Culture is not static, and within a country or a community there are countless variations on and innovations in tradition (which might be even more vigorously internally policed than the experimentation of...
Read more“Choices are very much our thing,” says Nick Ozemba, the co-founder, with Felicia Hung, of the Brooklyn-based lighting design studio In Common With. The five-year-old brand’s ethos is evident in its 2,500-square-foot...
Read moreUnlike many cultures, Americans have very few rituals surrounding death — no monthly remembrances, no festivals. Yet over the course of the pandemic, conversations on mortality have become more and more prevalent...
Read moreFrom an early age, Sergio Roger knew that textiles would be his medium. Growing up in Barcelona, where he’s now based, the Spanish artist, 40, sewed toys from scraps of cloth. Later,...
Read moreThe gold collar is an ancient form of adornment; around the third millennium B.C., the Egyptian hieroglyph for the word “gold” itself took the form of a necklace that was bold, broad...
Read moreAS A CHILD growing up in London in the 1980s, Sarah Wheeler, now a dealer in turn-of-the-20th-century photography, traveled each summer with her sisters, Jacquetta and Charlotte, to Dar Sinclair, a white...
Read moreWhy are restaurants in the city filling up at hours that were once unfashionably early?
Read moreOMER ARBEL USED to live on the cliff’s edge. He had a windswept shack perched on a promontory overlooking the industrial port of Vancouver, British Columbia, the sort of experimental space —...
Read moreOn a hot day in early August, 24 people gathered in a studio space in Red Hook, Brooklyn. They all had something in common: All of them were artists. They were also...
Read moreIt’s not often that a homeowner offers an interior designer a distinct cultural reference and the complete creative freedom to channel it, but that’s what Chloe Warner, the founder of Redmond Aldrich...
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