Thanks to all the readers who took part in our Le Noeud Papillon & Lost In a Supermarket Silk Bow Tie GIVEAWAY — one very lucky (and funny) reader won a beautiful Italian silk tie and 2 others picked up silk pocket squares as runner-up prizes. The announced winner are up on our Facebook WINNER […]

If you want to class up your act with one swift sartorial blow, enter our Le Noeud Papillon & Lost In a Supermarket Silk Bow Tie GIVEAWAY today and win a beautiful Italian silk tie (or 2 silk pocket squares as runner-ups). All you gotta do is write on our Facebook GIVEAWAY post telling us why […]

A couple weeks ago we showed you Le Noeud Papillon’s Jacquard Woven Silk Bow Ties for the discriminating gentleman, and readers loved what they saw. Which makes me happy to know that LIAS readers care about quality craftsmanship, and people who push outside the standards of their fields to create something that is legitimately valuable, […]

These may not be the most practical material for everyday dishware, or unbreakable fistware, but I’d argue they’re a household necessity. These China Knuckles — courtesy of Juliet Ames of The Broken Plate Pendant Company — are all cut from authentic blue Willow Ware china. And while these very breakable bad boys may be neither […]

Nicholas Atgemis doesn’t believe that luxurious goods — truly exceptional, well crafted menswear — need arrive from Milan or Paris or London or New York to be considered premium. With his Le Noeud Papillon label, Atgemis is looking to put Sydney on the luxury map by offering limited edition bow ties and pocket squares featuring […]

In order to make people think about the pervasiveness of industrial waste, Chinese designer Jamy Yang created the above Jiujie Chair for American furniture maker Steelcase. Yang invented the eco-plastic used in the chair in 2010, and with it wove a sort of nest around the frame of the chair — which when you sit […]

Yes, Halloween’s over but our tastes for mortality-influenced designs are not. Alex Garnett’s Goliath pendant skull lamps fit the bill too a tee — the UK-based designer handmakes these skull lamps out of beautiful high end bone china, creating something that is both delicate and also strangely chilling at the same time. Cast an eerie […]

Instead of taking money and buying jewelry with it to bling up one’s life, artist Tine De Ruysser has cut out the middleman and just turned the cash itself into the jewelry. Her Banknote Jewelry Collection features everything from thick bracelets and pins to necklaces and brooches, all made from folded legal tender from across […]