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Gifting with Intention, A List of Charities
As we enter into the holiday season, we wanted to take note of various charities, many of which are in New York City, as an easy entry point for those interested and able to give as the year comes ...
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Interior: The home of the deeply influential and very private former fashion designer Helmut Lang in East Hampton ( as published in Upstate Diary ) was really exceptional to me.Recipe: I made this ...
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How To, Reduce Single Use Plastic
Jenny Cooper is the owner of IXV Coffee, a small-scale coffee shop located in a redefined garage space on Pacific Street in Boerum Hill. Jenny takes a thoughtful approach to her own waste footprint...
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Julia Felsenthal is a Brooklyn and Cape Cod-based writer and painter. Working mostly in watercolor and gouache, she makes intimately-scaled paintings of flowers, people, and the sea. For TPE she cr...
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Interest: Yoko, who works alongside me at TPE has been pondering taking a class online here. When she showed me their offerings I thought they all sounded really fun, and am now considering signing...
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TPE at the Brooklyn Heights Designer Showhouse
TPE is pleased to have partnered with our friends and neighbors at Assembly Line (373 Atlantic Avenue) for a collaboration at the Brooklyn Heights Designer Showhouse.The biennial event offers a rar...
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How to Take Care of Your Books (and Archive Well)
At The Primary Essentials, we offer a selection of rare vintage art and design books and have many in our own libraries, but when it comes to taking good care of such things, we’re not as knowledga...
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Join us for a trunk show with Baina
Join us for an afternoon trunk show with Baina. Sunday September 11, 2022 2-4PM The Primary Essentials 372 Atlantic Ave. Brooklyn NY 11217 Small bites and drinks provided by GHIA We hope t...
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Movie Trailers: I love watching movie trailers so much and coming across this list of movies coming out in the Fall gave me back to school esque excitement. If you watch only one of them, watch thi...
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The material an artist works with is always of great importance, and in the case of Abigail Castaneda this sentiment could not be more true. Based in Kerhonkson, NY, a small hamlet between the Sha...
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