June 2012
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The Baroness and Her Lost Mercedes →
“It was purchased 76 years ago by the family of a Prussian baroness who is straight out of a Alan Furst novel: she was elegant, coquettish, depressive, a dead ringer for Marlene Dietrich who fancied jewels and lived in the best hotels in Paris and Cannes.”
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NYC's smallest museum →
spoiler: it’s in an elevator in Tribeca
(open by appointment only, but it’s visible 24 hours a day via peephole)
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