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Lifestyle

Inspiration for elevated living: the best in food, drinks, home, travel, health, entertainment & more.

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Lifestyle
Black Book: 10 Products Our Editors Loved in April 2026
By Cool Material
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Lifestyle
Review: One Year With the Tiami Mattress

Upgrading to Tiami turned sleep into something I look forward to every night. Don’t miss their Memorial Day Weekend Sale.

By Adam Szafranski
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Lifestyle
The Mexico Hideaway No One’s Talking About (Yet)

Tucked away in Punta de Mita, Susurros del Corazón is barefoot luxury done right.

By Lola Méndez
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Lifestyle
The Hotel at the Edge of Golf’s Holy Land

Steps from Royal Portrush Golf Club, Portrush Adelphi is equal parts clubhouse, coastal retreat, and proper pint destination.

By Hayley Domin
Audio
Tenho Design Saana Levykaappi Vinyl Record Holder Cabinet

Despite the popularity of online streaming services and the digital home assistants that can play enormous collections of music you don't own with a few spoken words, there's no denying the fact that records are, once again, one of the most popular ways to listen to music these days. If…

By Cooper Fleishman
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A Soccer Ball That Never Needs To Be Inflated

American football is easily the most popular sport in this country, but the sport we call soccer and everyone else calls football is significantly more popular with 265 million players worldwide (which is about 4% of the world's population for the record). Japanese design house Nendo continues their history of…

By Cooper Fleishman
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1974 BMW 2002 Turbo Coupe

The BMW 2002 is a legend in automotive circles. Small, quick, maneuverable, and classically handsome, it's the father of the modern BMW sports sedan. This one that's now up for auction is truly special. It's a 1974 model that's one of 1,672 made, and it has the 2002 TII's fuel-injected…

By Amos Kwon
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Entertainment
Intricate Samurai Warrior Made from a Single Sheet of Paper

We've seriously never seen anything like this. Juho Könkkölä took a single sheet of paper to create a highly detailed Samurai warrior. It took about 50 hours, and there isn't a rip or cut made in the painstaking process. He used a wet/dry folding technique on the 95x95 centimeter sheet…

By Amos Kwon
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ARES Design Porsche 964 911 Turbo

As arresting as the current generation of Porsche 911 is, there's nothing like the classic 911 shape, specifically the 964 911 Turbo version. Now, Italian coachbuilder ARES Design has performed a restomod of the 964 911 Turbo to perfection. It's a project for a client who wanted a “unique creation,…

By Amos Kwon
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