Walking Wounded & Lost Weekend NYC IN PRINT

One stop shop
February 29, 2012 By Elise Diamantini Leave a Comment

The concept of one-stop shopping is not new, but it is certainly having a moment among menswear retailers. Opening a retail space that sells men’s apparel as well as a variety of non-apparel items like books, grooming products, beer, bicycles—anything that accompanies the customer’s lifestyle—is becoming increasingly popular. We recently wrote about the concept executed by Standard Goods in L.A. (read it here) Lost Weekend, a new store in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, does it a little different: their core business is coffee, but men’s product isn’t too far behind.

Michael Little and Chad Eggers opened Lost Weekend in October 2011, brewing Blue Bottle coffee, an organic micro roast from San Francisco. However, customers are coming in for more than their morning buzz. Lost Weekend stocks products that fit both the consumer’s lifestyle and the shop’s modern, minimalistic aesthetic: T-shirts, hoodies and board shorts from Saltbox USA, grooming products by Malin + Goetz, bags from D’emploi and key rings from Walking Wounded. The initial offering is small, but they have immediate plans to grow it by bringing in button-downs and khakis from Atelier Solarshop (a Scandinavian brand that uses repurposed Army supplies), belts and jewelry from Cause & Effect, and Lost Weekend branded product (they currently sell Lost Weekend tote bags). Little explains, “We want to bring things to the Lower East Side that aren’t here yet or that he can only get from us. We want guys to come in and grab a cup of coffee and pick up a pair of board shorts before he heads out to Montauk for the weekend.”

However, Lost Weekend is not just a place for guys to grab coffee and go: the shop acts as an event/gallery space where customers can hang out at the communal tables during the day or attend cool events at night. Past events have included product launches, benefits for local charities like the Lower East Side Girls Club and opening night receptions for featured work in the gallery space. Currently on display is Surf by Michael Halsband, a series of photographs “capturing surfing communities of Southern California, Hawaii and Australia.”

Lost Weekend: 45 Orchard Street
Lostweekendnyc.com

From: www.mrketplace.com/28520/one-stop-shop/

Walking Wounded for SALE at Lost Weekend NYC

Walking Wounded Furniture & Sundry key chains are now being sold at Lost Weekend NYC.

If you happen to be in the Lower East Side and fancy a coffee and a key chain, stop in and check 'em out.

Walking Wounded: Towels and Cubbies Part II

Walking Wounded: Towels and Cubbies

In process photos of a custom shelving unit to house towels and assorted items for a bathroom.

Walking Wounded: Waffle Molds & Training Wheels

I'm making coasters out of training wheels. Right now I'm working on making cup like imprints into epoxy to catch condensation as it comes off the glass. I hate it when glasses stick to the coaster, make it half way to my mouth and fall on the floor. I hope to remedy this along with any coaster slippage on table tops with these for wine bottles, carafes, and glasses.

In trying to make a stamp for the epoxy, I've been searching for something that looks like a waffle. So, I used a waffle. Photos of making molds from frozen waffles....

Gregor Jenkin

I met a great guy from South Africa at the Jack Spade store (where I work when I'm not making stuff). He told me about Gregor Jenkin:

Gregor Jenkin Studio is interested not in producing design or art, but rather in the physical act of creation and manufacture. Design is a by-product of this age old process: a natural consequence of the studio’s attempt to find the best way of doing something.

The Gregor Jenkin Studio functions as a kind of engineering environment – a systematic workshop that sets out to come up with solutions to certain problems, whether they involve questions of production, space, or practicality. Each piece produced in the studio is a kind of feat in itself; the result of a search for a new way of doing something old. In this way, Gregor Jenkin and his small team strive to
create functional objects that are at once thoughtful, and, by extension, thought-provoking.

The studio is an assembly: three men in a workshop, taking tools to materials to produce a sum of various parts. This return to hands-on creation brings buyer and maker closer together. The studio’s attention to process, mixed with Jenkin’s irreverent reimagining of everyday objects, is the foundation for an authentic set up that produces niche products. Occasionally political, often humorous and always incisive, the array of short-run products released in ranges is wry but sophisticated, accessible and yet strange.

From: www.gregorjenkin.com/about/

Walking Wounded: Coffee Memory

I've been saving old coffee cans to put various items in. I'm going to use the cans to store stuff that could be in anybody's story. You get a can and have memories from your life- merit badges, $2 bills, buttons, watches, coins, ribbons....