Cool Hunting
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Busy Buddy Bristle Bone
by Evan Orensten
Premier Pet's Busy Buddy Bristle Bone provides a good workout for dogs that like to chew.
The durable rubber bone sandwiches nubby rings, replaceable rawhide treats (or you can be creative and make your own), and bristles that clean your dog's teeth as they chew. Because the treats are wedged in the middle it takes a while to make much progress, providing entertainment and cleaning their teeth at the same time.
The Bristle Bone retails for around $15 (for the medium size) and is available at Amazon and many other online retailers.
Burton AK Leather Tech Glove
by Josh Rubin
The end of September is not too early to start thinking about keeping warm on the cold winter city streets. It also isn't to early to think about getting back on the mountain for fun on the board. These two pursuits became one when I found these gloves from Burton. The AK Leather Tech Glove is meant to be a killer park glove, but also happens to have the lines to make it a city standard. Featuring a fleece lining that is fixed to the contoured leather shell, these gloves are warm and have a super comfortable form-fit.
$65 from Burton
Self Edge "Never On Sunday" Shirt
by Josh Rubin
As an homage to Jules Dassin, the blacklisted and recently-deceased director of the 1960 film Pote Tin Kyriaki (Never on Sunday), Self Edge's newest concept shirt is a reproduction of the same shirt the protaganist, Homer, wears towards the end of the narrative.
Made of 9-oz black denim from Cone Denim's White Oak collection out of North Carolina, the western style shirt features vintage deadstock buttons, hand stitched button holes and alternating blue and white button holes on the cuff to represent Greece. (The movie was filmed in Piraeus Greece in 1958.) Pocket flaps incorporated in the pattern add subtle detail finished off with button accents. All in all, it's a great everyday shirt.
Made and sold in San Francisco at the Self Edge shop, Never On Sunday is also available from their online store for $190.
Self Edge
714 Valencia Street
San Francisco, California 94110 map
tel.+ 1 415 558 0658
Also on Cool Hunting: Rough Cut: Self Edge, San Francisco. New Projects
Grandfather Clock by Rob Price
by Tim Yu
by China Young
Rob Price made a name for himself with the Grandfather Clock, a modern, abstracted take on the classic. Although you may have seen his slice of the traditional before (he debuted it last year), we think the way the design literally cuts away the excess material while still echoing the classic in a completely fresh way deserves a closer look.
Cool Hunting spoke with Price who said, "The grandfather clock is iconic on a global level and a part of our shared visual lexicon. With my Grandfather Clock, I wanted to play with how little I could provide visually and still evoke the image of an entire grandfather clock in minds and offer a functioning clock."
Price succeeded in creating a design classic and it's no surprise that it's his most popular design to date. Seamlessly melding design with art, the Grandfather Clock also brings together classic with modern, accessibility with intellectualism and the familiar with the new. An old world product and made in the U.S.A, Rob once carved and assembled each clock himself at his old studio in the Brooklyn Navy Yards but the requests came in too fast. So, he enlisted the help of Spring Gallery in D.U.M.B.O. and found a woodworker artisan in Vermont who could hand-build the clocks and keep up with demand. Made of Pine harvested from sustainably-managed Vermont forests, the Grandfather Clock has a deep walnut satin finish for an elegant look. Bonus: It even fits in the smallest apartments.
Price graduated from Pratt and currently runs the Brooklyn-based design collective, Thwart Design. His most recent project includes Tools for Dying, a concept collection that parodie DWR's new Tools for Living stores which he created with Kathy Park. Price is also responsible for the R. Mutt Sticker to celebrate Fountain and mark the 40th anniversary of Marcel Duchamp's death.
Purchase Rob Price's Grandfather Clock (3" H x 14.25" W x 3" D) from Spring Gallery for $120.
Timex x J. Crew Military Watch
by Evan Orensten
This Timex Military watch stands out among J. Crew's recent collaborations. It's perfectly balanced, has a nice retro/hip vibe and is both practical, stylish and affordable. The red second hand and 24 hour dial seal the deal. It's also water resistant to 50 meters.
The Timex Military watch is available exclusively at J. Crew online for $150 and (soon, we hear) at the new J. Crew men's concept store (aka the Liquor Store in honor of its previous tenants):
235 West Broadway
New York, NY 10013
tel. +1 212.226.5476
