a guide to heritage clothing, canvas bags, steel bicycles, and Japanese web shops
At the end of 2019, I’m still following the Archival Resolutions I set out for myself at the start of the decade. My favorite has always been resolution #4: “Shop from yourself and from thrift shops. Repurpose strategic items from the past.” In the past year, I’ve been trying to shop more from myself and …
Amsterdam airport security confiscated my beloved Opinel #6. Despite a low replacement cost, I was sad to see this one go. It was purchased from the now defunct George & Son cutlery in Portland, Oregon. For whatever reason, the knife lacked a proper locking mechanism. Tom’s Dad was nice enough to fashion a leather toggle …
I’ve been shopping from Cornell library’s Human Ecology Historical Photograph collection for new utensil sets. I love the elegant presentation and the grouping of tools by function. Each photograph reminds me of the first frame of an Eadweard Muybridge motion study. I’m waiting for a pair of hands to enter the frame and activate each …
Bobby Short portrait at the Cafe Carlyle. Soon after we landed we headed over to the Carlyle for a dinner show featuring OFAM favorite, John Pizzarelli and his wife Jessica Molaskey. Jonathan Schwartz was in the audience. Tom, Sara and I breakfasted in Brooklyn with Matthew from the William Brown Project. Pratt campus. We wanted …
A.C. endorsed Opinel (Tom’s model) Discontinued Victorinox (L.L.’s current pocket folder) I’ve been shopping for another knife ever since I saw a gent in Seattle cutting leather straps with a self sharpened Randall’s Adventure knife. Unauthorized obsession Tom and Sara both say NO to a jungle survival knife. Admittedly, I’m not sure what I would …