RISD Mafia Demonstrates How They Keep It In the Family

Likely terrified of what would happen if they didn’t say yes, Jack and Jane Weiselberg entrusted the entire process of building a new summer house outside Sag Harbor–from architecture to juice glasses–to their designer son Josh and a motley crew of his Rhode Island School of Design classmates who openly refer to themselves as the “RISD Mafia.”

According to pot-stirrer Philip Nobel in the NY Times, the gang was so “persuasive,” they even succeeded in talking the Weiselbergs out of their traditional, ivy-climbing ways:

The Weiselberg parents remained anxious about their choice, particularly about abandoning their pitched-roof-and-stone expectations for TBD’s contemporary taste.