Astier de Villatte

Ceramics, candles, hand printed agendas and more from one of our favorite Parisian brands

It took a recent visit to one of our favorite Paris shops to realize that despite using their products all the time we’ve never written about them. Astier de Villatte is a 15 year old lifestyle powerhouse founded by Benoît Astier de Villatte and Ivan Pericoli. Their unique take on ceramics, paper goods, perfumes, candles, furniture, silverware, glassware and more are created in a Bastille …

Cannondale and Junk Food Clothing

An urban road bike gets a vintage-inspired overhaul in a one-off collaboration

Biker gangs like the Hells Angels may have more in common with Cannondale’s murdered-out Bad Boy bicycle, per se, but Junk Food Clothing‘s new motorcycle club-inspired rendition offers enough attitude to lure its own contingent of riders. The collaborative bike is the first of two unique designs that the L.A.-based T-shirt brand will conceive for Re:Mix Lab, Antenna Magazine’s five-city-wide traveling art show. Cannondale’s Michael …

Modern in the Past Tense

The New York School of Interior Design recreates the seminal show "What Modern Was" in a new exhibit and discussion

When the traveling exhibition “Design 1935-1965: What Modern Was” opened in 1991, the accompanying 424-page catalog startled the industry with its declaration that the Modern period was over, and should, from that point, be spoken about in the past tense. Subsequently revered as the bible for mid-century decorative arts, the heavy tome’s distinct perspective came from four years of scholarly research of the thirty-year period, …