Justine Lynch, of the new herbal pharmacy, acupuncture clinic, and café Mountain (903 Franklin Ave., Crown Heights), on anti-flu shopping.

Two new tattoo parlors are exceptionally women-friendly.

Female Factor

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Female Factor

Space

Standards

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Naked Desk LampsThe exposed-bulb style, at the office.

transparent bulb, VERTICAL

opaque bulb, VERTICAL

transparent bulb, HORIZONTAL

Picks from John Neamonitis of e-shop WorkOf (workof.com), home to 70-plus indie furniture designers, relaunching mid-October.

InForm Fitness founder Adam Zickerman takes his Mobile Gym—a full circuit of machines bolted to the interior of a gutted bus—to Manhattan ($95 per client, minimum three clients; 212-755-9895).

What inspired the van? I founded my first gym in 1997. A few years ago I was waiting on line for a food truck, and I was like, Aha! I customized a short bus—stripped out all of the seats and secured six machines around the edges, including a leg press and a rower. There’s an aisle down the middle for floor work.

Who’s your typical client? CEOs and people in the Financial District. The 30-minute workout—which is high intensity but slow motion, so you don’t sweat too much—fits into a lunch break. We have commercial plates, so it is actually not too difficult to park.

Splatterware—that enameled staple of Midwest campsites and ’80s wedding registries—is suddenly showing up in Paris concept shops.