The item I use most frequently from the Tout Le Monde Cambodia Collection is the Recycled Mosquito Net iPad & Laptop Case from Smateria. Not only is the material rugged and durable, it also has an incredible depth of color and texture. Don’t believe me? New Yorkers can come see it for themselves TONIGHT at Read More
Just published another article in HAND/EYE Magazine, on my friends at Smateria. Check it out! Trash Into Treasure What’s one person’s trash is another person’s treasure… particularly when that trash would make a damn fine handbag. That famous adage, combined with a roll of faulty mosquito net found in a Phnom Penh flea market, led Read More
There are a whole lotta mosquitos in Cambodia. There are also a whole lotta mosquito nets. By all reports, malaria is no walk in the park. But what happens when factories produce netting that doesn’t keep the blasted buggers out? Well, here in Phnom Penh, that net goes to the market, where it’s picked up Read More
My first week in Cambodia flew by at a dizzying speed. Through finding an apartment, getting a phone, scarfing down obscene numbers of rambutans, catching up on my vaccinations and antimalarials, and meeting up with friends of friends of New York friends — who are all fun and fabulous and filled with interesting stories — Read More