Piaule’s Perfect Towel

The new design-centric homeware brand launches one useful product at a time

We’ve seen a rising interest in thoughtful homeware shopping—beyond bookshelf tchotchkes—from the recently-launched e-commerce site Snowe (offering luxury home essentials at direct-to-consumer prices) to Notting Hill shop Native & Co (sourcing crafted, contemporary wares from Taiwan and Japan). A new brand, Piaule, joins the foray with a specific goal: releasing home products one at a time—meaning each has to stand out in form and function. …

Headspace App Launches Personal Meditative Pods

The health and wellness guide partners with Oyler Wu for a thoughtful, nature-inspired personal space

More than five million people globally have used guided meditation service Headspace. There’s an invaluable ease to using their service (especially the free app) and it has opened the doors of meditation to many. Now, the acclaimed team behind the app have produced a different sort of tool for meditation: a private nature-inspired pod made in collaboration with architect duo Oyler Wu. It’s been created …

Entler’s Two- and Three-Headed Lamps

The LA-based ceramic design studio fires personality into lighting fixtures

First impressions of Entler’s cast stoneware lamps: organic and weird, yet completely charming. The curved necks evoke a curious creature (or maybe even modern-day humans, craning over our phones) and the Shorty Lamp goes one step further to resemble a demure version of Pixar’s bouncy, ebullient Luxo Jr. The two- and three-headed lamps, however, are our favorites—especially those that hang from the ceiling—channeling a little …