Officine Firenze Milani

Wooden bicycle handlebars with the grace of Italian style

Inspired by the elegance of vintage bicycles that cruise the streets of Florence, Officine Firenze Milani creates beautifully-crafted wooden handlebars as the ultimate accent to any bike. The bars are made in Italy, using individually selected materials to produce the highest caliber wooden handlebars available. With a semi-gloss finish, the natural grain of each teak, mahogany, walnut and ash layer lends different personalities to each …

Shwood and Huf Sunglasses

The first product to come out of a video series on upcycling

Oregon’s own wooden eyewear makers Shwood today premiered a latest sunglass collaboration with San Francisco streetwear label Huf. Made of broken skateboard decks, you can see the production process of the resulting “Six-Ply Fade” in the first experimental video on Shwood’s buzzy new site “Experiment with Nature.” We recently caught up with Shwood founder Eric Singer to chat about “Experiment with Nature” and the consequential …

The Pico Creative Loft

How Gap is reinventing 1969 through their design-driven heritage

Sponsored by Gap

For the past year, Gap has been designing their 1969 denim line in a former cigar factory on a quiet industrial block in Los Angeles. Known as the Pico Creative Loft, the move from their San Francisco headquarters signals a renewed focus on design, one that draws on Gap’s heritage of accessible quality, while also redefining their take on modern fashion in the process. When …