• On the Rugged Coast of Ireland, a New ‘Landscape Hotel’ that Puts the Focus on the Outside,Clare Coulson

    On the Rugged Coast of Ireland, a New ‘Landscape Hotel’ that Puts the Focus on the Outside

    Increasingly, vacation time is doing double-duty as a nature fix, an opportunity to be immersed in plants and nature for immediate decompression and reconnection. At Native, a destination on the beautiful wild coast of West Cork in Ireland, they’ve fashioned a new term for it: “a landscape hotel,” w

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  • 10 Easy Pieces: BPA-Free Coffee Makers,Alexa Hotz

    10 Easy Pieces: BPA-Free Coffee Makers

    Let’s be upfront; our original aim was to profile coffee makers that are completely plastic-free, at least in the parts that come into contact with hot water. Plastic components—especially the thin pods used in many single-cup systems—can leach Bisphenol A (BPA) into the resulting brew (reportedly u

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  • Softedge: Durable Tableware for Daily Use, Made in Japan,Annie Quigley

    Softedge: Durable Tableware for Daily Use, Made in Japan

    There’s something deeply satisfying about these ceramics, spotted recently. How they came about is a ceramics story in two acts. Act I: Started in 2019 by Layla Cluer near Byron Bay, Australia, Softedge Studio began by designing and producing tableware with a “sculptural twist” and a focus on color,

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