Riding Royal Enfield’s Continental GT Café Racer: Taking the Indian motorcycle maker’s 535cc bike on a Californian tour

Riding Royal Enfield's Continental GT Café Racer


To most, the late ’60s and ’70s were the glory days of motorcycle design. America made muscle and the Japanese took over the industry with attractive, simple, reliable machines of all engine sizes. While Triumph’s Bonneville and Honda’s new CB1100 offer something…

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Bright Bedding from Australia’s Kip & Co: The boutique brand’s bold linens are designed for the kid in everyone

Bright Bedding from Australia's Kip & Co


Australia’s Kip & Co creates colorful, spirited and youthful bed linens—and towels, rugs and even beanbags. From cartoon pizza representations to rainbow scribbles, the prints…

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Michael Leon + Arkitip Vexhall Series: The artist creates new flags as part of his ongoing project

Michael Leon + Arkitip Vexhall Series


by Eva Glettner Both an artist and an art director, Michael Leon never strays far from the tenacity and enthusiasm he picked up as a skateboarder in the late ’80s. He blends a DIY attitude with finely…

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Cool Hunting Video: Creating a Bentley Flying Spur: Getting hands-on with bespoke automobiles; a look behind the scenes at Bentley’s customization process

Cool Hunting Video: Creating a Bentley Flying Spur


From a sneak peek prior to the official launch at the 2013 Geneva Auto Show to its first drive in Beijing, the Bentley’s all-new ,…

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Handmade Kitchen Goods from Makers & Brothers: The Irish team presents a stunning new cheese board and peppermill at their pop-up shed in The Standard East Village’s garden

Handmade Kitchen Goods from Makers & Brothers


For five days, the Irish team behind Makers & Brothers (an online retail site that celebrates making, founded by siblings Jonathan and Mark Legge) recreated their off-the-radar shed in the garden of The Standard, East Village…

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Italy’s Stylish, Customizable Dudebike: A vibrant modernization of vintage cycling craftsmanship that’s customizable and doesn’t “make you look like a nerd”

Italy's Stylish, Customizable Dudebike


Francesco Bordin—creative director and co-founder at Dudebike—best explains the recipe that led to the increasing success of its new creation: “Take a typical Italian folding bike of the ’60s and ’70s with 20-inch wheels, take away…

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Oroma Elewa Launches Online Store: The Pop’Africana founder opens a webshop full of treasures found on her extensive adventurous travels

Oroma Elewa Launches Online Store


Already a CH favorite, Oroma Elewa has just stepped it up a notch, launching her online store. As expected, it’s a place to admire (and purchase) some of the…

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RISD’s Annual Graduate Thesis Exhibit 2014: Over 170 artists from the school’s MFA programs are included in the dynamic show

RISD's Annual Graduate Thesis Exhibit 2014


by Samuel Emmet Over the weekend, scores of art students and gallery-goers descended on Providence’s Rhode Island Convention Center to see the 2014 Rhode Island School of Design’s (RISD) Annual Graduate Thesis Exhibition. The Convention Center, a…

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The 10th Anniversary of Kartell’s Bourgie Lamp : An exclusive look at how Pharrell Williams, Rafael de Cardenas and Snarkitecture reinterpreted the iconic design

The 10th Anniversary of Kartell's Bourgie Lamp


Kartell is taking the 10th anniversary of its famed Bourgie Lamp, the classical baroque silhouette preserved ironically in plastic designed by Ferruccio Laviani, quite seriously. Earlier this year, the Italian…

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NYCxDesign 2014: Sight Unseen OFFSITE : A vibrant explosion of contemporary design from the duo behind the beloved online publication

NYCxDesign 2014: Sight Unseen OFFSITE


Since 2010, former I.D. magazine editors Jill Singer and Monica Khemsurov have taken a portion of the panoply found online at their design publication Sight Unseen into the physical realm through the Noho Design District—an ancillary event to New York’s annual spring design…

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