Check out this article on our Walk/Don’t Walk signs in today’s New York Times: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/20/walk-dont-walk-open-your-wa… Michael Grynbaum writes eloquently about these now extinct New York city icons, although seems in our opinion a little too intent on focussing on the pricetag rather than the fact that we’ve managed to save these beauties and ship them half way round the world. Thankfully it seems there are a good few in the great city of New York who appreciate these signs for what they are – extinct design classics and part of the fabric of what most people think of as ‘New York’. Within hours of going to print a number of them have been purchased and are about to make the transatlantic crossing back home again….
We’ve been fancying doing this for a while and have finally got our act together.We’ve found a great glass fronted shop unit in the old Truman Brewery in East London, and will be running a shop there for 10 days in May.
Trainspotters in the New York Times
Check out this article on our Walk/Don’t Walk signs in today’s New York Times: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/20/walk-dont-walk-open-your-wa… Michael Grynbaum writes eloquently about these now extinct New York city icons, although seems in our opinion a little too intent on focussing on the pricetag rather than the fact that we’ve managed to save these beauties and ship them half way round the world. Thankfully it seems there are a good few in the great city of New York who appreciate these signs for what they are – extinct design classics and part of the fabric of what most people think of as ‘New York’. Within hours of going to print a number of them have been purchased and are about to make the transatlantic crossing back home again….
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