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Prehistoric Minimal: Rick Owens

Design that leaves you petrified. Bad pun, we know, we know. Going beyond fashion, Rick Owens has brought his minimalist aesthetic to furnishings – we first saw him experimenting in this medium in 2010, and now he’s furthering his commitment,…

Belgrade: Reclamation

Derelicte! Crumbling facades, Eastern European architecture – what more can you ask for when in search of a modern industrial renaissance? Belgrade’s got all of that, now livened up with a bohemian touch of color and innovative aesthetic. Destinations like the…

Tuls

I had a plastic, flowchart-building thing when I was a kid; it came from someone in engineering, who was probably diagramming out serious business of some sort day in and day out, back when I had no idea about logic…

Pigeon Post

There’s probably a dearth of trained carrier-pigeons these days, but there’s an alternate option for getting a note from point A to B by a messenger most fowl: 16 Sparrows is offering a “Pigeon Post” kit that is lightweight enough…

The Bronx Riviera: Authenticity

Summer in NYC inevitably means a beach escape – Hamptons and Montauk on one side of the scale, Jersey Shore perhaps stereotypically on the other. Then, there’s Orchard Beach, the “Bronx Riviera.” Says Charles le Brigand: Back in the late…

Wayward Plants

Wayward Plants calls itself “a project of social exchange and botanical desire,” and in addition to numerous initiatives that serve to beautify forgotten spaces, encourage urban farming and implement techie ‘Plant Thirst Detectors’ in the landscaping of locations like Google’s…