February 27, 2011 | No Comments
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!
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January 30, 2011 | No Comments
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.
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January 27, 2011 | No Comments
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!
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September 15, 2010 | No Comments
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
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