Grand Banks is a seasonal/summer oyster bar on the Sherman Zwicker, a 142-foot wooden schooner tied up at the end of Pier 25 in New York City. In partnership with the Maritime Foundation, Grand Banks generates funds to support maritime conservation, education, and preservation. And serves up great drinks.

The work of a good illustrator will ask more from your eye than many other visual mediums. When the work comes from André Carrilho, it will also ask more from your brain. 

The grandson of a French general, François Catroux arrived in Paris at the age of twenty. Some now say that his career is the great untold story in design.

Nico Muhly accesses his creativity through an unvarnished, unfiltered and unabashed relationship with noise, sound and music.

An authentic fashion icon, the slingback by Chanel meets the Paris house’s high standards of quality and comfort. Karl Lagerfeld himself commented, “The slingback gives grace to the leg.”

Over 1,500 tons of bronze was used in the construction of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s iconic Seagram Building in New York City.

As Céline artistic director, French photographer and former creative director at Yves Saint Laurent, Hedi Slimane has left an endurable impression on the fashion world.

Why I believe creativity is inherent in every person.

The opposite of hard work is not leisure, it’s limbo.

A cursory glance at Eddie Redmayne makes it difficult to imagine that he could be anything but a star. And now he is.

What happens when Great Design is accessed by staying open and accessing creativity, not by running numerous spread sheets and perfect statistical reports?

Performing in a true-to-life foreign dialect is hard. Plenty of actors attempt it. And plenty of them — even the good ones — flop. So what makes Meryl Streep so freakin’ good at it?

Opening night of the Schiaparelli & Prada Exhibit at The Met. Read how two unconventional women broke rules and challenged our understanding of great design.

Grace and speed, along with modern, powerful lines, adds up to an engineering wonder designed for both racing and cruising.

Clean lines, subtle transitions, and honest materials that honor air, light, and sound. Van Duysen's is an architectural language which is not shy of aesthetics, but resistant to both fashion and trends.

A founding architect of rock, Keith Richards, always seems humored and unhurried by his talent, his success, his life.

The word elegant illuminates everything from fashion to mathematics, architecture to handwriting. Yet few are able to define it completely.