Despite being in a time when people are talking about smartwatches like the forthcoming Apple Watch, Grovemade has given us something very different while equally as special in my opinion. Made with a wooden face and a clean leather band, the Grovemade Wood Watch is a wonderfully designed piece that is incredibly unique. Take…
MAD Gallery’s artful homage to classic cars and mechanical engineering
The 2015 watch fair season is about to kick off, with the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie (SIHH) opening its doors in Geneva on 19 January. As well as the latest designs from major marques, including Cartier, Jaeger-LeCoultre and Audemars Piguet, the week will unfold to reveal the usual flurry of fringe events,…
A Life on water
When you visit Copenhagen you will come across a lot of different houseboats if you are near Sluseholmen, Ved Slusen, Havneholmen or Islands Brygge. We visited Lisbeth and Laust on their houseboat in the southern part of Copenhagen called “Ved Slusen”. Living on the water has its perks, every morning Lisbeth goes for…
New bikes on the block: Freddie Grubb celebrates cycling and design
Nestled among a quaint parade of Georgian shop fronts on London’s Amwell Street, Freddie Grubb is a new British bicycle brand hoping to shake up London’s saturated bicycle market with its contemporary take on the traditional town bike. ‘The London cycling market is getting pretty saturated with relatively cheap and cheerful bicycles in the mid…
Clarrods Interior Copenhagen
Rustic, homemade goods. Clarrods Interior is a relatively new addition to Copenhagen’s fine collection of decor stores. Aged wood and iron, the cornerstones of good Scandinavian construction, add the «Scandi-edge» to their products; they look like they’d survive the winter. Ideally, the buyer designs their own furniture, as the store is capable of customized…
NW3
Music makes the world go round, but it spins all the smoother with a stellar set of speakers. The NW3 is engineered by peerless whizzes, Peerless. Its casing is crafted by German carpenters, using local wood and a solvent-free stain, then protected with natural wax – Neue Werkstatt’s speaker looks as good as it sounds.…
This Origami Pot Grows Along With A Plant’s Roots
We’ve seen expandable flower pots before, but nothing this elegant. «Growth» is a pot by London-based design house Studio Ayaskan that unfolds like origami to give the roots within plenty of space to grow As the Typhoid Mary of horticulture, I’ve heard that if you successfully nurse a plant from seed to…