Street Museum of Art

The new venue spreads out across Brooklyn

With its inaugural public arts project, “In Plain Sight,” the The Street Museum of Art (SMoA) is challenging the notion of sequestering street art to a museum by bringing the museum out to the streets. Featuring work from artists like Sweet Toot, Paul Richard, and Elle, the streets of Williamsburg are currently lined with a variety of accessible pieces. To make things a bit more …

Mociun

Caitlin Mociun invites shoppers to her new store to dig through wares in a constantly changing installation

To properly experience Brooklyn-based designer Caitlin Mociun’s new Williamsburg store is to take a moment to explore each of the unusual clusters of objects that adorn the display tables, window sills and floor areas. Mociun wants you to peer into the ceramic bowls, to reach under the tables and display cases, and to lift up the vintage Moroccan rugs. “In a retail store, you’re supposed …

Egg Collective

Brooklyn-based trio hatch contemporary furniture made with an artisan’s touch

Featured in SCALE, our show at Noho Design, Egg Collective also won much praise—and the Best New Designer Award—for its debut collection at the 2012 International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF). Using quality materials and processes drawn from earlier eras, the trio intends each piece in its collection to last well beyond the lifetime of its owner. The members of Egg Collective—Ellis, Stephanie Beamer and Hillary …