ART + DESIGN

In the Darkness: Langdon Clay’s Cars, NYC 1974-76

 “Time seemed stationary, yet the painful pressure of time was constantly felt.” Hubert Selby Jr. The Room, 1971 "The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding." John Updike. The New Yorker, 1976 The 1970’s in New York City were a dangerous, dystopic, but also a liberating time, when a beat-up, two-bedroom East Village apartment was one hundred dollars a month.  A glass of Rheingold Beer in a Bowery bar was twenty-five cents (and came with lively bartender conversation). Photographer…

The Artisans of Rome’s Ottodrom

The art of the Galleria Borghese is nicely complemented by the modern classics…

The Motorcycle Portraits: Anne-France Dautheville

"I rode a motorcycle around the world, around Australia, around South America,…

A Visit to Lewis Leathers (2013)

Derek Harris never intended to own Lewis Leathers, yet spent years researching…

Freeze Frame – Allan Tannenbaum

Allan Tannenbaum has been a celebrity photographer, photojournalist, and…

My Coney Island Baby

'When Edison invented the lightbulb, it they lit up Coney Island. And that’s…

Qun Hung – One Hand Made

Qun Hung turned a bad crash and nerve damage into a challenge and a new career…

The Remarkable Mister Cox

Known for his 'little NYC choppers' of extraordinary quality, Paul Cox has been…

Winston Yeh and Rough Crafts Motorcycles

With a Masters in Industrial Design, Winston Yeh brings a fresh approach to…

Jeffrey’s Finishing Touch – Taipei, Taiwan

He taught himself Japanese to catch the scene, then taught himself English to…

Mark Huang – Building Customs in Taipei

Taiwan has the most riders per capita in the world, but customized motorcycles…