Elena Bowes

New York-London design & culture writer of a certain vintage looking for meaning and wholeness in life

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September 1st, 2016 | People

Art for Good – Gund for Art

Philanthropic superwoman Agnes Gund has more awards and sits on more boards than I have anti-ageing creams. Beyond the arts, Ms. Gund supports women’s issues and the environment. But the cause…

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July 1st, 2016 | People

John Derian, a Creative at Work and Play

Renowned designer John Derian made his first decoupage plates in his bedroom in Cambridge Massachusetts nearly thirty years ago. He got inspired after discovering  a box of unique antique prints in…

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April 18th, 2016 | PeoplePlaces

Three Lives Bookshop –

There are bookshops and there are bookshops. Three Lives & Company  on the corner of West 10th and Waverly Place falls under the latter category. The  much-loved, well-curated corner gem…

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April 13th, 2016 | PeoplePlaces

A Life In Buttons

The over-sized gold button has hung above this quirky, cosy shop on a tree-lined street on Manhattan’s Upper East Side for 52 years, proof that it is possible to make…

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February 1st, 2016 | PeoplePlaces

Viva la Vintage

Hailed as a ‘vintage clothing legend’, Irishman Oliver Harkness loves nothing more than the hunt, being on the road, whether that road leads to an auction in Ireland, a flea…

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