Updated daily, the Buy section is a deep directory of stuff we love. From this collection we organize Gift Guides for the holiday season and special occasions all year long.
Signe Emdal calls her triangular scarves “hugs” because that’s what they feel like when the pale shades of merino wool are wrapped around your neck. Each is knitted with a muted pattern inspired by the first user-friendly color photography technique called Autochromes, and can be fastened with handy little loops like a warm embrace.
Anyone with so much as a knot can tell you how to roll it out and hurt so good with the Trigger Point Grid STK. Your muscles with thank you, but not after a little whining first.
Inspired by vintage photos of old boxing gyms and NYC’s affluential New York Athletic Club, Todd Snyder and Champion’s collaborative “City Gym” collection channels a Jack Dempsey on the weekend vibe that’s as tailored as it is casual. The cotton crew neck t-shirt is a paragon of the collection’s effortless style.
Leaving the mechanics intact, J Rusten updated the traditional rocking chair silhouette with an oversized, slightly more free-form structure. Maple cantilevered rungs make up the frame, with a bent walnut base to rest your arms.
Horticulturist Taylor Johnston couldn’t find sensible work clothes she wanted to wear, so she started Gamine Workwear for women. The Dungarees follow the line’s commitment to good, durable gear that is tailored to fit the female form.
Postalco offers two belts in one with the reversible Post Buckle Belt. Two sides of rich, oiled leather come in a variety of understated neutral colors, fastened by a ultra-simple buckle showing only one notch hole in the center. With no indication that such smart simplicity will go out of style, the belt makes for a doubly sound investment.
For the elegant industrialist, Death at Sea has 3D-printed the stainless steel Cage Tape. The pocket tape measure runs 10′ long from its exposed-mechanism body, with both standard and metric systems.
Unexpected but exciting bedfellows, the Imperial War Museum and the London-based pattern specialists Patternity have collaborated on a line of wrapping paper (and other items) printed with the camouflage patterns used to disguise ships during WWI. Aptly called “Fleet of Dazzle,” the kaleidoscopic motifs do just that with optic pops and mesmerizing lines in graphic black and white.
Organic oils from the London Oil Company do a number of duties, from preventing stretch marks (You & Bump) to setting a sensual mood (After Hours). Handblended in small batches in Primrose Hill, the company’s products are tested on family members, not animals.
This cheerful, graphic print by Nous Vous belies the widely accepted perception of the awkward cockle. The wader-clad carrier trudges his mollusk bounty with angular determination in his step, a perfect visual accompaniment to Tim Burrows’ 2013 Gourmand feature entitled, “The Cockle: Brief, Pleasant Mastication.”
The Key Cable for iPhone packages a handy, on-the-go charger into an elegant French knot that attaches to your keys. About the size of a bouncy ball and available in three colors—zebra, coral and marine blue—the durable TPE and nylon fob connects a universal USB with your phone to plug in anywhere.
Expanding on their expansive installation visualizing the magnitude of the Netherlands’ 10,000 empty government buildings at the 2010 Venice biennale, Ronald and Erik Reitveld of RAAAF partnered with a multidisciplinary team at the Sandberg Institute to explore the concept of design potential within unused spaces in a new book. “Vacancy Studies: Experiments and Strategic Interventions in Architecture” spans possibility and optimism in the practical and satisfying approach architects and designers may take in seizing these opportunities.
The Ace London tapped the nearly 200-year-old Scottish maker of vulcanized rainwear, Hancock, to create a charcoal gray poncho exclusive to its shop. Constructed from the family-run factory’s patented rubber-bonded cloth, the poncho features a tartan buggy lining with Ace label and signature Hancock buttons.
British design studio Custhom applies their penchant for unlikely pairings to the Embroidered Notebook. The handmade book is digitally embroidered and fits in your pocket.
A simple disruption in design—switching from steel to glass—turns an everyday cook pot into a thing of beauty. Forget the old adage, this a pot you’ll want to watch until it boils (and it will).
You can tell just by looking at the Hand & Eye + Mer Tote that it’s a bag that’ll go with you pretty much everywhere. The rugged gray bag is made from truck tarp and canvas sourced in the US. There are no bells and whistles needed—it’s roomy with a strap long enough to wear across the body or over the shoulder.