City Notes
Our flat whites arrive as we’re busy circling numbers and underlining names in biro on a pocket-sized map that spans all from a candle shop whose doors opened in 1789 and Luvaria Ulisses, a glove store with space for just one customer at a time to...
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Dispatches
‘God's own country’ is famous for many things, most deservedly so for the humbling countryside from which it derives that nickname. The Yorkshire Dales, which can’t be said without hearing that most joyful of British accents; the bracing North...
Journal
Martina Spetlova is a designer and innovator who is fighting for a more ethical world of fashion and textiles. Her luxury hand-woven accessories and jackets are designed and made with transparency, ethics and sustainability in mind, but her design...
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PURO Hotels have focussed their attentions on Poland's third largest city and former textile manufacturing hub, Łódź, for the opening of their latest destination design hotel. The forward-thinking hospitality brand—that boasts...
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Despite its relatively minuscule footprint of 30 square meters, Przyjemność—which in English translates to 'pleasure'—is a colourful pizzeria that is exciting the Instagram set of Wilda, a bijou district in Poznań, Poland. From...
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A play on words (suggesting to have a 'mean bowl of noodles' with 'mean' also sounding phonetically like noodles in Chinese), Sheung Wan restaurant Mean Noodles combines co-founders and designers Caroline Chou and Kevin Lim's love of bold...
Journal
“We’ve never quite felt this welcomed anywhere else,“ admits Réka Pasztor Turak of ‘live global, experience local’ map platform, Local’s Lore. And she’s right. There really is a special essence to Antwerp, one that means you feel at...
Stuff Crush
Uninspired by the monotony of metal and glass curtain walls, 1960s Montreal saw architects look toward something that would enable more expression, and the concrete boom was born. Adding this liquid stone, and in turn extra body and volume to their...
Dispatches
And just like that, the 2019 edition of the A’ Design Award and Competition has drawn to a close. The competition—the world's largest of its kind—recognises the best designers, architects, and design-oriented companies globally; a jury made up...
City Notes
After nearly a decade at the helm of esteemed restaurants—Los Angeles's much-loved République included—chef Eric Bost ventures into proprietorship with the recent opening of his debut restaurant in the City of Angels, Auburn. Seeking...
Stuff Crush
When Iain McKell met a group of young female artists living in Tottenham, North London, he was struck by their 'sparkly personalities' and quirky dress sense," writes Gemma Padley in the introduction of New Girl Order. Colourful hair, buffalo boots,...
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Opening with aplomb in 2018, Statera—located in the affluent and foodie Lima neighbourhood of Miraflores—is an intimate fine dining establishment that focusses on earth, nature, biodiversity and sustainability. At the helm of the 26...
Journal
Martina Spetlova is a designer and innovator who is fighting for a more ethical world of fashion and textiles. Her luxury hand-woven accessories and jackets are designed and made with transparency, ethics and sustainability in mind, but her design...
City Notes
Originally constructed in 1861, Palazzo Daniele—sister property of Rome's decadent G-Rough—houses nine luxury suites throughout an extravagant property in southern Italy's beguiling region of Puglia. Palazzo Daniele is the former...
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Located in Berlin’s Kreuzberg neighbourhood, Lode & Stijn is a modern European restaurant dedicated to produce-focussed cuisine—fresh, seasonal ingredients and plant-based fare, with out-of-season goods used in a preserved form. The...
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Located high above the Atlantic Ocean, close to the cliffs of Portugal's Azenhas do Mar—a seaside town with whitewashed cottages and beachfront restaurants—Casa das Arribas welcomes guests looking for serviced holiday apartments combined with...
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Occupying four distinct fifth-floor storefronts over a total of 16,000 square feet at mega-money project The Shops at Hudson Yards, Forty Five Ten—the forward-thinking Dallas-founded brand that merges fashion and art—brings the new, the...
Journal
Britain’s national treasure, fashion designer Sir Paul Smith (CBE RDI), is globally celebrated for his distinctive coloured stripes that accentuate, individualise and enliven his many fashion wares and accessories. Combining tradition with...
City Notes
Located in a former Singer sewing-machine store and onetime hardware outlet T.B. Rayl and Company, the two buildings—married in a thoughtful restoration by architects Kraemer Design Group before being decked out impeccably by designers Gachot...
Dispatches
The nine-to-five cubicle office workplace is a relic, clinging onto society like a Brexit uncle who just won’t go away. The rise of creative companies, Silicon Valley influence, the coworking phenomenon … if an office space doesn’t share...
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Al Freeman's summer exhibition at Forty Five Ten's Dallas boutique is a tongue-in-cheek show that turns common objects such as razors, cigarettes, toilet seat covers and lava lamps into mammoth deflating synthetic leather pillows. Located...
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What did domestic cats do before the internet? LOLCats to I Can Has Cheezburger?, dogs—traditionally our favoured house pet—never found the same fame online as their feline foes. A 2010 research found that some 42% of Americans identified as...
Dispatches
And just like that, the 2019 edition of the A’ Design Award and Competition has drawn to a close. The competition—the world's largest of its kind—recognises the best designers, architects, and design-oriented companies globally; a jury made up...
