FEATURES

What’s In Store? - 3x1

By Tom Ran
Scott Morrison, founding partner of 3x1.

Photo: Daniel Bernauer

Scott Morrison is the Sean Parker of denim. Though not as ubiquitous as facebook, Morrison has had a string of successes with the launch of Paper Denim & Cloth and…

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What’s In Store? - Saturdays Surf

By Tom Ran
The Saturdays Surf crew, left to right: Morgan Collett, Josh Rosen, and Colin Tunstall

Photo: Tuukka Koski

For years surfing in NYC was reserved for the die hards. Even though the Atlantic Ocean is minutes away, the urban density didn’t make transporting a surfboard an easy task….

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Behind the Bar - Karlsson’s Batch 2008

By Craig Cavallo
A family affair, Bertil Gunnarsson with his son Bo Gunnarsson.

Photo: Stefan Andersson

Potatoes are a significant part of Swedish culture. On Cape Bjare, in the south of Sweden, the soil they grow in is referred to as farmer’s gold. The country grows…

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RESULTS FOR "Italian Design"

Retail

Photo: Staff

Spoonbill & Sugartown

Spoonbill & Sugartown is an authentic independent bookstore and a destination for new ideas. You’ll appreciate that every title here feels hand-selected. read more »

Features

Before - Piero Lissoni for Living Divani - Softwall Sofa, Box series chairs and Metro2 table, Ile side table.<br> Vintage and Flea market accessory pieces. Lighting by Flos.

Photo: Jordan Provost © 2009

By Loft Visit

Anyone with a design fetish in New York City dreams of a cavernous loft space to create endless compositions of beautifully designed furniture punctuated with rare artifacts, and the luxury… read more »

Multiple Visions A Common Bond exhibit

Photo: Dana Johnston

El Encanto de un Pueblo (The Magic of People)

Brooklyn welcomed Dana and me on November 7th, 2004 to a sublet apartment with a sheet-less bed and the haunting noise of radiator piping. We arrived with 2 suitcases and… read more »

Blog

Beller's Drifted stool

Photo: Beller

Beller

Norwegian designer Lars Beller Fjetland’s Re-Turned wooden birds have been making the rounds lately, and for good reasons. The preciously designed birds are made from reclaimed Norwegian wood,… read more »

By New York loft

Photo: Jordan Provost © 2009

By New York

Several months back, The Scout was invited to tour the By loft in Soho and to document the annual transformation that occurs right before ICFF. By New York is part… read more »

Joe Colombo, sitting on Universale, Kartell, c. 1966 Ignazia Favata/Studio Joe Colombo, Milan

Photo: Oliviero Toscani

Joe Colombo

This is Joe Colombo, the pipe smoking, Italian, space age modernist, bad-ass, mostly known for his bold plastic pieces for Kartell. Through his short career (he was only 41 when… read more »

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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