French luxury brand Watch Life With Curiosity likes to layer the impractically lavish onto the otherwise practical. So if you’re really want your coffee with creme de la creme, why not carry it in a tumbler coated in crocodile carcass? If you’re already grumbling about paying $5 to Starbucks for their liquid crack, then you just […]

This is a project of great interest to us here at LIAS. Mike Brodie, also known as “the Polaroid Kid”, left home with a camera and spent the next several years hopping trains all over America. The collected photos of the era have since toured the country in exhibits, ultimately settling down into the 104-page book […]

Luxury design and travel-minded label Octovo has teamed up with board builder Jason Tilley for their second “Off Map” collaboration project to create a line of hand-crafted, beautifully executed surfboards. Put it all together with Ammunition (the design minds behind the likes of Beats by Dr. Dre and Square), and you get a collection of custom-finished boards built to last […]

If you ever need to take more than one watch with you when you travel — which is most likely always — then Travelteq has designed a simple case to collect all your chronographs in one swell luxurious swoop. Their Chronograph Roll is handmade in Italy of the highest quality vegetable tanned Florentine Vachetta leather […]

One of our perpetually favorite watchmakers releases the latest iteration of their BR03-51 wristwatch. Bell & Ross‘s large faced 42mm “GMT Carbon” timepiece features dual timezone dials that allow you to simultaneously display two timezones — ostensibly local time as well as the time at your home. Perfect for the frequent traveler, the Bell & Ross “GMT Carbon” […]

The ultra urbane crew over at Monocle assemble their Travel Top 50, a 12-minute video highlighting their best of 2012. With insights from the Tyler Brûlé and Andrew Tuck helmed magazine, the video handpicks the best hotels, planes, guides, cameras, airports, yachts, restaurants, international lounges and concepts of this past year. While bordering on the […]

Architectural hot spots from around the world — new places to shop, eat and drink — are always exciting to visit because of the products they offer, but often few stop to admire or appreciate the way each establishment is thoughtfully designed and structured. Surely the designers of the buildings in the Architecture Now! Eat […]

Blazers can do wonders for outfits. They dress up casual wear instantly and intensify the seriousness of business wear, yet they aren’t the most comfortable pieces to wear all day. Quintessential British luxury house Burberry London has tailored a neat fit, slim lapel blazer made from modern fabric so it can be packed into the […]