Episode recaps
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S3 E5 A Three-legged Beauty with Tami Hausman
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Deeply steeped in design, both by training and in practice, Tami Hausman could write a book about a seemingly humble object: A three-legged wooden chair with a molded seat and curved back of sticks. This is no ordinary chair. -
S3 E3 Rolex Rulez with Carol Altieri
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Carol Altieri's passion is to bring big, shiny and well designed objects into your life. She does so through Bob's Watches, an online marketplace she co-owns with her husband Paul. Yes, Paul, no, not Bob. -
S1 Episode 10: 12 Eggs and a Scarf with Marie Constantinesco
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Photo credit @tskqqq
Marie possesses the type of elegance that allows her to transform the most humble vintage outfit into glamorous fashion. Her vivid imagination pushes her work beyond the boundaries of filmmaking and storytelling. How does she do it and what drives her desire to create?
A talented baker and cook, Marie approaches the practice of the meal with the openness of spirit that leads to breakthroughs in writing, immersive visuals, and a sense of whimsy in her filmmaking. Oh... and she knows a lot about sourdough, farmer markets, and old recipes too! -
S1 Episode 8: A Scofflaw She Ain't but One She'll Have with Daphne Howland
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A talented writer and accomplished photographer, Daphne ruminated on whether it ever gets easier to talk about luxury even for someone like her, who tackles questions on the subject on a daily basis as she delivers news on fashion, beauty, retail and luxury. -
S1 Episode 4: Sneakermania, sneaker riots, and sneakerheads with Brahm Wachter
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Even though I learned then that Brahm is a talented cook with legitimate culinary school training, I never knew how a pair of sneakers had defined several major moments in his life from his first business to his application to business school and from his fashionable outfits to the pair he just gifted his newly born, beautiful daughter, Violeta. -
S1 Episode 3: A Whale of A Whiff with Barbara Herman
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In Barbara's words, ambergris, her object of desire, sheds a golden light that brings out all the details of a well designed perfume formula.
Barbara Herman is the founder and creative director of ERIS PARFUMS, a luxury niche perfume brand based in New York City. She's also the author of Scent and Subversion: Decoding a Century of Provocative Perfume (2013, Lyons Press).
