Skip to Content
Gear & Tech
Travel
Watches
Fashion
Lifestyle
Guides
steals

Get the Cool Material Newsletter

Insider recommendations, the best deals, and the most unique products & experiences, delivered right to your inbox.

Subcribe
What We're Buying
1

The Nike Chapter of My Summer Story

The swim shorts, half-zip, and retro runners that became the 20% of my summer wardrobe doing 80% of the work.

1
Lifestyle
The Golf Round That Built a Bourbon Empire
1
partner
The Rise of Prediction Culture
Our Picks

Featured Stories

1
Travel
Your One-Bag Weekend Getaway Packing Guide

Cover all the bases with versatile selections for your EDC, your outdoor kit, and some R&R afterwards.

1
What We're Buying
Bring the Soundtrack With You This Summer

The best outdoor portable speakers for beach trips, lake weekends, backyard hangs, and every adventure that calls for a little music.

1
Lifestyle
The Anti-Algorithm Guide to Discovering New Music
By Cool Material
1
Features
The Color Combos I’m Wearing a Lot Right Now
By Lanny Fuller
1
Travel
Your One-Bag Weekend Getaway Packing Guide

Cover all the bases with versatile selections for your EDC, your outdoor kit, and some R&R afterwards.

1
What We're Buying
Bring the Soundtrack With You This Summer

The best outdoor portable speakers for beach trips, lake weekends, backyard hangs, and every adventure that calls for a little music.

1
Lifestyle
The Anti-Algorithm Guide to Discovering New Music

Streaming made music infinite. Which made discovery harder. Here’s how we’re finding our way back.

1
Features
The Color Combos I’m Wearing a Lot Right Now

Steals

The best deals and offers on the web

Editors' Picks

A curated selection of our favorite gear

Must-Reads

Our team’s top picks

1
1
Travel
Travel

America’s Most Historic Golf Trip

1
2
What We're Buying
What We're Buying

Summer’s Best Watches Under $1,500

1
3
Travel
Travel

The Luxury Lover’s Guide to Puerto Vallarta

1
4
Sports
Sports

The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

1
5
Travel
Travel

How This Cryptic Vinegar Estate in Germany Sparked My Cocktail Shrub Era

Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide
Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide
6
Travel
Travel

Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide

1
7
What We're Buying
What We're Buying

The American Watchmaker Rebuilding a Lost Craft

1
8
Travel
Travel

A Pilgrimage to Italy’s Iconic Superbikes and Supercars in Emilia-Romagna

1
9
Shopping
Shopping

The Italian Art of Dressing Well in the Heat

1
10
What We're Buying
What We're Buying

The Sunglasses You Should Be Wearing This Summer, According to An Expert

From Our Partners

The Latest

Fashion
The MVMT Modern Sport Watch Is Ready for Work and Play

By combining the soul of a traditional dive watch with a look and design that feels completely contemporary, MVMT has created the perfect timepiece for the sophisticated thrill-seeker. The new Modern Sport boasts premium coating that's fingerprint and glare proof, a rotating bezel, and interchangeable silicon and stainless steel bands.…

By Mike Newman
mvmt-x-cm-mariner-modern-sport-infeed
Gear
Rumpl Puffe- Battery-Powered Heated Blanket

After the success of the Down Puffy Outdoor Blanket and the Repurposed Puffy Jacket Blanket, Rumpl is back with Puffe-, the world's most advanced heated blanket. The simplest explanation of Puffe- is that it's a portable, battery-powered heated blanket you can take with you anywhere. In order to make this thing…

By Cooper Fleishman
rumpl-puffe-heated-blanket
Gifts
The 16 Best Travel Gifts to Give This Year

If you have someone on your list who has to catch a red-eye after the holiday party you’re hosting, this is the gift guide to pick their present from. Everything listed is sure to please the guy who has packing down to a science. From better travel bags to chargers…

By Mike Newman
16-best-travel-gifts
Home
Christoffer Relander Bottled Landscapes

As part of an ongoing project titled Jarred & Displaced, photographer Christoffer Relander is bottling Finnish landscapes with double exposure photography. These images aren't of prints shot and placed in bottles. They're not digitally color corrected edits or juxtapositions using Photoshop. Relander plays with the idea of conserving the landscapes…

By Cooper Fleishman
christoffer-relander-bottled-landscapes
Gifts
The 13 Best Gifts to Give the Stylish Guy on Your List

For the man who cares about how he presents himself, the holidays offer a variety of solid gift options. That said, they also offer horrendous ones in the way of discount ties and poorly cut sweaters. Don’t fall victim to gear that will quickly find its way into a donation…

By Mike Newman
stylish-guy-header