The Mast Brothers Chocolate factory occupies only three rooms in a nondescript building in Williamsburg. The first doubles as a storefront that opens on the weekend to customers with much…
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Photo: Mindy Best
The Mast Brothers Chocolate factory occupies only three rooms in a nondescript building in Williamsburg. The first doubles as a storefront that opens on the weekend to customers with much…
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Photo: Rose Callahan
The partners behind Roman & Williams, Robin Standefer and Stephen Alesch are anti minimalists. It’s apparent in the spaces they create.
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Photo: Rose Callahan
Billykirk’s studio is surrounded by things, equipments, flat files, paintings, photos, and memories.
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Photo: Rose Callahan
Billykirk’s studio is surrounded by things, equipments, flat files, paintings, photos, and memories. read more »

Photo: Rose Callahan
Brothers Chris and Kirk Bray have been producing leather goods for the last ten years. They launched Billykirk from Los Angeles in 1999, learning their craft from a third generation… read more »
Last Friday we visited brothers Chris and Kirk Bray of Billykirk at their studio to start a series of documentaries that we’re producing on craftsmanship. We can’t say… read more »

Photo: Rose Callahan
It was always our intention from the beginning to include moving images to our static site. What that entailed, we weren’t quite sure. Six months into launching The Scout, we… read more »
Photo: Rose Callahan
We’re not finished yet. Last week we premiered our first doc on Billykirk. Along with the video we’ve included some photographs of our studio visit. Future episodes will… read more »
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,…
Read MoreThe 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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