Brooklyn’s Cold-Pressed Pitanga Juices

All-natural blends making us healthier and happier through exotic ingredients loved in Brazil

The juice craze doesn’t seem to be fading any time soon—and one new business that caught our eye in particular is Pitanga Juices, which offers cold-pressed juices with some unusual ingredients. After founder Raquel Furtado was diagnosed with a thyroid condition 10 years ago, the Brazil native started on on a personal quest to improve her health through a balanced diet of juices, raw foods …

Inside Airtight Cycles’ Brooklyn Studio

We speak with Mathew Amonson about building beautiful Möbius-style bikes by hand

Just over two years ago, Mathew Amonson began toying with the idea of building himself a custom bicycle. Research turned to experimentation, which then led the Brooklyn-based enthusiast to travel to Colorado to study under legendary bicycle builder Koichi Yamaguchi. There, Amonson learned the traditional frame-building techniques that he now employs under his own newly established label, Airtight Cycles. Working with steel, bronze and silver …

Studio Visit: Amelie Mancini

The French-born, Brooklyn-based artist on her process, Left Field Cards and her love of baseball

by Eva Glettner The multi-talented Amelie Mancini is a Brooklyn-based French artist who works with a variety of mediumsfrom wood to linen to woolto create her playful, colorful artworks. Her fascination with baseball, born from the first game she ever attended (between the Mets and the Phillies, back in 2007), led to the creation of Left Field Cards; a site dedicated to her homemade baseball …