Three in One
Justine Lynch, of the new herbal pharmacy, acupuncture clinic, and café Mountain (903 Franklin Ave., Crown Heights), on anti-flu shopping.
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Shop: Wind Pearls Chinese herbs ($39 for 90 capsules) Treats itchy eyes, runny noses, coughing, irritated skin.
Sip: Magenta Ginseng cold-pressed juice ($10 for 16 ounces) Chinatown ginseng, along with local beets and apples, boosts immunity.
Poke: Five Element Acupuncture ($250 for two hours) Revs energy and speeds up the body’s healing process.
Side by Side
Two new tattoo parlors are exceptionally women-friendly.
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Bang Bang
328 Broome St.; October 15
Founder: Keith McCurdy, a.k.a. Bang Bang, 28; cut teeth at Last Rites Tattoo Theatre.
Female factor: Three-to-two female-to-male customer ratio.
Space: 2,000 square feet, mirrored surfaces, six tattoo stations, plus a VIP area.
Standards: Fashionable wrist and hip-bone scripts, from $300 per hour.
Signatures: Responsible for Rihanna’s side-breast gun and Cara Delevingne’s finger lion.
Meattt, Inc.
184 Knoll St., Bushwick
Founder: Marina Heintze, 28; Tribeca-raised graphic designer; practiced on grapefruits.
Female factor: All-lady staff.
Space: 430 square feet, butcher’s fridge stocked with merch, meat-motif windows.
Standards: Traditional black and red snakes and skulls, from $100 per tattoo.
Signatures: A now-rare spit-shading technique: tattoos sketched with spit-wet brushes.
Top Five
Picks from John Neamonitis of e-shop WorkOf (workof.com), home to 70-plus indie furniture designers, relaunching mid-October.
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2x2: Naked Desk Lamps
The exposed-bulb style, at the office.
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Vertical:
Transparent Bulb: Lunar lamp, left, $145 at ninoshea.com.
Opaque Bulb: Pop Light, right, $149 at Schoolhouse Electric Co., 27 Vestry St.
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Horizontal:
Transparent Bulb: L lamp, left, $150 at fab.com.
Opaque Bulb: Omer Arbel Bocci lamp, right, $495 at Matter, 405 Broome St.
Ask a Trainer
InForm Fitness founder Adam Zickerman takes his Mobile Gym�a full circuit of machines bolted to the interior of a gutted bus�to Manhattan ($95 per client, minimum three clients; 212-755-9895).
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Illustration by Murphy Lippincott
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What inspired the van?
I founded my first gym in 1997. A few years ago I was waiting on line for a food truck, and I was like, Aha! I customized a short bus�stripped out all of the seats and secured six machines around the edges, including a leg press and a rower. There’s an aisle down the middle for floor work.
Who’s your typical client?
CEOs and people in the Financial District. The 30-minute workout�which is high intensity but slow motion, so you don’t sweat too much�fits into a lunch break. We have commercial plates, so it is actually not too difficult to park.
Trend Spawning
Splatterware�that enameled staple of Midwest campsites and ’80s wedding registries�is suddenly showing up in Paris concept shops.
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1976: Crow Canyon Home (né CGS), one of two U.S. splatterware wholesalers, launches. (Virginia-based Golden Rabbit follows in 1989.)
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January 2014: Crow Canyon notices a surge in demand, attributes it to the sudden popularity of �glamping� and sturdy, attractive kettles.
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March 2014: British design shop Dyke and Dean becomes Crow Canyon’s European distributor. Among the high-profile design shops that pick it up is �
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April 2014: � Paris’s Merci, where Brit Michael Zee finds black splatterware. He Instagrams it (@symmetrybreakfast), garnering tons of likes.
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August 2014: Anthropologie introduces atypical taupe splatterware by Golden Rabbit, the company’s largest wholesale order to date.
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October 2014: In collaboration with Crow Canyon, Dyke and Dean take the splatter motif from table settings to pendant lamps.