What’s Happening: Twitter auctioned hundreds of workplace oddities this week, another sign of a vibe shift away from seemingly limitless Silicon Valley office perks.

The Download: Silicon Valley tech workers have been enjoying gratuitous perks for nearly two decades, a trend arguably set off within the Googleplex in the early 2000s. While corporate employees at drab office parks and stolid skyscrapers across the country picked at desk lunches in dreary cubicles, the online search juggernaut’s lucky staffers were busy having their lives catered. Laundry service, exercise classes, foreign language tutors, and personal concierges for dinner reservations were available without having to leave work. Google’s competitors caught on, outdoing each other with over-the-top perks that kicked off a “war for talent” fueled by rapid growth and seemingly endless cash flow.

Times change, of course, and today working in tech is losing its sheen. Plummeting stock prices, pandemic-induced hypervaluations, and a paradigm shift from growth at all costs to profitability have stoked a sector-wide slowdown, whose consequences some predict promises “a recalibration of the employer-employee relationship in Silicon Valley and, in the ultimate labor-relations knock-on effect, every industry that has followed tech’s lead for a generation.” Vanishing perks are simply a lagging indicator of this pendulum swing—or “vibe shift,” in trendy parlance. More immediate signs are Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta each announcing layoffs of 10,000-odd employees. That kombucha on tap might be next.

No company has ushered in Silicon Valley’s chaos era quite like Twitter, which was acquired by Elon Musk for $44 billion in the fall. Faced with the grim finances of a company that hasn’t netted a profit since 2019, the world’s then-richest man axed two-thirds of the company’s 7,500-person workforce and required “extremely hardcore” dedication from those who remained.

Tech journalists scrutinized the erratic billionaire’s every cost-cutting move and sudden policy change. The company stopped paying vendors and was sued for back rent on its San Francisco office, where leaked photos of staffers sleeping on makeshift beds prompted a city investigation despite insistence that the overnight stays were self-imposed and a sign of their dedication to a deadline. (If only Twitter branded them as nap pods!)

The extent of Twitter’s controversial transition reached somewhat of an apex this week when the company staged an auction of hundreds of “surplus corporate office assets.” Up for grabs were such oddities as a giant statue of Twitter’s bird mascot, a six-foot-tall @-shaped planter, and a reclaimed wood conference table that each fetched around five figures. Other lots were more desirable, sparking bidding wars: a luxe La Marzocco espresso machine, high-performance Knoll task chairs galore, “kegerators” (i.e. beer fridges), a rotisserie oven, and stationary exercise bikes equipped with laptop stands.

In Their Own Words: “This auction has nothing to do with [Twitter’s] financial position,” Nick Dove, a representative for Heritage Global Partners, which handled the auction, told Fortune. “They’ve sold for $44 billion, and we’re selling a couple of chairs, desks, and computers. If anyone genuinely thinks the revenue from selling a couple of computers and chairs will pay for the mountain there, they’re a moron.”

Surface Says: Google’s recent Lizzo concert ploy to lure employees back to the office seems like the final gasp of the tech era’s age of indulgence.

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Lincoln Center continues to evolve. In addition to adapting its programming, the performing arts center is now the site of rising star and James Beard Award winner Kwame Onwuachi’s latest restaurant, Tatiana. The chef worked closely with architecture and design firm Modellus Novus to realize the interior, whose onyx iridescent tile and blackened steel finishes sing against the warmth of polished brass and oxblood leather dining chairs from Carl Hansen & Søn. Together, they call to mind the grandeur of the nearby concert halls and theaters.

In many ways, Tatiana is a love letter to New York City. The velvet upholstered banquettes recall the iconic park benches dotting the urban landscape, the tiles are an homage to sunshine on the oil-stained streets, and the steel nods to the industrial pockets still prevalent in certain parts of town. The menu, which is influenced by Onwuachi’s roots in Nigeria, Louisiana, and the South Bronx, is a delight for those looking for a change of pace from the neighborhood’s steakhouse fare. Highlights include braised oxtails, head-on shrimp cooked in Creole butter, and Egusi dumplings filled with crab and Nigerian stew.

Canada Goose has been acquiring and displaying art in its stores since 2016. The outerwear brand has acquired more than 500 artworks, primarily made by lesser-known Canadian talents seeking a platform, and now sports the world’s largest retail collection of Inuit art after partnering with curation firm Namara.

On display in the brand’s Montreal store, for example, are Ningiukulu Teevee’s pen-and-ink drawings of a walrus staring up at the sky, reflecting the intimacy the Inuit people share with animals they rely on for sustenance but also believe to be spirits. The brand has also launched Project Atigi, where it taps Inuit designers to craft parkas that blend traditional craftsmanship techniques with high-tech materials and which benefit Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, a nonprofit that advocates for Inuit communities.

For Patrizio Chiarparini, Duplex began as a passion project in 2015 to showcase exemplary Italian design—contemporary and vintage—from brands whose U.S. reach was undeservedly lacking. Starting off as a digital business, it acquired a brick-and-mortar presence with a gallery in Brooklyn with exclusive offerings like a Faye Toogood Roly Poly customized with Casentino wool cushions, a custom Julep sofa designed by Jonas Wagell with Raf Simons mohair upholstery, and the Gold Bliss collection by Mae Engelgeer for CC-Tapis.

Then came the exhibitions, a natural extension of the relationships with the valued collaborators whose presence has made the gallery worthy of a pilgrimage for anyone on the hunt for original design. The characterization certainly rings true for Chiarparini’s latest exhibition, “Merge,” a collaboration with Tuscan designer Duccio Maria Gambi.

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On a wintry afternoon in 1952, Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King strolled in the Boston Common on their fateful first date. Little did the lovebirds know they would return to the Common more than a decade later to lead one of New England’s first civil rights marches, in which tens of thousands of people chanted freedom songs en route from Roxbury, a predominantly Black neighborhood. This past Friday, more than 70 years after that initial stroll, the city unveiled a 22-foot-tall sculpture at the park honoring the couple’s legacy.

The monument is designed by Hank Willis Thomas and MASS Design Group, who were chosen by the city and nonprofit organization Embrace Boston from a pool of 126 entries. Unlike most statues that present their subjects as a singular hero, The Embrace instead pays tribute to collective action by replicating the hug shared by the couple after Dr. King won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. Reactions to the sculpture, however, have been less than kind.

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