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Cool Party: Our End of Summer Hosting Guide
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Cool Party: Our End of Summer Hosting Guide
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Our Go-to Albums for Hosting

7 albums that set the mood so you can worry about the food and whether you have enough ice.

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10 Labor Day Sales You Probably Don’t Know About 10 Labor Day Sales You Probably Don’t Know About
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10 Labor Day Sales You Probably Don’t Know About

Forget the usual suspects. We found worthwhile deals on menswear, watches, luggage, design, fragrance, books, and more.

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The Art of Cocktail Conversation

58 questions for better conversations at your next party.

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Simon Stålenhag Sci-Fi Paintings

Simon Stålenhag's paintings of an alternate future where robots, dinosaurs and humanity somehow coexist are gorgeous. They exist somewhere between the realms of Oblivion (the movie), Half Life 2 and Fallout 3. Realities that never came to pass but are so imaginative that you can't help but want to step…

By Cooper Fleishman
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PubCakes

Good beer is good beer whether it's served in a snifter or a Solo cup or, in this case, baked in a little doily wrapper. PubCakes are a series of dry cake mixes that are specifically designed to be made with some delicious craft beer. The four different cupcake mixes…

By Mike Newman
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Muji Compact Aluminum Pens

Muji makes just about everything, and they do a damn fine job with every single piece. It should come as no surprise to you that the pen obsessed Editors at Cool Material are most excited right now about their new line of Compact Aluminum Pens. Each one of the available…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
Lifts & Bounds Prints

Try to think of any piece of art depicting skiing or any alpine scene for that matter. Ugly, right? Lifts & Bounds is set on changing that by producing minimalist style prints of the trail layouts at different venues around the world. Each is printed on canvas with archival ink…

By Mike Newman
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Upcycled Star Wars Sculptures

Gabriel Dishaw is a self-proclaimed, "Junk Artist," and while we don't know many of them, he's our new favorite. The guy takes objects he finds like typewriters, computers, and other various pieces and turns them into seriously awesome art. For this series, he's taking that stuff and making crazy Star…

By Mike Newman
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