Our Stories Sept 2024

Take A Seat

Aaron is channeling her sadness over the state of the restaurant industry into action, and into jewelry.

The World’s Known for her innovative methods of jewelry making and selling, she’s applying her vending machine jewerly concept to a charitable project, this time stocking it with small silver chairs that can be worn on  a chain as a pendant or displayed as a tiny art object, with proceeds benefitting World Central Kitchen.

“The Chair,” which Aaron designed to look like the most recognizable and ubiquitous version of a restaurant chair, sells for $250, with 100 percent  of proceeds benefitting the nonprofit.  

She said of the pandemic and its effect on local restaurants, “It has been heartbreaking as a New Yorker but the same thing is playing out with restaurants around the world. I wanted to do something immediate  and I am thrilled to support World Central Kitchen.

A NOTE FROM MARLA

This past winter, on my walks home from the office to Harlem, I could not help but be moved by all of the empty chairs I’d see along the way and the overall state of the restaurant industry. As a small business owner, New Yorker, and restaurant lover, I knew I had to do something. But What?

I searched the most common restaurant chair… and then we made one.  In silver. It’s small enough to be a charm yet substantial enough to be  an object, and one hundred percent of its profit proceeds go to World Central Kitchen, an organization founded by Chef Jose Andres, that helps bring food to communities in need and to help keep small business and food business open.