- Publishers Noted: in which our publisher reviews the building of another publisher
“I hope never to have a Slack,” Hélène Garneau Werner, the managing editor and cofounder of the brand-new magazine Now Voyager, tells me. Her colleague Emily Yang, head of operations, agrees: “We don’t need a Slack, because everyone is here.”
Here—that is, their office—is not easy to find: One must thread through a narrow hallway at the back of a Chelsea gallery, Les Ateliers Courbet, that ends in a theatrical archway opening onto a large, high-ceilinged room lit by a clerestory. One visiting writer, the investigative journalist Christo Grozev, likened the experience of finding the office to a scene from the spy show The Americans. When I came to visit, I was stumped. Seeing the apparently empty design gallery, I gave up and retreated to Urbana Cafe on the corner. There I ran into Nicolas Niarchos, Now Voyager’s other cofounder, as he was buying coffee for himself and an intern. He bought a coffee for me, too.
Unlike me, the staff finds their way to the o…
