Jonathan Adler Puts the Archive Behind Glass on Lexington Avenue

Jonathan Adler has a new address in Manhattan, and it sits on Lexington Avenue. The shop is built around the present, the kind you wrap and carry to someone else's door, rather than the sofa-and-sideboard sale. Candles get their own counter, where a visitor can work through the fragrances one at a time before committing. The more interesting corner, for anyone who keeps score on design, is a small edit of pieces revived from the brand's own back pages. Call it the archive doing a walk-through in a fresh setting, which is the sort of reissue this desk tends to applaud. The store is also meant to do double duty, anchoring a wider push into gifting and into selling through other retailers.

With reporting from WWD.