To a select few, @honda’s Type R badge means everything. First introduced in the 1990s, it served as more than a shorthand for speed; it was an affirmation that Japan can engineer something that was not only class-leading, but a world-class experience in and of itself. The Type R badge was first introduced to the North American market in 1997 in the form of the Acura Integra Type R.... Read more at the link in our bio. 📷 @honda

Some of the most famous names in footwear—including Melody Ehsani, Jeff Staple, Jeffrey Henderson and more—have banded together with pioneering creatives like Katie Longmyer and WeWork's cofounder Miguel McKelvey to form Proto Collective, an organization dedicated to the design, production and culture surrounding the future of footwear. Formed back in 2020, Proto debuted a low-top sneaker named the IRIS-D in April 2023. Read more at the link in our bio. 📷 @protocollective

An additive-free, ultra-premium blend of añejo, extra-añejo and reposado tequilas, Volcan X.A—from Volcán de Mi Tierra—will be the official tequila partner of Formula 1's forthcoming Las Vegas Grand Prix 2023. With ever-increasing US interest in the sport (thanks, in part, to the Netflix show Formula 1: Drive to Survive) coupled with the grandiose spectacle of each event, along with exponential tequila market growth, it's a fitting partnership for all parties involved. Read more at the link in our bio. 📷 @volcantequila

During this year's Seoul Art Week, painter Jinju Lee's work could be found impressing art observers just about everywhere. The prolific artist, who teaches at Hongik University College of Fine Art, was showing at the Frieze Art Fair and at three other galleries, while also preparing for an exhibit in the Netherlands. Two paintings from her mesmerizing Black Paintings series, “Gaze” and “Perception,” commanded attention at…read more at the link in our bio. 📷 @dp.lukeim

Certain art exhibitions impart inspiration, others initiate dialogue. Every so often, however, an exhibit opens and the cultural fabric of a city changes. This sentiment applies to Chopped & Screwed, the highly anticipated inaugural show within White Cube New York. Curated by White Cube's US Senior Director, Courtney Willis Blair, the group exhibition confronts archetypal structures—of governance, gender, religion and even value—through the work of 19 groundbreaking artists, including Julie Mehretu, Theaster Gates, David Altmejd, Tiona Nekkia McClodden and more. Read more at the link in our bio. 📷 @nicholas_venezia_photography for @whitecube

Liv Cycling wasn’t the first women's specific cycling brand, but they are certainly one of the most industrious—with a huge line of bikes that spans from road to kids and nearly every two-wheeled disciple on earth. Along with this huge offering of bikes, Liv champions women riding with the brand’s various community-building events, like clinics, social rides and other meetups. Read on at link in bio. 📷 Zach Burke

Since 2016, we have chronicled select developments across single malts (and even blended whiskies) in an annual story series known as September Scotch. We've long found that it's toward the end of this month, with the onset of autumnal reflection, that our preferences begins to reorient around the oaken warmth of certain Speyside whiskies, the spicy sweetness of sherry cask-finished single malts or the complex peat smoke found in expressions from Islay. Read more about our ten highlights for 2023 at the link in bio. 📷 @the_macallan

Oftentimes, the aesthetic influence of one object is only fully realized when it's placed in dialogue with something else—whether that's a series of complementary pieces or the atmospheric framing of empty space. An inspiring guide to accessing the beauty of the objects we display at home, Arranging Things is the debut book from acclaimed interior stylish Colin King. Written with Sam Cochran, the global features director of Architectural Digest, the recent Rizzoli release pairs artful visual references with intuitive insight culled from personal experience. Link in bio 📷 @a_gaut

Nestled in the heart of Seoul, the new artist residency and incubator Artivist is embarking on a mission to ignite the global community—starting with the South Korean capital's vibrant local scene and featuring as its inaugural artist the globally celebrated Dustin Yellin. This endeavor is envisioned to be a melting pot for art, culture and innovation, serving as a bridge between the traditional and the contemporary, and an intersection where artistic minds and art aficionados collide and collaborate. See more at link in bio 📷 @artiv.ist

Inside the Brooklyn studio of the late artist Bobby Anspach, four multi-sensory, immersive art machines open pathways to wondrously psychedelic worlds—sometimes bringing the entire universe into your own eye, sometimes requesting that you sustain an intimate connection, amidst a blanket of rainbow orbs, for a few seconds longer. Entitled “Place for Continuous Eye Contact,” the astonishing exhibit celebrates the life of the Beacon, New York-based artist who passed July 2022. And what a celebration it is—of human connectedness, consciousness and creativity. Read more at the link in bio. 📷 @bobbyanspachmemorial

The kind of camping idealized by Huttopia—a new chain to North America, but one that has dozens of outposts across Europe and strong growth in China—is fairly minimalist, but not exactly roughing it, either. Founders Philippe and Celine Bossanne, according to their daughter, Margaux Bossanne, got the camping bug while traveling across Canada in the late 1990s. Margaux is now the North American brand director for Huttopia, and she explains that the very particular American-French flavor of what her parents have evolved combines the joys of being in the outdoors (including campfires and the ability to cook outside), but eliminates some of the pain, like setting up a tent or sleeping on the ground. Continue reading at link in bio. 📷 @huttopiacanadausa

One of Europe's most exciting design events, the Lake Como Design Festival (running now through 24 September) has returned for an illuminating fifth edition. This year it coincides with celebrations honoring Pliny the Elder, the great philosopher born in Como exactly two thousand years ago. Pliny authored the majestic work Naturalis Historia and, for this reason, he is considered the inventor of the encyclopedia and the first naturalist. Read more at link in bio 📷 @paoloferrarini_