Thursday's Big Briefing:
WeWork at Saks: 'Inside SaksWorks, the new great American myth is that you can work where you play, play where you hang, and hang where you shop.'
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'SaksWorks is somewhere in between an office of the future and a luxury members club, not as dark or haunted by Gossip Girl 2.0 characters as Soho House nor as devoted to Euro-minimalism and industrial architecture as NeueHouse.'
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Plenty of familiar hallmarks of the modern coworking genre. | SaksWorks
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The Short Shrift.
Reading between the lines. “[One] thing you’ll notice is the smell. It’s a proprietary blend with notes of sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet iris not unlike a popular fragrance of the downtown set. . . . Inside SaksWorks, the new great American myth is that you can work where you play, play where you hang, and hang where you shop. The space is rendered with moveable furniture so its interior space is entirely modular. The layout can change at the drop of a Stephen Jones hat, with a work setup instantly reformed into a lecture space or a party locale with an open bar.”
👉Stay in the know: Read the report here...
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Internal
Lean Luxe: Quarterly Partners
New opportunities for Q3 2021
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**Heads up: We're now taking sponsors for Q3 2021 🙌🙌
Sponsorships are open across two tiers: Gold Tier (9 total placements per quarter) and Silver Tier (6 total placements per quarter). We're limiting this to just four partners per tier. Potential partners go to: Lean Luxe: Quarterly Partnerships to view all details.
Fun fact: The document is also something of a "state of the publication" report––so even if you're not a potential sponsor, you might enjoy the progress report so far. Sponsors are free to get in touch with me directly. –– Paul.
–– Email for sponsorship opportunities (please specify your tier!)
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In Partnership with Sandland
A Message from our Sponsor
Q3 | August 2021
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Sandland:
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August Series | Edition No. 1 / 2.
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Many thanks to Sandland. Their support keeps Lean Luxe going.
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The House View
Our opinions, analysis, criticism
On modern luxury news
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Cometeer and coffee's (frozen) future.
At the New Consumer (paywall), Dan Frommer turns his eye towards premium frozen coffee upstart Cometeer, and delivers a fairly glowing review of the brand and the product. His description here sums up the customer experience nicely: "To turn the cube into a useful cup of coffee, it’s pretty simple: Drop one into a mug or glass and add your liquid of choice––hot water for a black coffee, cold milk for an iced cortado, almondmilk for a Vitamix frappé, or whatever you’d like. (You can even pop it into a Keurig machine if you insist.) Right now I’m drinking a cube topped with a can of tangerine LaCroix, which tastes like summer on the Italian Riviera."
Kyle Chayka: 'The "dark patterns" of user manipulation.'
The desire for social media platforms to try to prescribe for users the exact experience they should have has always struck us as a bizarre one. In practice, it creates a somewhat antagonistic relationship. The way we see it, if the user wants to use the app a certain way, why try to hinder that if they’re still experiencing joy within your ecosystem? On that note, Kyle Chayka's got an exceptional critique at the New Yorker on the dark patterns and tricks Instagram, Spotify, and Twitter have used of late to manipulate their users in order to force certain behaviors on new features. Key thought here: "Instagram used to feel intimate; it was a space to document and annotate life’s mundane but beautiful experiences, be it a breakfast platter or a sunset. Now it feels increasingly like Facebook, a hub of advertising, binge-watching, buying, and selling."
Rocking a $12,000 Cartier Tank for the first time.
Sarah Miller's 'Complete Newbie' regular dispatches is probably our favorite new Hodinkee column at this point now that Cara Barrett’s departed to head up Parchie. In her latest essay, Ms. Miller describes her experience rocking a $12,000 Cartier Tank Française for the first time, and over an extended period. One excerpt we thought perfectly painted the picture: “When I looked down at it on my wrist, I kind of felt like I was looking at someone else’s wrist. It wasn’t an unpleasant feeling, just an uncanny sort of 'this is not my beautiful house, this is not my beautiful wife.' I felt curious about where this tension––between both really connecting with this object and then feeling estranged from it––was going to take me.” Fun read.
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👋 The Lean Luxe Staff
info@leanluxe.com
@leanluxe
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Get Connected
Lean Luxe Connect.
Our (free) invite-only Slack channel
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⏰ Countdown: New invites are dropping in August!
Lean Luxe isn't just a newsletter. Our central motivation? Connecting HENRYs like you around a shared interest in modern luxury, brands, and culture. Media is part of that. Building out a world for Lean Luxers to connect on their own terms around this interest matters even more.
We're dropping a new batch of Lean Luxe Connect invites in August. Applications are rolling, and you'll still be considered for future drops even if you miss this one. Your profession, seniority, or expertise in e-commerce (or DTC) aren't what we look at. A simple desire to engage socially with like-minded folks around these shared interests is what matters most.
👉Apply here to meet your fellow Lean Luxers (it's 100% free).
*Eligibility: 1) You must be a Lean Luxe subscriber for at least one month. 2) A minimum 60% newsletter open rate based on your profile (ask us for yours). For more insight on Lean Luxe Connect read this, as well as Hunter Walk's thoughts on our Slack strategy.
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The Ticker
Fresh, hot links
Lighter fare
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Oh boy: Hotels are starting to act like airlines
New fees for pool access and early check-ins. WSJ
How New York’s restaurants
Suddenly got so pricey. Grub Street
What’s the difference between
All these new modern bedding brands? ThingTesting
Hodinkee launches a new collab with Oris
This is one clean looking dive watch. Hodinkee
This is a 3D printed table lamp
Made from orange peels. My Modern Met
Culture wars make hypocrites of us all
Some rational, common sense thinking here. GQ UK
** News or tips for The Ticker?
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