Salvor Projects Bebetan Bag

$225 width=”300″ height=”300″ class=”none” /> $225 Salvor Projects Bebetan Bag Crafted at Salvor Studio in Manhattan’s LES, these wool and silk broadcloth bags are designed by NYC’s Ross Menuez. Stitched with an Oxford lining and held together with copper rivets for durability. Available from Salvor Projects for $225 width=”300″ height=”300″ class=”none” /> Salvor Projects Bebetan Bag Crafted at Salvor Studio in Manhattan’s LES, these wool …

A Startup Store: Beta

A story-centered approach to collaborative retail

Taking the principles learned from NYC-based start-ups, retail consultant Rachel Shechtman quietly unrolled A Startup Store last night in the shadow of the High Line. “A Startup Store has the point of view of a magazine, but it changes like a gallery and it sells things like a store,” she says. Shechtman calls the concept “transactional storytelling,” placing a narrative at the center of a …

George Herms

Consumerist society's refuge becomes art in the artist's second solo show at NYC's Susan Inglett Gallery

As one of the most unique artists to emerge from the anti-establishment movement of the 1960s, George Herms creates unconventional assemblages from a range of refuse materials. By rescuing civilization’s discards to make art, Herms creates two- and three-dimensional works that prove the point of cause and effect—and, more light-heartedly, that old adage about trash and treasure. Back in NYC for his second solo show …