'The New Yorker,' Now in Convenient Napkin Form
We don't usually dabble in the dark "service journalism" arts, but just this once, we wanted to alert you to a line of products made in cross-promotional heaven and born just in time for the holiday season.
We are speaking of The Restoration Hardware/New Yorker line of tasteful serving items. Your friends will be unable to contain their 'shouts and murmurs' of approval when you bring a bottle of wine sheathed in New Yorker cartoon wine bag! Your party will be the 'talk of the town' with these wonderful coasters! Another stab at humor using a signature New Yorker section name and these mugs!
The New Yorker and Restoration Hardware go way back. Writing for the magazine in 1999, a pre-Times David Brooks tooled around the faux-retro mecca and concluded that:
Restoration reminds us that it is not too late to avoid the spiritual trap set by our relentless upward mobility. We can rediscover the essential things, and, best of all, we can do so while shopping.
Amen! We hate it when we're caught in the spiritual trap set by our relentless upward mobility. It's so... uncomfortable.
