The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
You could walk in them like gym shoes, but if you rocked back on your heels the wheels emerged, turning them into roller skates. In the early 2000s, the company sold millions.
Category: Inventions and Patents
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Overlooked No More: Eleanor Abbott, the Creator of Candy Land
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
She invented the game nearly 80 years ago to distract children who were suffering in the hospital during a polio outbreak.
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Tracing the Sweet Origins of Candy Land and Its Creator
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
The writers of an Overlooked obituary about the game’s creator recount how they stumbled upon her and then proceeded to reconstruct her life.
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5 Things Jeffrey Gibson Wishes He’d Made
The New York Times – T Magazine:
The interdisciplinary artist Jeffrey Gibson shares five things he wishes he’d made.
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Should You Use an Anti-Wrinkle Straw?
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
Another solution to a problem we didn’t know we had.
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Brand Beats Its Own Record for Most Complicated Watch
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
A Vacheron Constantin pocket watch has 63 complications, including what the brand said is another world first: a Chinese perpetual calendar.
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His Ancestor’s Watch Was Wound Every 40 Days. He Made It 41.
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
Stéphane von Gunten was inspired by his great-great-grandfather’s achievement, but he has managed to better it.
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La saga de los Jacuzzi, la familia detrás de las tinas de hidromasaje
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
Una historia de inmigrantes, del sueño americano y el aparato que definió la sensualidad burguesa.
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‘A Jacuzzi Is a Person, Not a Machine: The Story Behind the Jacuzzi Family
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
An immigrant story, an American dream, a machine that defined bourgeois sensuality.