FEATURES

Battersby Brooklyn

By Sarah Williams
Left: Chef Walker Stern Right: Chef Joseph Ogrodnek

Photo: Tuukka Koski

At Battersby, it’s all personal. Chef-owners Walker Stern and Joseph Ogrodnek have a long-standing friendship that’s taken them through culinary school to stints at some of the city’s best restaurants.

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Chuck Miller

By Caroline Hwang
Chuck Miller with his wife Jeanette Miller

Photo: Michael A. Muller

The Meatpacking District in New York is full of beautiful Manhattanites, working professionals, and stylish tourists who are staying at the nearby Gansevoort Hotel and the Standard. So when you…

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Journal: Clift San Francisco

By Michael Muller
Frontside view of the Clift from Geary Street

Photo: Michael A. Muller

On a recent trip to San Francisco, the Clift hotel was the central figure and home base on a quick three-day stay during the onset of autumn in…

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RESULTS FOR "Dieter Rams"

Retail

Vitsœ New York, 33 Bond Street

Photo: Jordan Provost © 2009

Vitsœ

The stretch of Bond Street between Lafayette and Bowery is no stranger to design. It’s cobblestone road can lay claim to a surfeit of attractive shops and home to the… read more »

Features

Journal: Clift San Francisco

On a recent trip to San Francisco, the Clift hotel was the central figure and home base on a quick three-day stay during the onset of autumn in… read more »

Blog

Dieter Rams at his home in Kronberg, Germany.

Photo: V & A Museum

Dieter Rams

In design circles Dieter Rams is considered to be one of the most influential industrial designers in the post war era. Rams’s notoriety reemerged with his work for the <a… read more »

Dieter Rams in conversation with Gerrit Terstiege

Photo: Vitra

Dieter Rams Interview Vitra

It’s never tiring to read an interview with Dieter Rams. His connection and influence from the Ulm School of Design and Bauhaus gives us a lot of insight… read more »

Braun HL70

Photo: Tom Ran

Thoughts on ‘less, but better’

Dieter Rams said it (in German, to be sure), and wrote the book on it. Now the modernist design dogma—responsible for our favorite turn-table and fruit-company computers—is fast… read more »

TOURS

The Bacon Tour

By David Tez

Photo: Staff

From time to time, The Scout will feature interborough food tours designed as culinary and geographic explorations of our fair city. Each has been field tested, in a single day,…

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The Tenenbaums

By Siobhan Vivian

Photo: Staff

The Royal Tenenbaums is Wes Anderson’s visual love letter to New York. Though never explicitly named, the film presents a stunningly constructed pastiche of the quirky, the kitschy and the…

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