Category: NY Times

To take advantage of our K-shaped Trillionaire economy, Rolls-Royce is expanding its factory, but will will be focusing on scarcity, privileging price over production.

On the site of a former drive-in theater in Allentown, PA, Nicola Bulgari–scion of the Italian luxury goods empire his grandfather founded in 1884–has funded a museum dedicated to restoring hundreds of under-loved mid-market American cars from the 1920s-1950s. I explore the site, and Nicola’s reasoning, in my latest for the New York Times “Styles” section.

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The movie–starring Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Rita Moreno, and Sally Field–was released in the theaters, seeking an under-served audience of women over 35. I went to Boston on its opening day to see who was showing up.

My latest for the local paper is all about Guilty By Association, a new art commerce platform with a direct and significant mission: remaking the art world, more equitably and joyously.

I went home to Detroit to cover the first annual Detroit Concours d’Elegance, the only notable American classic car show to be held in a major city.

My story on the merger of furniture giants Herman Miller and Knoll, and what it means for the design community and the Modernist legacies of these brands, was on the cover of the Styles section in Sunday’s New York Times. I’m quite proud of this story, particularly, its connection to my alma mater, Cranbrook.

“I got texts from my friends saying, ‘Oh my God,’ and ‘I’m so jealous,’ and ‘Are you selling your tickets?’” Ms. Mason said. “I was like, No. I’m graduating from college. I want my mother there.”

“I wanted to make a car that, when it drove by, would go pop-pop-pop.”

My first piece for the New York Times Style section is about the charming Julian Shapiro-Barnum and his social media sensation Recess Therapy. Free online today for you CBs, and in PRINT in Sunday’s paper.

The exemplary Hirohata Merc actually cost $1,949,990, not $1.95 million, because there’s a secret $10 rebate hidden in the car.