First Look
Cheap and cheery Danish home-goods shop Flying Tiger opens its U.S. flagship on May 16 in the Flatiron District (920 Broadway).
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Illustration by Jason Lee
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1. Reading-glasses wall: Including blue polka-dot and simple silver-wire frames (all under $6).
2. Media: Danish pop CDs from the in-house record label, colored earbuds ($7).
3. Party supplies: Graphic paper cups and plates, cake-decorating sets, wigs (all under $5).
4. Entrance: Collections inspired by the season, from kites to cloud-shaped pillows to raindrop-print blankets.
5. Hobbies: Adhesive googly eyes, DIY kits for making origami (under $5).
6. Candle wall: All unscented, with sizes ranging from weighty to slender and colors alternating by season ($5 and under).
2x2: Watering Cans
Nature, nurture.
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Reasonable:
Metal: Haws copper can, $110 at kaufmannmercantile.com.
Plastic: Spring watering can, $24 at gessato.com.
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Splurgy:
Metal: Min watering can, $325 at mjolk.ca.
Plastic: Kiwi can, $58 at Alessi Soho, 130 Greene St.
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Illustration by Murphy Lippincott
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He Said, He Said
Tyler Trinh and Jammie Waldron met working at Pottery Barn, moved in together, and just opened their own home-goods shop, Harlem Heirloom (390 Manhattan Ave.; 917-309-1358).
Jammie: Our first product was unscented oatmeal soaps. I learned to make them by watching YouTube. Tyler collects faux taxidermy, which we carry in the store too.
Tyler: This couple out of Pennsylvania paints and glues fabric onto resin animal heads. You choose the animal — bear, T. rex, unicorn — and the fabric, and the bust is custom-made.
Jammie: We have a deer stag in our living room and a crab we found at the beach. Nothing too crazy. I won’t allow it.
Side by Side
Two new art studios — the city’s first outpost of the national Painting With a Twist and Holly’s HeART by Hand, conceived by longtime Greenpointer Holly Fairall — encourage boozing and socializing.
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A wine-centric art class at Painting with a Twist.
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Painting with a Twist
228 Smith St., Cobble Hill
The Work: Twenty-five-person classes re-create van Goghs and Matisses in two- or three-hour sessions (from $45).
The Play: A list of red, white, and sparkling wines, and a finger-food counter offering jerk-chicken pizza and mac-’n’-cheese squares.
And for the Kids: Day camp begins in July ($35 per class), with weekly themes like cityscapes and flora and fauna.
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Holly’s HeART by Hand class participants.
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Holly’s HeART by Hand
172 Greenpoint Ave., Greenpoint
The Work: Intimate eight-person sessions like Intro to Watercolors ($50) and hand-building clay classes.
The Play: “Wine & Paint” nights with bread, cheese, and wine from local Greenpoint shops ($30 admission).
And for the Kids: Summer camp starts in July ($400 per week), with “Rock n Roll” art classes, basic cartooning, and claymaking.
IRL
The Alt Citizen zine is now a storefront called Alt Space (41 Montrose Ave.) selling indie music, art prints, and clothing.
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The culture blog and biannual print zine that editor-in-chief Nasa Hadizadeh launched in 2012 was filled with Earl Sweatshirt album reviews and Hannibal Buress interviews. Now the publication has inspired a brick-and-mortar emporium with a wall of out-there fashions, including Barbie dresses ($90) from Sext Pixels and an exclusive line of collars ($55 to $350) by Eleen Halvorsen, alongside a gallery space exhibiting local artists like Brian Leo (who counts Sia among his collectors) and a small zine headquarters in back. Other avant-garde artifacts to be found in the colorful storefront are cassettes from Julian Casablancas’s Cult Records ($10) and jockstrap-shaped planters by Heff ($45).
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Ask a Shop Clerk
The founders of 448c — a Dumbo shop for oversize hoodies and unisex metal cuff bracelets at 145 Front Street — are 21-year-old Glyn Brown, a fashion designer, and 20-year-old Max Hellerstein, the entrepreneur behind the stoner-friendly Push for Pizza app.
How did you go from pizza app to streetwear store?
Max: After we built Push for Pizza and put out a viral video about it, I wanted to get back to my interest in fashion. I met Glyn randomly on the street when he asked me about a pin I was wearing that I had designed, and we started collaborating. In one month, we did about $30,000 in online sales just off his distressed “HELP” baseball caps.
Glyn: Putting on one of my hats is like putting on a helmet to go out there in the world. I wear the “Battlefield” workers jacket the most ($120). I have tattoos of slashes on my ribs like the ones on the jacket.
*This article has been updated to correct the spelling of Eleen Halvorsen’s name and the pricing for Alt Citizen’s collars and cassettes.