Jun 17

Boro—The Fabric of Life : Domaine de Boisbuchet hosts an exhibition of rare household textiles made by 19th and 20th century Japanese peasants

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Boro—The Fabric of Life
Around a month ago I had the privilege of visiting Sri, a private gallery owned by Stephen Szczepanek that houses an incredible archive of rare vintage Japanese textiles. While the experience was educational and fascinating, it did little to curb my appetite...
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May 28

Interview: Becky Crew: Australian science writer and author of “Zombie Birds, Astronaut Fish and Other Weird Animals”

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Interview: Becky Crew
Becky Crew spent her childhood in the picturesque Blue Mountains in Australia, with her (human) family and a menagerie that included dogs, cats, pigeons, crabs and all kinds of critters. Suffice to say she has always had a bit of a fascination with...
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May 18

Link About It: This Week’s Picks: Beastie Boys’ cover art, 1927 London on film, the $325,000 burger and more in our weekly look at the web

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Link About It: This Week's Picks
1. The $325,000 Burger Researchers in the Netherlands have been working tirelessly to create an entire hamburger's worth of beef muscle tissue from laboratory incubators. An expensive process, the point of their efforts is to give legitimacy to the research, which is supported...
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Apr 23

Garry Winogrand at SFMOMA: The iconic American photographer’s first retrospective in 25 years

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Garry Winogrand at SFMOMA
Garry Winogrand's first retrospective in 25 years at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is also the first exhibition to examine...
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Apr 22

Five Elephant: Kris Schackman and Sophie Weigensamer are redefining how Berliners take their coffee

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Five Elephant
by Jason Kenny There’s a corner of Berlin where three canals meet, separating the über desirable Kreuzberg, the increasingly trendy Neukölln and the largely ignored Treptow. While one of the canals between Kreuzberg and Treptow once served as a part of...
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Apr 19

Three Designer Children’s Chairs: Tiny furniture for little ones to enjoy

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Three Designer Children's Chairs
Discovering disco-inspired lighting and inert neon gas-filled lamps at this year's Milan Design Week reminded us inspiration can come from anywhere. Meanwhile bouncing between the massive Saloni furniture fair and the design districts of Lambrate and Zona Tortona, we also saw how...
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Apr 03

Gantoli Cycling Gloves: Leather palmed cycling gloves find inspiration in the glory days of European road racing

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Gantoli Cycling Gloves
Like many of us, the minds behind Montreal-based Gantoli Cycling Accoutrements are inspired by a bygone era they didn't actually live through. For CH contributor Mike Giles and Garry Vickers that time is the early...
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Apr 03

Mark Ryden: The Gay 90′s : The Pop-Surrealist returns with a series of illustrations highlighting turn-of-century problems

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Mark Ryden: The Gay 90's
Pop-Surrealist Mark Ryden introduced his creepily precious characters to the contemporary art world in the 1980s to wide acclaim, and in his sixth book, "); return...
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Apr 01

Hex Cross Body for Apple Newton: Carry your personal digital assistant in style

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Hex Cross Body for Apple Newton
In 1993 Apple changed the way we interact with technology on the go with the introduction of the original tablet device, the Newton. The personal digital assistant put the power of the era's most impressive technologies—writing notes, drawing shapes, faxing and saving to...
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Mar 25

Jemmy Button: Separated by land, sea and language, illustrators Jennifer Uman and Valerio Vidali collaborate on the historical tale

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Jemmy Button
As the incredible true story goes, in the mid-1800s the HMS Beagle, captained by Robert FitzRoy, landed in Tierra del Fuego on the coast of Patagonia. After one of his boats was stolen Fitzroy reportedly took a group of hostages including a boy...
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