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Tag: Max’s Kansas City

1950s

I Knew Jim Knew: Jim Walrod knows a thing or two…

Design authority Jim Walrod wears a deep and wide-ranging understanding of his subject – specifically that pertaining to modernism in furniture, interiors, product design and architecture  – lightly. This is refreshing in a field populated by bloodless experts and humourless know-alls. The founder of important 90s/00s store Form & Function, Walrod –  described as “the […]

May 27, 2014
1970s

Lunch with Messrs Hell + Riviera

I’ve had few, if any, lunches as enjoyable as last week’s hook-up with Richard Hell and Jake Riviera for a piece I am writing for GQ magazine. Richard and Jake first met outside CBGB in March 1976, having been introduced by photographer Roberta Bayley, who was working the club door that night. With Dr Feelgood’s […]

February 10, 2014
New York

Documentaries: All Dolled Up

Bob Gruen + Nadya Beck’s All Dolled Up is a cast-iron rock-doc. For three years in the early 70s they toted new-fangled video equipment trailing the New York Dolls, capturing fab performances, photo-shoots, media encounters, backstage delirium, fan interviews, even dancing at Rodney Bingenheimer’s E Club (the precursor to his English Disco).

March 14, 2011