Nowness In Residence: Rolf Sachs

The designer shows his holiday home and natural bob run in the restored Swiss Olympic Stadium

For their first venture in a new series exploring the intimate side of a designer’s life, Nowness takes a look at the alpine-obsessed artist Rolf Sachs and his Olympic Stadium-turned-holiday home in St. Moritz. The dynamic London-based designer spent much of his youth in Switzerland, and since shifting his focus from investment banking decades ago, has continued to create works that are as astounding as …

Art Story

Pratt students have the run of Rachel Shechtman's magazine-style boutique

One of the things we’ve always loved about Story—Rachel Shechtman‘s ever-changing store in NYC’s Chelsea neighborhood—is that every iteration is a story in and of itself. Her latest venture is Art Story, a concept shop created with the help of Art.com and a group of eight masters students of interior design at Pratt Institute. Project leaders LuzElena Wood and Kelly Rosen worked as part of …

G. Colton Flea Market

Joel Levinson's '70s-era photography inspires a weekend bazaar at the LA store

About six months ago, Garrett Colton of G. Colton (formerly Standard Goods) discovered the photography of Joel D. Levinson. Colton—who fills his Los Angeles store with new designs alongside vintage objects, magazines and books—was taken with the images in Levinson’s book “Fleamarkets,” which reveals an intimate look at California’s flea market culture of the mid-1970s. Now Colton has planned a flea market of his own …