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Review: One Year With the Tiami Mattress
By Adam Szafranski
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My Girlfriend Loves Design, So I Got Her an Arc Alarm Clock from NanuElectrics

Useful can be beautiful. The best gifts are.

By Johnny Motley
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The Coolest Home Gifts for 2025

For the home, for the win.

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The Essential Tools for Red Wine Lovers
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The Essential Tools for Red Wine Lovers

By Christopher Osburn
Health
Kontextür VIKTOR Razor Holders

The art of removing (or perfectly "stubbling") the hair on your face is one you probably have a system for. Equipment for the process has gotten to the point now that it's more out of control than Lindsay Lohan at a Poison concert. Your razor has more blades than a…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Timba’s Illustration Department

If we did anything with print magazines (if you can remember what those are), Timba Smits would most certainly illustrate the covers. Timba's Illustration Department is a collection of his illustration works from Computer Arts Projects, Street Studio, Vampire Roller Babes, Beastie Boys, and the list goes on. His illustrations…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
Don’t Feed the Swedes Cap Stool

Think of the Swedes. We came up with meatballs, IKEA, and Volvo. We definitely did not think of graffiti or stools or graffiti stools. Which is probably why we aren't famous furniture designers selling an essentially blank plastic canvas. After shopping around the recyclable plastic, 48x39cm Cap Stool to the…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Accessories
Crate and Barrel Grip Bookend

We've said it before: there's a soft spot in our hearts for a cool product that ingeniously repurposes a mundane object to serve a new function. We're not talking about MacGuyvering an AM Radio out of a paper clip, a Q-tip, and 9 volt battery either. Take these old classic…

By Wylie Overstreet
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Grayson Castro

Grayson Castro is our kind of artist.  He takes iconic images of, well, icons... and zombifies them.  As zombies hit a sort of renaissance in today's pop culture (along with, unfortunately, vampires), Castro saw fit to take it into the high-brow world of art. Each painting is of a famous figure--Audrey Heburn,…

By Wylie Overstreet
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