Today the McMaster-Carr catalog is of course online, featuring hundreds of thousands of items. In attempting to explain to a layperson what McMaster is, I alternately described it as “Canal Street in the ’90s,” “The world’s largest hardware store that always has what you need” and “Amazon for the things you don’t typically find on Amazon.” Initially aimed at folks working in MRO (Maintenance, Repair and Operations) fields, the company, which has been around since 1901, has also become the go-to for makers of all stripes. Centrally located in Illinois, McMaster-Carr also has distribution centers in New Jersey, Georgia, Ohio and California, resulting in next-day arrival practically no matter where you are in the U.S.

So I was tickled to see an apparently unaffiliated website called Masterlist is sort of repackaging the McMaster catalog with an emphasis on fashion over utility. What these folks have done is gone over the catalog, pulled some of the most photogenic items and photographed them in a studio setting, presenting them to you in object-fetish style. Items from four categories of Masterlist’s choosing—Tools, Accessories, Furnishings and Apparel—are “thoughtfully curated from the McMaster-Carr catalog,” the site writes.

McMaster is about utility, not fashion. It’s where you find neoprene washers, leveling mounts or nylon-insert hex locknuts in the precise size you need, the sizes the big-box stores don’t bother stocking. When I’m making new dog leashes and collars everything from the webbing to the plastic buckles to the snaphooks and the D-rings come from McMaster. If you know what your part is called, what the dimensions are, what it’s made out of and are occasionally willing to buy 10 to 100 of them, you’re all set.