The Art Students League of New York is a venerable institution, where the likes of Georgia O’Keefe and Jackson Pollock have studied. Their instructors are considered to be among the world’s best, and this book: Art Students League of New…
If you’re reading this, it’s too late (sorry) to get the latest from Tom Ford’s Lips and Boys collection, the shimmery purple named after Drake. It sold out within minutes at Tom Ford boutiques and on Net-a-Porter. Actually, you can…
Every year, French charity La Source challenges artists to reinterpret an iconic furniture design. This year, they chose Charles and Ray Eames’ classic wire chair designed in 1951, and the designs will again be auctioned off. We’re used to seeing…
Singapore Airlines is luxe but pretty chill about it – subtle luxury, not over the top, with attention to all the necessary customer service and experience design details. This week, they put out a video titled “No Detail Is Too…
You might be familiar with Cedric Bixler-Zavala from The Mars Volta, At the Drive-In, or Antemasque (or various other projects). He’s just released a couple of limited edition shirts now with original art – “Rabaul” and “Sable” – and both…
If it seems this is sort of a counterpoint to our post earlier this week defending the GOOP-esque, hyper-personalized, risky gifts – yes, it absolutely is. Because you’re probably giving gifts to the mainstream, too, and what better way to…
Tile is much more than stark subway walls or large-format utilitarian flooring. When elevated to include rich variations in color, texture and material, it becomes an art form. Heath Ceramics is perhaps the best known “tile house”, founded in 1948…
Today’s email edition of California Home and Design heralded the resurgence of wicker (or return of rattan, if you’d rather; on the whole rattan vs. wicker thing, we decided to consult Google Trends, and learned “wicker” is more commonly used…
It’s easy to create a gift guide of relatively universal people-pleasers. Cashmere? Chocolates? TV set? Latest gadget from Apple? OK, sure. But Gwyneth Paltrow’s GOOP lifestyle guide is generally anything but universally well-received, so naturally her gift guides are going…
We’ve been following Peter Meehan’s Lucky Peach around here since Issue 1, the Ramen Issue. I was working with Saveur’s digital brand at the time, and ran out for a copy pretty much immediately after seeing the press release (they…
