Resident director Pierre Pelegry has been a part of Maxim’s – the pinnacle of culture and the arts – since the beginning of his career, having worked there for the span twenty-five years

Guests and patrons are welcomed into The Richter to wander around throughout the day – a move made by Efimova and her team to create a mood as to being in a home within the space

The thesis of the store revolves around the initiative of each volunteer and how they pour their time into Ark. As of now, there are twenty individuals who are contributing to it

In the absence of bookstores in the Chelsea area, Paula Cooper and Jack Macrae persisted in operating a bookstore for the community of inhabitants for this corner of Manhattan

The story of the foundation begun as a response to the pandemic:  «There was a sense of fear and an unnerving feeling that we as a society shared», explains Head of Product, Laura García Guardans

An Ai Weiwei photo series hangs within the living space. Lara Gilmore shares, «Three life-sized photographs depicting the artist breaking a 2000-year-old Chinese Hun vase: We took this as symbolism – breaking the old and choosing what to bring forth into the future»

Two sisters set to carry forth their existing work in disseminating and redefining the narrative of what it means to be an Arabic woman in the world of today

Having traversed across bookstores on a global scale to locations in Europe and Northern America, Komiyama found a lack of diversity of subject matter carried in bookstores in the genre of art

«When we came out into the scene, minimalism and industrial designs from Off-White and similar brands were the subject of interest. The lack of colors and box-cut designs were in vogue. We did the opposite»

Known across the globe for being an outdoor bookstore with an extensive library of books, Bart’s Books hosts an estimate of one hundred and fifty thousand books