craftsmanship | Another Something & Company

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The second year fashion students at Beckmans College of Design made a catalogue presenting their debut collections at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Stockholm a few weeks back. The result is this very well designed document, done in collaboration with their visual communication department, and filled with some lovely photography in an almost Jurgen Teller like ambience by KK+TF a.k.a. Klara Källström and Thobias Fäldt. The location for the shoot is the richly decorated apartment of one of the leading stucco craftsmen in Stockholm during the later part of the 19th century, Axel Notini. You can download the pdf, and view the their twelve individual collections during the show here >

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We’ve brought a visit to this Japanese Textile Workshops for a brief introduction on indigo and all the major Japanese crafts linked to that. Later more on that!

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hobo 2012 Spring/Summer Lookbook
on Hypebeast

hobo has dropped its latest collection for Spring/Summer 2012. Staying true to the Japanese brand’s aesthetic and functional roots, the collection features a plethora of practical bags and totes alongside utilitarian footwear, cases, lanyards, belts, hats, scarves and accessories. Eschewing bright, bold colors in favor of more classic shades of brown, grey, red and blue, hobo’s latest collection is available now through select brand retailers. Take a look at the full lineup here.

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Hungary’s Thick Red Line.
Spanish photographer Palíndromo Mészáros documented the effects of a massive toxic aluminum spill in Hungary — American Photo

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In the luxury accessories game, Louis Vuitton is always at or at least near the very top in terms of popularity. The monogram pattern is known the world over thanks to their wallets, small leather goods and knockoffs, be it another brand’s take on it, or goods you find on Canal Street. For this Fall/Winter 2011 accessories collection, we see more of the classic patterns, both monogram print and their equally classic check pattern. What we see here is not limited to leather goods, though, as we also see other accoutrements in the form of shades, cuff links, stoles, card holders and watches. (via Louis Vuitton Fall/Winter 2011 Accessories | Highsnobiety.com)

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Portland via Venice | Deus Customs Australia

The hirsute Mr Jordan Hufnagel dropped his personal Portuer/City bike in to the Venice Emporium for the occasion of our opening shindig, probably the only time its sat unused for 24hrs we’d wager. The craftsmanship used in the construction of this velocipede would make a swiss watch maker weep…it must be something in the precipitation up there in the PNW. He tells us he’ll be closing the order book soon (to traverse South America on two wheels) so if you want to own a cycle your great, great grandchildren will remember you by better drop him a line pronto…and look up the number for that dude who buys kidneys.

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Remember this.

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‘The Density of the Spectre’ By Berger&Berger At Fondazione Pastificio Cerere Rome, Italy at Yatzer

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CASIO x MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA Montre G-Shock GA-300 at colette

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Frida Kahlo and Flowers | AnOther

With her striking looks and unique dress sense, Frida Kahlo is not only one of the most influential artists of her generation but also a unique style icon, as seen here in our most loved post of the week on AnOther Loves as chosen by Trevor De Cotta….

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HOUSE FLAGS
on HI LOW

The National Maritime Museum has over 1000 flags including two large collections of house flags, used to identify shipping lines, or owners of vessels. Here are a few I selected from the collection. *[Take a look at the Jack Spade nautical tote bags — a great way to utilize these awesome flag designs.]

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It’s always good to see Benjamin van Witsen’s Journal documenting the places he visit, the people he meet and the objects he stumble upon in a series of numbered notations. Here’s Nº 050

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An average top speed of 172.211 mph on the Salts of Bonneville: The X132 Hellcat Combat by Confederate Motorcycles

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Do Ho Suh’s “Fallen Star” for UCSD’s Stuart Collection on Arrested Motion

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Potholes In My Blog featuring Dutch producer BINKBEATS building up Flying Lotus‘ phenomenal “Getting There” from the ground up. Love it!

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Keep the Faith
— Rapha

The blood in my legs pounded against the frosty, sun-lit air. “I’m not going anywhere”, I repeated to myself. Just inches off his back wheel, this was no fluke. This was our second day out. My ninth hour that weekend. I caught myself smiling. Have faith. The speed finally came. Every pedal stroke pushed faster, harder. And SNAP! I pulled ahead on a hill. It must have been the coffee. And then again. POW! He wasn’t even on my wheel. I pushed up the misty tarmac. Did I just drop him? Again?

