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Lifestyle

Inspiration for elevated living: the best in food, drinks, home, travel, health, entertainment & more.

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Lifestyle
The Luxury Lover’s Guide to Puerto Vallarta
By Cool Material
It’s Time to Upgrade Your Gas Station Lighter It’s Time to Upgrade Your Gas Station Lighter
Lifestyle
It’s Time to Upgrade Your Gas Station Lighter

These 5 lighters turn a disposable necessity into a piece of EDC you’ll actually want to carry.

By Beau Hayhoe
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Lifestyle
Puerto Vallarta Beyond the Beach: A Journey Through Art & Culture

A guide to the galleries, murals, sculptures, and musical performances worth seeking out between beach days.

By Cool Material
This 114-Mile Bike Route Is One of the Best Ways to See Washington This 114-Mile Bike Route Is One of the Best Ways to See Washington
Lifestyle
This 114-Mile Bike Route Is One of the Best Ways to See Washington

A three-day ride along former railways takes you through the Cascades and all the way into Seattle.

By Brandon Withrow
Transportation
Chevrolet Abyssal Mk2 ATV Concept

Automotive designer Giordano Vittorini interned at General Motors a handful of years ago, but we're willing to bet reimagining one of those projects more than half a decade later was something he thought would happen. Such is the case with the Chevrolet Abyssal Mk2 ATV Concept you see here. Originally drawn…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Audio
Tenho Design Saana Levykaappi Vinyl Record Holder Cabinet

Despite the popularity of online streaming services and the digital home assistants that can play enormous collections of music you don't own with a few spoken words, there's no denying the fact that records are, once again, one of the most popular ways to listen to music these days. If…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Home
A Soccer Ball That Never Needs To Be Inflated

American football is easily the most popular sport in this country, but the sport we call soccer and everyone else calls football is significantly more popular with 265 million players worldwide (which is about 4% of the world's population for the record). Japanese design house Nendo continues their history of…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Transportation
1974 BMW 2002 Turbo Coupe

The BMW 2002 is a legend in automotive circles. Small, quick, maneuverable, and classically handsome, it's the father of the modern BMW sports sedan. This one that's now up for auction is truly special. It's a 1974 model that's one of 1,672 made, and it has the 2002 TII's fuel-injected…

By Amos Kwon
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Entertainment
Intricate Samurai Warrior Made from a Single Sheet of Paper

We've seriously never seen anything like this. Juho Könkkölä took a single sheet of paper to create a highly detailed Samurai warrior. It took about 50 hours, and there isn't a rip or cut made in the painstaking process. He used a wet/dry folding technique on the 95x95 centimeter sheet…

By Amos Kwon
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