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Guru Marathon, Sri Chinmoy

Published in collaboration with the Sri Chinmoy Centre and edited by Sanjay Rawal, this book contains a trove of archival photographs, writings, and running journal entries spanning Sri Chinmoy’s lifetime of teachings at the intersection of meditation and athletics. For Sri Chinmoy, a marathon was……

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Antique Persian and Navajo Rugs

No. 881 Afghan war rug 3′ 4″ x 5′ 6″ Modern afghan “Red hand of Russia” war rug woven in the early 2000’s, fantastic condition. *Private Collection – not stored in store, please contact us to arrange a viewing…

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Franchise Radio: Screw Heaven w/ Them Jeans 16th December 2022

Playing Chopped N Screwed. Franchise Magazine shares what they have been listening to at the HQ.

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Fashion FC: How Venezia Became the Trendiest Football Team in the World

Never mind the scoreline, check out the merch. Following an American takeover and an ultra-slick redesign by a hip German brand consultancy, second-division Italian club Venezia FC have become a social media sensation. With shirts this sexy, does it matter if they never win again?…

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He Built a Global Fashion Brand—Before He Passed His College Finals

Famous fans have stoked interest in Karu Research, an Indian fashion brand with craftsmanlike details. The guy running it? Still doing homework.

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Adam Stennett – Exhibitions – Launch F18

LAUNCH F18 is pleased to present Isometric Blindness, a solo exhibition by artist Adam Stennett. The new work continues Stennett’s exploration of perceived reality, utopia, dystopia, and the human condition. It includes vague references to historical atrocities, corruption, and absurdly criminal fai……

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Yukio Akamine, Classic Life

Over the summer, while surfing the web for Japanese menswear sites that I can’t read, I stumbled upon the news……

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Modern Black Tie: A Guide – la Bowtique Bowties

Modern Black Tie is the most extensive guide to contemporary black-tie eveningwear that has ever been published. At 300+ pages, the book covers everything from the classics to the future of the dress code, and gives readers dozens of examples of black-tie outfits and accessories to provide them with……

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Offline Matters

The less digital guide to creative work

Our good friend Jess Henderson (pseud.) just published her first book Offline Matters, the less digital guide to creative work, and we’re beyond proud. Not because we designed it, but because this document feels like the so much needed wake-up-call, both confronting and insightful, inspiring and resonating. [ Continue reading ]

Wild Animals

Tiger Merch

Earlier this year Rop van Mierlo and Remco van der Velden launched their collaborative project Wild Animals with the first edition called Tiger Merch. A beautiful collection of products consisting of mugs, sweaters, art prints, t-shirts, socks, a pyjama, a rug and even wrapping paper, all with the characteristically painted Tiger by Rop van Mierlo. [ Continue reading ]

See In Black

Vol. 001 Black In America. 06.19.20

In the heat of everything that has been taking place throughout the world it’s encouraging, inspiring and very educational to hear the many voices that need to be heard and understood and see the extraordinary initiatives all over the world in search for more equality. What touched us in particular is See In Black. A project where over 80 black photographers are selling original prints to raise funds for five non-profits that work to dismantle white supremacy and systematic oppression. See In Black’s “Black America Vol. 1” project is a highly-curated stock of images from photographers including Andre Wagner, Flo Ngala, and Renell Medrano that are on sale now. [ Continue reading ]

Ascension

A ‘Sea of Sand’

Greek photographer Yiannis Hadjiaslanis shared his latest project ‘Ascension’ with us. Shot on two visits to Mt. Bromo, in 2017, and 2020. Hadjiaslanis work explores narratives of places, documenting locations in Greece, across the Mediterranean and the African continent, he engages with questions of historical memory, the present conditions and speculated futures of lived environments, and their significance for those who live, create, interact and evolve with them. Whit his latest project Hadjiaslanis explores the Indonesian Mount Bromo, an open and bare landscape covered with ash in million shades of grey. A ‘Sea of Sand’. [ Continue reading ]

For the Rest of Us

Imagine a more preferable material future

Over the course of multiple years, both industrial designers Hank Beyer and Alex Sizemore, explored parts of the American Midwest researching eight material origins and their associated processes and history. Resulting in this highly aesthetic project called For the Rest of Us: A Journey into the Intangible Values of Regional Materials and Personal Computing. They’ve travelled extensively, interviewing dozens of people, collecting artefacts and taking pictures. From each material Beyer and Sizemore created a computer, providing a point of familiarity to an alternative reality. [ Continue reading ]

Fou

The Distance Book Series Nº2

Last year the Paris running shop Distance published their first book called ITEN by photographer and artistic director Thibaut Grevet, with the aim to produce a singular vision of some of the world’s most emblematic places related to running and its culture. Earlier this year they published their second book, now in collaboration with photographer Wendy Huynh. A beautiful hardcover with 170 pages filled with images shot on Reunion Island during the incredible Grand Raid or Diagonale des fous. We asked Yoann Wenger from Distance for a little Q&A with Wendy on how the book came about. [ Continue reading ]

Task Light

by De Studio

Last year we met with Tim Hooijmans from De Studio, a Dutch design studio focussing on ‘honest objects with more attention and consideration for the world around us.’  Designing products that have nothing to hide, completely stripped down, relentlessly honest, to the core of what that product should be. In a believe that things can be simple, undecorated, raw and even imperfect they created their first product, the Task Light. [ Continue reading ]