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SQUARE MOON
14 APRIL – 19 MAY 2012
Galerie Gabriel Rolt is delighted to present ‘Square moon’, the Dutch artist Marijn Akkermans’ third solo exhibition with the gallery. Mysteries and metaphors bound in Akkermans’ works, played out through the materiality of his drawings. Their subjects feel familiar yet alienated, reminiscent of film noirs and fairytales, like collective narratives that have assumed lives of their own.

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Made in England: Artisan Bicycle Book
on Port Magazine

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I’ve found you’ve got to look back at the old things and see them in a new light.

John Coltrane

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Santigold’s New Album
on NYTimes.com

Santi White, better known by her stage name Santigold, took the world by storm in 2008 with her debut album, “Santogold.” Praised by critics and loved by fans, the album sent the young star on tour with some of the industry’s biggest — Kanye West, Jay-Z and The Beastie Boys — soon after its release. Santigold just released the cover art for her new album “Master of My Make-Believe,” out May 1. For the picture, she hired the photographer Jason Schmidt to shoot her three ways: as attendants wearing custom bodysuits designed by Alexander Wang in what she calls “Bond-girl, gold of course!”; as a distinguished army officer in a painting by the artist Kehinde Wiley; and as a dominating mafia Don in the center — “Some sort of ruler in my own reality,” Santi calls it. Referencing the 18th-century British artist Joshua Reynolds’s painting of Banastre Tarleton titled “Portrait of an Officer,” Wiley’s depiction of Santi is, in fact, his first of a woman ever (up until this point his work has focused solely on African-American men, whom he places against vividly colorful and cartoonish floral backdrops). Here, exclusively for T, is a behind the scenes look at the making of Schmidt’s powerful photograph.

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I love collecting, but I hate owning.

Karl Lagerfeld on Twitter

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A nice flickr set of beautiful pictures of the Tour De France of 1928

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A Year in Trees – NYTimes.com

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One’s eyes moved on quickly to her daughter, who had magic in her pink palms and her cheeks lit to a lovely flame, like the thrilling flush of children after their cold baths in the evening. Her fine forehead sloped gently up to where her hair bordering it like an armorial shield, burst into lovelocks and waves and curlicues of ash blonde and gold. Her eyes were bright, big, clear and shining, the colour of her cheeks was real breaking close to the surface from the strong pump of her heart. Her body hovered delicately on the last edge of childhood - She was almost eighteen, nearly complete, but the dew was still on her.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night

Touched by the way someone can tell a story without pictures, making me actually seeing it like it’s there, just in front of my eyes!

Thank you Mackenzie Yeates for sharing.

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Nuji Favorites #11
on Another Something & Company

This week favorites on Nuji are the just released Big John x Tenue de Nîmes collaboration, a beautiful vintage Rolex Oyster Perpetual Air-King Precision, the Leica M7, Sea Salt Soap from the Brook Farm General Store, a lovely bag from WANT Les Essentiels de la Vie, the Work Chukka Blueberry Muleskinner 3146 from Red Wing Shoes, Aircraft, The New vision by Le Corbusier, the amazing navy blue Roberu x Blue Horizon iPhone 4 case at Miscellaneous and the must have for our trip to LA next week, Travelteq’s Travel Towels. Follow us on Nuji for more treasure hunting! (And if you haven’t already registered and created your own account, do it with this link)

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Coloni
on Another Something & Company

Sometimes you stumble upon something extraordinary, new, fresh and completely beyond anything expected. Coloni is one of these things. Coloni is a swedish based gardening house founded in 2010. In collaboration with a horticulturist, Coloni has developed an approach to a new kind of indoor gardening based on seed mixtures composed from a conceptual point of view. The mixtures consist of seeds from desert and arid Mediterranean climates and include both annual and perennial species. For the first collection they made 4 boxes with all its very own and distinguished selection of plants, called Premiere, New Wave, Awakening and Green. The seeds are beautifully packed and come with a small booklet with lovely illustrations and an almost poetic manual on how to take care and let them flourish and flower. Every box is described by its species, but also by the mood which makes it almost a fragrance like approach. Our favorite is definitely Awakening, with its roots in the barren lowlands and mountain areas in South Africa and South America, and the moods of ‘a blank page, pastels, transparent, silvery and hairy, the quiet, slow and sky type.’ Coloni is available at Colette & French Trotters in Paris , 100 gr Design in Antwerp, Openhouse in Barcelona, Hunting & Gathering in Brussels, Kask & Nag Store in Copenhamn, Krypton Form in Gothenburg and will be available at Tenue de Nîmes in Amsterdam from of next week.

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One does not see anything until one sees its beauty.

Oscar Wilde

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The beautiful work of Eleanor Davis / Comics and Illustration

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