To celebrate the opening of its two newest New York City stores, Bob's Discount Furniture will donate $27,000 to 16 schools and two youth-focused charities. The stores, in Brooklyn and the Bronx, are the fourth and fifth Bob's locations ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
Recent reports show several bars in the East Village and Brooklyn are using fake pint glasses that look and feel like 16 ounces but are actually closer to 14. One longtime bartender says he started seeing it happen back in 2006 when ...
Tags: Yorker, Construction
Upon peering into the depth of Roll & Hill’s Stella Wall Sconce you may begin to have feelings of hypnotized thought, visions of light and layers of mirrors may seem to surround you. Created by the Brooklyn lighting company Roll & ...
Tags: Light and Mirrors, Lighting
The designers at Situ Studio worked with the renowned fabric company Sunbrella to create a monumental fabric display for the Brooklyn Museum. In an effort to show visitors and designers that fabric can change a space they created giant art ...
Tags: Define Space, Fabric
It's never been wise to play around with lead paint, the kind kicked up during the renovation of homes built before 1978. Nowadays, doing so can be costly in more ways than one, as the Environmental Protection Agency continues to fine ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics, EPA
Avid jeans lovers swear by the rugged denim fabric’s low-maintenance attribute, which gives them the freedom to wear it for days without washing, now the same could be said about a wool shirt that can go nearly for 100 days without ...
For the first time in its history of nearly 40 years, internationally renowned Spanish clothing and accessories retailer Zara has entered into a licensing agreement with North America’s major professional basketball league, the ...
Tags: T-Shirt Line, Apparel
Just days after doubling its footprint in Indianapolis, Indiana, ABRA Auto Body & Glass, a leading national vehicle repair company and one of the country’s fastest growing multi-shop repair operators, continued its national expansion ...
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sjennings What's the coolest thing in your office? Your collection of Star Wars bobble heads? The vending machine recently stocked with Skittles? The free coffee? All those "perks" will seem pretty lame after you read about some of the ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing, Cool Offices
The design studio, United Visual Artists (UVA) has been up to some good, some real big good flashing LED good.. With the use of programmable LEDs and music, UVA has created a large-scale responsive LED sculpture. This responsive light ...
Tags: LED Light Cube, Lighting
Cricut announced the availability of Cricut Iron-on, a specially designed material that allows Cricut users to create stylish and personalized do-it-yourself (DIY) fashion and home décor projects. Inspired by the growing DIY ...
Tags: Stylish Fashion, Textile
At the start of summer, outgoing Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz and Coney Island amusement park officials will toss the switch on a makeover of the iconic Parachute Jump, which is so bright it can be seen from space. The ...
Tags: LED Light, LED Light Project, LED
Food Network's Ted Allen develops and tests recipes for his cookbooks so when it came to redesigning his Brooklyn kitchen he knew exactly what he wanted—a space that works both personally and professionally. To keep guests from ...
Tags: Foodie, Kitchen Fit, Consumer Electronics
After six years in its current space, Santa Fe retailer Mellow Velo is headed downtown next month to a larger location?just 100 yards off the city's historic plaza. Mellow Velo upgrades from 1,700 square feet of retail and storage space ...
Tags: Transportation, bike
The Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) and the United College Employees of the Fashion Institute of Technology (UCE-FIT), along with four other groups, have underwritten an international competition to create the design for a permanent ...
Tags: Fashion Institute, Garment Industry, Garment