Kiyoshi Mino’s Felt Menagerie: Sparrows, lambs and dramatic chipmunks by an Army vet, farmer and artisan

Kiyoshi Mino's Felt Menagerie

Made with only a needle and some carded wool, Kiyoshi Mino’s large and small felt animals are delightful sculptures of farmstead companions. The colorful ducks, pigs and sparrows are born from a time-consuming process that boils down to a ball of wool and significant dexterity in needle felting, a…

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LAS Jewelry: Prehistoric-inspired rings and cuffs comprise the design couple’s latest collection

LAS Jewelry

Designing out of their studio in Ohio, husband-and-wife artists Daniel and Lisa Soltis work side by side to create their casted jewelry. Brought together by their love of art and design, the couple started LAS Jewelry as a way to get closer. “We both grew up in art. Even…

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Studio Visit: Electric Love: The Brooklyn space where dreamcatchers are spun from leather and feathers

Studio Visit: Electric Love

Upon walking into the Brooklyn studio of Charlie Walker and Hitomi Matarese, the husband-and-wife founders of Electric Love, you feel an almost immediate calm, either from the gentle scent of patchouli and leather wafting through the air or the rhythmic sound of hands at work. “I’ve lived and worked…

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Interview: Nabil Sabio Azadi : Personal contacts from all over the globe compiled in a handmade, fur-bound travel guide

Interview: Nabil Sabio Azadi

Nabil Sabio Azadi is interested in a specific form of intrepid, personally connected travel. His new book, “For You The Traveller,” is a painstaking work that combines personal anecdotes with a list of local contacts from around the world, culled from the artist’s five-year stint traveling across five continents….

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Handmade Towels: Jennifer’s Hamam: Traditional Turkish towels get an organic upgrade

Handmade Towels: Jennifer's Hamam

The new year has us updating our old routines around the house, and fresh linens seem like one of the easiest ways to make a clean start. This week, we’ve gathered up five beautifully crafted towels to help spruce up the bath and get us going on cold mornings….

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Handmade Towels: Dar Gitane: Luxurious handwoven textiles from the coast of South Africa

Handmade Towels: Dar Gitane

The new year has us updating our old routines around the house, and fresh linens seem like one of the easiest ways to make a clean start. This week, we’ve gathered up five beautifully crafted towels to help spruce up the bath and get us going on cold mornings….

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Moko Sellars : Kicky bone china diamond rings handmade in East London

Moko Sellars

Just a few miles from where Thomas Frye first developed the composition for bone china in 1748, a modern tribute to the porcelain material is on view at Hackney’s Wilton Way Cafe. The East London coffee shop and community gallery is currently showing a collection of bone china “diamond”…

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Handmade Towels: Kara Weaves: Dry off with these traditional, Fair Trade linens from Kerala

Handmade Towels: Kara Weaves

The new year has us updating our old routines around the house, and fresh linens seem like one of the easiest ways to make a clean start. This week, we’ve gathered up five beautifully crafted towels to help spruce up the bath and get us going on cold mornings….

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Emedemarta: Geometric pendants subject to the elements by a Barcelona-based designer

Emedemarta

by Ikechukwu Onyewuenyi The ethereal yet down-to-earth ethos behind Emedemarta—Dreamt. Made. Loved—guides Barcelona-based designer Marta Marginet in creating her enchanting line of hand-carved jewelry. Her simple aesthetic has garnered somewhat of a cult following for its combination of a delicately feminine sensibility with the angular feel of the geometric pendants….

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Best of CH 2012: Cool Hunting Video: From venus flytraps to premium denim, our favorite pieces this year

Best of CH 2012: Cool Hunting Video

With the holidays upon us it’s once again that time of year when we look back at Cool Hunting Video content in 2012. This year was a real gem with some fantastic pieces ranging from the world’s largest carnivorous plant nursery to the wacky International Banana Museum. Below is a…

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