Jake Stavis

Editorial Director at Care of Chan

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MOLD :: Designing the Future of Food

1 week ago | thisismold.com | Jake Stavis

Did you know that there’s a kelp farm in the Superfund site between Brooklyn and Queens? What sounds like a Lana del Rey B-side is in fact the promising work of Seaweed City, a grassroots organization founded by designers and community activists Shanjana Mahmud and Luke Eddins. Although the project started just four years ago as a casual experiment through the Newtown Creek Alliance, it has flourished into an ever-expanding citizen-science project to revitalize New York’s urban waterways.
Nowruz at SAA with Joon Eats

2 months ago | careofchan.com | Jake Stavis

For many communities around the world, the profound seasonal shift from winter to spring officially marks the start of a new year. The festival of Nowruz has been celebrated in Iran for millennia, beginning on the vernal equinox and stretching across the sizdah bedar, a thirteen day period in which families and friends gather and feast to celebrate the earth’s annual regeneration.
CHA CHA Festival at WSA

Mar 2, 2025 | careofchan.com | Jake Stavis

Something special is brewing at the Seaport. To ring in the Lunar New Year, Water Street Projects hosted CHA CHA, free public festival open every weekend in February celebrating tea culture, design, and tradition. Conceived by WSA’s Professor in Residence Karen Wong, the New Museum’s chief brand officer behind groundbreaking initiatives including IdeasCity and NEW INC, CHA CHA was named after the Asian diasporic term for tea and martial artist Bruce Lee’s favorite dance.
Audi Hosts a dinner with Alex Tieghi-Walker and Vince Skelly at Piaule

Oct 19, 2024 | careofchan.com | Jake Stavis

articleVince Skelly and Alex Tieghi-Walker celebrate sustainability, craftsmanship, and thoughtful design with AudiVince Skelly is no stranger to the woods; the sculptor works with a variety of trees from the Pacific Northwest and Southern California, carefully following grain, patterns, knots and other characteristics inherent to the material to shape his signature stools, chairs, and abstract forms.
Akwasi Brenya-Mensa brings TATALE PROVISIONS to 1 54 London

Oct 17, 2024 | careofchan.com | Jake Stavis

Technically speaking, it’s not inaccurate to call Akwasi Brenya-Mensa an interdisciplinary artist; it’s a suitable catch-all that speaks to his many professional hats (accomplished chef, established music manager and DJ, bona fide globetrotter), yet so much of his work examines that which defies simple categorization.
Tomos Parry Pops Up at Fforest

Oct 12, 2024 | careofchan.com | Jake Stavis

articleA first-of-its-kind collaboration with Fforest inspires mass hiraethWhen I told friends and family - both stateside and in the United Kingdom - that I was headed to Wales, the most common response was a look of confusion. Truth be told, I had little context for the small Celtic country west of England - basically Diana, rarebit, and weather that was more than once described as “quite shit” - but I could think of no better host than chef Tomos Parry.
Eating through Bali with Alila

Oct 9, 2024 | careofchan.com | Jake Stavis

Popular media and western subculture have simultaneously painted Bali as the ultimate lover’s escape and spiritual retreat, beckoning a motley crue of paramours, practicing yogis, and starry-eyed digital nomads. It’s true the island offers no shortage of romantic accommodations, whether you and your beloved prefer some ultra luxe relaxing by the beach or getting lost in a high jungle treehouse lodge.
J.Crew Revived La Côte Basque to Celebrate Their Beloved Catalog

Oct 8, 2024 | careofchan.com | Jake Stavis

articleJ.Crew celebrates the return of their beloved catalog with a dip into the archivesFor many, the J.Crew catalog is more than mere advertising. The imagery - at once aspirational and familiar - represents the pinnacle of everyday style, and the printed matter became not just a functional sales tool, but a covetable and collectible object of classic Americana.
Fabrica and Expendio de Maiz Bring Costa Chica to Mexico City

Apr 4, 2024 | careofchan.com | Jake Stavis

The mission creep of corporate activations over the past decade or so has percolated through contemporary art fairs, rendering the capitalist underpinnings of these ostensibly creative gatherings all the more palpable (see the Deutsche Bank Wealth Management Lounge at the most recent LA Frieze). Logo laden invites have shifted the focus away from presenting artists (increasingly billed instead as “collaborators”) showing new work to selling products (“collaborations”).
Fredericks and Mae Revel in the Art of the Gift

Mar 22, 2024 | careofchan.com | Jake Stavis

articleGabriel Cohen and Giovi Signorile reflect on fifteen years of unexpected designs destined for giftingIf you were to ask any moderately online aspiring homemaker to name the “status cutting board,” they’d almost certainly describe the confetti colored wares by Fredericks and Mae.