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Beautiful Crime gallery introduces street artist and furniture designer SHYGUY to unveil a collection of street and neon art, furniture, and lighting at her own home during this year's Clerkenwell Design Week. Naomi Chainey, the artist...
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Heist gallery will present Polyphony, an inaugural review show of Maria Kreyn’s work, at a secret London location from 10—28 May. For the first time, Heist gallery—who are on a mission to turn the white cube experience on its head—will...
Journal
Widely exhibited artist Kristen Martincic, recognised for her infatuation with H2O, spent her childhood at local swimming pools and on the banks of Lake Erie in Cleveland, Ohio. Surrounded by vast bodies of water, being in or near it has had a...
City Notes
Creating inspired hotels and clubhouses—"global homes for global communities"—Oliver Ripley, Kfir Levy, and Eduardo Castillo expand their Habitas brand with the opening of their first urban home: Habitas New York. Habitas NYC is a...
Stuff Crush
"Toronto is beginning to redefine itself through its concrete heritage," write an editorial team from the city's ERA Architects, "the fabric of our post-war growth—the architecture of our schools, universities, libraries and mass housing. Many are...
City Notes
Hostels all over the world are bucking up their ideas when it comes to service, style, and hospitality. It’s sometimes hard to tell which is the better option—hotel or hostel—with some offering five-star breakfasts and cutting-edge cultural...
City Notes
"One can travel this world and see nothing," once said the great Italian still life painter, Giorgio Morandi. "To achieve understanding it is necessary not to see many things, but to look hard at what you do see." Informed by Morandi's restrained...
Journal
Widely exhibited artist Kristen Martincic, recognised for her infatuation with H2O, spent her childhood at local swimming pools and on the banks of Lake Erie in Cleveland, Ohio. Surrounded by vast bodies of water, being in or near it has had a...
Stuff Crush
"One year ago, we decided to change our lives," says French 'van-lifer' and chef Cécile Bertrand. "We were two culinary students trying to make a career in fancy restaurants, but we wanted to learn about cooking in a different way, away from the...
City Notes
Occupying the empty levels of a well-known multi-storey carpark in south-east London, Peckham Levels is an intoxicating creative campus for innovators, creators, artists, makers, and entrepreneurs; a cultural hub conceived by social enterprise...
Dispatches
Some 1,962 winners from 100 countries in 99 different design disciplines were honoured at the prestigious A’ Design Award and Competition 2018, the esteemed judging panel championing international design across a broad spectrum—from furniture,...
Stuff Crush
An unorthodox love story spread over 100 pages, Michael E. Northrup's Dream Away charts the photographers obsession with 'the photograph'; the photo-book ambling through a mix of colour and black and white images that document the 12 years his...
City Notes
Having fallen into a state of disrepair after the closure of a seedy old Sala X, Madrid-based practice Plantea Estudio have converted a collection of spaces within the old sex cinema on the city's Calle del Duque de Alba—a new concept of cinema...
City Notes
With 105 rooms and suites, La Peer Hotel is a five-star sanctuary from its surrounding district's high-caliber design, art, fashion, dining, and cultural hotspots. Located between Melrose Avenue and Santa Monica Boulevard, the West Hollywood...
Stuff Crush
Celebrating the unsung contributions of mosques on Britain's culture—the diversity of the Muslim population, and the evolution of architecture—The British Mosque takes its readers on a journey from the late 19th century to modern times;...
City Notes
Owing to the building’s flatiron shape, all guest rooms at Proper's new high-end design hotel for San Francisco boast killer views of the City by the Bay; the property shape-shifting into its surrounds and exuding maximum west coast...
Journal
Beginning his experimentation with graffiti at the tender age of 15, self-taught artist Franck Noto—aka Zest—has honed his singular style over the years that have followed; now one of France’s most celebrated street artists. The...
City Notes
Made up of two spaces and lashings of colour, Like Shop Showroom is located in the southern Russia city—this part of the country's largest and most cosmopolitan—of Rostov-on-Don and attracts local fashionistas and the Instagram set in search of...
City Notes
Spying the Caribbean's dazzling turquoise in the near distance whilst being handed an ice-cold margarita made with Xtabentún—an anise liqueur from the surrounding Yucatán region—you realise here, set between sea and lush jungle, that you can...
Dispatches
Some 1,962 winners from 100 countries in 99 different design disciplines were honoured at the prestigious A’ Design Award and Competition 2018, the esteemed judging panel championing international design across a broad spectrum—from furniture,...
Dispatches
London’s sourdough pizza pioneers, Franco Manca, will be marking their tenth anniversary later this year and the celebrations are already underway. Where has the time flown since their first little pizza joint in Brixton? Martina...
Dispatches
Around the time that Brazil was removing impeached President Dilma Rousseff from office in 2016, New York City-based photographer Sophie Barbasch travelled to the country to document its military police school in Fortaleza. Believed by...
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With over 369 million French speakers on Earth—the official language of 29 countries across five continents and spoken in many, many more—the romance language is the fourth most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union, and the sixth...
