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We wouldn't want you to think we're thumbing our noses at you when we say that this event was good, and you missed it, but it was, and you probably did. Don't blame us though – the Alley-Oop Design Exhibition was a one-night only affair, so unless...
Journal
It’s safe to say that Julia deVille has more than a passing interest in death. However, when her interest came together with training in jewellery and taxidermy, she found her art. Her studio, a converted warehouse in Melbourne’s Collingwood,...
Journal
A design incubator. Somewhere to hatch chicks in style? A place to keep the offspring of the wealthy healthy in case of premature birth? No, the design incubator is a place to nurture fledgling artists from southeast Europe. Going by the name Nova...
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Earlier on this week, we left our Ford hometown trip with a few suited middle managers dancing to Salem inside one of America's most fascinating museums - intrigued? Catch up on Pt.1 here. After a few swift drinks at the hotel bar, an early night...
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Beckmans College of Design's Never Mind the Object was one of my personal highlights from last year's Stockholm Design Fair, and this year's graduates' group show is equally as impressive. Cynics (that know me) will say that using a bulldog in last...
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It's no wonder the stevedores in season two of The Wire were struggling to find work – the problem wasn't Baltimore's canal dredging project after all, but simply that these days there aren't many shipping containers left in existence that are...
The Edit
Happy Waitangi Day to all our New Zealander readers - for those of us north of the Equator, today is an annual Kiwi holiday, celebrating the signing of the country's founding documents; the Treaty of Waitangi. Now, to prove we're not a bottomless...
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Detroit and its famed Big Three are suffering a Rocky Balboa style crisis. Down but far from out, the giants of the motor industry and their hometown are weary, battle-worn, but blessed with more than enough character for a triumphant comeback....
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Big-name branding as an art in itself is something that doesn't get a lot of love; it's most prominently concerned with consumer products, which in themselves are commercial and hence get purist noses pointing in the air. That it's unfair to dismiss...
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It's a shame you've got to prove yourself either useful or solvent to set up home in Australia. If they let any old British economic refugee in we'd already be hammering the For Sale sign into the breeze blocks of We Heart Towers and heading off to...
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When you're invited to take a peek behind the wizard's curtain into the world of a fictional 20th Century advertising agency, you may well be expecting 60 minutes on the sofa with Don Draper and the rest of the Manhattan Mad Men. Well, yes and...
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You know those great ideas that are so simple they're brilliant? Well this isn't one of them, this is one of those great ideas that takes a load of effort and time to make happen. However, The Glass Farm in the Dutch town of Schijndel was...
City Notes
Opened in September 2025, HYLL brings a new interpretation of country hospitality to the Cotswolds, a hotel rooted in its landscape, designed to slow the pace and dim the noise. Set within a restored 16th century manor house, the 26 room property...
City Notes
Sircle Collection, the international hospitality group behind a growing portfolio of hotels and restaurants, introduces The Cover Vienna this November, a private members’ club in the city’s 7th District. Set within the Max Brown Hotel, the club...
City Notes
In the centre of Bergen, a new chapter has opened for a concrete landmark designed by Egill Reimers in 1920. Once home to bakeries, offices, shops and social services, the building has been reimagined by architecture studio LOCAL as Bergen Camping,...
City Notes
On Barcelona’s recently beautified Avinguda Diagonal, a new kind of café experience has arrived, one that has already piqued the curiosity of both locals and visitors. Jaç Hi-Fi Café, designed by Isern Serra Studio for owners Ligia and Arnau,...
Dispatches
Florida welcomed a record 143 million visitors in 2024, and many of them booked stays in the state’s 65,000-plus short-term rentals that stretch from Pensacola to Key West. If you own one of those homes, you’ve probably juggled midnight leak...
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Joint pain from arthritis can make even simple movements feel like a challenge. Many people face a tough choice between using a cream that targets pain at the surface or taking a pill that works throughout the body. Each method provides benefits,...
Dispatches
Ever notice how some people seem to effortlessly achieve gorgeous hairstyles while others struggle for hours to recreate the same look? The secret often comes down to understanding hair texture, a fundamental aspect of hair care that many overlook....
Dispatches
People often hope that once they decide to end a marriage, the finish line comes quickly. But divorce has its own calendar, built on paperwork, negotiations, and legal requirements. Some timelines shrink when couples agree easily. Others stretch...