Here are some more photographs of Jean Nouvel’s recently-opened Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in Kensington Gardens, London, this time taken by French photographer Julien Lanoo. (more…)
Real fruit, natural flavors and a few bubbles bring freshness to these new beverages—all perfect heat-beaters
Overpowered, chemically flavored and HFCS-sweetened sodas more and more seem like relics of our clueless food past. A new generation of drinks flavored with real fruit, naturally-sweetened or relying on fruit juice alone provide a range of options for beating the summer heat. Whether drinking them straight up or gussied up with the tipple of choice, we’re enjoying a fridge-full of options this summer.
For those who enjoy the complex notes of wine, you can now find the same intricacies in Cascal soda. Using a double-fermentation process, their unlikely juice-based flavor profiles are lightly carbonated and skip sugar, artificial colors and preservatives. Unusual ingredients such as mirabelle plums and magnolia combine to make their three non-alcoholic options—Crisp White, Light Red, and Fine Dry—selling at local Whole Foods Markets.
While both drink mixes and at-home soda makers have been making advancements in recent years, there has yet to be a happy marriage of the two. Taking both good ideas and making them better, Flavrz liquid mixes are designed for those who want to make their own flavored bubbly water without all the additives—all while reducing environmental waste. Available in 16-ounce bottles or individual one-ounce flavor packets, it’s up to you how much flavor you put in, making each beverage your own custom blend. Each naturally-delicious flavor, like Cherry Berry or Tropical or soda varieties such as root beer or cola, sells on Flavrz’s website.
Renowned American chefs David Burke and Alfred Portale recently moved into the beverage world, seeking the perfect compliment to every meal and every occasion. Their creation, the line of sparkling juice and tea combinations known as Twelve, come in the original peachy-apricot flavor or the new pomegranate-ginger Rouge. True to their word, each flavor is “unlike anything you have ever tasted” with incredible complexity. At $7 for 750mL bottle in select stores, the price is as good as the product.
It’s always five o’clock somewhere, especially if you’re in Irvine, CA testing combos with the new The Modern Cocktail company. Their premium cocktail mixers aren’t the Jack-and-cokes or cran-vodkas of your college days, but instead employ the fruitiest, most innovative recipes to create new mixers for the ages. Putting modern spins on all the classics (including margaritas, champagne toppers, and assorted ‘tinis), the Modern Cocktail has options that will inspire even the most trepidatious bartender. Available in themed five-packs based on category ($10) or extra-large single-flavor “fresh packs” ($4, designed to be air and light-proof), look out for them in specialty and high-end retailers this fall.
had flat waters diff flavors
Building on the success of their flat waters, Ayala’s Herbal Waters are completely artificial- and preservative-free sparkling waters deeply infused with herbs. Flavors such as cinnamon orange peel and lemongrass mint vanilla (with more combos on the way) confuse and enchant the tastebuds all at once. All products sell on the company’s website, with the new sparklers starting at $24 for a three-pack sampler.
The Goji berry has been getting more and more recognition for its deliciously nutritious qualities, along with the Açai berry, Pomegranate, Mangosteen, and Blueberry. Together, these superfruits cover all of the bases in boosting energy, nutrition, antioxidants and lending tastiness. Gojilania Goji Juice Blends keeps it simple, combining Goji individually with each of the others and without the use of artificial additives. This upshot is a blend filled with the exotic flavors that rarely make their way into a 10.5-ounce bottle, but as a result the Goji berry is now more portable and affordable. Get each of the variations ($4 each), as well as 32-ounce supplement bottles ($28), online from the Healthy Gourmet Market.
Mathematically-inspired bug houses designed to promote urban biodiversity
Winning London’s recent Beyond The Hive competition, the “Insect Hotel” is a five-star refuge for bugs living in urban environments. Architecture firm Arup Associates designed individual compartments in a mathematically-derived pattern known as a Voronoi tessellation to house an array of species spanning spiders, beetles and moths.
Recently featured on Good, the competition was commissioned by real estate company British Land and the City of London with the goal of bringing biodiversity to cities and to celebrate the London Festival of Architecture.
