The Edit
As anyone who has watched You've Been Framed will know, when one wants to smarten up one's home, it's best to get the experts in. Taking the cheap route and attempting a bit of DIY looks an attractive option, but it will inevitably end up costing...
Journal
Having failed to get in the first time, Matej Chabera graduated from London’s Royal College of Art, with not one, but four final projects. “I never planned to become a designer - it just happened as I went along enjoying the perverse freedom...
The Edit
American artist Isaac Arvold notes that as babies, our hands and feet are among the first things we are aware of. Once we've discovered that they are there, our hands are immediately our most useful tool, helping us to feed, and later to crawl, and...
The Edit
The Sunday Times art critic and documentary filmmaker Waldemar Januszczak definitely knows his onions and gets around more than his share of exhibitions, so when he enthuses about a show we're inclined to believe it's worth a look. The Human Factor...
Interiors
“When I was little, I didn’t have a clue about what I wanted to do when I grew up. I was way more interested in Lego and exploring the bugs and animals in our back garden. I was still clueless when I graduated from high school, so it took some...
The Edit
I haven't had a music poster on my wall for donkey's years, but looking at the collection assembled for the Blisters poster show has got me thinking about venturing up into the attic to dig out the old halls of residence decorations. I seem to...
London
British design legend Paul Smith's flagship store on the corner of Albemarle and Stafford Streets has been significantly extended and now offers one-off pieces along with men’s and women’s clothing and furniture. Now occupying a...
Los Angeles
Anaheim is a city in the metropolitan area of Los Angeles, and it's chiefly known by non-Californians as being the site of the world famous Disneyland resort. The Golden State is also known for its fertile fruit-growing industry, and juice maker...
Interiors
Nothing gives a room a macabre twist like an animal skull. Of course there's always the ethical question of how the unfortunate animal expired – was the skull discovered poking from the wind-whipped shifting sands of an unforgiving desert, like in...
The Edit
“I love to eat - Kit Kats or cookies-and-cream ice cream. I need sugar like five times a day.” This is a quote from Kim Kardashian, owner of the biggest arse in all of Celebrityville, and the same Kim Kardashian who recently bemoaned her...
The Edit
The interior of Louisiana Museum of Modern Art looks as though it is still recovering from the terrible after-effects of Hurricane Katrina, with tonnes of rocks, silt and shale having washed through the building, carrying away all before it. But...
Stockholm
Finefood Kärlek & Mat (Love & Food – although presumably only the food part is on the menu) is a café in Stockholm designed to be as comfortable serving breakfast pastries as it is servicing the lunch trade and even serving a beer or two in the...
Stuff Crush
Weirdness is a notion long entwined with the concept of creativity. Mocked by the strait-laced confined to their boxes of conformism, celebrated by the bold and the brave who pursue the outré as a means of pushing beyond the banal. In Weird...
City Notes
In Montreal’s Little Italy, a new arrival is making waves with a fresh take on Italian dining. Pasta Pooks, which opened in March 2025, is a compact five-seat takeout counter serving pasta and natural wine in a space that marries Old World charm...
City Notes
A once-forgotten 19th-century residence in Savannah’s historic district has been brought spectacularly back to life, reincarnated as The Douglas; a refined 16-room boutique hotel at 14 East Oglethorpe Avenue, where design meets old-world...
Dispatches
In a country where club floors open with Buddhist chants and Ladyboys offer dawn alms in corsets and stilettos, Elizabeth Waterman has found a world of contradictions too vivid to ignore. Over the past three years, and across four extended trips,...
Dispatches
Moving, renovating, or downsizing in a fast-growing city like Dallas can quickly become overwhelming. Between tight housing transitions, unpredictable weather, and the sheer logistics of packing up a home or office, it’s easy to feel buried under...
Dispatches
Drivers race the yellow light constantly. It's become normal behavior. Someone sees the light turn yellow and accelerates to beat it rather than slowing down. Another driver is already committed to going through. They collide in the middle of the...
Dispatches
Once upon a time, hotels were where we went to escape real life, and homes were where we returned to it. Today, that separation is disappearing. The warmth, comfort, and design sophistication that once defined boutique hotels are now finding their...
Dispatches
Moving is one of those life events that sits somewhere between chaos and reinvention. It’s stressful, yes — but it’s also a rare opportunity to start over. To touch every object you own, question its purpose, and decide what kind of person...