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SPECTRE BLACK BADGE — A Darker Shade of Elegance
As the hype of electrification wanes in the faces of growing lifestyle realities, so my admiration grows for one of its most perfectly executed proponents. Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against electrification at all, but rather the staunch all-encompassing polarising viewpoints that its arrival has birthed. For me the answer is quite simple…
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Nohrd — Fitness for Interior Minimalists
Strip away the industrial elements of fitness and you can inspire a new generation of wellbeing…
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Manuel Mathieu presents Archipelago
The olfactory is perhaps our most mystical sense. Everyone has been transported or transcended to a profound place or feeling by a nostalgic scent. It’s so affecting because it is typically unannounced, always invisible and yet so psychologically tangible. Scents are also incredibly difficult to attach to other mediums, with scratch ‘n sniff still being…
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Cygnet 77
Why do classical music and the natural world seem to chime so harmoniously together? Classical music is often thought of as sophisticated and refined – complicated. The way it is arranged may be so, but the way it connects is universal. It isn’t constrained by linguistic and evokes something far more primal; stimulating the base…
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Forestalgia Modular 001 Furniture
These organic spaces are crucial to the reveries wherein ideas are born.
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A Week in Watches — May 2025
There’s a lot of talk among watch collectors about the perfect three-watch collection, but how can you limit yourself to just three? No matter where you are or what you’re doing, there’s a timepiece to suit, from board meeting to weekend hikes. You could – and should – have a different watch for every day…
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The House that Whisky built
One could argue that the Gordon family’s very blood is malted. They have spent generations scouring the globe for rare and precious whiskies and their collection—the House of Hazelwood—is a thing of legend. It is, quite simply, the greatest inventory of aged Scotch whisky held anywhere in the world. Spanning seven decades, the diverse whiskies…
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HOLLAND & HOLLAND — Explosive Colour
Holland & Holland, the preeminent British gun maker, is bringing a little colour to the hunt. Their new engraving technology allows for level of detail as yet unseen on a firearm. Available for models in the ‘Royal’ portfolio, this innovative development allows clients to select from an extensive palate, bringing colour and vibrancy to their…
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The Aberturret Estate House
It recently occurred to me that the darker the alcoholic beverage, the deeper the conversation that takes place while consuming it. Champagne is a drink for celebratory occasions, while vodka & gin are the backdrop to lighthearted gaiety, jokes and storytelling—lager is similarly aligned. But as you approach red wine, more serious conversations start to…
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Take a seat — Episode Chair by Apparatus Studio
I find New Year’s resolutions a rather strange tradition. The idea of waiting for a specific time to make changes, curate good habits, and move towards a better me seems alien, especially given those changes could be made as and when the need arises. Let’s take getting in shape for example. The desire to be…
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Montblanc — A pen worth writing for
Do many people own fountain pens anymore? It’s hard to know for sure, the incredible amount of noise delivered daily by a digitally biased ecosystem renders it nearly impossible to glean the true sentiment. I have to say, I take great comfort that I straddle eras; life pre- and post- internet. I remember sitting down…
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Florentine Kitchen Knives
It’s no coincidence that Florentine Kitchen Knives are able to invoke an almost borderless aesthetic that somehow exemplifies very specific cultures across the globe. Florentine Kitchen Knives is the brainchild Tomer Botner – an industrial designer who spent 10 years in the restaurant industry ruminating on how he could apply his very practical mastery of…
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DESIGN | Limited-Edition Wenger Wishbone Chair
“Take a seat” Some of the most reassuring and unnerving words ever spoken, depending both on their context and environment. In this case it is most certainly the former, as the heritage and design language of a Wenger chair belies comfort, and if not at the very least respect. The ever-current Hans J. Wegner would…
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Thinkpiece : Have we become more Impatient?
Have we lost the art of patience? When Internet speeds were restricted by the limitations of dial-up, the fact that the webpage loaded at all was incredible in itself, but now we get frustrated if we can’t stream flawless video in Ultra HD, or if a heavily image imbued website takes over 0.79 seconds to…
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