STEVEN KURUTZ

February 1, 2020

Somewhere Between a Shared Cab and a Private Jet, It’s the Commuter Helicopter

Private jets are the ultimate symbol of our new Gilded Age: Ever more popular with the very wealthy, they have induced a sort of hand-wringing among […]
January 14, 2020

Olivia Palermo Got a Lot Out of That Internship

In 2018 Olivia Palermo hired a social media agency to help build her online following. She already had five million followers on Instagram. That agency noticed […]
January 10, 2020

They Were Victorian Dandies Who Made Art. Now One Is Broke.

Once in the late 1970s, somebody insulted David McDermott’s mother at a party, so he went to Tiffany & Company and had a note engraved: “Mr. […]
January 10, 2020

They Were Victorian Dandies Who Made Art. Now They’re On the Outs.

Once in the late 1970s, somebody insulted David McDermott’s mother at a party, so he went to Tiffany & Company and had a note engraved: “Mr. […]
December 12, 2019

The Incredible Shrinking Wallet

As co-owner of Billykirk, a leather goods brand based in Jersey City, N.J., Chris Bray has devoted the past 20 years to hand-crafting wallets, among other […]
December 4, 2019

Inside The World of Interiors, Condé Nast’s Secret Weapon

LONDON — To be a magazine reader these days is to lament — unless you are reading The World of Interiors, published since 1982 by Condé […]
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, […]