Mención de Abadía Española en la edición mundial de MONOCLE

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Shoes
Arrels
“Arrels is more than just a brand
of footwear; it’s waking up on the
right side of the bed and walking
through life with a spring in one’s
step,” says Javier Llaudet, who
dreamt up the Barcelona-based
canvas-shoe brand with his cousin
in 2015. Every pair is made in
Spain and Arrels will launch a new
collection each summer. — mss
arrelsbarcelona.com
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Coffee pot
Breaktime Kit
Seoul-based designer Bumki
Song’s coffee pots take three
weeks to make but the conductive
copper body is quick to heat
up. Made from brass, copper,
tin and teak, it is inspired by the
designer’s desire to reconnect to
the ritual of drinking coffee. — kl
breaktimekit.com
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Desk accessories
Dowel Jones
Design studio Dowel Jones
makes simple objects with sharp
aesthetics. Melbourne-based
founders Dale Hardiman and
Adam Lynch bring a masterful eye
to these tactile pieces; we like the
copper-and-leather ruler and the
Blocchi pencil holder made from
solid oak. — mdb
doweljones.com
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Tape measure
Millisecond
Tsubame in Niigata, Japan, is
well known for its metalwork,
so it’s little wonder this handy
tape measure hails from there.
Compact and hardy, the palm-
sized item has a subtly depressed
surface for added grip. — jt
caroinfo.info
Top shelf
Frama Studio
Our shelving comes courtesy of
Copenhagen-based Frama Studio. The
1950s design is simple and strong, and
available in oak or ash with a choice of
copper, brass and black-matte mounts.
framacph.com; chaseandsorensen.com
Preface
This April we shower you
with well-made ephemera,
including a Canadian gin,
Nordic planters and Swiss
sundries, plus a handsome
set of travel guides and some
desirable deskware.
Editors
Josh Fehnert & Chiara Rimella
Photographer
David Sykes
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Travel books
Footpath guides
Dave Roper met Jacques Sheard
at a shindig in the Total House
building in Melbourne; a shared
passion for the city’s mid-century
architecture led the pair to launch
this charming series of illustrated
guides. “Melburnians buy lots of
books and love reading about their
city,” says Roper. A Sydney book
is slated for summer. — jaf
footpathguides.com
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Planters
Woud
Furniture designer Silje Nesdal and
ceramicist Ann Kristin Einarsen
were inspired by Japanese and
Scandinavian craft techniques
when they collaborated on these
shapely plant pots. Available from
Danish maker Woud. — ed
woud.dk
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Kitchen accessories
Shibui
Royal College of Art graduates
Athanasios Babalis and
Constatinos Hoursoglou started
Geneva-based Shibui in 2013. Its
kitchen accessories, made from
ash, oak, walnut and cherry wood,
inlcude the Pinch for storing spices,
the Crash nutcracker and Pino, a
pointy pestle and mortar for which
we’d happily make space. — chr
shibui.ch
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Wine
Preto
This full-bodied red is made from
prieto picudo grapes and hails
from Léon, a cold, dry region
in northeast Spain. Fermented
in stainless-steel tanks and left
in oak barrels for six months,
it’s best drunk alongside a salty
jamón ibérico. Design firm Pablo
Guerrero named it Preto – an old
Spanish word for black – in a nod
to its intense dark-red hue. — jwa
pabloguerrero.es
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Candle
Atelier Oblique
Berlin-based Mario Lombardo
launched his candle brand last
year, inspired by a visit to his
native Argentina. “This feeling [of
being home] was evoked by the
smells of the country; this is when
I started to think about scents,” he
says. For his hand-cast Alphabet
range he collaborated with Grasse
perfumier Robertet to create a
unique composition for each letter
of the alphabet. — mss
atelier-oblique.com
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Beer
Fort Point Beer Company
Founded by brothers Tyler and
Justin Catalana in 2014, Fort Point
has since bubbled to the surface
of the Bay Area brew scene. Its
range runs from red ales to wheat
beers, porters and pilsners, all
made in a picturesque cask-house
in the shadow of the Golden Gate
Bridge in San Francisco. — amc
fortpointbeer.com
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Leather bag
Mühle
Mühle has been designing shaving
accessories from its base in
Saxony, Germany, since 1945.
Those decades of experience
are on show in this handsome
German-tanned leather shaving
bag, featuring leather loops for
razors and clippers. — jwa
muehle-shaving.com
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Glasses
Mazama Wares
Six Portland-based designers
from backgrounds as diverse as
clothing and architecture formed
this ceramics collective in 2013. Its
wine, cocktail and beer glasses,
handblown from soda-lime glass
into moulds, come in yellow, grey
and blue hues that will always
make for colourful aperitifs. — chr
shopmazama.com
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Ophelia lamp
En Salmón Mostaza
Andrea Gelpí and Iratxe de
Viñaspre’s Barcelona-based studio
created the Ophelia to resemble
a blossoming flower. It combines
a hand-carved beech-wood base
with rotating panels in reflective
aluminium or a more soothing
matte methacrylate. — mch
ensalmonmostaza.com
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Gin
Distillerie du St Laurent
Infused with botanicals and algae
from the Quebec coast, Distillerie
du St Laurent gin has a signature
greenish tint and ever-so-slightly
salty palate. That prompted
founders Joël Pelletier and Jean-
François Cloutier to enlist Dallas
designer Chad Michael Studio to
create an equally distinctive label
inspired by the nautical jaunts of
Jules Verne. — mdb
distilleriedustlaurent.com
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Beer
Abadía
The four friends who started
Abadía in 2008 now put out a lager,
pale ale and seven-malt beer. The
Pobla da Vallbona-based brewery
taps into methods once used
by Iberian monks, while design
studio TSMGO’s bottles with
their episcopal ethos make for an
enlightened combination. — mch
cervezasabadia.com
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Wallets
Stevan Saville
Stevan Saville’s palm-sized
wallets come in a range of hues –
from sunny oranges to blues and
browns – and are each made from
a single hide fixed into its final
form with metal clasps. The wallets
have spaces for cards, notes
and coins and their hardy leather
exteriors protect the contents but
soften over time. Made at a studio
in Islington, north London, each
piece uses leather sourced from
a family firm in Italy. — amc
stevansaville.com
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