FEATURES

Billykirk Studio Visit

By Tom Ran
Chris and Kirk Bray of Billykirk

Photo: Rose Callahan

Billykirk’s studio is surrounded by things, equipments, flat files, paintings, photos, and memories.

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By Loft Visit

By Shawn Kelly as told by Sarah Williams
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

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…

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Life of a Personal Chef

By Maggie Shi
Left: Jill Donenfeld Right: Whiskey Prawn Skewers w/Tomato Curry

Photo: Left: Jill Donenfeld Right: Melissa Ricketts

It sounds like an idyllic life—cooking inventive meals in private homes, working flexible hours, spending your days shopping at the greenmarket, and getting paid to do it all.

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Features

Chris and Kirk Bray of Billykirk

Photo: Rose Callahan

Billykirk Studio Visit

Billykirk’s studio is surrounded by things, equipments, flat files, paintings, photos, and memories. read more »

Videos

Chris Bray and Kirk Bray of Billykirk

Photo: Rose Callahan

Billykirk

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 »

Blog

At Billykirk's studio with Kirk Bray on the left and Chris Bray

Photo: Staff

Billykirk

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 »

Chris Bray and Kirk Bray of Billykirk

Photo: Rose Callahan

Billykirk

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 »

Chris and Kirk Bray of Billykirk

Photo: Rose Callahan

Billykirk Studio Visit

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 »

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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