Results tagged “philippestarck”

• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: A power outage in Beach Channel, Queens, a jumper on the George Washington Bridge, and a pedestrian struck near Tottenville High School on Staten Island
• It's damn cold, but you should be warm(ish) at home; building owners are required to provide heat and hot water during "heat season"
• The doctor who claimed he had been attacked by a group of thugs died and the medical examiner isn't sure how he died; earlier hypotheses included a gay encounter gone wrong and, the current one, that he may have scalded himself

The punched out metal letters on Tim Phillips’s sign for Landscape Café will be lit up with backlights and set against a pouring of crushed glass. The new café, the product of an architectural background and yearning for a good latte, demonstrates keen attention to detail and clean design on the corner across from greasy late-night pancake haven, Kellogg’s Diner, and down the street from the Barcade and another Gothamist favorite, the Hope & Union Bakery-Cafe. Perhaps the only former squatters’ den becomes cafe in Williamsburg to now don Philippe Starck chairs, Gothamist noticed the track lights, fan fixtures, and art deco sign en route to the subway, and stopped in to talk to Phillips earlier this week.

In their first annual "Design Issue" (celebrating "fresh life-affirming spirit" of approachable, warm design), Newsweek includes a "Design Quiz." Gothamist chortled through the ten questions; here are three:

The New York Post dispatches its own Post Potty Patrol to report on the best bathrooms at restaurants and clubs in the city. The bathrooms they choose? The ones at XL, bar 89, Tao (we were familiar with the pachinko machines in the ladies' room, apparently the men's room is the place to be), Jekyll & Hyde, Dusk, Noa, and Glass, plus the ones at Jay-Z's 40/40 . Gothamist is very familiar with various bathrooms in the city, we'd like to add that the bathrooms at Brasserie are cool, with that orange resin trough/sink. And at the shared trough sink (must be a brasserie thing) at Pastis, we washed hands next to Jean-Georges.