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L’Ecume des Jours the French Style Guide features Deck Towel in Swissco Photoshoot
Enzo and Norbert towels are featured on the blog L’Ecume des Jours. How did they know we’re huge fans of Swissco toothbrushes?
Wendell in St. Barthes
Thank you to Matt Baron for this photograph of his girlfriend, Wendell, vacationing in St. Barthes with her Kees towel. If this photo is any indication, Wendell has pretty much nailed it every day of her.
3191 Miles Apart
Gilles towel featured as a summer essential on 3191 Miles Apart! Nice to see a fellow heavy-water-drinker coming forward.
My Summer Essentials: pretty much stays the same every year.
Let’s start with what you would find in my bag …
~ a linen towel (Never know when you might swim or sit on damp grass with a cool drink.)
~ a water bottle (If you think I drink tons of water in other seasons summer has me drinking like a mad woman.)
~ sunscreen (I’m a real stickler for SPF 30.)
~ sunglasses (Always.)
~ a little camera (Always.)
~ a notebook (Summer is when I think of my best ideas so I have to be on the ready at all times.)
The Daily Meal
Loïc Towel featured as #1 of 7 stylish essentials for Labor Day on The Daily Meal.
Labor Day is the one day out of the year federally allocated for relaxing, and we couldn’t love it more! Whether you’re hosting family for a backyard barbecue, or are planning on keeping it casual with a low- or no-labor Labor Day party, give your holiday weekend plans a little fresh color and flavor with something decorative on the table or that will make kicking back a bit easier (and a whole lot more fun). Here are some of the new pieces we’re planning to use to help us and our guests relax in style.
1. Deck Towel
If you are lucky enough to be near a beach or for picnicking in the grass, these linen towels are a must! Inspired by cloths that Belgian soldiers might have used in the 1930s, they are made with linens sourced around the world. Machine-washable, the towels are 20 times more absorbent, lighter, and don’t hold in sand, unlike traditional terry towels than terry towels. We can’t wait to get our hands on the Loic (right).
Publication Studio
Loïc Towel featured on our press’ blog. Don’t miss the excellent introduction by Aaron Peck.
Any of Them
Loïc Towel featured on Aaron Peck‘s blog, the Vancouver-based critic who wrote the introduction to this Deck Towel x Publication Studio of Hermann Melville’s Billy Budd.
Aaron Peck is the author of The Bewilderments of Bernard Willis
(published by Pedlar Press) and, in collaboration with artists Adam
Harrison and Dominic Osterried, Letters to the Pacific (published by
Publication Studio). Excerpts have appeared in Golden Handcuffs Review,
Matrix Magazine and West Coast Line.
Recent reviews, interviews and articles have appeared in Art Agenda,
artforum.com, Art Papers, Canadian Art, Foam, Fillip, La Fabrica’s
Matador, and 01 Magazine, and he has contributed to numerous exhibition
catalogs.
He also teaches at Emily Carr University of Art and Design and recently
won the Ian Wallace Excellence In Teaching Award. He lives in Vancouver,
BC.
Silouhette
Coen towel featured on Silouhette blog.
“Memorial Day weekend wasn’t kidding this year when it decided to kick off the summer season. Hello 90 degree heat + sticky humidity. I think I officially missed the first thing about my old place – the pool. I definitely could have used it this weekend. When I finally do get out to the pool, I think I’m feeling vintage pool wear…
1. nostalgic bikini 2. Coen deck towel 3. seaside tote 4. vintage vogue 5. wide brim floppy hat 6. vintage swim cap 7. cone wedge peeps 8. cardigan cover up 9. ruby red lipstick”
101 Cookbooks
We’re honored to have the Enzo towel make 101 Cookbook’s Favorite’s List for July. Right next to Horst P. Horst at Twombly’s villa in Rome!
How about a quick hello, and a favorites list today? I love pulling these together and I hope you’ll indulge me a bit. While you’re occupied, I’ll be in the kitchen diving into a couple new titles I picked up at Omnivore Books the other day – two real gems that I’ll likely highlight at some point soon. xo -h
– In yellow, please.
– Cy Twombly | Rome.
– Instant Love: Polaroid retreat in Marrakesh
– Keetsa mattress: bought one of these for the guest room.
– The new summer issue of Sweet Paul.
– And hoping for a second print run of this.
– The ultimate XL towel (via Sarah at Remodelista)
– These Murakami beach shots.
– This site.
– This watch.
– Teenagers Revive Dead Languages Through Texting (article)
– The boy who inherited rights to Good Night Moon. (article)
– for your sx-70.
– What’s in your Kit? series.
– This profile.
– And the clippers from our Little Flower School class.
Promise to be back later in the week with a quick something tasty inspired by a fat sack of summer corn I lugged home yesterday. -h
I took the photo up above at a lovely lunch in St.Helena. We sat at an old farm table on a porch surrounded by vineyards (and chickens!) and good company. Hope to share a number of recipes from this lunch with you at some point.
Streething
Francis and Kees towels featured on Streething blog.
Looking for a towel to hit the beach with, the check out these quality American-made linen towels from Deck Towel. A quote from the company “Our towels are light, compact and sturdy. they don’t hold in sand or odours like cotton, and are both faster-drying and more absorbent. They can be easily cared for as well: simply wash and hang to dry. And they get softer with wear!”. Three styles are currently available at KIN, ranging from middle to heavyweight and with 178cm x 145cm dimensions.
