TOURS

The Bacon Tour

By David Tez

Photo: Staff

From time to time, The Scout will feature interborough food tours designed as culinary and geographic explorations of our fair city. Each has been field tested, in a single day,…

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The Tenenbaums

By Siobhan Vivian

Photo: Staff

The Royal Tenenbaums is Wes Anderson’s visual love letter to New York. Though never explicitly named, the film presents a stunningly constructed pastiche of the quirky, the kitschy and the…

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Vitsœ

Furniture
Vitsœ New York, 33 Bond Street

Photo: Jordan Provost © 2009

The stretch of Bond Street between Lafayette and Bowery is no stranger to design. It’s cobblestone road can lay claim to a surfeit of attractive shops and home to the first Herzog & de Meuron building in New York. The street’s intermingling of contemporary with classic is harmonious and natural, an extension of the city’s collective swagger. Set atop the venerable Dashwood Books, one gets the feeling that there is no locale more apt for Vitsœ’s first US showroom.

URL vitsoe.com

Ale et Ange

Men's & Women's Clothing
Ale et Ange

Photo: Mindy Best

Step into Ale et Ange and you feel like you’ve stepped into your best friend’s apartment… That is, if your best friend is a clothing designer with a fondness for soul and jazz. Meet Osere Oyagha, your new best friend. Launched earlier this year, Ale et Ange is a partnership between Osere and Eloise Simonet, the designers behind the men’s and women’s clothing label.

Saipua

Floral
Saipua

Photo: Mindy Best

Off of what you might call the main drag in Red Hook, Van Brunt Street, there are dozens of anonymous warehouses and garages. One of these, however, is not at all like the others. In fact, line up Saipua next to almost anything or anyone else and you might say that.

URL saipua.com

Luddite

Vintage & Antiques
Luddite, Williamsburg New York

Photo: Mindy Best

A “luddite” is one who resists progress in technology and industrialization. Luke Scarola and Rebecca Squiers have turned that resistance into a passion, creating a store that honors time-worn artifacts.

URL ludditeinc.tumblr.com/

Greenwich Letterpress

Design

Photo: Staff

Sisters Amy Salvini Swanson and Beth Salvini combined their talents in graphic design and fine art with their printing pedigree to form Greenwich Letterpress.

Scandinavian Grace - Catskills

Design
Scandinavian Grace in the Catskills

Photo: Courtesy of Scandinavian Grace

Scandinavian Grace has opened a spacious new outpost just outside of Woodstock, NY. The store is nestled among the Catskill Mountains, and the sturdy, timeless look of Scandinavian design fits perfectly with the landscape.

URL scandinaviangrace.com