Cool Hunting
| 23 June 2005view entries from: this week | this month | view previous day | view next day |
In the Know
by Wendy Dembo
“I hate shopping” are the famous last words for Cool Hunting’s Ranjani Gopalarathinam, who finally understands that shopping is a talent, and not merely a consumerist distraction from "more important things in life". Her fabulous new book, "New York’s 50+ Best Little Shops" (Rizzoli/Universe, 2005), maps the city out as a macrocosm of style and imagination, staying pretty clear of chains and corporate clones (excepting an inevitable mention of Barney’s). She focuses mainly on downtown (below 14th Street) with excursions uptown and into Brooklyn. The book is fun to read and gives the 411 on the places to buy the best street fashion, custom clothing, handmade jewelry (including the best vendors on the street), obscure cookbooks, vintage T-shirt decals, and much more. She also includes top-secret New Yorker fun things to do that a “typical” magazine reader would be hard-pressed to find.
The book is ultra-compact, cute on the outside, and smart on the inside, kind of like most New Yorkers. It’s on sale at major bookstores, including Amazon and Barnes & Noble, nationwide.
Our Cup Runneth Over
by Parker Hutchinson
It's true. The bounty never stops flowing here at Cool Hunting. These glasses showed up at CH HQ the other day. We laughed. We cried. Then we decided they were actually kinda great. The Glass Fox are purveyors of pub-style glassware who specialize in personalized mugs, pitchers and pint glasses. Just choose from one of Fox’s many motifs-- “Big Buck,” “All American” and “Wolf Den,” to name a few—then have them etch your name and the fictional founding date of your imaginary establishment into the glass for no extra charge. Whether purchased ironically or ingenuously, these barware sets are bound to incite jealousy. Our favorite is etched with three words we never thought we'd ever see together, "Rubin's Irish Pub." It would be even better if you could send your own design in...
