The Edit
In the 19th Century, Chicago was sinking into the mire, both morally and literally. Towards the end of the 1800s many of the city's buildings needed lifting onto supports to stop them subsiding into the mud, leaving a network of alleyways beneath...
Journal
On our mini tour of the south east coast of Ireland we stumbled across Dublin’s hip shopping strip - Drury Street. A place for independent salons, tailors and design stores, we spent some time browsing the refreshingly honest products in the Irish...
Publications
I'll bet you didn't know that there is a Cameroonian bar in Los Angeles. Let's be honest, why would you? But indeed there is – it's on West Pico Boulevard - and as it turns out L.A. has got pretty much every nationality of World Cup fan covered if...
The Edit
I know “Girl Power” is a bit 1990s Spice Girls, but I'm a child of my time, and the phrase really hits the nail on the head when it comes to describing this show at Kult, Singapore, so I'm going to run with it. Girls of the Underworld – the...
The Edit
Don't breathe too close to the screen or the below photograph might disintegrate. William Henry Fox Talbot's salt print of Hungerford Bridge from 1845 – the year the bridge opened – is a major rarity from photography's early days, and it's...
New York City
“We've been to Button Moon, we've followed Mr Spoon, Button Moon....” Eh? Great times. Anyway, My Moon has got nothing to do with British children's TV shows from the 1980s, so enough of that nonsense. This is almost as cool, however, being a...
New York City
There’s so much to love about French menswear label Études it’s difficult to pinpoint the exact ingredient that makes their collections so killer. Their work wear-inspired, androgynous cuts make anyone look good, man/woman, shaped like an...
Journal
If, like Lieutenant Jonathan Kendrick in A Few Good Men, you only have two books at your bedside – the Marine Corps Code of Conduct and the King James Bible – you will recognise the phrase “through a glass, darkly”, as being (almost)...
The Edit
Ignored, stepped over, or worse, a city's homeless population is more than an inconvenience to artist Andres Serrano. The American photographer first photographed the homeless of New York 25 years ago for his Nomad series, and has returned to the...
The Edit
Hands up if you've got a replica football kit in the wardrobe. Now keep your hands raised if you wear it to the shopping centre - or any non-football-related event for that matter – and the rest of you put your hands down. Those with their hands...
Interiors
Sebastian Cox is a nerd. I mean that in the nicest possible way – I really like nerds - but he is a nerd. “I am so in love with my material and how it ties in with a more sustainable life,” he says. “I sit up at night thinking about it,...
Journal
“Got any swaps?”. Playgrounds up and down the country are reverberating to that phrase now that the FIFA World Cup 2014 is underway, and Panini sticker books are quickly filling up with the famous faces and star names of the teams looking to...
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
The Adventure of Traveling Alone Travelling alone has a unique charm. You get to move at your own pace. You pick destinations without debate. You decide what feels exciting. You feel freedom in a way that group travel rarely allows. Solo travel...
Dispatches
Pregnancy is an amazing and life-changing event in a woman’s life; however, it comes with some challenges that are quite different from what the woman has previously...
Dispatches
When it comes to vision correction, many people experience challenges as they age. One of the most common issues is presbyopia, a condition that makes it harder to see objects up close, such as reading a book or using a smartphone. As a result, many...
Dispatches
An engagement ring is one of the most personal pieces of jewellery you’ll ever own. It’s not just a symbol of love, it’s a statement of identity, taste, and individuality. Finding the right style isn’t about following fleeting trends, it’s...