Michel Eilshemius was an artist and Renaissance man in the first half of the 20th century. Known primarily as a painter who was promoted by Marcel Duchamp, he was not shy about promoting his panoply of skills, which were presumably some combination of real and imagined. As an antidotal attitude to the specialist mentality of the 21st century, and as one who envisioned the self as containing multitudes, he is one of the spiritual forefathers of Imperial Services.
Imperial Services Logo and Tagline
Imperial Services Logo and Tagline
Imperial Services logo and tagline, designed ca. 1977, designer uncredited
Founder Eugene Guarnieri
Founder Eugene Guarnieri
5 x 7 in.
Imperial Services was founded in 1956 in Chicago by Eugene Guarnieri (shown at right with an unidentified client), a semi-retired professor of psychology, amateur sculptor, and violist. As the child of a wealthy diplomat he traveled the world throughout his youth, living in Persia, Italy, Ethiopia, and Norway, eventually becoming fluent in five languages. After serving in in a secretive psy-ops division of the U.S. Army in World War II, Guarnieri taught at the University of Chicago, where he came into contact with an aesthetically rarefied world created by the educated and wealthy of the city. His social ties and savvy way with people eventually translated into informal consulting sessions held in upscale hotel bars, private clubs, museums, and homes.
Early Imperial Services Business Card
Early Imperial Services Business Card
2.5 x 3.5 in.
Business card. ca. 1957 showing the original logo that bears the Latin saying "Audentes Fortuna Iuvat", i.e. "Fortune favors the bold." Designer uncredited.