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Creative and unusual shoes, boots, and bags for the modern women. ”United Nude products are about clear concept, elegance and innovation. Guided by wearability and quality, each season United Nude iconic styles are refreshed and embellished with new colours and materials.” The company began in 2003 by Rem D Koolhaas (nephew of architect Rem Koolhaas) and Galahad Clark.

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”Dosh Wallets are designed and manufactured in Sydney Australia. Their unique blend of flexible and semi-flexible polymers create a wallet that is durable, stylish, and packed with clever features for modern lifestyles. The patented design consists of special storage areas for credit cards, notes, coins, as well as a unique integrated compartment for items including sim cards, keys, condoms and security cards.” Costs $55.

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"Escape to the beach, the mountains or the trees in San Francisco-based Kyu Che’s sustainable Lifepod. Loosely based on the traditional Mongolian ger (or ‘yurt’ as the Russian translation goes), the Lifepod is at once organic and high-tech. Built to be highly portable, the Lifepod is a fully functioning, off-the-grid mini capsule for modern nomadic living.” [via inhabitat]

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Barbara Cohen’s jewelry designs are anything but ordinary. Each piece combines both natural and synthetic materials to become a hybrid.  There’s both minimalism and decorative embellishment, hard and soft, ancient and modern.  Cohen writes, “Upon seeing my collection of fossil pendants a fellow artist called me an organic perfectionist.” In this seeming contradiction lies the intrigue and the beauty of her series: Mesh, Cocoon, and Stone. Thanks to Stylehiver, fiction, for bookmarking these to the Hive.

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