Binta, an Africa-inspired armchair by Swiss designer Philippe Bestenheider, is part of the new Moroso collection unveiled at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan.The chair’s form is based on African wood carvings and the upholstery is based on Senegalese patchwork fabrics. Found on Dezeen
Gypset (Gypsy+jet set) is about an emerging group of artists, musicians, fashion designers, surfers, and bon vivants– who lead semi-nomadic, unconventional lives. They are people author Julia Chaplin has met–or has been inspired by– in her travels who have perfected a high-low approach to life that fuses the freelance and nomadic wile of a gypsy with the sophistication and global references of the jet set. Its an alternative way of Read More ...
Denise Lugo is serious about fun. Dee, as she is known amongst the musicians and DJ’s who frequent her imaginative landscape, is a photographer and graphic designer. Warm, playful and vividly spontaneous, Dee infuses her work with a deep curiosity of life’s mysterious extremes. Of Puerto Rican descent, Dee was raised in the dichotomous worlds of Manhattan’s Loisaida and Stapleton, Staten Island. Her favorite haunts-nightclubs and other nocturnal venues offer up Read More ...
Alexandra Finlay has worked in the fashion industry since she was 18. She then decided to set up on her own but needed a good idea. She was sitting in Scotland with a great friend, and noticed that he had been wearing a pair of completely worn-out moccasins that he had bought in the market at St. Tropez for about 50 Euros. They were folded down at the back, and Read More ...
Bridging design, music and art, POSSO is the ever evolving project by artists and best friends Marylouise Pels and Vanessa Giovacchini in L.A. The Spat is a provocative new leather accessory that goes over the shoe with a bendable internal wire structure: The Spat changes the look of a shoe and recreates a contemporary leg line allowing the wearer to morph the shape of The Spat into innumerable desired forms Read More ...
We interviewed Nat & Armand of Uncooked Greeting Cards. Aside from cards, Uncooked is a an animation production company,( both short form & long form) and his summer they are also coming out with really cool animated ecards. How did Uncooked Cards begin? The year was 2004. We were young and giddy and our bodies reeked of cod. We had just squeezed into our big sexy bathing suits to air ourselves out Read More ...
Little Jack the Turd T-shirts perhaps? http://www.thebrowncorporation.com/
“Chocolate is very emotional. Physiologically it releases the samehormones as falling in love.” –Hasty Khoei Torres, Madame Chocolat “When I founded Vosges Haut–Chocolat ten years ago, I vowed to create a luxury chocolate experience rooted in a sensory journey, one that would delight even the most discerning of clients and the most passionate foodies. I want the gift giving experience to be simple, seamless, and unique – a reflection of Read More ...
