“Scent is Life”, is how Christopher Brosius the man behind C.B. I Hate Perfume sums up his work.
Scent is always individual, and one of the most unique things about a person. Your response to certain smells are a record of your life’s experiences.
Christopher Brosius is on a mission to capture that experience in the best possible perfume, at the best possible price.
Each perfume is dreampt up by Christopher and made in small batches in his studio in Brooklyn, NY.
His unique scents come in either in an Absolute (concentrated oil version), or Water Perfume ( lighter spray for body or clothes). He never uses alcohol in his fragrances because it dries out the skin and changes the original scent.
Back in stock at Art in the Age are the most consistent favorites:
- At the Beach 1966 – think wet sand, seashell, driftwood, and a hint of Boardwalk
- Fire from Heaven – Frankincense, Myrrh, Oopanax, cedar….. a memory of smoke
- Mr. Hulot’s Holiday- breeze of the Mediterranean, driftwood, seaweed and leather suitcases
With ardent aims and buoyant spirits, we are proud to announce the newest project from Art in the Age founder, Steven Grasse…The Tamworth Lyceum (formerly The Tamworth Village Store). Betwixt and between the hours of carrot-pulling and chicken-chasing, we have been hard at work, deep in the mountains of New Hampshire, planning for a new space: Part mercantile, part art studio, and all about our new community.
Let’s start from the beginning…
The Tale of A Tamworth Store begins long before I was born. The most wonderful aspect of this tale is that its end is neither written nor foreseeable. This ancient building, this nexus of Main Street will outlive us all.
The earliest record of the store goes back to 1826, when Enoch Remick owned the building. Enoch’s son, Levi & grandson, Charles ran the store under the name “Levi Remick & Son”. The business then passed to Charles’ sons Waddy and Earle.
In 1924, under the management of Waddy and Earle, the store was rechristened “Remick Bros Store”. Waddy and his family lived in the second floor apartment. In 1941, the Remick brothers purchased the building next door to sell dry goods and workwear. If you couldn’t find what you needed at Remick’s Store, then it was probably over at “The Other Store.”
Waddy died in 1971, and the building passed through a series of owners (Gove, Vernava, Behr, Rich, Barron, Fimmano), who continued the retail/grocery operations, expanded the footprint with a single-story addition for a beer/wine cooler, and introduced a pizza oven and sandwich counter. The store closed its doors for business in early 2009, and was purchased by Steven Grasse later that year.
“Is the day of the village store past? Or will Tamworth’s old, much-loved village grocery store defy the odds and reappear in a new incarnation?” – Annie Riecken, Tamworth Civic News: “A Brief History of Tamworth Village’s Grocery Store”
THE OLDE VILLAGE STORE
The building currently known as The Old Tamworth Store will re-open in 2011 as THE TAMWORTH LYCEUM, a lecture space, art studio, and retail store offering rustic dry goods, light grocery, packaged beer & wine, and a seasonal beverage service.
A NEW ENGLAND LYCEUM
Lyceums were started in Greece by Aristotle. He lectured in gardens and public buildings. In the 1800s, lyceums for the improvement of adult communities caught on in the United States, starting in Massachusetts.
Local and out-of-town lecturers would come to a public space/school/church/garden, and give a program in academia, science, politics, the arts, agriculture, practical knowledge. All were welcome.
Our space will be a modern day New England Lyceum. We will host programs covering a vast and varied array of topics, both practical and theoretical, and provide a nexus for discussion of ideas and community education.
A TRANSCENDENTALIST REVIVAL
By the 1830’s, many of New England’s major intellectual figures were experiencing a familiar disenchantment with the cheapening of American existence that results from exhaustive commercialization.
Eminent writers like Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman, as well as influential reformers as Margaret Fuller, Broson Alcott, and Frederick Hedge, began to hold meetings where they discussed a common frustration with the condition of their rapidly industrializing country.
These meetings were the seedbed of the revolution in American thought now referred to as transcendentalism. Transcendentalists were bound together by a common utopian ethos. Against the frantic and unreflective character of contemporary life, they emphasized early America’s more harmonious union of nature and society, and the self reliance and individualism that it fostered.
We plan to build a artist studio on the 1st floor of the store. Graphic design, screenprinting and letterpress will be done here. Artist books, limited edition totes/tees, broadsides, event posters, product packaging, and newsletters will be printed in-house.
CURRENT STATUS OF THE LYCEUM
The building will be closed for business during the renovation process. We are hard at work planning for the official opening of The Lyceum in Spring/Summer 2011! In the meantime, stay abreast of the latest news and happenings from New Hampshire by reading the Lyceum blog…
A recent Financial Times Article, “Multi-storey farms in a city centre near you” sheds light on the political and economic implications of building large-scale, impactful vertical farms in urban centers. Jane Bird speaks with Professor Dickson Despommier of Columbia University, the man who invented the architectural concept of vertical farms in 1999. Despommier cites a student assignment to design prototypes of vertical urban farms in which they discovered that a farm capable of feeding 50,000 citizens would require 30 stories, with the footprint of a football stadium. Fitting vertical farms into the cultural and historic landscape of cities is another challenge. While smaller operations could start in places like schools and government buildings, these projects are not economically reasonable for feeding any significant percentage of an urban population.
