Tari Ervin and Fernando Cwilich Gil
September 29, 2008
Collective Hardware guru Stuart Braunstein drops the dime on his undercover lair, rants against the bloodsuckers, and doles out the proper serving of pig sex.
You have an entire building on the Bowery. What goes down there?
Collective Hardware is many things. In the basement we are building rehearsal and music studios. We are going to start a recording label. We’re partners with every business we bring into the building. The show room is on the main floor. The second floor will have a hair salon and on the other side, a tattoo parlor. There will also be a functional gallery. Ronnie Cutrone is going to paint deer heads.



The English are having a fine old time in New York -- we’re sort of like their Mexico right now, a place where you can throw around your powerful loot and loosen your tie, get away from real-world concerns back home ... just unwind a little. Witness last week’s unprecedented bubbly fest at
Fashion Week, as