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After an American scientist developed a shade of pink as a means to temper aggressive behaviour, claiming the specific tone to be a pacifier, establishments including Santa Clara County Jail and a San Bernardino youth clinic painted their walls in...
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Inspired by classic South Korean picture books of years gone by, visual storyteller, JiYeun Kang, illustrates in an old-style aesthetic to bring her narrative alive. She is known to elongate and exaggerate human features, capturing humble elegance...
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There’s an old quote often attributed, without confirmation, to Leonardo da Vinci: “simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” Now the great Renaissance polymath may not have been a minimalist in the sense of Donald Judd or Yves Klein, but he...
City Notes
There’s an old quote often attributed, without confirmation, to Leonardo da Vinci: “simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” Now the great Renaissance polymath may not have been a minimalist in the sense of Donald Judd or Yves Klein, but he...
City Notes
With just 39 rooms across four categories, Tel Aviv hotel The Vera allows—as founder Danny Tamari (whose previous successes included stints at Rocco Forte Hotels, the Morgan’s Hotel Group and the Brown Hotel chain) states: "guests to be able to...
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Combining the long-gone convenience of the automat with the future-forward fantasies of Silicon Valley, the best of the tech industry’s software, robotics, and artificial intelligence skills come together at San Francisco's Creator—a new...
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Japan's expanding design/art hotel brand cum creative/social collective, BnA, have opened the doors on their third hotel proper, Kyoto the chosen location for the diverse platform's brilliant new BnA Alter Museum—a project that will explore...
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Inspired by classic South Korean picture books of years gone by, visual storyteller, JiYeun Kang, illustrates in an old-style aesthetic to bring her narrative alive. She is known to elongate and exaggerate human features, capturing humble elegance...
City Notes
Design and technology live side-by-side at Sister City, a New York hotel rewriting the rulebook on how to experience a city through travel. Designed by creative agency Atelier Ace—that's the folk behind the game-changing Ace Hotel—guests can...
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Design practice Studio Esteta were responsible for executing the Instagram-ready interior architecture on Fonda, Bondi, the first national outlet for the otherwise Melbourne-based Mexican restaurant chain. Nodding to traditional 'Fondas'...
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“It is one of the most phenomenal restaurants this country has,” says Tom Kerridge of Cheltenham’s Le Champignon Sauvage, “yet one of the least known.” Having been run by chef David Everitt-Matthias and his wife Helen for more than 30...
City Notes
A little over a year since Tom Brown opened his 46-cover restaurant in Hackney Wick to acclaim, the Nathan Outlaw protégé is still continuing to create considerable buzz around his the simple, clean and produce-driven cooking. Named...
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Housed within a monumental 1930s warehouse—originally designed by Swedish architect Sigurd Lewerentz for Philips—Blique by Nobis is a new 249-room urban hotel that doubles as a natural nucleus for both local and travelling...
Stuff Crush
Shot by Sanlé Sory between 1960 and 1983, Peuple de Nuit is a portrait of youth culture in the city and surrounding villages of Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, a documentation of a time when "life was cheap and everyone could have a ball."...
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Willmott’s Ghost, open for lunch through to dinner at Seattle's The Spheres—Amazon's monumental $4 billion headquarters—is a cordial spot where Italian-inspired fare can be enjoyed in colourful surrounds. The latest opening from...
Stuff Crush
It was 1997, Cool Britannia at its peak and Tony Blair's Labour government elected. Britain was riding high on a wave of euphoria and optimism. Britpop was its soundtrack. Fresh out of university, Leeds-born photographer Matthew Finn took a job at...
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“I made a series of decisions that led to an isolated existence almost by accident,” says Cate Le Bon of a year spent in self-imposed isolation, “but it was what I needed to readdress my relationship with music and the world.” “I...
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Cleo Klapholz is a “29-year-old Antwerp-born Jewish girl” whose spare time is packed with creative pursuits including running UNQWomen, a project that sells customised gift boxes for women, and organising ProseccoPong, which takes that infamous...
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...
Dispatches
Another year, another A'Design Award & Competition. The coveted design award—which also happens to be the world's largest and most influential—has opened the gates for its 2019—2020 edition with an early call for entries. And, if you think you...
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Comprising 12 bedrooms that span 1,680 square metres of opulence—marble bathrooms, private chef and chauffeur, the world’s largest television (Bang & Olufsen’s BeoVision 4-103), a Steinway grand piano, Brunswick billiard table and bulletproof...
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“It is one of the most phenomenal restaurants this country has,” says Tom Kerridge of Cheltenham’s Le Champignon Sauvage, “yet one of the least known.” Having been run by chef David Everitt-Matthias and his wife Helen for more than 30...
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Spanning 7,500 kilometres of Greece’s 16,000 kilometres of coastline, the Greek Archipelago is vast, with figures on the number of islands it comprises at some 6,000; 227 of which are inhabited. Which is a lot of islands, many of which are packed...