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.
Great for both the beginner and experienced user, the SparkFun Inventor’s Kit provides the necessary building blocks to get started in the wondrous world of embedded electronics. Included are all the tools for create circuits, as well as a full-color guidebook, in a handy carrying case.
Løv is Pure is not only a potent and tasty alternative to coffee consumption but also lives up to its name with organically grown, pure ingredients such as pieces of real apple and natural citrus. Tea bags are made of cotton muslin, are unbleached and free of staples or glue, which allow the tea leaves to unfurl and release all of their aromas. With cardboard packaging sourced from responsibly managed forests, even the packaging is FSC-approved.
Modern, complex and exquisite, this limited edition watch is a spin on Xetum’s Tyndall line, designed in LA, but containing a Swiss automatic movement. Defined by Xetum’s signature lugless case, an exhibition back and a carbon fiber dial with a recessed small second subdial, it’s as powerful as it is sharp.
If Fo Sho, Baller and Boo are demonstrations of your inner circle’s lingual dexterity then these cheeky Duck and Dog greeting cards will be “like totally amaze-balls.”
Open the spiritual path to your happy place (aka bottle of wine) with the steel cross corkscrew wine opener from Los Angeles-based artist and interior designer Kelly Lamb, who laser cut the design from solid iron.
Best known for his playful products like the solid walnut Rocket and Big Quist, Little Quist nutcrackers, Brooklyn-based Pat Kim flexes his ubiquitous design prowess with this set of three simple soaps. The elegantly minimal cone shapes come in small, medium and large, with three color gradients.
Bitter & Esters’ All-In-One Brewing Kit provides all the necessary essentials to make 2.5 gallons of thirst-quenching craft beer. A step-by-step instruction manual will deftly guide the way to help you in creating an enlightened batch of Robust Porter, Irish Stout or the mind-numbing Disaster IPA, among many other styles.
Build almost anything you can dream of—from ambitious room-sized structural installations to intricate table-top sculptures—with nothing more than JIX connectors and standard drinking straws. Portable and super light-weight, with JIX you’re able to construct highly organized geometric structures or free-form tangles by cutting, bending or using multiple colors of straws. JIX offers unlimited building possibilities.
Hand-sewn and hand-bound in England using the finest materials and traditional methods, this super limited-edition compilation (only 1,962 copies will ever exist) is revealing, reflective and deeply candid through insightful, handwritten commentary from legendary Rolling Stones founding member, bass player Bill Wyman.
From one of the most historic Spanish jewelry design houses, founded by sculptor Manuel Carrera in 1885, comes this exquisite ring from their Peacock Collection. Born of a luxuriant white gold, encrusted in blue sapphires, garnets and diamonds, it is majestic and worldly. As much sculpture as it is accessory, imagination dictates its brilliance.
Lazy Oaf’s snazzy Block Socks offer feet a little respite from the doldrums of standard solid white. The graphic pattern is like a little secret, poking out at the ankles between your brogues and selvedge denim.
Greats’ sneakers pack an understated style punch and super-luxe materials without breaking the piggy bank. The brainchild of two footwear devotees, the recently developed brand is focused on delivering premium kicks at an accessible price, like The Royale, which feature a full grain deerskin upper with vintage chenille stripes, waxed cotton laces and Italian soles.
Hermès may be most famous for their highly covetable Birkin bag, but those into watches know that the French purveyor is equally remarkable at making high quality timepieces. The Cape Cod, with its double-wrapping Barenia leather strap, is as classic as it is modern. We like the stainless steel case and tan strap but many styles are available.
Keep your feet warm in colder months with Chilote’s naturally insulated house shoes, a pair of slippers that are as sustainable as they are cozy. Each is handmade by women in Chili with wool from free-range Patagonian sheep and upcycled salmon leather.
Based on professional barbershop necessities, Imperial Barber’s grooming products bring time-honored tricks of the trade into the home for everyday use. Made in LA, they’re all-natural, utilitarian grooming goods for the manliest of men. Be sure to pick up the essential Field Shave Kit during its limited holiday run.
Hand-dyed and laden with super sparkly Swarovski crystals, the Phase Round Earrings by aerospace engineer-turned-metalwork designer Lynn Maclachlan melds usage of innovative digital tools such as 3D printing with traditional craft techniques to produce these high-tech accessories.