Sightings: Clinton Kelly @ Design Within Reach

What Not to Wear‘s Clinton Kelly was just now spotted at fancy designer furniture showroom-chain Design Within Reach’s Flatiron branch.

After a conversation with a salesperson over the Twilight Sleep Sofa ($1,600) in black leather, the 38-year-old Medill graduate and Long Island native was led downstairs before reemerging on the ground-floor showroom to reconvene over Read More

Thursday Styles with Tom Scocca: It’s Back!

In which your humble Transom editor interrogates—via IM—media editor and Off the Record columnist Tom Scocca regarding the Thursday Styles section of the New York Times.

Off the Record It is time to revive an old feature.
The Transom Oh is it?
Off the Record The frisky new Foer-tified Nuevo Republica is running Read More

Go Suck an Egg, Design Within Reach!


Design Within Retch.

Those “well-meaning,” Dwell-reading San Francisco snobs behind Design Within Reach (the patronizing factor in their “design-news”-minded e-mail updates is not to be missed) have taken over the perfectly respectable middlebrow prefab home storefront that was once Portico, on Broadway and 20th Street.

Trading petit-bourgeois for bourgeois, in fact, seems to Read More