Books

Watches: A Guide By Hodinkee

We remember meeting Hodinkee founder Ben Clymer when he’d recently started his horological website. Humble, passionate, and focused, he changed the face of watch journalism with his site that’s now grown to huge proportions. Hodinkee’s…

‘The Porsche Art Book’

You could string any combination of three numbers together and the odds are, if it starts with a 9, it’s also the numerical moniker of a famous Porsche automobile. The recently released Porsche Art Book is,…

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Oris Teamed up with The Walt Disney Company for Two Limited Edition ‘Star Wars’ Watches

Oris is one of our favorite watchmakers because their high-quality, mechanical timepieces combine over a century of design and technical proficiency to create wearable pieces of art that are as accurate as they are stylish. Now we see them teaming up with The Walt Disney Company for a limited pair of Star Wars watches that will transport you to a galaxy far, far away. With elements like automatic Oris movements, Oris-developed Rotation Safety System and TIE Fighter zero marker, there's a watch in the collection for every Star Wars fan.

‘My First Skateboard Book’

Professional American skateboarder, director and author Karl Watson was born in late 1976 and would spend a lifetime developing a laid back skate style, shoes, skateboards, parks and pretty much everything else skate culture related.…

‘Lair: Radical Homes and Hideouts of Movie Villains’

If you’re anything like us, and we know you are, you’ve wanted to live in an evil villain lair ever since you saw your first Bond film. There’s just something about the great houses that…

‘Whiskey: A Tasting Course’

In the early Middle Ages, Irish monks bestowed the name of uisce beatha–literally “water of life”–to whiskey. We weren’t around back then, but we’ve had no problem treating the distilled spirit as such since then.…

Hot Wheels: From 0 to 50 at 1:64 Scale

If you’re a car guy of any permutation, whether it’s exotics, muscle cars, 4x4s, or even just mainstream sedans, you can trace some of that love of automobilia back to those $1 Hot Wheels your…

Space Is Cool as Fuck Book

We have more great coffee table books than we have surfaces to display them on, but that didn’t stop us from picking up, thumbing through and proudly putting this one out for guests because it’s…

Banksy’s Former Manager Is Releasing a Book Filled with Photos of the Artist in Action

Whether it’s opening stores to spite large brands, shredding his own works or defacing currency, everything Banksy does is talked about, newsworthy and on display. The one thing that remains a closely guarded secret is…

Arcade Game Typography: The Art of Pixel Type

Hours standing up, both pockets filled with quarters, puffer vest, ball cap, no need for sustenance. Yep, that was our life at the arcade in the ’80s. We never thought about the pixilated fonts everywhere…

‘Binging with Babish: 100 Recipes Recreated from Your Favorite Movies and TV Shows’

Whether you’re talking about the Soup Nazi’s Wild Mushroom Soup from Seinfeld, the Cubano Sandwiches from Chef or cocktails from famous movies, it’s a fair bet that Andrew Rea–aka Oliver Babish, Oliver Platt’s The West…

Jim Murray’s Best Whiskys from the 2020 ‘Whisky Bible’ Have Been Revealed

Every year, Jim Murray–an equally loved and loathed critic on the world whisky scene–unveils his list of the best whiskies in the world. It led to a bottle of Crown Royal Northern Harvest Rye getting…

Monocole’s The Entrepreneur

An annual subscription to London-Based Monocle’s publications gets you some of the best writing and insights on global affairs, culture, design, business, and many other topics of interest. Now, they’re launching an annual called “The…

‘Web Design. The Evolution of the Digital World 1990–Today’

The Internet has changed a lot since the days when you needed a computer the size of a small car and a telephone line to get horrendous dial-up connections that would take minutes to load a…

‘Cocaïn: History & Culture’

Blow. Shneef. Flake. Nose beers. White. Dust. Booger sugar. Powder. Stripper salt. Pearl. Uptown. Cocaine–yes, that cocaine–has as many nicknames as it has had various uses over the years. In Assouline’s Cocaïn: History & Culture,…

Standard Manual “Parks” Coffee Table Book

Just because you and your kids may not have been to one of our country’s breathtaking national parks doesn’t mean you can’t experience some of it in an analog fashion. The new book “Parks –…

Robert Stilin ‘Interiors’ Design Book

For the better part of three decades, Robert Stilin has been a renowned designer known for the strong, clean and masculine interiors he’s been creating across New York and the Hamptons. Stilin’s genius has been…

‘Hi-Fi’ Explores the World of High-End Audio Design

Whether you want to read about countries, the universe, burgers, graphic design, bars or coffee, it’s a fair bet that Phaidon has published at least one gorgeous coffee table book on the subject matter. Their…

Parts Book Secret Stash Box

Whether you’re about currency, USB drives, travel documents or something that’s a little more shall we say “illicit”, we all have need to camouflage or otherwise obscure certain items from prying eyes. For all those…

The adidas Archive

Our first pair of three-stripe adidas shoes was red and white Rivalry high-top basketball shoes, and they were superb. Hell, had we known how legendary the brand would become, we would’ve saved ’em. The adidas…

Metallica Made a Children’s Book That Drops Later This Year

Want to up your Cool Uncle cred while simultaneously teaching all your nieces and nephews the importance of the alphabet? We can’t believe we’re about to say this, but Metallica can help. We’re not saying…

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