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Lifestyle

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

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Lifestyle
Laphroaig’s New Whisky Comes With No Tasting Notes And a Chance to Hang with Willem Dafoe
By Andy Vasoyan
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Lifestyle
The Ancient Art of Cooking Dinner Beneath Your Feet

Across nearly every continent, cultures have discovered the same thing. The earth makes a pretty incredible oven.

By Lola Méndez
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Lifestyle
The Anti-Instagram Cocktail Era Is Here

Why bartenders and drinkers are ditching the garnish circus and getting back to minimalistic cocktails.

By Christopher Osburn
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Lifestyle
Black Book: 10 Products Our Editors Loved in April 2026

The products our editors have been obsessed with in April 2026.

By Cool Material
Home
Nendo Stairway House

Some custom-built homes are based on a theme. For this one in Japan, it's an absolutely dominating stairway that begins outside and penetrates all three floors as more of a sculpture than a functional means of ascent or descent. The Stairway House, as its appropriately named, was built in residential…

By Amos Kwon
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Transportation
Bottpower XR-1

Buell bikes are no longer, but that didn't prevent David Sanchez of Valencia, Spain-based BottPower from using the Buell XB12 as the potent base bike upon which to create their XR-1. It utilizes the XB12's big Harley-Davidson 1203cc V-Twin engine good for 100 horsepower and drops 40 lbs of weight…

By Amos Kwon
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Transportation
Suzuki Omni Battle Van

When human ingenuity and automotive econoboxes come together, awesome things can happen. Case in point, India-based Holy Shift Garage took a rather conventional and dilapidated Suzuki Omni van and made a small, meaty monster. The original vehicle was pretty much useless, so they stripped it down to a bare shell…

By Amos Kwon
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Entertainment
Build Your Own Wooden Guggenheim Museum

Bored with puzzles, digital happy hours and Netflix already? Put all your free time to use and build your very own replica of the Gugenheim Museum out of wood. Officially licensed and approved by the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation (which also helps support the work preserving his legacy) and produced…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Transportation
Zillers Garage Custom BMW R nineT Motorcycle

When BMW first took the wraps off the new R nineT motorcycles, we knew that they were going to be some of the most popular modern bikes because of their combination of performance, style and pedigree. We didn't imagine it was only going to be a few short years before…

By Cooper Fleishman
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