The space is airy and simple, with a vaulted ceiling of old brick, and blond plywood shelves, tables, and chairs that were designed and built — without nails — by Taras's brother Jeffrey, an architecture student at Columbia.
On every surface — shelves, tables, window ledges, and cluttering the desk — there are Teddy bears and toy trucks, balls and bats, dolls dressed in the regalia of the Caribbean parade that takes place on Eastern Parkway every Labor Day.
The furniture in the den, a cement-floored room that ran the length of the house, consisted almost entirely of examples of his carpentry (shelves, tables, stools, a ping-pong table) and Nancy's needlework (chintz slipcovers that rejuvenated a decrepit couch, curtains, pillows bearinglegends: "happy?" and "you don't have to be crazy to live here but it helps").
Piled high on shelves, tables and chairs are frayed denim skirts decorated with vintage men's silk ties (left, $160); cotton tanks studded with Swarovski rhinestones ($180 to $220); jeans embroidered with a dragon ($232); and tie-dyed linen tunics ($108) with matching cropped, drawstring-waist pants ($96).
Part of it is about fitting into the decor so that these smart speakers can stand free and clear and unhidden on shelves, tables and surfaces without offending any sensibilities.
Those lucky to have seen his private library with their own eyes will remember books in every room, even the lavatory, spilling off ceiling-high shelves, tables and chairs, and out of liquor boxes and fruit crates cannibalised for storage.
Place your supplies on shelves, tables, counters, etc. in your store.
Look on any shelf or table and one sees a grouping of framed snapshots -- an array of faces from New York's social scene".
The shop looks quite small, and it probably is, only it's so cleverly arranged that you can spend a satisfyingly long time drifting from shelf to table, pondering the captions and displays, and just following your nose.
