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The production designer Leo Swartz’s Ridgewood one-bedroom showcases their professional skill for sourcing and mixing vintage furniture. Favorites include a tweed couch by Milo Baughman, a settee by Rodney Kinsman, a Siesta chair by Ingmar Relling, and a Bruce Sienkowski armchair. Swartz’s dining chairs, however, are “not capital-D designer,” they say. They’re Chipotle.
Chipotle arrived like a lightning bolt in 1993, bringing its approximation of Mexican food and an industrial, minimalist aesthetic to a fast-food scene cluttered with bric-a-brac and cartoony maximalism. Now the generation raised on the chain’s burrito bowls are buying, flipping, and hoarding the chairs where they first ate them. Versions have appeared at auction in Florida, on Chairish and 1stDibs (where they were listed as “Modernist Iron and Ply Dining Chairs”). A set of ten went for somewhere between $700 and $1,200 on Invaluable.
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The day after a record-breaking downfall, sledders, tubers, and snowboarders enjoyed a fresh foot of snow in Prospect Park. |
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On Ocean Avenue, there’s a klezmer singer on the third floor, a saxophonist below, a trumpeter above, and a pair of trombonists across the street. |
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And a charming, remarkably affordable lake house in Canaan. |
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