Venice Beach manufacturer LINUS uses French and Italian bicycle designs of the 1950s and ’60s as inspiration for their simple and dependable city bikes. As bike culture grows evermore from LA to Portland and Denver to NYC, new companies seem to crop up everywhere, but few have put as much thought and personality into the […]

Last month we brought you Super Motor Company Scooters, a new retro-styled scooter manufacturer founded by Dutch cousins fueled with a passion for speed and love for old motorcycles.  Our standards were quite high since we had just come from testing the mx650 reviewed here. Now Super Motor has teamed up with Parisian boutique extraordinaire […]

For anyone that wants to make a real impression in their humble abode, the Oxoye chair does the job aptly. Parisian-based Belarusian designer Dzmitry Samal lifted subtle cues from retro car lines — most notably their swooping fenders — when designing this armchair reminiscent of the streamlined automobiles from the 1930s, ‘40s and ‘50s. Constructed […]

Originally created by Henrik Thor-Larsen’s in 1968, the OVALIA Egg Chair is one of the more iconic pieces of furniture from the modern era. The Danish Industrial designer and inventor crafted the future-retro chair’s shiny white shell out of glass fibre-reinforced polyester, and then lined the inside of the chair with vividly colored wool and […]

California-based Salt Optics releases its Collection Two line of eyewear for 2011, incorporating their usual use of high end materials and quality craftsmanship. Japanese and Italian acetates are mixed with lightweight beta titanium for comfort and quality. Many styels feature a throwback look, such as the Clay frames below. Hit up Salt directly and see […]

Los Angeles master toysmiths The Loyal Subjects release their latest figure, and this one’s a banger: 4 feet of bunny love from the always awesome Joe Ledbetter. The figure, Colossus Bunny, is a 4-foot fiberglass iteration of their Mr. Bunny toy. The Colossus Bunny will be very limited edition releases, with only 10 of the […]

Growing up my parents had a chair in the downstairs playroom left over from the 70s that looked a lot like the Silkchair above. As a child I was drawn to its woven complexity; I couldn’t understand how all that space still held me up, and I couldn’t quite figure out the logic to its […]

Since first launching in post-war Italy way back in 1947, the Lambretta scooter has remained a landmark in 2-wheeled design. Sure Vespas may have a little more notoriety, but everyone worth their mod socks knows Lambrettas are where it’s at. So Heritage Helmets has set up a line of helmets to celebrate, well, the Lambretta […]