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Split Personality
At the far end of the object design spectrum are the collectible pieces now a mainstay of galleries and art fairs. These pieces often challenge the function, aesthetics and value of more mainstream design. It can also be polarizing and difficult to understand. Is this stuff actual design or functional art? Having some context can…
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Design Potential Of Junk
The Storefront for Art and Architecture has occupied the same corner location in NYC since 1982. As you might assume, the office and basement have accumulated a mass of construction and promotion materials from exhibitions and programs over the years. Beginning in March of 2020, the space closed during the first wave of COVID-19 spread…
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What Would Have Been
In any other normal year, I’d be escaping NYC for South Florida for one final dose of warm weather the first week of each December. Also on the agenda would be covering DesignMiami and a few of the offsite design related events coinciding with Art Basel. But that’s not the case for 2020. Offering some…
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Red Hook Look
I remember my first visit to Red Hook, it was sometime in the early 2000’s and it seemed like an utterly remote industrial section of Brooklyn. It was at night and the endless walk from the subway made the journey that much more disorienting. The giant dock cranes were unloading cargo from a ship producing…
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McLaren 765LT
The pandemic hasn’t made it easy to host events, especially in New York City. Thankfully filling the void is Classic Car Club Manhattan with a series of fairly regular features of local and regional automotive eye candy. This particular evening featured a selection of hardware from McLaren of Northern New Jersey. The focus was this…
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Ford Bronco | NYSE
Sometimes it pays to hop on Twitter first thing in the morning to check the news. That was the case early on a Monday when I saw that Ford execs were going to be ringing in the trading day at the New York Stock Exchange. They’d brought with them a new 2021 Ford Bronco, Bronco…