Is coffee an integral part of your day? It’s pretty crucial to us. It’s not just the caffeine, but the ritual of brewing,
the aroma, the first hot sip and the last cool one, flavors emerging and blooming throughout the cup.With the
right equipment and a little bit of experimentation, roasting coffee at home can be easier than baking bread or
making popcorn.
Find out the home-brewing of a perfect cup here.
March 13th, 2014
What happens when your hair is seasoned with more salt than pepper?
“I liked the idea of being old in the abstract more than the fact of it. But of course, that’s not the end; it’s the onset of a new reality, one that goes hand in hand with that soreness in the back, how it takes less to drink too much, the wrinkles and the rest.”
Love a lot, laugh often and once you’re over the peak of that hill, prepare for life to pick up pace as gravity brings you rolling back down the other side.
See the full spread here.
Tags: Inspiration, Kinfolk, Lifestyle, Personality
January 22nd, 2014
“Movie stars, presidents, guys with titles—they’ve all been carrying real umbrellas for decades.”
Do not discount the humble brolly in completing your impeccable outfit. For days like today, brandish your brolly like a personal weapon and beat the rain in style…
Here are some of the best picks from GQ magazine to ‘wet’ your appetite…
September 4th, 2013
“The BBC concluded that in today’s complicated world, there are now seven different social classes. These range from the “elite” at the top, distinguished by money, connections and rarefied cultural interests, to the “precariat” at the bottom, characterized by lack of money, lack of connections and unrarefied cultural interests.”
Most prominent in wealthy, developed nations, divides are blurring and new and emergent groups have sprouted out. Enter the ‘technical middle class’, or the ‘new affluent workers’- codified by their cultural and social capital, this phenomenon is here to stay and pervade in global cities all around, not just Britain we think. An interesting point to leave you pondering on this midweek…
Read the article here.
Tags: Britain, Class System, Lifestyle, Social Issue, Society
May 22nd, 2013
The authority on global affairs and style, the cool quotient of Monocle just about escalated with their recent foray into the Food & Beverage sector. Newly opened on London’s Marylebone neighborhood, the stylish cafe features coffee from Allpress, a menu designed by chef Masayuki Hara, and a soundtrack provided by Monocle 24, the magazine’s radio station.
A hotel, or residential project next? We’d be keenly anticipating.
Read about it here, and take a look at the cafe’s site here.
Tags: Cafe, Coffee, F&B, Lifestyle, London, Monocle, The Monocle Shop
April 19th, 2013
For fans of the almost-sacred, first-meal-of-the-day, you’d be salivating at these yummy recommendations that bring you the best from all over the globe. From the airy beignets of New Orleans, to the flakiest strudels in Vienna, starting your day on a hearty, and healthy note will come easy..
Get the lowdown here, and read about the benefits of breakfast (for those who don’t take them) here.
April 12th, 2013
Art enthusiasts whose inclines have always been skewed towards art from the east and lesser-known regions of the world , there is reason to rejoice. With shifts in art-buying from the western hemisphere to Asia, Guggenheim Museum leads the pack with its UBS MAP Global Art Initiative, where the museum will focus on buying art from three main geographic areas- South and Southeast Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East and North Africa.
Organized by June Yap, an independent curator from Singapore and comprising of a total of 22 artists and collectives hailing from the Indian subcontinent, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam, the show is quite aptly, or ironically titled ‘No Country’.
Read more about it here.
Tags: Art, Asia, Guggenheim, Lifestyle, Museum
April 11th, 2013
Best known as host to the World Economic forum, Davos (Switzerland) is also home of one of Switzerland’s biggest ski resorts. “For nearly 200 years, the crisp Alpine air drew patients to sanitariums that have since been converted to belle époque hotels with brilliant views. With an endless array of activities, from lounging in solariums and saunas to skiing the nearby mountains and visiting museums, travelers to Davos and its environs will find plenty to keep them busy.”
Consider this picturesque destination the next time you are travelling to Europe, and get more information here.
April 11th, 2013
” While most of the Western world divides the day into two halves — a.m. and p.m. — Russians tend to think in terms of four quarters: morning, day, evening and night. Typical ways to describe time in Russian include phrases such as ‘I woke up at 7 in the morning’ or ‘I will stop by at 2 in the afternoon’ or ‘Someone was making a lot of noise at 11 at night,” Mr. Chaykin said. Using revolving indicators, the Quartime presents these four time sections, each allowed a six-hour window.”
Introducing Konstantin Chaykin, a self-taught watchmaker who started from selling watches to fixing them, and then reading up on all the sources he could lay his hands on.
“He started, with a confidence based on blissful ignorance, a tourbillon- the complicated mechanism invented by the 18th-century master Abraham-Louis Breguet that remains to this day one of the supreme tests of watchmaking skill.”
Read about it here.
Tags: Art, Craft, Horology, Inspiration, Lifestyle, Timepiece, Tourbillon Watchmaker, Watch
April 11th, 2013