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Material Mondays | Of Leather & Wood

by Caleb on October 4, 2010

This week’s Material Monday starts off with watches from WeWood, an Italian company that decided they wanted to move to LA and start planting trees (probably a good idea). Their TOMS-esque motto: you buy a watch, we’ll plant a tree. Not a bad deal. [I want more...]

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Recent Desirables

March 3, 2010

If you haven’t noticed, I’ve spent less and less time in this space talking about products. There are two reasons for that. One is because I realized there are other blogs doing it better than I am. And two is because I don’t want to anymore. I’d rather spend my time talking about intangibles than [...]

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ACL Opens Shop

November 23, 2009

I’m fresh off a trip from New York, where I stopped by the Pop Up Flea organized by Michael Williams of A Continuous Lean. So it seems only appropriate that I hear news today that ACL is opening shop on its… well, shop. The new ACL & Co. Shop offers Harris herringbone tweed laptop bags, [...]

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Billykirk Allows Tech Geeks to Travel in Style

September 17, 2009

If you’re looking for handcrafted, American-made leather, you can’t do much better than Billykirk. And with their new laptop briefcase, tech geeks everywhere can travel to their local coffee houses in style. By the way, in case you haven’t gone completely paperless, the briefcase does sport room for paperwork along with its canvas lining and [...]

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Denimphiles Drooling Over Raleigh Denim

September 14, 2009

The denim world is a-buzz right now over Raleigh Denim, a North Carolina-based company run by the husband and wife team Sarah and Victor Lytvinenko. They’ve built a loyal following among denimphiles for a few reasons, not the least of which is the fact that from design to construction, all the work is done by [...]

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