A List of Useful Recommendations — August 2025

A monthly display of items to consider, selected for their lasting power, usefulness and beauty — wholeheartedly chosen by Patter.

Left to right top to bottom:

— Bags that drape around the body bring new feelings to old outfits. These capacious totes are made in London using vintage hand woven fabric by textile artist Yumo Yuan.

— This Stelton carbonator won’t compromise your countertop. The stainless steel bottles keep your acqua frizzante ice cold and ready to pour.

— Ideal for sensitive skin, Le Rub Everyday Sunscreen is a mineral lotion with hyaluronic acid. It smells like summer, and presses gently into the skin without provoking breakouts.

— Tigra Tigra is a New York brand founded by Bailey Hunter (creative director of The Elder Statesman). One-of-a-kind pieces harmonise ancient handicraft with raw elegance, produced in close partnership with artists and makers in Nepal and India.

— These Meret Oppenheim-esque Birkenstock sandals by Concepts were released some time back, but you can still find them on resale sites.

— Westman Atelier have launched a modern bronzer that gives an authentic, matte glow (that doesn’t shimmer). Apply all-over, or build and blend where the sun would naturally hit.

— Rose Bakery: Breakfast, Lunch, Tea with Children is a new user-friendly cookbook by Rose Carrarini. Leaf through brilliant ideas for recipes adults can create with the children in their lives.

— Before there was Tekla, there were Missoni hand towels.

— We’re buying what Vestige is selling. The apparent ease of 6397‘s jeans and t-shirt combination shouldn’t be underestimated.

— Slow and steady, Simone Rocha’s tortoise bag is a characterful companion for moments when there is less to carry.

— Distilled thermal water provides the skin-healing hydration in Omorovicza Daily Dew that blurs pores and radiates skin tone.

— Forever in pursuit of the perfect red nail polish, the best-selling Rouge Solaire by Belgian brand Karolin Van Loon might just be the one.

— The accessory of the summer! The humble Speed Weeder is super lightweight, easy to use, and handmade in Somerset, England.

— Satisfying glass storage jars from the everyday Ikea 365+ series are wonderfully simplistic in form.

— A poetic t-shirt by Simone Rocha illustrates motifs from Aesop’s fable The Tortoise and the Hare.

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