Gear Patrol | Spirit of Adventure, Passion for Gear

Fanning the flames? There's an app for that.

The Escea DX15000 pushes the snowball of fire-controlling skills kicked off by our ancestors to the next logical platform — the smartphone. Besides being the first-ever contained gas fireplace available with a 60-inch wide flame, the Escea DX1500 features a Smart Heat intelligent control system that allows users to manipulate the fire via a smartphone [...]

Now your see it, now you don't

The BE Light by QisDesign may not boast the ridiculous lifespan of the CSYS LED task lamp, but it does represent an ideal combination between form and function. Inspired by the art of origami, its articulating design allows users to extend the arm to a variety of positions, providing fully dimmable, warm white LED light [...]

Stop and stare, a while

Buck the digital onslaught by adding some retro flair, Ektachrome style, to your walls with the Slide Light. The backlight fixture can be mounted vertically or horizontally and is available in a variety of different sizes ranges from 13 slide showcases all the way up to 36 slides. Tip: it works best with 2mm width [...]

Brightening homes, one lamp at a time

Crafting, scouring and sourcing the best in Americana decor and appointments, Schoolhouse Electric & Supply Co. will have you rethinking every room in your home. With roots fimly planted in sublime lighting, Schoolhouse has recently expanded its inventory and footprint with a new factory in Portland — a perfect time to roundup five products we’re [...]

Sconce upon a time

Founder Marc Knight’s days don’t just begin and end with a building, despite the fact that he helms a successful construction company in Austin. But one look at Machine Shop Lighting Co. and you might see why. Born from a dissatisfaction for available lighting choices on his building projects combined with a passion for industrial [...]

Light Reading

When it comes to home design, — it doesn’t get any cooler than having your own secret passage way. If you can’t have the real thing, though, designer Ben Light’s (that’s seriously his last name) Secret Passageway Switch ($50) is definitely the next best alternative. This clever hack is designed to work with most book/lamp [...]

Fly by design

The airplane stands in the pantheon of man’s most amazing engineering feats. So it seems fitting that the folks at Plane Pieces Inc. have developed a knack for recycling classic plane parts into stunning accents for the home. Thanks to relationships with prop manufacturers, repair shops, and designers — they collect and polish vintage parts [...]

Time Tube

Nixie Tub Clock ($245) from Etsy maker Cold War Creations is a stunning display for checking the time and temp. It’s elegant cylindrical glass case mirrors the shape of its internal Soviet IN-14 Nixie display tubes, while downplaying the presence of the modern circuit boards which make them work, and ironically boast more computing power [...]

Big Tame Hunting

Nood’s wooden hunting trophies ($60) are the perfect wry interior accessory for karma-conscious men. Made from laser-cut, slotted wood, each head is easy to assemble and light enough to hang anywhere. There’s also an entire preserves worth of species to choose from, including stags, rhinos, moose, lions, and bears — oh my! Of course, if [...]

Limited Edition Legends

The folks over at Sonic Editions have teamed up with our friend, and master photo hunter (we’re not talking bar games people) The Impossible Cool to produce a series of stunning prints covering ten of the greatest icons of all time (think Ali, Connery, McQueen, Newman, Hepburn, etc). Each image in the series is limited [...]

Closest thing to a digital bouncer

Add security and peace of mind to your home with the Brinno Digital PeepHole Viewer ($90). Its 2¼”x1½” LCD screen provides a clear picture of whose knocking, even compensating for the fish-eye view and there’s also a button for zooming in should your visitor (or date) require a closer inspection. The panel can be installed [...]

One man's trash is another man's art

In his much-lauded series, Disassembly, photographer Todd McLellan photographs discarded items and turns them into stunning works of art. The series has been gawked at/over throughout the interwebs, but our hands down favorite is Old Typewriter — blame it on our fondness of the written word. Here, an old Smith-Corona typewriter has been painstakingly disassembled, [...]

Fire and Nice

The season for fire building is something we’re all trying to forget now, but planning ahead never hurts. This striking wall installation is actually composed of a free-standing steel structure that can contain either a gas or wood burning fire pit on the left hand side. A 37-inch Lowe LCD sits encased in an insulated [...]

Shown actual size... maybe

The phrase “mighty Redwood” does not pertain to the Dawn Redwoods ($50) found in this kit. Instead, these Gary Coleman-sized plants are ancestors of the giant Cali variety and were assumed to be extinct until one was discovered in a Chinese rice field in the 1940s. As one of only two known deciduous conifers (think [...]

Wall-V

When we first heard that our favorite vintage-soccer shirt brand Bumpy Pitch was getting into the home decor game, we couldn’t help but anticipate what they had in store. Now that we’ve feasted our eyes upon them we can’t help but clamor for even more. The brand, labeled Flying Junction, offers 20th century inspired subway [...]