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elbgold—meaning ‘The Gold of Hamburg’—are the first speciality coffee roasters in Hamburg. As well as trading directly with coffee farmers in Honduras, Guatemala, Ethiopia, or India, the team are also café entrepreneurs. The duo's...
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Spanish creative director, artist, and fashion designer David Méndez Alonso grew up in Galicia. His earliest influences came from the world of graffiti and American underground comics by Daniel Clowes, Charles Burns, and Johnny Ryan. His work...
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L.A.-based Bunnie Reiss is an artist, muralist, and sculptor. Influenced by folk art, mysticism, and nature, Bunnie's often large-scale works can be found on walls all over the world. Sometimes delicate, and always impactful, the artist's...
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Lahpet, named after pickled tea, is one of London’s very few restaurants to specialise in authentic Burmese cooking. Founded by Dan Anton and head chef Zaw Mahesh after a year-long pop-up in Hackney, the pair now have a super-stylish permanent...
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Behind the doors of a neoclassic Moscow building, fans of craft beer will find the redesigned Galaxy Bar and Bottle Shop—a bright monochrome space that Russian design firm Monoloko say “facilitates a release of the mind and the expansion of...
Dispatches
As the latest batch of A'Design Award winners pinch themselves at the realisation they've bagged one of the world's top accolades, and Lake Como preps itself for the mammoth Gala Night and Award Ceremony event set to take place at Teatro Sociale...
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The inimitable Mr. Bingo; multidisciplinary surrealist, Emily Forgot; top L.A.- and London-based design studio ManvsMachine; the supremely talented German art director, Mirko Borsche; New York-based visual artist Shantell Martin. Just five of the...
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Over the course of eight months, London-based street and travel photographer Jérôme Favre documented the diversity of Peckham through his lens. Approaching passers-by on the street, the French photographer would have two requests for...
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Spanish creative director, artist, and fashion designer David Méndez Alonso grew up in Galicia. His earliest influences came from the world of graffiti and American underground comics by Daniel Clowes, Charles Burns, and Johnny Ryan. His work...
City Notes
Joining the slew of independent shops, cafés, and bars on Brighton’s bohemian North Laine, Papersmiths bring colour and passion to the city in a handsome space filled with cult classics and lesser-known contemporary brands from designers and...
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London-based photographer Rachel Molina gives a voice to children Seen But Not Heard through a photographic series that documents the uneasy transitional period from childhood to adolescence; each of the subjects preparing themselves for their...
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The university city of Maastricht is one of the latest to be inhabited by The Student Hotel and in keeping with their brand ethos of redefining the student experience in terms of life, work, and travel, they’ve teamed up with Amsterdam’s...
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“Inspiration without action is bullshit.” Just five of countless inspirational words American artist/designer/life-coach/motivational-speaker James Victore slung together over the course of his OFFF 2018 talk. They are perhaps his five most...
City Notes
We Londoners love dim sum. We want the little handmade doughy parcels filled with crunchy prawns, steamed pork, or salty mushrooms. Not just for lunch, but also for dinner. Thankfully restaurants across the capital are wising up to our addiction for...
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West is Best seems to be the proud hashtag attached to many west London hangouts. As a Londoner, you base yourself in one of the cardinal directions: East or West, perhaps South or North (or even Central if you can afford to), and more often than...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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
As the latest batch of A'Design Award winners pinch themselves at the realisation they've bagged one of the world's top accolades, and Lake Como preps itself for the mammoth Gala Night and Award Ceremony event set to take place at Teatro Sociale...
Dispatches
London-based photographer Rachel Molina gives a voice to children Seen But Not Heard through a photographic series that documents the uneasy transitional period from childhood to adolescence; each of the subjects preparing themselves for their...
Dispatches
“Inspiration without action is bullshit.” Just five of countless inspirational words American artist/designer/life-coach/motivational-speaker James Victore slung together over the course of his OFFF 2018 talk. They are perhaps his five most...
Dispatches
Fashion pioneers Superdry have gained international popularity as a brand that produces apparel combining the best of Americana and Japanese culture, infusing their collections with a distinct British style. Founded in 1985, today Superdry are...