Five Favorites from Boerum House & Home

The new Brooklyn store designed to look like an apartment and entirely furnished with shoppable objects

Retail store, museum gallery or apartment: the newly opened Boerum House & Home joins the row of stores including jewelry designer Erica Weiner and fragrance boutique Twisted Lily on Atlantic Avenue that make the Boerum Hill block a formidable shopping pitstop. Creative collective Partners & Spade (the folks behind diverse ventures from travel luggage to Shinola’s campaign with Bruce Weber) have filled the space—built by …

One-Off Ceramics by Leah Reena Goren

The Brooklyn-based illustrator manifests her flower and cat obsession onto dishes and vases to charming result

For a while now, Brooklyn-based illustrator Leah Reena Goren has caused waves due to her cat-influenced prints on tees, scarves and totes. In between working on her zine, Sad Girls and producing limited edition patterns for Anthropologie, however, Goren—who happens to share a studio with fellow artist and recent CH video subject Rachel Levit—has also produced some pretty unique ceramics that are equally eye-catching. Because …

Interview: Denise J Reytan

The Berlin artist's "wearable collages" mix vivid colors, silicone, precious gems and more

While many jewelry designers stick to classics like gold, silver and semi-precious stones, Denise J Reytan builds her “wearable collages” from the most unusual colors and materials. Silicone, textiles and even custom-casted plastic objects are juxtaposed together in necklaces and bracelets, and the results are not outlandish or gaudy, but instead uniquely graceful. More conceptual pieces of art, Reytan’s accessories are equally sought after by …