Well, if you’re like me and if you are passionate about watches, I wouldn’t say yes to e-commerce. Because if you have a passion, it’s nice to come to speak with the people who know about the watches, to take time, have a coffee, enjoy the different watches you’re gonna try. This is something you do not find with e-commerce … e-commerce, of course, I’m using it also to buy milk, water, sometime jeans, but if I want to buy something nice, sorry, but I’m not willing to use e-commerce.

“This morning I arrived to two boxes that were put into the office, they went in and put them in the office and then the [official] came into the office roaring and effing and blinding.

As it turns out, Loos had it wrong, not just by a little, but by an epic chasm. Contrary to his predictions, African societies won’t move forward by discarding its ornaments. (Maybe no society will.) Today erasing history, denying our collective identities, and rejecting the deeper pleasures of acknowledging the past, are the real crimes. Today, we can thank Adolf Loos for reminding us of that.

Giving the Floor the Attention It Deserves In many restorations, car floors do not get the attention they deserve. It may be due to budget constraints or because the car owner (or the restoration shop) has the attitude that "it’s just the floor." But when one is doing an assembly-line-correct, concours-level restoration, the floors are a key part of the project. Done correctly, they look like a work of art, even though much of the final product will be hidden from view.

Her beautiful mini embroidery Christmas tree decorations were a winner on Kirstie’s Handmade Christmas last year. “It felt amazing to be asked on to the show and the day spent filming was a lot of fun. Winning was the cherry on top.”

When the film opened in the United States in 1967, Bosley Crowther of The Times called it “a veritable poem of two feminine spirits exchanging their longings, repressions and mental woes.”

Sauce options: sriracha ranch, habanero honey mustard, spicy BBQ, regular ranch, and regular BBQ. I made my purchase on a digital screen. I’d venture a guess there weren’t many others who bought a Fowl Pole and kept the receipt.

The state House voted this week to require Uber and Lyft drivers to display illuminated signs that make them easier to identify, less than a week after a University of South Carolina student was killed after she mistook the wrong car for her Uber. The House passed the bill 99-1 over the objections of Uber, a national ride-share company that says the illuminated signs – which can be purchased cheaply online – could actually heighten the risk of impostor drivers. The bill also has drawn skepticism from national ride-share safety experts. “It doesn’t make a difference if you’re not paying attention,” says Lauren Fix, a New York-based automotive expert who says riders can only guarantee their safety by verifying the driver’s name, license plate number and car model matches their pickup.

Similar in size to the Bosch PSM (above), this offering from Black & Decker is perfect for light sanding jobs around the home. You wield it like an undersized iron – three fingers curl under handle, whilst your thumb and forefinger grip the shoulders. Grasp the front pommel with your idle hand when extra oomph is required. This tool comes with a neat “finger” attachment for sanding intricate woodwork which worked a treat on the bevelled skirting board we tasked it with. No hard case with this one, but you do get a dinky canvas tote bag for transportation purposes.

van der wiel’s work draws inspirations from nature like many other designers, and what sets him apart from the others is the way he incorporates nature as a tool into his design process. his research not only focuses on representing the forms and shapes found in nature but also goes beyond to explore ways to recreate the phenomena in nature that give rise to these forms and shapes. as he attempts to manipulate natural phenomena and make them work in his favor, the design he creates always seems to carry a sense of peculiar beauty.

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It makes sense that Pace feels at home outside of the city; the actor, now 40, was born in the small town of Chickasha, Oklahoma. He gained a modest, albeit devoted following by appearing on two beloved but short-lived TV series: Wonderfalls, in 2004, and, three years later, Pushing Daisies. His star, however, shot into a whole other orbit beginning in 2012, when he joined what seemed like every franchise at the time by starring in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2, all three of the films in The Hobbit series, and Guardians of the Galaxy—as the hooded, blue-faced villain Ronan the Accuser. His recent role as the closeted Mormon Joe Pitt in the Broadway revival of Angels in America was magically exhausting and eloquent, and it coincided with a public truth of his own—or, as a headline in The New York Times put it, “Lee Pace Came Out Seven Times a Week. Then He Came Out for Real.”