Interview: Jacob Henley of Salemtown Board Co.

A Tennessee-native changing lives with skateboards

by Madison Kahn Last November, all that Tennessee-native Jacob Henley had was a tank of gas, some reclaimed wood and a big idea: to mentor inner-city Nashville youth by teaching them how to build one-of-a-kind skateboards. Now, six months later, Salemtown Board Co., named after the low-income neighborhood where the company is based, has sold nearly 100 hand-painted, solid-oak skateboardsand employed one very special high …

Postalco Totem Key-Holders

The Brooklyn-born, Tokyo-based brand refreshes the standard key-ring

For fall, the beloved craftsman behind Postalco introduces a clever and sleek alternative to the keyring. “It’s the simple things that are the hardest to redesign,” says Mike Abelson, Postalco co-founder, pointing out his shiny new Totem Key Holders. Made entirely of brass, these key-holders are a linear solution to the web of key-rings that tends to swallow up more than its fair share of …

The New Whitney with Renzo Piano

A hard-hat tour with the architect of the museum's future home

Sitting at the south end of New York City’s High Line park, the Renzo Piano work-in-progress is the Whitney Museum‘s future home. The team behind the project is so excited about what they have in store that they invited us to take a hard-hat tour of the building at its halfway point. Every person there—from curator to construction worker—comes to work each morning feeling like …