Wesco, an Oregon based boot making company, has a series of short videos on Vimeo showing parts of its manufacturing process along with its recrafting and custom fit services. I’m hoping to take a trip down there next spring to get measured for a pair of Boss boots.
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Created by Anna Victoria Best, who also took part in a series of themed shoots showcasing a selection of the pieces.
Now on display at the Seattle Art Museum, Beauty & Bounty is a new exhibit showing American artwork from the 19th and 20th centuries including pieces by Albert Bierstadt, John Frederick Kensett, and Sanford Robinson Gifford. Members of the Hudson River School movement, they glorified the natural landscapes of the country through a romanticist view and fed the imagination of the American public. Pictures from the likes of F. Jay Haynes and Darius Kinsey are also smartly included in the exhibit (the use of photography to capture landscape scenery was becoming mainstream around this same time period).
The exhibit will be open until mid September – stop by the SAM if you happen to be in the area to check it out, it is probably the best collection they’ll have for this year.
Puget Sound on the Pacific Coast, 1870, Albert Bierstadt. Photo by Howard Giske.
Mountain View, Sunset (detail), 1865, Albert Bierstadt.
Related posts: Photography of Darius Kinsey, American Logging Locomotives
Land Rover – the maintenance headache that is loved by many. Fans have taken to flickr for sharing images of the countless variants, and some of my favorite shots are from one of Land Rover’s own groups.
The first shipments for fall from Engineered Garments are now getting to stores both in the U.S and Japan:
– If you’re in Seattle, Jack Straw received Bedford jackets in navy wool serge and brown corduroy, shawl collar vests, and 19th century button down shirts. (I snapped the picture of them above)
– Context just uploaded pictures of its first shipment including fair isle knit ties, a duffle jacket, and a few jersey pieces.
– The Nepenthes NYC store blog also has pictures of several new pieces and some updated versions of older designs (notably the upland vest).
– Update: Inventory now has a selection of field parkas, Bedford jackets, fair isle knit ties, and floral pieces.
Other great Japanese stores and resources that have received shipments: Engineered Garments Tokyo, Remix, Silver & Gold, Kink, and Dice & Dice.
More items too appear later…
Pictures of Barbour’s fall/winter collections are now showing up online through its retail partners – aside from the classic pieces and a few of the new designs, most of it is very ho hum or generic and it feels like the design teams forgot what makes Barbour Barbour. At first glance, some of the knitwear looks great, but why would they feel the need to attach logos? Then there are the printed items, like this version of the explorer bag which looks like a Paul Smith rip-off. And the Steve McQueen collection is just as tacky as it was at Pitti.
The better looking items to keep an eye out for: the Pegasus jacket (a modified version of the Ursula jacket design), the fair isle patterned scarf and gloves, and the Melrose cardigan (assuming they didn’t stick Steve McQueen somewhere on it). Some of the shirts are also promising, just look for the slim fit versions if you can find them.
There is a great video on youtube showing parts of the work involved in making a pair of Julian Boots.
Related post: Julian Boots in Free & Easy
Cool things at the Field House garage sale that I wish I bought…
RRL mud stained hats.
Totem pole decorations.
Bronze art deco eagle bookends… I’ve been eying these for what seems like years. Still too pricey for an impulse buy though.
These were featured in several issues of LIFE during the 1950’s – all of them show tasteful mid-century furniture pieces (some famous ones too) and all have a bit of a sexist slant.
While I still prefer my ragged dog-eared paperback edition of The Elements of Style, this nicely bound hardcover version is nice to flip through on occasion for inspiration and is always within arm’s reach on my desk.
Its illustrator Maira Kalman has also worked on other notable projects and was recently featured in the WSJ several months back (her email-free workspace sounds tempting).
