The Standard Gets Nailed

The hotel's publishing imprint presents a new book from Chicago-based artist Dzine

The Standard, positioning itself as a culture and lifestyle brand beyond its current roster of hotel properties, has once again succeeded in making an artful book under their publishing imprint, Standard Press. Following their first publication, “What Me Worry,” by artist Andrew Kuo, comes “Nailed,” by the edgy and multi-talented artist, Dzine. The artist’s work typically revolves around themes of beauty, style, culture and fine …

Five Objects in White

Literal highlights from the Pavilion of Art & Design during London's Art Week

Now in its fifth year, the Pavilion of Art & Design gathers the most exclusive European galleries under one large, pink tent in Berkeley Square to show their beautiful objets d’art and design as part of the ever-growing London art week—with PAD serving as a more boutique-like alternative to the nearby behemoth Frieze Art Fair. This year, we went on a quest to pick out …

Seven Deadly Dictionaries

Alphabetize your vice with this sinful set of dictionaries

Naughty librarians will love Deadly Dictionaries, a reference set based on the Seven Deadly Sins. Jennifer Wood has compiled the collection to elucidate gluttony, wrath, greed, sloth, pride, lust, and envy—each given its own cloth-bound reference tome with the look and feel of an antique. Consider it a portable, curated distillation of the Oxford English Dictionary that you don’t need a magnifying glass to read. …