Again, as always, season after season, year after year, some fantastic imagery for the Spring/Summer collection of Libertine-Libertine. We saw the collection at Pitti and Capsule last weeks, but with this ton-sur-ton twist in the photography it gets even better! Photography by Sacha Maric, concept by Libertine-Libertine and Sacha Maric under the Art Direction of Marco Pedrollo.

If I want to feed my desire to travel I just visit Flickr and there it goes. Here are some lovely images from graphic designer and photographer Christian Pitschl from Vienna, Austria. The colors, the light, the new and unknown places and people… Just keep on going!

Days away from riding my new custom build bike by Elian Cycles (later more on that) I found these images shot for the first issue of Curves Magazine. The magazine is dedicated to Route des Grandes Alpes. A route through the Alps to the Mediterranean, crossing 16 high alpine passes on the way. Nine of these passes are at an altitude of more than 2,000 metres, including the highest road pass in the whole of the Alps, the Col de l’Iseran at an elevation of 2,770 metres. Covering a distance of some 700 kilometres, the Route overcomes a height difference of altogether 15,700 metres. It counts as one of the most breathtaking routes in the world and I just can’t wait to start riding them! Truly amazing pictures!
— Thank you Nalden for sharing!

We’re back with our Nuji Favorites. This time with Keren Brown Sunbrown L.G.R Sunglasses, the  6′ Moc Olive Mohave Red Wing Shoes 8881, Memento Watches, the new issue of Kinfolk Magazine, an amazing book on The Competition Bicycle: The Craftsmanship of Speed, Manufactum’s Leather Football, a beautiful brass paperweight set by Daniel Emma, all-time favorite Hatti the Elephant by Areawear, and the need to have for every gentleman: Groom Shoe Care Kit by La Cordonnerie Anglaise.
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Last week Maison Kitsuné released their Fall-Winter 2012 Men’s collection designed by Masaya Kuroki. ‘Imagine a very sophisticated chic man riding his bicycle in the city with a traditional outfit… The epitome of elegance! This is exactly what is running in Maison Kitsuné designer Masaya Kuroki’s head. The new Fall-Winter 2012 collection is a modern reinterpretation with a French twist of the now famous British Tweed Run, the old time cycling club! A collection suitable for work, leisure and elegant times!’ We simply love this sophisticated mix of traditional looks and street inspired details.

One of my favorite photographers Pablo Delfos collaborated with Niek Pulles and made this amazing video for the first solo album of Pete Philly, called ‘One’. No more words, just watch!

Last week we received a lovely package with some small notebooks, pens and pencils from Calepino. We love stationary, but are are always very picky which one to use. Years back we started with Moleskine, then moved a level up with Rhodia (also made in France) and we’re now very attached to the Midori notebooks. But we can’t leave these small books un-noted. In their nice boxes, with rounded corners, robust cover and practical dimensions, they’re simply beautiful. ‘The Calepino pocket book was designed to be carried anywhere. Stored in a pocket or at the bottom of a bag, it’s the ultimate accessory for jotting down unexpected ideas, for writing down your new big ideas: shopping lists, sketches and revolutionary inventions, travel log, memories from trips, books you have read, or have yet to read, layouts of prospective houses, seeds for the garden, phone numbers, journals, dreams, secret codes, testament, song lyrics, delicious recipes, menus and the weather forecast.’ The books come in three flavors: Ruled, Graph and Plain, and the whole set is definitely the perfect gift idea. All 100% recycled and made in France.

Love The Selby’s view on Copenhagen’s Fiskebar. In the raw and light interior with the beautiful aquarium ‘you can snack in the bar, kick back on the sofas, sit at the tables inside, or enjoy the evening sun from under the canopy outside. You can share delicious small dishes, savor a single main course or spoil yourself with a full menu.’ I need to go there!

“It is unwise to pay too much, but it is also unwise to pay too little.” 

“There is hardly anything in the world that someone cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price alone are that person’s lawful prey. It is unwise to pay too much, but it is also unwise to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money, that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything because the thing you bought is incapable of doing the thing you bought it to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot… it can’t be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder it is well to add something for the risk you run. And if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better.”

— John Ruskin (via Alex.ander Kernlinger in the L.O.C.K. book for Bread & Butter Berlin)

I think we wrote about it before, but couldn’t find it, and I guess it’s worth writing about it more than once! White Blocks is a set of stone-sized balancing blocks to build structures focusing on height, speed or style. The ten salvaged hardwood game pieces finished in a really nice ‘vintage white’ made by For Standard, are the perfect piece for your interior and a nice toy for your little love.
And keep an eye out on For Standard’s blog, they make beautiful things!

It is always inspiring to visit the fairs, last week Pitti Immagine Uomo in Florence, and this week Bread & Butter in Berlin. This year we focussed on Red Wing Shoes and as a proud partner behind the Red Wing Shoes store Amsterdam it’s good to see so many people enjoying their boots. Here’s just a little preview of a huge collection of images which we will share online later this month at Red Wing Shoes Amsterdam. Stay tuned.

We’re a huge fan of the work of Rotterdam based artist Anouk Griffioen. After her collaboration with Annemarieke van Drimmelen where photography and illustration came together in beautiful collages and oversized prints she continued that that theme and created a series of new works. We very much love the oversized pieces of paper and canvas with thick black lines, smudges and spaces, abstract and layered drawings.
You can see here work at Re:Rotterdam (Boompjes 60-68, Rotterdam, from 08-02 till 12-02 2012), Collectie Imaginaire – BuroRotterdam (Keileweg 26, Rotterdam, from 11-02 till  26-02 2012), Multisolo (EU Office in Brussel from february till april 2012) a.o. For more shows click here >