The New York Times did a great piece on the North Fork. “36 Hours / North Fork / Long Island” appeared October 26, 2023.
Recommendations / Shopping and galleries: “RAY is an exquisitely curated shop with Matisse prints, Murano glass and retro-style North Fork travel posters”
“Itinerary… Discover the gems of Greenport: The mom-and-pop-shop vibe is on full display on Front Street: RAY is a trove of art and décor mostly from the 1950s to 1980s…”
By Lauren Matison / Photographs by Tony Cenicola
We periodically update the design of our website. In 2024, we retired the font Hepta Slab in favor of Piazzolla. Designed by Juan Pablo del Peral for Huerta Tipográfica, Argentina. The font’s name is a tribute to Astor Piazzolla, an Argentine musician, composer and the central figure of the style called Nuevo Tango.
We paired it with Athiti, designed by Cadson Demak, a type foundry in Thailand. Athiti is a Thai word for the Sun. The sun is a part of the Ray brand image.
Ray New York aka Ray design shop (Greenport North Fork Long Island) Instagram followers top 1400 purely through referral and organic growth. Thank you to our local community, commenters, and worldwide customers. It’s so encouraging when we hear from our international audience. We’ve been shipping nearly every U.S. state as well as Canada and Europe. Follow us on Instagram for the latest additions to the collection. @raydesignshop
Ray New York aka Ray design shop (Greenport North Fork Long Island) Instagram followers top 1300 purely through referral and organic growth. Thank you to our local community, commenters, and worldwide customers. It’s so encouraging when we hear from our international audience. We’ve been shipping nearly every U.S. state as well as Canada and Europe. We’ve even shipped to Dubai. Follow us on Instagram for the latest additions to the collection. @raydesignshop
According to a recent Washington Post article, the island of Murano is having trouble keeping their furnaces going due to the increase in the cost of fuel. The furnaces cannot be turned on and off because the cost to restart them is very high. They burn 24 hours a day—they only shut down in August for maintenance. If Murano has fewer operational furnaces, they will produce less art glass, and eventually glass makers will close shop. The remaining makers will raise prices to offset the huge increase that fuel has incurred lately. Switching to alternative fuel is a good option for the future, but that will take massive investment and will take a very long time to make the conversions.
Read more here.
Our audience has grown since we began our small Greenport NY business in 2017. Thank you to our local community, commenters, and worldwide customers. It’s so encouraging when we hear from our international audience. We’ve been shipping nearly every U.S. state as well as Canada and Europe. We’ve even shipped to Dubai. Follow us on Instagram for the latest additions to the collection. @raydesignshop
We selected Hepta Slab as the main font for our 2021 website update. It was designed by Mike LaGattuta and published by Google fonts.
It is based on the fabulous work-a-day font Antique 307 by the Bruce Foundry. It first appeared around 1840. Read More
We have reached a milestone. Our website now has 2,000 items and is growing every day. Not all of these items are for sale. When an item sells, we move it to an archive titled “Sold.” This provides our audience with a deep database of the types of items we like. Since every item has a detailed caption, this archive also provides students and researchers a place to fact check information about Mid-Century Modern objects. We try very hard to provide accurate information and high quality photos for this purpose. We photograph every object in several views and always provide a ruler in the photo to offer size information. Most people (70% of Google searches) find us by keyword searching internet images, not text. Interesting. We had over 50,000 page views last month (May 2021).
