Dear Readers, Fans and Friends of Quiet Lunch: We the staff of Quiet Lunch hope this note finds you all in good spirits. While many of us are still recovering from the food-coma from the last few days of feasting and drinking, we are ever working, even in our slumber, to give you cerebral sustenance daily. With the new year fast approaching, we are looking to the future and preparing our Read More
The United Artistry of Benetton: BENETTON. South Beach x FABRICA.
Finally, after much Art Basel hubbub, we decided to end our year with the peak of one of our most cherished experiences. As you may already know, Quiet Lunch almost forwent the option to attend Art Basel before we were invited by Benetton to check out their collaboration with FABRICA. Given the opportunity to speak to designers David Raffoul and Charlotte Juillard, we swung by the revamped–and newly named–BENETTON.South Beach Read More
Hello, 2013!
The New Year is quickly approaching, and the procrastinators among us are scrambling to rally the troops, pick the perfect party, and the perfect dress. Whether you plan on huddling together in Times Square, profusely sweating on the dance floor at a Brooklyn warehouse party, or sharing laughs and conversation at a friend’s apartment, I’m here to assist you in your sartorial pursuits. I’ve compiled a collection of party dresses, Read More
The Narco Supper.
We often like to think of the artist as an expressive soul, an interpreter of whimsy, a creative being with an appetite for inspiration. The artist is all of those things, but the artist is also a social commentator, a critic among men. Bearing the torch for that virtue is Gary-Paul Barbosa Prince. While we were in town for Art Basel Miami Beach, we also headed over to the Aqua Hotel Read More
Hit or Miss: Asteroid Caught on Tape!
The nerd returns with a short, low-res video of a 3-mile-long asteroid caught on tape by NASA passing by the Earth a week ago. The asteroid, Toutatis, was only 4.3 million miles away from us at its closest point. But fret not, dear readers, it will not hit us. Toutatis will make its way around the sun before swinging by our neighborhood again in 2069, when it will be only 1.8 million Read More