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First Thursday

admin — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 19:16:53 +0000

In case any of you don’t yet know we will be serving cocktails between 6-8 pm the first Thursday of every month through September. Check out the picture below from last Thursday. Proof positive that even the cute ones can have a dark side. Make sure to swing by May 5th.

Gant Windows

admin — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 22:46:17 +0000

Another Gant 5th Ave window down. I’m calling the look Industrial Seaside Chic. Check out those madras shorts. Big Daddy might have to get him a pair of those.

T Magazine

admin — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 20:54:54 +0000

Check the shout out in T Magazine.

Black & White

admin — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 02:27:26 +0000

Erica and I at Alder Manor for the wedding of Annie Sullivan and Oliver Cobb. It was a serious affair.

Alder Manor

admin — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 03:26:03 +0000

Went to the impossibly beautiful wedding of Annie and Ollie on Saturday at Alder Manor.

Here is a link to a story that Scouting New York did of the place.

http://www.scoutingny.com/?p=655

Vast Horizon

admin — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 14:29:52 +0000

Lately I’ve been thinking again about Chris Whitley. I remember years ago going to see him play at Brownies. Packed back to the windows. Smoke in the air and drinks flowing liberally. The bass player and drummer were utterly solid and faultless. The sound in the room was fantastic. Whitley’s guitar work was abstract and somehow laser guided at once. Everyone was blown away. I still think about that show. He seemed sort of shy. Vocal delivery was slinky. He took deep pulls on smokes between songs. Fidgeted with his tuning throughout. Here he is in an incredibly deep version of Hotel Vast Horizon live in a radio studio.

Come Celebrate with Old Village Hall; The Opening of Kabinett & Kammer

admin — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 19:27:17 +0000

Come by this Tuesday, March 2nd, to support and celebrate the opening of our friend’s Kabinett and Kammer’s new NYC location (http://www.kabinettandkammer.com) at 174 E2nd Street, right next door to Old Village Hall! We will be open from 12-9pm and will be serving wine from 6-9, 20% discount all day long.

Perfect chance to check out the new t-shirts and bandanas! New line of prints for spring are in as well.

Please come celebrate with us!

“Lastingness”: The Creative Art Of Growing Old

admin — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 18:27:33 +0000

What makes some artists and writers immortalized and others not? Why are some praised for their work centuries after their passing while others slip under the radar? Why is it that more people can put a finger to “Monet” vs. “Dr. Ludwig Rehn” (Dr. Rehn, by the way, performed the first successful open heart surgery). NPR covered a story based on Nicholas Delbanco’s latest book “Lastingness”: The Creative Art of Getting Old. He analyzes a few well known artists and writers work after they hit the 70 years young mark- and how their age along with ambition made their later years the most prominent in their careers.

This writing raises and answers a lot of great questions. Whether your an artist in your youth, or an artist 70+ “Lastingness” is a passage everyone can get into.

Click HERE to view and listen to the story on NPR.

JAVITS INTERNATIONAL GIFT FAIR

admin — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 18:03:21 +0000

Come see us this weekend at the Javits International Gift Fair! Fair will be held Saturday, Jan 29 – Wednesday, Feb 2. Located at Pier 92, We’re Booth #33004! We’ll be introducing a new line of totes, have an array of hand printed fabrics & pillows- both new & old, our coveted balsam pillows will be there & (saving the best for last) our highly anticipated T-SHIRTS!

Stover At Yale by Owen Johnson 1911

admin — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 03:22:08 +0000

Just finished Stover At Yale. A great source of information for those who need early ivy collegiate detail, language, references to clothing, social info, etc. I’m working on a scarf for the store for this Fall which uses some text from this story. Here is a sample: In this scene, Brockhurst is analyzing the character of fellow student Wiggin.

“He will be eminently successful – I like that word eminently. You see he has no sense humor, and especially no imagination to hinder him.” Brockhurst, in one of his quixotic moods, began to gesture to the stars as he abandoned himself to the delights of his conceit. “Oh, that’s a wonderful thing, to have no imagination – the saving of commonplace minds. If Wiggin had an imagination he would never have written a line, he would have perceived the immense distances that separated him from the Olympians. Instead he read Stevenson, Dumas, Kipling, and, unafraid, wrote little Stevenson echoes of Dumas, capsule Kiplings. He’ll go out in the world, nothing will frighten him. He will rebel against nothing, for he hasn’t an idea. He will choose the woman he needs for his needs, persuade himself that he’s in love, and then persuade her. And he’ll believe that’s a virtuous marriage. He’ll belong to the conservative party, the conservative church, and will be a distinguished subordinate, who will stand for tradition, institutions, and will be said to resemble some great man. Then he’ll die, and will be pointed to as a great example. Requiescat in pace.” pg. 339-340