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Wants & Desires | Opinel Folding Knife

I am hunting down an Opinel knife today. An old french classic.

Personal Collection

Jethro Gillespie self portrait with Nietzsche

The Right Way

Musk Melon

I have been searching for one of these beautiful melons over the last few weeks. Fueled by the Japanese gifting of fruit, this melon is grown under very specific conditions and is one of the most expensive fruits available. It is my understanding that the musk melon tree grows slowly and produces only 3 or 4 melons per year. The curator will select the best looking melon early on and will remove the others in order to funnel all nutrients toward the selected fruit. This process creates a fruit that is very light and sweet. At an asking price of around 200 dollars a piece, it might be a while before I can afford the Japanese proxy needed for a Sunday brunch.

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Noble Concrete Design

An old boss and friend of mine recently left the restaurant business to start his own company in concrete design. I have had a lot of dealings with Brian and expected great things from him, but was blown away when I stumbled upon this home he recently completed. His attention to form and detail are a perfect complement to the raw organics of the material. I hope to see much more of his work and might even try and get on as an apprentice for a bit. Brian operates out of Utah Valley and can be reached at Noble Concrete Design 801.691.3302

Petit Gâteau

I have been playing around with the idea for these little cakes for quite some time. A simple devil's food with a caramel and chocolate ganache between the three tiers, accompanied by a ganache and crumb coating with fresh mint and raspberries. Cakes measure 3 inches in diameter and height.

Outlier

Outlier is nothing new to those in the know. Their level of quality and custom cuts are great for anyone looking for style in their cycling commute. Their newest addition is a reinvention of the woven dress shirt.

Pivot Sleeve Shirt

This is quite simply a better men's dress shirt. We started out with a basic task, how could we make a shirt that moved better on a cyclists body, but we wound up with something a bit more subtle. A buttondown shirt cut to fit the body better and open up a range of motion constrained by traditional shirt construction. An experiment in form, the Outlier Pivot Sleeve Shirt.

The basic challenge was straightforward, when you lean forward on a bike a buttondown shirt stresses. It pulls uncomfortably taut across the shoulders. The sleeves pull up exposing your wrists to the cold, and the tails pull out of your pants, leaving you either untucked or with a blooming blouse of a shirt. Our solution is the patent-pending Pivot Sleeve, a completely reconstructed buttondown that retains the traditional look and feel of a dress shirt while working equally well both on and off the bicycle.

From the front it looks like a well cut dress shirt. Like a good stage show, the magic takes place in back unseen by most. The underside of the pivot sleeve flows seamlessly into the back of the garment, creating an extra side panel. By removing the rear arm seam you can move your arm forward without restriction. It opens up a whole range of arm motion, move your arms forward or up and your shirt stays in place, cuff at the wrist, no cutting at the shoulders, your shirt tucked in properly. The extra side panel created by the pivot sleeve gives the shirt a strong form, the extra fluff found in most modern dress shirts is gone, this is how a shirt should fit.

Stolen from Scott

The Sartorialist posted a few days back echoing the principle on simple elegance. I thought Scott put it so well I would simply repost his thoughts.

What a great way to look this summer: so simple and yet so refined.

I love that her shorts aren't too short and that her top isn't too tight. Nothing screams in this look and yet the presentation is very strong.

This is a great example of elegance successfully achieved through understatement and flawless execution.

Cooking Dinner Vol. I

One of the most beautiful portrayals of the culinary arts

I have ever seen. I love the combination of food and design.

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