A piece of art that warms our heart.
"Hardly anyone knows that a secret tunnel runs deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean. In May 2008, more than a century after it was begun, the tunnel has finally been completed. An extraordinary optical device called a Telectroscope has been installed at both ends which miraculously allows people to see right through the Earth from London to New York and vice versa."
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This is our new favorite magazine, Monocle. "A fresh focus on global affairs, business, culture, design and all you need in life." We'll let their site speak for itself. The print publication is very elegant, very beautiful and well worth a few page turns.
If you've been contemplating an overhaul to those dreary apartment walls, perhaps its paper instead of paint this time. In the T design magazine from the New York Times today, this number caught our eye. Wallpaper designed by artist Kiki Smith.
via NYTimes.com
Available from Studio Printworks
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I'm sure it has plagued us all, those cold days walking down the street trying to make a call or send a text, the great debate. Take off the glove or just keep going.
Riding that fine line between cool and kitsch, these New York Graffiti patterned china place settings would be a welcome jolt of the unexpected on the dinner table. The design is by Lovegrove and Repucci and can be found at designpublic.comThanks for the tip from: Stand D'arde ;)
Alas, we haven't had the opportunity to visit in person, but if the cake stand alone is any indication, it is not to be missed.
"The Wolseley was created by Chris Corbin and Jeremy King in 2003 in the style of the Grand Café normally only found on the Continent. The original building was commissioned in 1921 by Wolseley Cars as their West End showroom and was designed by William Curtis Green in the Art Deco style of the time. In keeping with the Grand Cafe tradtion and to match the opulence of the interior, a range of equipment inspired by the era was sourced, some antique and others bespoke."
The Wolseley has started a web store to sell selections of their exceedingly popular table and glassware. The Black & White Cake Stand with Cloche is ã165.00.
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This very charming documentary by French filmmaker Loïc Prigent, follows uber-fashion maven, Marc Jacobs through the creation and presentation of the Marc Jacobs and Louis Vuiton Spring Collections 2007 (with a brief stop in Tokyo where they staged a recreation of the Fall 2006 LV collection - and a mad party).
This one just in from the those sage fellas at Cool Hunting. A fantastic trove of modern furniture from Modhaus, a store in Boston.
We will keep software recommendations to a bare minimum on these pages but, I've been meaning to drop a note on this morsel for quite some time. iGTD is a task-managment application designed by a boy-genius from Wroclaw, Poland. Bartek Bargiel, a mac enthusiast and mensch, created this little application and has unleashed it on the world as donationware. I am not going to get into the minutia of what it does, suffice it to say, it works. And it works very, very well. It is the embodiement of modern design in code. Simple, elegant, form from function.
Well, it is one of our favorite stores! That's why.
I personally carry a custom designed red python-skin wallet by Shelly Parker. But alas, that one is going to need retirement soon and I've found it's replacement. The new line of men's accessories by Güs look fantastic. They have created both horizontal and vertical wallets as well as our favorite, a beautiful passport folio.
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- Designated passport pocket
- 7 card pockets for traveler cards, credit cards, business cards or the almighty ââ¬ÅGet out of jail freeââ¬Â card.
- 2 large pockets to stash receipts, foreign currency, and that special picture of .
- 1 side "ticket" pocket that will hold those special theatre (or playoff) tickets you really don't want to lose.
- 2 SIM chip pockets. If you travel internationally, you know how easy it is to lose those things.
the güs passport folio - $189.99
We have long been fans of Royal Copenhagen. In fact it is possible that in our book, they could do no wrong. So it is with great delight that we found these merchants of reliability had veered off course, after 231 years, into the seductive world of darkness. Enter the Black Fluted Mega. ]]>
Fill the credenza.
We have nothing more to say. www.royalcopenhagen.com
This one didn't get posted in time to make the holiday travel collection. But, we decided not to leave it hanging as it is now more relevant than ever. Tablet Hotels sends our favorite daydream inducing email newsletter. Tablet Hotels curates the best collection of boutique and luxury hotels from around the world.
Sign up for the newsletter and don't forget their coffee table book.
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It was in early months of 1990 when filmmaker Michael Galinsky turned his still photo lens on one of the many 'street markets' that found a home in New York City's East Village.
This particular market was on the perimeter of the parking lot on Astor between Cooper Sq. and Lafayette, now the site of the neighborhood's newest architectural atrocity.
Galinsky sums up not just the street market but the east village itself, "I loved the mixture of goods; as you can see in the book, one "store" carried a Trump book next to a text on Marxism, next to some porn, next to some hinduism next to a book about Van Gogh."
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