For a couple who would rather stay in than go out for a prix fixe, New York’s cult-favorite cookware brand Great Jones has just released a Valentine’s Day-worthy gift: their best-selling Dutchess pot in a bright red shade called “Marinara”—a celebration of New York, love, and of course, pasta.
“We really love bold, bright, primary colors and red has really been there since the start,” says Great Jones founder Sierra Tishgart. When the brand first launched the Dutchess, its mustard hue was inspired by Michelle Williams’s canary yellow Vera Wang gown at the 2006 Oscars, while the green version was an homage to the camp colors of the place where Tishgart met her co-founder, Maddy Moelis. "Marinara" pays tribute to the copious amount of pasta dishes the founders see made in the Dutchess every day (it's also been one of the brand’s most requested colors).
To celebrate the launch, Great Jones tapped a few real-life New York couples to be photographed in an original Italian red-sauce establishment, Bamonte’s, which has been in business since 1900 in Brooklyn, New York. “When we were conceiving the photo shoot we were looking at all these nostalgic beautiful photos of people eating the red sauce pasta in ways that we found so glamorous and fun,” Tishgart says. Bamonte’s captures that sense of nostalgia. “You walk in and you’re completely transported," says Tishgart. "Every single part of the restaurant is so special.”
Teen Vogue editor in chief Lindsay Peoples Wagner is pictured with her husband, photographer Andre D. Wagner, while chef Moonlyn Tsai, co-owner of Kopitiam (a Malaysian restaurant in the LES and personal favorite of Great Jones’s co-founders) is photographed alongside her partner Yin Chang, an actress and founder of podcast 88 Cups of Tea (who you might also recognize as Nelly Yuki from Gossip Girl). The third couple is Lauren Schaefer, the chef of the soon-to-be-opened Kitty's restaurant in Hudson, NY and her husband, Amiel Stanek, Bon Appétit’s editor at large. Take inspiration from them, and Tishgart, who says her Valentine’s Day will most likely be spent “cooking pasta”—of course!
