Another Something & Company

Beautiful handmade leather Key Holders at Kaufmann Mercantile.

We completely fell in love with these black patterned leather oxford shoes by Dries Van Noten.

An new essential for the road: The warm and lightweight Transfer Jacket by Rapha.

For those who still use a mouse, this unique handmade mouse pad is just lovely.

A beautiful tan leather pen case complete with rollerball pen by The Superior Labor.

Not yet for sale, but super promising work by the London College of Fashion student Jubin Yoo.

The perfect survival container in hard anodized matte black aluminium including a custom made duck canvas roll with survival essentials. (crowd fund project)

A beautiful silkscreen printed map of The Northern Sky. Limited to 500 pieces, handprinted and -numbered.

The timeless wooden animals of Kay Bojesen at Canoe.

The lovely Florentine Vachetta leather passport holder by Travelteq.

Ginvent Calendar is the ultimate ‘advent calendar’ for gin lovers.

The traditional Field Jacket that combines functionality with the technical performance of a ski jacket. What more do we need.

Music for the road: Lowdi is a Bluetooth speaker for those who love simplicity…

The iPad mini ‘smart suit’ for the army.

The lovely minimalistic Desk One by Another Country.

Fierzo is the ultimate desk organiser by Julie Richoz for Alessi.

Beautiful photography in this new publication: The Incomplete Dictionary of Show Birds.

A subscription to our favourite green magazine: The Plant Journal, A journal about ordinary plants and other greenery.

We were invited by Centraal Museum Utrecht to design an exhibition covering the complete story of denim. It became the story of 350 years of denim history in a 100 meter long indigo timeline. A rich history including classic paintings from ‘The Master of the Blue Jeans’ and old sample books dating back to the read more…

It is that time of the year again. During the month december we will post our favourite products in Another Gift Guide. One piece a day, varying from lovely hand made leather accessories to the most subtile fragrance candles, from the best designed furniture to highly technical fashion. Stay tuned!

The third Curated gift I’ve selected is in line with the first two, inspired by my love to travel. Almost a year ago I received a package. It was a little gift from Fabrice, a young man from Nantes, France, who’d started his own business and had done something that I dreamed of for years: read more…

Over the past year we’ve been working on an exhibition on denim which opened last week in the Centraal Museum, Utrecht, the Netherlands. Putting together 350 years of denim history into a more than 100 meter long indigo timeline. A rich history including classic paintings from ‘The Master of the Blue Jeans’ and old sample books dating back to the 18th century, to the designs of Chanel, Jean Paul Gaultier, Maison Martin Margiela, Marithé + François Girbaud and Yves Saint Laurent – and one of the oldest Levi’s and Lee jeans to Momotaro, Atelier Tossijn, Naked & Famous and Rapha – it’s all there.
We’ve created a more than 100 meters long cabinet, starting like a loom in an almost black indigo colour, morphing to slate blue and finally ending in a bright white workshop. A three-dimensional timeline showing the rich history of 350 years of Blue Jeans. The exhibition is accompanied with a book we’ve designed together with Studio wilfredtimo, which will be available at Tenue de Nîmes (a.o.) anytime soon.

Blue Jeans — 23 November 2012 until 10 March 2013,
Centraal Museum, Nicolaaskerkhof 10, Utrecht, the Netherlands, open Tue – Sun 11.00h – 17.00h

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The Australian designer Sruli Recht, know for his avant-garde style of fashion- and accessory design, created this futuristic 308 Callibre Heavy-barrel sniper-rifle. Made from hand cut maple, sun-bleached, rubbed down with black horse hide and stripped of colour it, the gun is part of his ‘Field Dressing’ collection, also bringing the heavy black-blade hunting knife, read more…

A while back I featured my own custom Eliancycles road bike here on Another Something. Since then, Elian worked on the bike he’d build more than two years ago, fine-tuning and re-engineering the frame and tech, resulting in the first two-wheeled bike that steers without a front fork. From the first time Elian showed me read more…

Freunde von Freunden keeps on feeding us with beautifully shot portraits and inspiring interviews with creative people from all over the world. They’ve just put online the portrait of Barcelona based Ceramist Xavi Mañosa. Inherited the tradition from his father and now investigating the connection between art and handcraft in his workshop ‘Apparatu’, Xavi created read more…

We love details, and love when things are just in tune with the rest. Travelteq knows that, and extended their line of smart travel wear with this super nice wash bag. In their words ‘there is no traveling without a proper wash bag’. And we totally agree on that. Made with the same nylon as read more…

A few weeks back we received a message from Nicolas Gabard and Synneve Goode sharing their love for the perfect men’s wardrobe in the most beautiful possible way , translated into their own menswear brand from Paris: Husbands. A lovely new brand with a European touch: ‘The shirts are made in Italy, with the finest read more…

‘Everything goes right and left if you want it’ is the title of the first publication on Sergei Sviatchenko, the good man behind Close Up and Private. The Berlin based publisher Gestalten released this beautiful book featuring Sviatchenko’s modern collages and keen eye on colour. ‘In the world of contemporary art, Sviatchenko is a provocateur. He read more…

Last week I came across this beautiful project by Japanese photographer Yu Yamauchi. For almost five months straight – four years in a row – 600 days, Yamauchi lived in a hut near the summit of Mr Fuji at 3000 meter above sea level. Every morning he went out, capturing the dawn from the same read more…