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

Travel

1
Travel
The Luxury Lover’s Guide to Puerto Vallarta
By Cool Material
1
Travel
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.

By Lanny Fuller
1
Travel
The Hotel Redefining Charleston Charm

By Cool Material
1
Travel
How This Cryptic Vinegar Estate in Germany Sparked My Cocktail Shrub Era

A candlelit vinegar cellar in rural Germany, a bizarre tasting tour, and the unexpected trip that turned me into a homemade cocktail shrub evangelist.

By Brandon Withrow
Travel
James Bond Gallery

There are quite a few things that go into a Bond film. Everyone knows you need a good-looking leading man, a better looking car, a villain hell-bent on world destruction, an espionage novel plot and a collection of cool gadgets. What else? Allow 007 ELEMENTS to answer that. 007 ELEMENTS…

By Cooper Fleishman
James-Bond-Gallery-1
Features
Sampling Rum at the Number One Rum Distiller in the World

If we’re really looking for a delightful after-dinner cocktail or a stiff one after a hard day’s work, we’re picking up where bourbon sometimes falls short, and grabbing a pour of some barrel-aged rum. Case in point? Flor de Caña. This Nicaraguan rum company has been producing some of the…

By Maxwell Barna
Sampling-Rum-at-the-Number-One-Rum-Distiller-in-the-World-Header
Travel
The Classic Car Club at Pier 76

For the last decade, the Classic Car Club, a New York outfit open to petrolheads, has gathered in Soho for hangouts and meetings. Now, they've packed their trunks and hightailed it over to Pier 76, where Marc Thorpe Design imagined a new home base complete with a bar, mechanic space,…

By Mike Newman
Classic-Car-Club-at-Pier-76-1
Features
5 Days in Nicaragua

Nicaragua is one of those places on many bucket lists for all different reasons. Excellent surf, incredible weather, inexpensive living, delicious food, friendly locals, quality cigars, and good rum all made heading out there high on our personal list. Well, last week, we crossed it off. The folks from Flor…

By Maxwell Barna
5-Days-in-Nicaragua-Header
Travel
Own Michelangelo’s Tuscan Villa

If you need to stretch your artistic muscles—and your pockets are insanely deep—the Tuscan villa of your dreams just hit the market. Michelangelo's villa, which the legendary artist acquired in 1549, is for sale now through Handsome Properties International. The home boasts 10 bedrooms, 7 full baths, and over 12,000…

By Mike Newman
Own-Michelangelos-Tuscan-Villa-1