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2025 Collectible New York
Collectible returned to NYC in late summer 2025 following the event’s strong debut a year prior in 2024. This edition moved locations, still within the Water Street complex, to a larger single space on the 39th floor of the Maiden Lane building. The gutted raw space was divided up with temporary partitions, resulting in a…
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Porsche | Industry City
The Porsche Club of America Metro NY Region hosted a summer cars and coffee at Industry City in Brooklyn. Although my time spent there was brief having to transfer between Gridlock’s VW meet on Governors Island. Cars were displayed outside on one of IC’s recognizable cobbled streets and inside the raw Box Factory space. There…
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2025 Gridlock on Governors Island
Most of the US automotive attention was focused on the last day of Monterey Car Week out west. But on a warm and sunny mid-August Sunday in NYC, dueling Volkswagen and Porsche shows meant a rather solid day of car culture in the city. A unique start was hitchhiking a ferry ride with a roll…
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Formafantasma | Formation
Milan and Rotterdam based Formafantasma’s debut US design exhibition at Friedman Benda is the much needed antidote to the glut of blobby, millenial-friendly aesthetic which somehow still is a thing. Formation is a collection of furniture and lighting rooted in the traditions of fine cabinetry merged with contemporary technical precision. There’s a lot I appreciate…
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Citroën | Bastille Day NYC
French automakers haven’t sold cars in the US for a few decades now. In automotive lingo, CItroën, Peugeot and Renault are forbidden fruit in the 50 states. So the only option to owning a French marque is importing a classic. French automotive design has a distinctive flair that mostly carries through to today. Sometimes eccentric…
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HBF Textiles & Mark Grattan | Layered
Blue Tape, Caviar and Chrome. How are these related? Each refers to a colorway name within the debut textile collection from Mark Grattan called Layered. HBF Textiles selected Grattan as the brand’s guest designer for 2025. Following a debut at NeoCon, the collection was exhibited at HBF’s NYC Flatiron showroom. Grattan’s main inspiration for the…