The Workshop
A view into the Lotuff Leather workshop last week.
A Cocktail Shaker, A Shoe Brush, and Our Flap Over Document Case
A well-crafted life often requires a highly cultivated list of nice things. Our Flap Over Document Case was recently featured on one of those lists over at Things Organized Neatly.
Christmas Cards of Old
Bard Graduate Center, Yale Press The traditions of the classic American Christmas are forever immortalized almost anywhere one looks this time of year. Some of them continue to be popular and cherished today, while others remain only in the American imagination. The latter can be relived and appreciated by looking back into the past. That's why Kenneth Ames' new book American Christmas Cards, 1900-1960, as noted in this weekend's Wall Street Journal, is such a great concept. The book includes 375 of the best Christmas cards from the first half of the twentieth century. They show how people wanted to represent their holidays and their well-wishes in a time when a quick e-mail greeting wasn't possible or available. Bard Graduate...
Bag #1044
A reader sent us this picture of his Leather Lock Briefcase in action. After a long work day, he used the bag to store a few American brews to take home. What an ingenious idea. Cheers to that!
Harry Benson, New York, New York
Frank Sinatra and Mia Farrow at Truman Capote's Ball. The Plaza Hotel, 1965. Harry Benson. Tomorrow marks the release of a collection of Harry Benson's celebrated photographs of New York society from the 1960s until today. New York, New York, as it's called, shows that Benson has been there for it all. He made it to Caroline Kennedy's Cape Cod wedding and watched over Truman Capote's ball at the Plaza Hotel. He's been invited into the homes of Andy Warhol and George Plimpton. He's hobnobbed with taste makers and debutantes, larger than life politicians and characters that have turned the ordinary into legendary. It's a stunning collection, and an interesting capture of the evolution of society and 'Society' in New York City...
Childe Hassam, Boston Common at Twilight
We love American Impressionist Childe Hassam's timeless Boston Common at Twilight (1885 - 86). On display at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts.