Mouth + CH 2013 Holiday Fix

Salty or sweet, sample the best of indie food with these three collections—selected by yours truly

It’s no secret that we’re pretty enthusiastic about food here at CH, as we scour all corners of the country to find the most mouth-watering, handmade culinary offerings from people who’ve taken risks—and succeeded. We teamed up once again this year with our friends at Mouth—the go-to online purveyors of indie food—to offer a limited-edition holiday taster of our favorite new foods we discovered this …

Yule Log 2.0

Animator Daniel Savage enlists 65 artists, illustrators and designs to reimagine the classic televised log fire

Late in 1966 NYC television station WPIX-TV gave the city’s eight million residents a roaring log fire for Christmas. The seven-minute looping Yule Log video instantly became a holiday tradition around the world. Now, nearly a half century later, Brooklyn-based animation director and illustrator Daniel Savage had the idea to reinvent the celebrated icon of holiday spirit. “I was sitting at my friend Boy Brandon’s …

Retrosuperfuture NYC

Our interview with the trio behind the cult Italian eyewear brand's new NYC flagship and first-ever brick and mortar store

by Leemor Rhodes Retrosuperfuture (RSF)the Italian label behind Super sunglassescelebrated the much-anticipated opening of its first brick and mortar shop with a flagship store in downtown New York City. Located in an early 20th century building on the edge of SoHo and Chinatown, the massive 4,000 square foot space is comfortably nestled among like-minded neighbors such as Opening Ceremony and Jil Sander, on a street …