“The problem is that nobody has done any proper accounting to see much value is tied up in urban farming….” he explains.
Unless city authorities are prepared to allocate land exclusively for agricultural use, it will not be economic, he argues. “The tomatoes will be too expensive.”
However, Mark Redwood, the program leader of Canada’s International Development Research Centre, spotlights a few global examples of very promising initiatives in Ahmadabad, India; Cairo, Egypt; Lima, Peru; Dakar, Senegal; Fortaleza, Brazil; Ammam, Jordan; Accra, Ghana; Bamako, Mail; and Mexico City. Quite a list! The urban farming projects in these cities range from city-wide school programs that grow produce for supermarkets, to mitigating wastewater contamination in raised bed structures.
Disturbing side note: NO U.S. CITIES ARE IN THE LIST OF PLACES IMPLEMENTING EFFECTIVE URBAN FARMING SYSTEMS.
America, take a hint. The Greening of Our Cities is not only imminent, but crucial for the sustainability, health, and economic stability of future generations!
A recent Wall Street Journal editorial comments on hydraulic fracturing in the Northeast. Holman Jenkins refers to hydraulic fracturing/”fracking” as a “new industry” in light of increased land holdings of natural gas companies acquired via leases with individual citizens in rural areas. He likens this situation to waves of “decay and gentrification” in urban areas.
“Fracking divides neighbor from neighbor, roughly speaking the penurious locals from the weekend residents and gentleman farmers.”
“…the sound and fury of the fracking debate is really just of the noise of the fracking phenomenon being domesticated.”
“An entire region of the country is unexpectedly being transformed by a new industry. Toes are being stepped on, but money and politics will slop around in ways designed to reduce the opposition to manageable proportions. That’s what politics is for.”
Jenkins MUST be kidding!!! Fracking contaminates drinking water and decimates forest land (PA STATE forest land, at that.). How is this comparable to the trend of higher-income professionals buying & renovating affordable real estate in previously low-income neighborhoods?!
The Hydraulic fracturing/”Fracking” Debate in a nutshell…
Over a mile below the earth’s surface in many regions of Pennsylvania, there is a mostly untapped reservoir of natural gas in a type of dark rock form known as Marcellus Shale. This resource can be accessed and harvested by drilling into the earth, using a technique called hydraulic fracturing. This involves using water to blast 6,000 feet into the ground. Beginning in 2008, The State of Pennsylvania began to lease hundreds of thousands of acres of State Forest to private drilling companies. Now gas drillers are looking to lease local land in an attempt to find and remove the gas, whose value increases as energy prices soar. The wastewater from hydraulic fracturing contains a variety of sediments, contaminants and toxins. Gas drilling companies are sending their runoff into the surrounding areas, and the toxins are seeping into drinking water supplies.
We cannot allow politicians to “reduce the opposition to manageable proportions”! BE HEARD! Check out these petitions and resources for contacting PA politicians…
The October issue of the international culture-savvy periodical Monocle has arrived at the store. This issue, entitled “Finding Your Groove: The Monocle Global Style Survey,” covers the following topics:
A: Baku: Is Azerbaijan’s capital a Caspian-hugging Paris?
B: Ethical fashion: Do you care what you wear?
C: Danger: Performance artist at work
D: Isay Weinfeld’s latest seductive space in Sao Paulo
E: Hong Kong’s homeliest hood, Haneda’s new global hub, and Copenhagen.
This past Monday, September 13th, Art in the Age SNAP sponsored a cocktail competition featuring bartenders from 16 local Philadelphia restaurants competing for the best original SNAP cocktail.
The competition took place on Liberties Walk in Northern Liberties, and it was the perfect night to relax outdoors.
All of the bartenders put on a great show and came up with some very original and over the top SNAP creations. This year’s judges, Drew Lazor, Charlotte Voisey and Melissa Monosoff, chose the top three cocktails based on taste (50%), originality (25%) and presentation (25%).
After much tasting and deliberation, the judges were able to narrow the cocktails down to the top three recipes. Check out the video below plus the winning recipes for each amazing drink!
1st Place – Rosella Rush by Cliff Edgar
1.5 parts SNAP
.5 parts Domain De Canton
1.5 parts Sorrel (hibiscus tea)
Squeeze of a fresh orange wedge
Dash of cherry bitters
Shake and strain into a cordial glass.
Garnished with a ginger caramel stick.
2nd Place (tie) – Melon-Choly Baby by Katie Loeb
1 part SNAP
1 part Hendrick’s Gin
1 part watermelon puree
.5 parts fresh lime juice
.5 parts simple syrup
Dash of Fee Brother’s Orange Bitters
Dash of Angostura Bitters
1-2 parts club soda
Shake, strain into a Collins glass. Add club soda and stir.
Garnish with a wedge of lime.
2nd Place (tie) – The Efflorescent Effigy by Preston Eckman
1.5 parts SNAP
1 part semi-dry reisling
1 part strong rooibos tea
.5 parts orgeat
.25 parts fresh lemon juice
4 dashes Fee Brother’s chocolate bitters
Dash of Angostura bitters
3 dashes orange flower water
Shake and strain into a Collins glass over crushed ice (by hand if possible)
