Jet-Set Shopping

Traveling used to be special,” says John Sencion, co-owner of Flight 001, a new travel store in New York’s Greenwich Village. “We’re trying to get back to that, and the level of comfort and style that went with it.” So he and partner Brad John, both former clothing designers, had architect Dario Cesar Antonioni turn the interior of a little storefront into an airport lounge circa 1950.

Luggage is displayed in a spot designed like an airport’s baggage claim area. Sencion and John favor chic, durable bags made by Diesel and the Custard Shop in London, “pamper packs” for weary travelers’ faces, hands and hair, made by Bloom of Australia, and Italian toothbrush kits (with eucalyptus toothpaste) from Acca Kappa. Flight 001 is also a great place to buy gifts, from globes to rain hats to fold-up umbrellas to hard-to-find-guidebooks.

The store’s name comes from Pan Am 1, which between 1947 and 1985 was the world’s only regularly scheduled around-the-world flight: Los Angeles-Honolulu-Tokyo-Hong Kong-Bangkok-New Delhi-Beirut-Istanbul-Frankfurt-London-New York-and then home again to the city of Angels.

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Flight 001, 96 Greenwich Ave., New York, N.Y. 10011; (212) 691-1001; Internet https://www.flight001.com.*