NYC Day 4


Good morning

Groovy mosaic

The Village is filled with great bikes

Maps in cabs - love that!


A visit to Lonny magazine in Midtown
(I had gotten lost so was bloody happy to find their name on the read out)
Their office was adorable!


Carey Mulligan is staring in a play down the street!


Fantastic dinner with Scott + Amet at their Bleeker St pad!

The Bike of choice in NYC appears to be a Schwinn


**The perfect way to end the evening**
Glass of wine + Martin Scorsese's doc on Fran Lebowitz. Love her.
(It's so good that I am doling it out slowly like precious bon bons - 15 mins a night!)
Highly recommended.

NYC Day 3

Ahh Sunday...

Started the day at Cafe Pick Me up
145 Avenue A - right across from Tompkins Square park
The perfect spot to read the NY Times on Sunday morning


Me visiting The High line - the amazing new Park built on top of a former railroad line.
It runs from Gansevoort St. in the Meatpacking District to West 34th St. bet 10 & 11 Aves.
The design was a collaboration between landscape architecture + urban design firm James Corner Field Operations + architecture firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro.
I was blown away by it's beauty. (A must on your next NYC trip!)


The incredible Standard Hotel which straddles the Highline.
I found it creepy looking - in kinda a good way)
(Has become famous for it's exhibitionist hotel guests!)

One example of the incredible new architecture you can view from Highline.
(A lot of gutsy stuff has been built in last 5 years - exciting)


Dinner Later at the charming Tipsy Parson in Chelsea

Tipsy Parson contained THE best bathroom I've ever seen
Amazing black + white wallpaper
Great lighting + sinks!
(The photo does not do it justice!)
I know Margot Austin would approve of this photo. She also takes pictures of bathrooms. :-)

Late night visit to the Maritime Hotel
so that I could view the Josef Frank fabric in the lobby!

Closeup of a chair
This is Frank's Manhattan pattern which he designed after emigrating here.


On way home through the West Village I read Jonathan Adler's manifesto in his window.
This quote has always been a favourite.

NYC Day 2

I forgot to bring my camera along today* so no photos.

Saturday = Essential Downtown shopping (or browsing!)

MUJI 455 Broadway
Housing Works Book store Cafe 126 Crosby
Housing Works Thrift Shop 128 Crosby
Paul Smith (love Paul Smith's Salon wall!!! - is quite to die for) 142 Greene St
J. Crew. Prince St.

Then a great dinner at
Bubby's in Tribeca 120 Hudson St.

* It was actually quite liberating to forget my camera for a day. I believe the art critic + social thinker John Ruskin would have approved! He despised cameras and felt they led to people not looking in the present but rather recording for the future. Agreed.

NYC Day 1


Here is swiss miss with speaker Maria Popova behind her.

Why is swiss miss looking so happy?
Because.....

She is announcing that Creative Morning has now grown to include London and Chicago!! YAY.

Maria Popova posited that the two most important qualities for a creative person are Curiosity and Choice. I agree whole heartedly.

Me + swiss miss (Tina Roth Eisenberg)


Wonderful friend Scott


Trip to the American Folk Art Museum
(Martin Haake's favourite place in New York :-))
There was a wonderful show on Quilts

Fantastic dinner at the cozy Porsena (21 East 7th Street)

I began my New York adventure early by attending Swiss' miss Creative morning this am at the beautifully designed General Assembly space in the FlatIron district.

The speaker was writer Maria Popova who gave a presentation on her theories of creativity. Her talk included quotes by many of my favourite designers including Paula Scher + Alex Steinweiss plus a very groovy animated film by Nina Paley which proved Popova's main point that nothing is original! It was a very thought provoking talk.