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Why NORQAIN Might Be the Best Swiss Watch Brand You Haven’t Looked at Yet
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How PITAKA’s Sunset Collection Is Shaping the Future of Emotional Design

High-performance tech gear meets pure visual poetry.

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Wellen Performance-Lined Swim Trunks, Reviewed by a Swim Trunk Skeptic

Could these be the shorts to end all my swimwear complaints? Tried, tested, reviewed.

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G-SHOCK’s 10-Year Pursuit of Perfection: The Fine Metallic Series Delivers Unseen Innovation

It took a decade to create this watch band innovation. And it was worth the wait.

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‘Do Angels Need Haircuts?’ Chronicles Lou Reed’s Poetry

There's no arguing the fact that Lewis Allan Reed—better known as Lou Reed—was an iconic fixture of the American music and pop culture landscapes. Whether you're talking about his time with The Velvet Underground or his expansive solo career that spanned five decades and twenty studio albums, Reed was prolific.…

By Cooper Fleishman
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What to Watch This Weekend: Wild Wild Country

With cable, Netflix, and internet options, finding the best thing to watch during your downtime is difficult. Instead of flipping through menus all weekend and settling on nothing, turn to What to Watch This Weekend, a series in which we give you our pick for the best new show or…

By Mike Newman
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A Design Studio Came Up With a Clever Way to Redo a Restaurant’s Bathroom Without Changing Its Old Tiles

Gyva Grafika is a design studio in Kaunas, Lithuania, that was tasked with redesigning the bathroom inside Galeria Urbana, a restaurant also in the city of Kaunas. The only stipulation? They needed to keep the old tiles already on the walls of the stall. The studio came up with a…

By Mike Newman
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Snarkitecture the Book

There are quite a few experiential firms in the world doing interesting work across different mediums, but there are very few that have been as impactful as Snarkitecture. If you're unfamiliar, Snarkitecture is a NY-based collaborative and innovative design studio founded by artist Daniel Arsham and architect Alex Mustonen. They're…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Modern Films on VHS

It's been a long time since we popped in a VHS tape. Blockbuster closed up shop. Home video cameras were replaced by smartphones. We now stream the bulk of the films we watch. If we're being honest, it makes us a little sad. We miss the Friday nights spent looking…

By Mike Newman
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