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Vintage suitcases serve a better purpose than harboring moldy clothing and Grandpa’s Yankee card collection. For starters, add light bulbs and an accordion mirror to make a vanity or straps and shelving for a liquor cabinet. Floating along the wall, the suitcase looks like something out of a Dali painting, but in the real world, is mounted using French cleats.
The suitcase cabinets are designed by VanityCase, recently founded by curator and carpenter, Jean Barberis. Barberis scavenges the boroughs (mostly Queens) for vintage suitcases. Each item is one-of-a-kind, can be custom made, and is an exquisite storage solution for stylish urbanites and eccentrics.
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Illustration: Dominika Dratwa
Sort of.
This girl is taking a bus trip with an artist collective this weekend. The organizers tell you what to bring (this week: clothes you can get “very” dirty and your best singing voice) and where to meet, but NOT your destination.
I know what you’re thinking, but pray that I return with my knee caps, more importantly, with eyebrows. Pa-ka.
*UPDATE*
STOP 1: The pristine part of the Bronx: Waver Hill in Riverdale. Then it starts raining…
STOP 2: The grittiest part of the Bronx – down a steep, muddy hill to an abandoned subway station, featuring some of the area’s oldest graffiti.
STOP 3: The tip of the Bronx: SUNY Maritime College
STOP 4: The Best Italian Ices (Are In Queens)
STOP 5: Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival in Corona Park.
STOP 6: “NOT HOME”: lounging, beers, food. All documented by a reporter who followed us the entire day. Then…
Wee into the night, the group ended up trekking 20 blocks to the reporter’s grandmother’s apartment on the Upper East Side. The 76-year-old grandmother was a lovely, liberal-minded woman, who graciously welcomed 12 people into her home after midnight and insisted we make ourselves comfortable. She told us stories like the little children we were and expressed how young she felt. However, the best part was the trekking, boombox blaring, through the old guard UES like the circus just came through town. Best.time.ever.
