Travel

Get your game face on by taking the first step to looking like an ace with the Travel Razor by Merkur. Based out of the United Kingdom, Merkur produces top-notch razors that get you from scruff to A-list in no time while you’re traveling from one city to the next. The travel kit version of […]


26 May
Ideal gear for the traveling businessman

Globe-trotters rejoice, Kenton Sorenson‘s crafted passport wallet is hand manufactured from vegetable-tanned leather — just like that Cattle Leather Short Stay Bag of his we covered a couple weeks back. This passport wallet perfectly holds your passport, credit cards, business cards, and even some cash — all the essentials which can be kept in the […]


23 May
Grey plaid design woven in pure virgin wool

The Ace Hotel New York’s signature plaid blanket is now available for purchase via their online shop for $150. Made exclusively for the Ace NYC by the established wool makers at Pendleton, the blankets are fashioned of pure virgin wool in a unique design specifically created for the New York hotel in Pendleton’s Oregon mills. […]


13 May
Europe’s flagship W opens in London, but can the transatlantic cool of the brand be translated?

The second edition of our Checking In series, Lost In A Supermarket’s quest to cover all things we hold most dear (see our review of the gleaming new Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Hong Kong). In this review we jump continents from Hong Kong’s Ritz — now the highest hotel in the world — to the W Hotel […]


Welcome to the inaugural edition of Checking In, the latest series in Lost In A Supermarket’s quest to cover all things we hold most dear. In this hotel review series sure we’d be tempted to just cover the most expensive or exclusive hotels in the world (who wouldn’t), but that will not be our sole […]


31 Mar
Hotel meets All Star Bosey high top sneakers

The Ace Hotel has teamed up with Converse to create a new colorway of their custom Ace x Converse Chuck Taylor All Star Bosey shoes. The original olive-drab canvas version was created exclusively as part of the Ace Hotel New York’s uniform when it opened in 2009, lifting design cues from vintage wading boots Converse […]


10 Mar
MOMA's spinnable World Time Clock

Seeing as Mundt is lost in the dark jungles of Nicaragua right about now, allegedly working on filing some tales of Mayan adventure, this clock is the just thing his mosquito filled tent might be missing. The World Time Clock from MOMA is a unique and very portable way to quickly figure out what time […]


7 Mar
LIAS on secret assignment in the land of volcanoes

Believe it or not, Madman Mundt was sent to Nicaragua on assignment all this week on a mission so secret it cannot be discussed (yet). So please bare with us if the postings are a bit slimmer than usual, we’ll try our best to stay current on all the awesomeness and stupidity that the modern […]