Askov Finlayson + Hygge & West Wallpaper

Two cozy, Northern winter-inspired designs fit for year-round enjoyment in this new collab

Since 2008, e-commerce wallpaper (and now fabric) company Hygge & West has offered modern, whimsical designs—all wallpaper screen-printed by hand in the USA—through strong collaborations with the likes of Florida’s Rifle Paper Co, Brooklyn-based illustrator Julia Rothman, and now (somewhat unusually) men’s boutique Askov Finlayson. “Aimee Lagos [of Hygge & West] reached out to us unexpectedly, but we were already familiar with the great work …

HTC + Under Armour’s HealthBox Fitness Tracking Set

A three-piece monitoring system that charts just about everything

In the age of quantifiable self, there are many devices offering an array of useful functionality. Fortunately, the UA HealthBox—developed by HTC and Under Armour—delivers one of the most comprehensive packages and, thus, plenty of data. The three-piece box includes a wearable fitness tracker (known as the UA Band) which measures sleep, resting heart rate, daily activity and the intensity of workouts; a UA Scale, …

Test Drive: 2016 BMW M2

We hit the streets and the track in everyone's favorite pocket rocket

The sad mediocrity of companies creating products that try to be all things to all people all of the time is a conversation commonly overhead at CH HQ. Heroically, the new 2016 BMW M2 is just the opposite—an almost flawlessly executed small performance coupe that thrills on the track and delights on the street, accompanied by what it needs and not much more. It’s a …