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Aug. 17, 2026 | By Bruce R. Feldman Pay attention, class. If you don't know CHIMI, you should. It’s the leading fashion forward eyewear brand in Sweden. Founded in 2016 by childhood friends Charlie Lindström and Daniel Djurdjevic, CHIMI began with a deceptively simple question: what makes a pair of sunglasses so good that you want to wear essentially the same shape for years? Lindström had broken a favorite pair and, even as his personal style evolved, found himself searching

Long before American fragrance became an industry, there was Caswell-Massey. From Colonial Apothecary to American Perfumer Founded in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1752 by Scottish-born physician Dr. William Hunter, the company began as an apothecary serving the prosperous merchants and travelers who passed through one of colonial America’s busiest ports. Hunter sold medicines, soaps, grooming preparations and imported European fragrances, while also blending scents of his own. T

The Compact Mini Food Processor You’ll Actually Use Every Day Large food processors are useful, but they are also heavy, bulky and often more trouble than they are worth when dinner requires only half an onion and a handful of parsley or a few ounces of grated parmesan. The KitchenAid 3.5-Cup Food Chopper succeeds precisely because it is designed for these smaller, everyday jobs. Compact enough to remain on the counter—and light enough to retrieve without fuss—it quickly chop

Kitchen Utensils designed in France for the pleasure of eating wel Few kitchen pieces are more essential than polished copper cookware. Just ask the French. They will draw your attention to Mauviel, makers of pots and pans that, while they are stunning to behold, offer considerably more than good looks. Made in France, the collection combines a substantial two-millimeter copper exterior with a nonreactive 18/10 stainless-steel interior. Copper heats quickly, spreads heat even

The Gozney Arc XL Brings Pizzeria Firepower Home Introducing the Gozney Arc XL—a sleek, exceptionally well-engineered outdoor oven that comes remarkably close to delivering the performance of a professional pizzeria. Designed to accommodate pizzas up to 16 inches, the Arc XL reaches temperatures of 950°F and can turn out a beautifully blistered, restaurant-style pizza in about 60 seconds. Its signature lateral gas burner creates a rolling flame across the oven’s ceiling, dist

Alvar Aalto’s Stool 60 is as useful as it is iconic. The genius of the piece is its almost disarming simplicity: three bent birch legs, a round seat, and a form so clean it seems inevitable. Designed by Finnish architect Alvar Aalto in 1933, the Stool 60 is one of the masterworks of modern Scandinavian design — practical, humane, stackable, and quietly beautiful. Made in Finland by Artek, the Stool 60 has birch legs and a lacquered seat. It works almost anywhere — as a side