The best of home, beauty, sleep, travel and coastal living, from Palm Beach to Europe, chosen for how it's made as much as how it looks. Every pick is chosen from the evidence, and every claim is checked.
Luxury used to mean the softest sheets, the best hotel, the candle that fills a room. Now it also means knowing what's in them. We look for the pieces that are beautiful, built to last, and made without the ingredients and materials we'd rather not live with.
We choose for real South Florida life: humid summers, salt air, hurricane season and all. When something earns a place, we tell you why, and we show you the sources.
A purifier will not dry a damp house, and it should never add ozone to it. Here is what one does do, how to size it by the numbers, and seven machines for rooms from the guest bedroom to the open-plan living room.
Behind the green cross, a short shelf of quiet, well-made basics. What they are, what is in them, and where to find them on either side of the Atlantic.
Zinc, titanium and the formulas worth carrying to the beach in a Florida summer: eight picks read from their Drug Facts labels, and a straight answer on reef safe.
We'd rather show our work than use the word "non-toxic."
Every category gets a written standard: what we look for, what we avoid, and which certifications we check on the certifier's own site, with the date we checked.