Shopping for Brooms

When your floors are littered with dirt, wood shavings or spilled cereal, having a well-designed broom and dustpan at the ready can make the cleanup a lot easier. “When you’re doing work, it’s more pleasurable to use something that’s properly designed,” said Taylor Levy, who, with her husband, Che-Wei Wang, runs CW&T, a Brooklyn design…

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Sending Out an S.O.S.

There’s a story I tell my sons to remind them that, despite much evidence to the contrary, humans have the capacity to be amazingly kind. The story takes place in 1988, when I was in college and on a summer trip with my family to Alaska. One afternoon, my sister Beryl and I rented a…

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The Most Dressed: Striking a Pose

What happens when fashion week collides with the Armory Show and the fall art season? Lots of parties, of course. Three big museum openings took place on Sept. 8, including the Wolfgang Tillmans retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art. Nearby, the Museum of Arts and Design celebrated the costume designer Machine Dazzle; the bohemian…

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