Image From left, Arthur Gerbi, president of Merci; Valérie Gerbi, its fashion director; and Daniel Rozensztroch, artistic director, at the store’s new apartment-cum-shop in Paris.CreditDmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times PARIS — Is the concept store over as a, well, concept? “What is a concept store? Personally, I don’t know any,” said Arthur Gerbi,…
This column is part of a series for the Design special report of The New York Times. Readers are invited to send questions to designadvice@nytimes.com. I’m buying the unit above my condo and would like to install a spiral staircase to save room. Everyone I know warns me that spiral staircases are huge pains. Do…
New York’s Armory Show, opening on Thursday, starts the spring culture season. But for those who can’t (or won’t) trek to Piers 92 and 94 on the Hudson River, where winds are still wintry, may we suggest picking up one of the season’s coffee-table books about design, art and artfulness through the decades? Image For…
The abstract artist Sean Scully has striped his canvases in yellows from palest omelet to warning flare. His choices have been uncontroversial — his paintings have sold for more than $1 million each — until last summer, when he went a shade too far on one of his own homes. Mr. Scully, 73, specified Gold…
On a recent rainy Friday, Hubert le Gall, a French art furniture designer, was “at home” at the Twenty First Gallery in TriBeCa, on the eve of his first American retrospective. “It’s more like a ‘best of,’” Mr. le Gall said of the show. “It’s like a portrait.” Dressed in a gray sweater and bluejeans,…
Elliot Claire: What kind of baby name is that? A girl’s name? A boy’s name? Both? Mission accomplished, said Elizabeth and Sean Scotten, of Oakland, Calif., who became parents to Elliot Claire almost a year ago. “We loved the juxtaposition of a name that’s more traditionally masculine and a name that’s more feminine,” Ms. Scotten,…
Basic cross body, what’s that? Paris Fashion Week shows that your handbag collection should include chainmail coin purses, Balmain spikes, and a Chanel bag in the shape of an Aspen ski lift. Here, see all practically impractical bags on our wish list, fresh off the Parisian runway.
When her therapist crossed the line, Julianna Baggott was confused by her reactions: interest, self-pity and glee. What did it mean to catch an authority figure performing a misdeed? How would that misdeed shift the balance of power in their doctor-patient relationship? On this week’s Modern Love podcast, the Oscar-nominated actress Isabelle Huppert reads Ms.…
Sure, CBD is everywhere. But it hit the Sundance Film Festival with full force only in January, when Charlotte’s Web, a leading purveyor of the substance — the Uber of CBD, if you will — hosted a three-day party, lines out the door, in a converted store and restaurant on Main Street in Park City,…
Courtesy Rompers have the difficult reputation of being associated with babies. And we get it. Their other name is literally “playsuit,” which just sounds like something you’d dress Prince George in. But Saint Laurent and Alexander Wang are reinterpreting the style for adults, and we’re ready to transition from jumpsuits to rompers immediately. See 7…