STEVEN KURUTZ

October 28, 2019

The Joy of Kooky

In the early 1990s, Joost Elffers, a successful Dutch book packager, met an American expatriate living in Amsterdam named Gary Goldschneider. Mr. Goldschneider was a brilliant […]
October 16, 2019

Do-It-Yourself Sabbaticals

At Birchbox, the beauty and grooming subscription service, there is something called the “tri-bat.” Birchbox offers full-time employees who have been with the company for three […]
October 5, 2019

New Yorkers Will Have to Wait for an East River Pool

In 2011, media outlets began heralding a fantastical urban design project to be built in New York. A group of young designers and architects had dreamed […]
January 3, 2018

Noted: A Selfie for Your Shelf

Advertisement Last year Kim Phan, a clothing designer in Manhattan, decided she wanted a miniature version of herself. She wore a print dress from her label, […]
December 26, 2017

The Avalanche of Rock ‘n’ Roll Death

Andre Calilhanna, like countless kids before him, fell hard for rock ‘n’ roll. It was the early 1980s in suburban Maryland and his parents were Middle-Eastern […]
December 8, 2017

My Space: A Tour of Bill Whitaker’s High-Rise Living Room in Harlem

My Space By STEVEN KURUTZ Bill Whitaker Age 66 Occupation Journalist; correspondent on “60 Minutes” Location Harlem His Favorite Room When Mr. Whitaker landed at “60 […]
December 6, 2017

Life Lessons: Fabulous Life Lessons From Gianni Agnelli

With his aquiline nose, swept-back hair and bare chest bronzed by the Mediterranean sun, Gianni Agnelli came across like a modern-day Roman Emperor. He was sometimes […]
December 1, 2017

My Space: A Tour of Grégory Fitoussi’s Apartment Outside Paris

My Space By STEVEN KURUTZ Grégory Fitoussi Age 41 Occupation Actor, “Mr. Selfridge” (Masterpiece on PBS); “Spiral” (Netflix); and “Spin” (Walter Presents) Location Saint-Mandé, a suburb […]
October 18, 2017

Books of Style: Inside the Estate that Inspired ‘The Philadelphia Story’

In 1911, Robert Montgomery, a wealthy Philadelphia stockbroker, commissioned the architect Horace Trumbauer to build his family a home. He chose 300 acres of rolling pasture […]
October 5, 2017

Wild Horses and the Inmates Who ‘Gentle’ Them

There’s a term in the horse world known as “gentling.” It refers to working with a wild horse until it becomes responsive to a trainer’s commands, […]