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Métaphore

The French+ Connection

Métaphore derives its style from France, Italy, Sweden and Belgium and has dispensed its “European home” wares from three different locations in downtown New Haven over the past five years....

The French+ Connection

Métaphore derives its style from France, Italy, Sweden and Belgium and has dispensed its “European home” wares from three different locations in downtown New Haven over the past five years....

Pollen

A Hive Mind

Ben Gardner’s day might sound oddly bucolic for an area resident and business owner. On a recent Thursday, sunrise found him in his backyard, collecting chicken eggs and tending to...

A Hive Mind

Ben Gardner’s day might sound oddly bucolic for an area resident and business owner. On a recent Thursday, sunrise found him in his backyard, collecting chicken eggs and tending to...

Chris Randall, New Haven Land Trust

Trusting in the Land

Once you know who Chris Randall is, it seems as if he’s everywhere. And everywhere he is, so is the New Haven Land Trust. Randall is a photographer, gardener, community...

Trusting in the Land

Once you know who Chris Randall is, it seems as if he’s everywhere. And everywhere he is, so is the New Haven Land Trust. Randall is a photographer, gardener, community...

George Zito, Rubber Match

Deep-Seated

For 40 years now—34 of them in the same Whalley Avenue location at the corner of Sperry Street—the Rubber Match furniture dealer and “countercultural variety store” has dealt in a...

Deep-Seated

For 40 years now—34 of them in the same Whalley Avenue location at the corner of Sperry Street—the Rubber Match furniture dealer and “countercultural variety store” has dealt in a...

Joe DiRisi of Urban Miners

Decon Mission

Joe DiRisi is not the easiest guy to photograph. As I followed him through his warehouse full of salvaged materials, trying to snap a portrait, we passed rows of cast...

Decon Mission

Joe DiRisi is not the easiest guy to photograph. As I followed him through his warehouse full of salvaged materials, trying to snap a portrait, we passed rows of cast...

Carol Orr

Presents from the Past

It might as well be through the looking glass: an intriguing space stacked with strange, beautiful creations from another world. Or rather, another time. This is the English Building Markets,...

Presents from the Past

It might as well be through the looking glass: an intriguing space stacked with strange, beautiful creations from another world. Or rather, another time. This is the English Building Markets,...