We’re quickly nearing peak BBQ season here in NYC, and while we’re a bit biased towards our own CH Edition 3×1 Denim Pitmaster Apron, we’ve taken a shining to those from the newly launched brand
By Sam Bovarnick Roy McMakin opened Big Leaf Manufacturing in 1997 as a workshop for his furniture and architecture firms, but now maintains a level of independence that allows…
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The idea of round hanging mirrors with thick leather straps may have blossomed with modernist designer Jacques Adnet’s “Circulaire” mirror—the result of a partnership with Hermés in the 1950s—but over the past two years we’ve seen it bloom even further, becoming both a…
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Yes, it does rain more often than not in the Pacific Northwest, but that doesn’t mean you can’t get out and enjoy the wilderness. To outfit all-weather adventurers this spring, Seattle-based hat brand Coal teamed up…
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Between 50-year-old whiskey and 19th-century curaçao, vodka has a tendency to fall by the wayside in our hunt for sipping spirits, but a recent encounter wtih Oola’s flavored vodkas has certainly changed that. Oola, a micro-distillery in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle, operates under a “grain-to-glass” mantra—a selling…
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In re-imagining certain daily ubiquities—from the Have a Nice Day plastic bag to paper lunch sacks—clever designers have come up with delightfully intentional accessories. Whimsy is one thing, however—true sophistication is quite another. Inspired by the functional but often dingy spreads used to wrap and protect furniture and insulate…
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For the wine enthusiast looking to get serious about keeping bottles, but lacking the space at home to do so, off-site storage can provide a handy, well-managed solution. Even those with the square footage and disposable income to install a temperature-controlled catacomb in their own home might still miss…
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L’artiste brésilienne Sandra Cinto a réalisé avec des graphistes cette magnifique fresque murale pour le Seattle Art Museum. Appelée « Encontro das Águas », ce dessin puisant son inspiration aussi bien la Vague Géante d’Hokusai que dans le Radeau de la Méduse de Géricault symbolise l’espoir, la survie et l’endurance.
After landing in NYC earlier this summer at the Ace Hotel, Seattle’s Rudy’s Barbershop today opens their second city location across the East River in Brooklyn. Currently running as a retail pop-up, the enterprising chop shop teamed up with Portland’s Stumptown coffee roasters to set up in a historic…
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Porcelain fortune cookies for the smashing
In explaining how she came to collaborate with design shop Object on a collection of porcelain fortune cookies, Seattle-based designer Aleksandra Pollner points to three tenets: form, past experience and material. Certainly it’s form that caught our eye first when we happened upon her pieces at the New York…
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