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portable dance floor (pdf)
Object: Dance Deck
Reason: Enabling dance troupes to (grand) jeté, i.e. leap, a significant barrier of entry to rehearsing and performing.
Background: How did I not know about Dance in Public Places, an exhibition that took place February 2011 at The Gallery? Dance Up turned a … Read more
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“first lady of fabulous”
Object: Mighty Michelle Shopper ($11.99)
Location: Essene, 4th b/t Bainbridge and Monroe sts.
Background: The bag is made by Blue Q, a Pittsfield, Mass. novelty designer/manufacturer that produces bags, tin banks, lamps, hand sanitizer, and lots more, including a pack of “I Kissed A Republican… Read more
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dueling posters
Object: Philadelphia neighborhood posters
Location: poster shop on 4th street between South and Bainbridge sts.
Background: The one on the right is the Philadelphia version of Ork’s City Neighborhood poster series. Chicago-based designer Jenny Beorkrem quit her day job and started Ork when her Chicago neighborhood poster … Read more
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JHG + AWD stool
Object: Revolution Furniture’s JHG + AWD stool
Location: Jesse Gerard’s apartment
Background: I wrote about Jesse Gerard for “Making It” in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Gerard now makes custom, limited edition speakers under the label Carrot Grant. (He and his speakers were one of two Pennsylvania makers … Read more
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1950s delivery truck door
Object: Door from the delivery truck of restaurateur/chef Marcie Turney‘s grandfather’s restaurant
Location: In the basement of one of Turney’s 13th Street restaurants
Background: Turney has this and an original sign from The Spot, opened in the 1950s in Ripon, Wisconsin, in storage. One day she … Read more
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freshly printed floral
Object: freshly printed floral
Location: Printfresh Studio, Paper Box Studios in Old Kensington
Background: Amy and Leo Voloshin founded Printfresh Studio in 2006. Amy and her team of designers create about 80 textile designs per week to sell to clients ranging from mass-market (Kohl’s, Macy’s, Target) to higher-end apparel … Read more
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Utz cheddar cheese snacks
Object: barrels of Utz cheddar cheese snacks
Location: SuperFresh, Society Hill (glowing orange in the early spring sunshine)
Background: I didn’t realize Utz and Snyder’s — two of America’s major snacking enablers — were in Hanover, Pennsylvania until I drove there to report on Emeco, manufacturer … Read more
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folding bistro chair (hidden city philadelphia)
Object: folding bistro chair
Location: “The Porch” at 30th St. Station
Background: This chair, first described in the “Simplex” patent registered in 1889, is made by Fermob, the same French company that makes “the Luxembourg chair“—the green metal, tubular steel stackable chairs scattered around Paris’s … Read more
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bespoke chef’s table
Object: bespoke kitchen/dining room table
Location: the Philadelphia home of Chef Jonathan Adams (executive chef, Pub & Kitchen; co-owner, Rival Bros. Coffee)
Background: ”Back in 2006, Snackbar (formerly at 253 South 20th Street) was starting to come together and a millworker who was driving … Read more
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