CH Edition: 3×1 Denim Pitmaster Apron

We teamed up with NYC's preeminent denim depot for a selvedge summer time essential

For city dwellers, it’s rooftop season. For everyone else, it’s time for backyard parties. Either way, nothing makes good company better than a BBQ and some cold ones. With this in mind we recently teamed up with NYC’s preeminent denim heads, our friends at 3×1, for our latest CH Edition, the Pitmaster Apron. Handmade of rare Barber Pole denim from Cone Mills—specially selected for its …

Here & There at NYC Design Week

The designers behind Various Projects and Field host an exhibit of travel-inspired objects

by LinYee Yuan With a tepid spring and uncertain weather, summer travel seems like a distant dream for many of us in NYC. But during Design Week, the exhibition “Here & There“—from the designers behind Various Projects and Field—was a vibrant reminder of the delights of travel and the exhilaration of adventure. The exhibition was held at the studio space of Various Projects, tucked behind …

Off The Grid at Gallery R’Pure

A designer camping trip with Frederick McSwain and François Chambard's first collaborative collection

If glamorous camping is “glamping,” does that make designer camping “damping?” Whatever you call the pristine, outdoors-inspired objects in “Off the Grid“—the collaboration between designer François Chambard of UM Project and artist and designer Frederick McSwain—the exhibition playfully riffs on the title, from literal interpretations of grid-based design to more free-thinking explorations of what it means to take the design off the grid. For Chambard, …