Tumi Vapor, International Carry-On 2 Wheel

No matter how seasoned a traveler you are, there’s nothing like traveling with good, dependable luggage. It also helps if such luggage looks sharp.

Tumi’s Vapor collection is as functional as it is sleek. Although the protection of a hardside case is always enticing, in most designs it only adds weight. But Tumi’s is surprisingly lightweight and easy to maneuver. Vapor is constructed from a super-light, triple-layer, high-performance alloy of ABS and polycarbonate. The compact, two-wheel carry-on is ideal for those who travel internationally and domestically. The Tumi Vapor Collection is a Travel + Leisure 2011 Design Award Winner for Best Luggage. We love how sexy the bronze version looks.

Photography by Jack Potts

OK, this one will help you reach your architecture + design dreams. Urban Living provides future homeowners a one solution-one environment service available every day with assistance in lending and title all in one showroom location.

Whether you are a first-time buyer or in the process of stepping up to your dream home, Urban Living eases the real estate process by introducing innovative technology, professional expertise and superior service. They offer mortgage lending in-house, Urban Lending, specializing in finding the best possible financing solutions for clients, as well as a full-service title company, Capital Title, on the upper level. The offices also include an in-house independent insurance agency, Urban Insurance, as well as boasting a fully interactive website, www.urbanliving.com, meant to attract buyers and allow ease and access to the ever-expanding housing market and professional agent assistance with one-click to begin the process online before visiting the sales showroom.

An added service available to clients includes the ability to contract with Urban Living to list and sell their pre-owned or new-construction home with an aggressive marketing plan and commission structure available to those clients that choose to list their homes.

Visit the Urban Living sales team at 5023 Washington Avenue, 7 days a week from 9am-7am, and enjoy a complimentary Starbucks coffee.

Vinod Ramani, CEO of Urban Living, has spent the past eleven years marketing and selling the transitional communities that define and characterize the thriving inner-loop lifestyle. It is the mission of Urban Living to transform the experience of buying and selling real estate by offering the most comprehensive resources available to buyers, sellers, renters and developers.

Photography by Nick Duers

It doesn’t get more green, sustainable, reusable or resourceful than Hammermann’s herb garden markers. Hammered and stamped by hand using silver-plated vintage teaspoons and tablespoons. Each one is different and one-of-a-kind with a natural patina. Nine spoons read: chives, cilantro, dill, lavender, oregano, parsley, rosemary, sage and thyme.

The design of a classic silver spoon, repurposed in a garden, which brings food to your table, is so perfectly green.

www.hammermann.etsy.com

The Garia Luxury Golf Car, manufactured at the same factory that builds the Porsche Boxster and Cayman, is available as a golf cart or an LSV (low speed vehicle).

The Garia features a Formula 1 inspired front suspension, a drive train built by an Italian company that also produces Ducati gearboxes and aluminum profiles made by the same company that supplies aluminum profiles to Aston Martin, Jaguar and Volvo.

Available this month, the Garia LSV is fitted with street legal safety equipment such as seatbelts and side mirrors, and it also has a hydraulic brake system.

Its small size makes it perfect for the city, and with tax-based incentives in many countries and an increasing number of states and countries that allow LSVs to be operated on roads with speed limits of 35 mph (50km/h) or less, the Garia LSV may be what you need off the links.

Find your local dealer at www.garia.com.

Fishbowls beware; there’s a new “condo” in town. Yes, you read that right. Gone are the boring, outdated round bowls with poor little “Ninja Mikey” (my brother’s Betta) doing circles, going nowhere fast. Designed by Teddy Luong, a student at Carlton University of Industrial design, this square glass “fishbowl” with a white ABS shell gives a Miami condo-like appearance. Stack bowls to get a high-rise effect making your Mikey feel like a player. Cleaning is a cinch: remove the bowl from the shell and keep “Ninja Mikey”’s pad stark.

Get your fish condo at www.unicahome.com.

Looking for a water cooler that resembles art more so than that eyesore gallon jug in the corner of your kitchen? Thank us later. Canadian Aquaovo’s Ovopur water filtration system has reinvented the “wheel.” The aesthetically pleasing, nature inspired Ovopur unit crafted from porcelain, glass and metal in a unique egg shape preserves and revitalizes water. The sleek curves prevent stagnation by allowing temperature difference and the normal flow of water to induce a biotic movement. Translating to a reduced risk of bacteria buildup.

The filtration process is possible with Ovopur’s one-of-a-kind AqUacristal. This multilayered filter cartridge is designed to reproduce the basic filtration process of the natural water cycle. The reusable cartridge contains KDF 55, activated carbon, microporous bioceramics and quartz crystal that are tried, tested, first-class filtering materials, proven to remove chemicals and organic pollutants from drinking water.

It’s the natural way to filter your drinking water.

www.aquaovo.com

By Beatrice Valencia | Photography by Kennon Evett