Anthropologie buyer-at-large Keith Johnson continues to scour the world for interesting stuff in Man Shops Globe. Now in its second season, the Sundance Channel series follows Johnson as he visits all manner of shops, markets, and studios and seeks out artists and craftspeople. Tonight’s episode promises merchandise-laden adventures Down Under (fingers crossed for marsupial footage!), as Johnson plans an Australian home design showcase for Anthropologie’s Rockefeller Center store in New York City. Tune in to watch him prowl Sydney for new talent and seek advice from Aussie interior designer and author Sibella Court.
Also in store this season for our favorite globe-shopper are expeditions with goals that go beyond the retail sphere. Johnson scouts out Scotland for items to be auctioned for an animal rescue organization in Philadelphia. In Cyprus, he’ll help a friend pitch a book about Cypriot food and design, and in Italy he travels with a student from the Savannah College of Art and Design—and along the way meets with Italian design luminaries including Alberto Alessi and Rossana Orlandi. Johnson will also tour Syria with fashion designer Anna Sui, explore innovative Mexican ironworks with interior designer Michael Smith, and, most intriguingly, encounter a figure known as “the Gnome Lady” in Sweden. Look for artfully distressed and possibly sequined Gnome Lady t-shirts to appear in your local Anthropologie any day now.
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Aussie webzine founders discuss bi-hemisphere collaboration, their DIY publishing ethos and site-crashing mixtapes
In its most recent incarnation, The Pop Manifesto hovers between its origins as a ‘zine and tastemaking publication that traces the leading edge of graphic design. Focusing on Japan, the latest issue includes both a round up of under-the-radar creative Tokyoites and Diet Butcher Slim Skin, the Kanye-approved menswear designer.
Its Australian founders, editor Ilirjana Alushaj and art director Karl Maier, started the publication five years ago as a way spotlight the talents of the people around them. (Alushaj fronts the Brooklyn band Apache Beat and Maier is member of the art collective Rinzen
. “I think we’ve always thought of the Pop Manifesto as more of a ‘zine than a “magazine,” Maier tells CH, “and I feel like this direction grew out of that mindset, injecting a bit of considered chaos into the whole affair.”
With Alushaj in New York City and Maier in Melbourne, the editorial and art work a hemisphere apart, but their confidence in each other wavers little. “We’ve have odd hour-ed conversations and panicked emails, but Karl and I really trust each other and it is rare we don’t like something one of us is doing,” Alushaj says.
Heavy downloads of its first mixtape (curated by Romy Croft of the XX) devoured bandwidth, essentially shutting down the website until last week. “I’ve always loved making and listening to mixtapes and wanted to offer to readers of the Pop Manifesto something similar,” Alushaj explains, “[Croft] was psyched as I was to do it.”
The mixtape is in spirit with the publication’s DIY-attitude, sparked by a camaraderie of sharing instead of the call of hard-nosed journalism. This ethic remains largely unchanged; seasoned writers, photographers and others contribute without pay. “The Pop Manifesto is a small project we mainly do for love,” Alushaj explains. “So, we have certain limitations, but we are trying our best to make things amazing.”
Check out the new issue and download the free mixtape on their site.
Very nice respectful rework of a classic mark. Great reference material here.
More work on their site.
Singapore bag-slingers bring Portland coffee to Amsterdam with their first store
Drawing on cafe-owner roots, Property Of bag designers Peter Teo and Richard Chamberlain recently launched the brand’s first flagship, a “store in a cafe,” on Amsterdam’s fashion-forward Herenstraat Street.
In addition to peddling the Singapore brand’s well-crafted line of shoulder bags and accessories, the outpost will house an array of like-minded magazines and books while serving up Stumptown coffee—as the increasingly popular roaster continues to expand beyond its Portland, OR hometown.
Highlighted here last year for their collaboration with Pendleton Woolen Mills, the label traditionally uses waxed cotton, coated denim or heavy nylon for their range of urban-inspired bags.
Property Of sees the Amsterdam location as the beginning of an expansion program that will lead to shops in Singapore, New York and Tokyo over the following months.
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