Name: Inside the Weirdest Luxury Shop in New York City
Uploaded: 2020-04-05T02:26:17.000Z
Duration: 5 min 3 s
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I'm Kim Bhasin, luxury reporter at Bloomberg.

The superlative

It's the poshest neighborhood in Manhattan.

Here, you'll find some of the most opulent

you need to fill it with cool and weird stuff.

And there's no better place for that than here,

What is this store, how would you describe it to

Especially in the beginning, I'd describe it to people

A place where people can find gifts or things for

their home, which are one of a kind and we've sourced

around the world and brought back here tho New York.

We have taxidermy, that's usually the thing that people

are not used to seeing here in New York City.

We have minerals, primal art, we have craftsman

and in Egypt, and even here in the United States.

These are these coconuts which were carved in

And they range in date from the early 20th century

This is the famous Park Avenue pot plant.

It's metal, so you can't smoke it, but...

I guess you could, if you like shave it up.

No, it would be kind of tough to do that.

Before I opened the store, I spent a huge portion

and now I'm finding it here for the store.

I've had a passion for travel since I was a kid.

the owners of Gardiner's Island, which is out

It's been in my family for, I don't know,

When I was 15, my parents sent me to Kenya for 3 months

and the last part of the trip we were in Nairobi

and I didn't realize that to them, blue jeans,

So I just went into the markets and traded my jeans

for baskets and things that were made by locals.

To me, that stuff was amazing and to them

they wanted my blue jeans, which I knew I could go back

And ever since then I've had this passion for travel.

I was doing this for myself up until right before

I opened this door and now I'm doing it for the stores.

So tell me about the business model here at Creel & Gow.

I'm not really following any traditional business model,

When I opened this, a lot of my friends who have

businesses on Madison Avenue and other places,

they're like "you're crazy, to be opening a

But I thought well, I'm doing something completely

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