Drugstore Cowboy

Drugstore Cowboy

“How bromide and miserable and vacuous the place is, how completely unaesthetic. What a poor experience.”

That was a disdainful Karim Rashid in last week’s New York magazine, on the ignobility of New York’s drugstore chain-of-fools, Duane Reade. But perhaps Rashid didn’t take a peek behind the counter, where he would have found, as The New York Times so breathlessly attested in yesterday’s City section, a design world icon on par with the Eames chair: The extra-large Duane Reade shopping bag.

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