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.
Ditch the terra cotta for Nystrom Goods’ Color Block Concrete Planters. Each container is left unfinished to show the raw material’s natural patina, hand-painted with a contrasting stripe and assembled with a cork base to protect your furniture and windowsills. Made with love in Idaho, and perfect for herbs, succulents and small plants, these geometric pots lend a grounded beauty to all that your green thumb creates.
Fashion expert Sass Brown’s book shows the future of sustainable fashion—ethical and experimental, without losing its focus on aesthetics. ReFashioned features 46 international designers which demonstrate a solid reality that is shaping creativity and manufacturing.
Having grown up in the rugged landscape of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, the strapping men behind Roo Kee Roo were charged with chopping wood, shoveling snow and getting the fire started after a long day of wholesome labor. Luckily, these outdoorsy gents are artists as well, and have produced a covetable collection of screen prints representing the physical objects that enable a job done well. Bring a slice of this hardworking country sensibility into your metropolitan existence with any one of their color-popping prints.
The Italian Futurist movement rejected the old and glorified the young and strong. We can only hope our skin care products have the same manifesto. Leave it to Aesop, purveyor of antioxidant defying lotions and potions to merge their passion for fine art, and Futurism in particular, with a useful range of holiday gifts sets. The perfect regime for any arts scholar, sets range from “Agility” to “Potency,” with packaging and typography that pay homage to this groundbreaking movement.
At last, the Slinky’s material value matches its good-time value. Our springy pal has been touched by King Midas and plated with 14-karat gold, immortalized and elevated from silly to semi-precious. All you need is a solid gold staircase to match.
Handmade in Jaffa, Israel, this zippered pouch is digitally printed on both sides with a mountainous landscape photo of California, taken by the artist herself. Whether you fill it up with art supplies or breath mints, it feels like you’re tucking a little bit of nature into your daily routine.
Hopping into a helicopter with a few of your closest friends and family with your skis and snowboards in tow is the ultimate in winter sports. Make the dream a reality this winter in beautiful British Columbia, where the snow is deep and the runs are steep. Book a week or pay as you go, just keep an eye on the snow reports, you don’t want to miss a powder day.
In 1842, Peugeot of France invented the pepper mill—and our palette has been more pleased ever since. While we’ve seen many incarnations of these flavorful objects, the unique geometric towers from British design powerhouse Tom Dixon are beyond noteworthy. Constructed in the spirit of the company’s mission to revive the British furniture industry, these stylish seasoners are color blocked into white, black and electric orange, and are as much modern art piece as they are tabletop necessity.
Make sure your coffee-loving loved ones are never lacking in the finest beans with a coffee subscription from Portland’s acclaimed Heart Roasters. Opt for weekly or bi-weekly service starting at three months for a pound of some of the finest beans this side of the Atlantic, mailed from Heart directly to your door. Give them a few preferences for roast and brewing style and they’ll do the rest.
Seattle-based Potluck Store makes baby accessories that you might want to steal when they’re not looking. Using feather, felt and bright geometric prints, these special gems will delight any chic toddler along with their parents. The customizable His and Hers Bowtie and Hairclip Set consists of an exotic feather clip for her and an eye-catching bowtie for him, and reminds darling little twins or siblings that sharing is always in style.
Sourced from grapes growing in the moderate temps of California’s Santa Rita Hills, Municipal Winemakers’ pinot noir is a low alcohol variety offering notes of cherry and raspberry. The grapes are hand-picked at night with only 200 cases bottled in September of 2013.
A redesign rendering an already-sleek portable radio even more effortless, Bang & Olufsen’s iPhone-compatible Beolit 12 is a handsome take on the Danish brand’s iconic Beolit Transistor Radio from the 1960s. A leather carrying strap lends a humble air to the modern, dent-resistant speaker, which works wirelessly with AirPlay or plugged in via mini jack or USB.
Brendan Timmins combines unexpected materials into original geometric formations. These unique Threshold Bookends are meant to resemble a deteriorating facade, and are constructed from combo’d marble, steel and electric blue painted pine. Graphically fascinating objects unto themselves, these pieces are artful enough to sandwich even the most exquisite of hardcovers.
Breaking Bad fanatics will get a kick out of these illustrated stickers, portraying a pantless Walter White, and a half-faceless Gus Fring, eating what we would assume to be his last Los Pollos Hermanos meal before straightening his tie and dropping dead. This unique set of two was created by Leeds-based illustrator Josh Parkin.
Professor Astro Cat is the illustrated star of a beautiful book aimed at space-interested youngsters. Created by quantum physicist Dr Dominic Walliman and award-winning illustrator Ben Newman—and published by Nobrow’s children’s book imprint, London-based Flying Eye Books—the tale looks to divulge all that is known about the sun, our planet, the solar system, our galaxy and the universe, by fusing facts and theories with charming and informative illustration.
Designer Natalie Sun’s streamlined Cube Clock is sure to bring an element of elevated artistry to anyone’s morning snooze-button smacking marathon. Its anti-tech persona—it looks like nothing more than a simple wooden cube when idle—is quickly transformed by the snap or tap of a finger, each of which activates the illuminated display and reveals the time, date and temperature. Though “the blend of streamlined organic object and technical function” is likely the last thing you’ll consider as you tap that snooze button, just one last time.