This week, Benjamin Miller is joined by Dan Rubinstein, design journalist and host of the Grand Tourist podcast, to discuss TRENDS. But first of all . . . do they even exist anymore? Or are we living in a post-trend world ruled by the math of the algorithm and the magnetism of sui generis celebrities? Ben and Dan consider trends through historical and pop-cultural lenses, using a very curious object as the jumping-off point: a pewter brooch in the shape of a Norse shield designed by Jorgen Jensen, son of Scandinavia’s trendiest modern silver maker Georg Jensen.
For more than twenty years, Dan Rubinstein has been a writer, editor, and consultant based in New York specializing in design, art, and culture. His podcast, the Grand Tourist with Dan Rubinstein, recently began its tenth season of in-depth episodes, with brand partners including Veuve Clicquot, Kartell, Viking Cruises, Van Cleef & Arpels, Janus et Cie, Liaigre, Lumens, Molteni & C., and many others. Prior to working on the Grand Tourist, he was the home and design director at Departures and the editor-in-chief of Surface. A New York native, Rubinstein started his career in the interiors department of Condé Nast’s House and Garden.
