Life is Precious Survival Kit | New York (USA)

Fort Standard is a contemporary design studio founded in Brooklyn in 2011 by designers Gregory Buntain and Ian Collings. Two years later, the pair teamed up with design bible Wallpaper* to create their Life is Precious Survival Kit exclusively for Wallpaper’s 2013 Handmade Exhibition that took place in Milan during Salone Del Mobile.

Fort Standard took the standard survival kit as their starting point and combined it with their love of hiking and the outdoors in order to create the Life is Precious set. This compact piece includes a compass, fire-starting kit, whistle, signal mirror, sewing kit and fishing kit all housed in a sleek and polished waterproof brass canister; the exterior features engraved motivational lines to encourage the user.

Piet Outdolf: Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer | Haarlem (NL)

Alongside popular green-fingered publications including the likes of The Plant, Wilder and Plant Hunter, is Fall, Winter, Spring Summer, an upcoming documentary by Dutch garden designer Piet Oudolf. The name behind the impressive landscapes created for New York's High Line and Battery Park, Chicago's Lurie Garden and North Yorkshire's Scampston Hall, the documentary is due for release mid 2015 and will visit Oudolf’s most important projects over the seasons with a particular focus on his theories of biodiversity and ecology.

Selected Goods by Bermuda Trips | London (UK)

This well curated selection of small goods is by London based online store Bermuda Trips. The ever-changing assortment is selected by owners Dean Edmonds and Natsumi Sashida and consists of objects made mostly in USA, England or Japan. Expect an unique and vintage clothing and stationary including a USAF surplus helmet bag, a dead stock metal pencil holder with eraser, tie dye socks and rare Snoopy and Mr. Natural sew on patches (pictured).

All available from Bermuda Trips.

Nakashima Estate | Pennsylvania (USA)

Located in New Hope, Pennysylvania (USA) the Nakashima Estate was designed by the late George Katsutoshi Nakashima, a Japanese-American woodworker, architect and furniture maker. Hailed as one of the leading innovators in 20th century furniture design and a father of the American craft movement, Katsutoshi tells of the history of woodwork in his book The Soul of a Tree: A Woodworker's Reflections and explains how from small beginnings, great things can develop.

Today the Nakashima Estate, designed by Katsutoshi for his family, is operated by a team of dedicated craftsman and led by his daughter Mira who helped design and make the existing furniture. The estate is comprised of 14 properties all landscaped by Katsutoshi and includes a showroom, museum and studio housing past and current works. Eight of the 14 properties are available to visit on scheduled tours, check the Nakashima Estate website for details.

Photography by Brian Ferry.

1940's Chambray Shirt by Our Legacy | Stockholm (SWE)

A wardrobe staple, the 1940’s Chambray Shirt by Swedish maker Our Legacy features as part of their Everyman collection which includes a capsule of shirt essentials re-imagined with their distinctive design approach. Made from a light-weight, multi-blue cotton chambray sourced from Japan, this effortless all-rounder, just like denim, will gain character, wear naturally and age beautifully over time.

Available from Neighbour.