Brooklyn based Mast Brothers chocolate offers gourmet treats like Dark Chocolate with Almonds and Sea Salt or Dark Chocolate with Cocoa Nibs, as one of the only bean to bar chocolatiers they take their candy very seriously. Michael and Rick Mast started the company to be able to work with family and friends and to make things from scratch that would create happiness. Their chocolate is handmade in small batches and culled from the highest quality cacao from Madagascar, Venezuela and Ecuador. We’ll be honest it was the packaging that caught our eye but now we are intrigued.
www.mastbrotherschocolate.com// all pictures from the Selby check out their interview.
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design at February 14th, 2010.
We’re still hung up on the white leather Leica but the newest model, created in collaboration with Hermes, has definitely caught our eye. Calfskin leather in orange or tan, both Hermes signature colors, covers the chrome body. Packaged with a wide angle lens, classic round hood and rapid winder this camera has all the extras. The production was limited to 100 of each color and with a price tag of $14,250 perhaps that was wise.
Leica M7 Edition Hermes www.leica.com//
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design at February 11th, 2010.
As if the perfect shrunken blazers and boy-cut button ups weren’t reason enough to go to the Band of Outsiders site, check out this cool project. Candid polaroid snaps of cool houses around LA. Sixties modern design meets quirky landscaping, we can’t stay away.
www.bandofoutsiders.com//
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design at January 21st, 2010.
Visionaire is one part bookzine, one part installation. Printed in limited editions, each issue’s unique format is determined by its theme and the work created for it. This approach has brought them on an incredible journey through intricately cut pop-ups, artist rendered puzzles, photosensitive printing and vinyl picture discs. As their 57th issue hits they continue to inspire us. In a comment on the ever-changing landscape of the art market they loaded a digital calendar with the work of 365 artists chosen by 52 curators. Kate Moss nominated fashion darling Ryan McGinley, Mary-Kate offered California painter Squeak Carnwath and Maurizio Cattelan selected Jenny Saville’s tactile images of women. The result is impressive review of today’s contemporary art scene and a daily reminder to think outside the box.
www.visionaireworld.com//
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design at November 17th, 2009.
In the eighties Ron Arad was both the design world’s bad boy and star pupil pioneering the blur between disciplines before it hit today’s epic status in fashion circles. The Museum of Modern Art presents his first US retrospective appropriately titled “Ron Arad: No Discipline” exploring his curiosity about form, structure, technology, and materials. The show winds its way through a prolific and versatile body of work spanning industrial design, hand-crafted studio pieces, sculpture, architecture, and mixed media installations. Arad greeted guests during fashion week as the Moma celebrated the show with guests including Linda Evangelista, Josh Hartnett, Bar Refaeli and Mary J Blidge. See more from the show here.
www.moma.org//
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design at September 19th, 2009.
Swedish designer Fredrik Farg ruffles our feathers with his one of a kind chairs. Starting with found objects Farg redresses them in bespoke coverings drawing inspiration from classic tailoring. First exhibited at the Salone del Mobile, he wins for best dressed. More here.
www.fredrikfarg.com//
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design at August 28th, 2009.
Give your ipod its own identity for just $60 with these cool head phones from Nixon. The sound is great and the ergonomic ear fit drowns out outside noise making your cubicle your own personal sanctuary.
www.nixon.com//
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design at August 21st, 2009.
Prada Transformer
In collaboration with Rem Koolhaas and AMO, the think tank for the Office of Metropolitan Architecture, Prada imagined a shape-shifting venue where quite literally the worlds of fashion, art, cinema and architecture intersect: Prada Transformer. The four-sided structure is flipped by crane onto one of its uniquely shaped platforms transforming the venue into four completely unique identities.
Located in Seoul, Korea, chosen for its vibrant attitude and as a message to the importance of Asian markets, it is now in its third phase. The space will be rotated again opening Auguat 15th to become a contemporary art gallery displaying “Turn into Me” a selection of work by Nathalie Djurberg.
Tickets for the “Turn into Me” art exhibition are free and can be booked online .
Phase 1 “Waist Down” Skirts by Miuccia Prada
Phase 2 “Flesh, Mind and Spirit” cinema event selected by Alejandro González Iñárritu
Phase 3 (rendering) “Turn Into Me” a selection of work by Nathalie Djurberg opens Aug 15th
www.prada-transformer.com//
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design,
fashion at August 12th, 2009.
We resisted the witty puns screened on t-shirts and any sort of room decor but Urban Outfitters’ new bike shop offers candy colored fixies that we must admit are pretty cool. Teamed with Republic Bike, Urban starts with the Aristotle model leaving the color of the seat, frame, grips, rims, tires, pedals and chain up to you. See mine above.
$399 bikes.urbanoutfitters.com//
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design at August 10th, 2009.
We love the Mondrian Miami’s slick white interior, Alice-in-Wonderland carved columns and outdoor living room, but it was the gift shop that caught our attention. A witty update on the classic vending machine, B12 might bring you a Paul Smith toothbrush, 24 karat gold handcuffs by Kiki de Montparnasse or an anti recession t-shirt (economically priced at $21).
Just in case you were wondering here’s a look at the rest of the hotel………..
www.mondrian-miami.com//
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design at August 4th, 2009.
