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If you found yourself in an infamous conflict zone anytime in the last two decades, the odds are that with a little bit of looking you could have found Guillermo Cervera there too, camera in hand. Bosnia in 1993, Chad’s rebel camps, the Sri Lankan...
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‘It sounds fucking cool!’ Thus pronounces London-based Australian Leif Podhajsky in response to my initial question about the name of his recent Paris show Synaesthesia. Opening with that quote may be a little unfair — he also gives me...
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You know Richard Wilson’s work — even if you don’t think you do, you do. He’s perhaps best known for 20:50, his piece from the late 1980s that filled a gallery space with sump oil and invited viewers (via a partly submerged walkway) into the...
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With the UK press full of headlines claiming that “London is eating itself,” has the time finally come to look outside of the capital for creative inspiration? A short walk around the Northern Design Festival in Newcastle would provide a...
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In one shot, barricades are scattered across a deserted downtown Manhattan street; in the background a policeman appears from behind a neoclassical pillar, hardly there but sinisterly there all the same. Turn the page and somebody — a threat? we,...
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‘There must be some consistency,’ Samantha Wall insists. ‘There must be something that remains resistant to change.’ What I Can't See, conté crayon, charcoal and graphite on paper, 60" x 41", 2014 The fact that this needs to...
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The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) recently revoked Breathe Architecture's brilliant sustainable and affordable living scheme Nightingale, at the behest of one solitary senior member. A passion project for Jeremy McLeod, we sent...
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There was a buzz around this skinny kid from North Carolina. He was fearless. Willing to stack it time and again to master his environment, and to land the trick. Few could match his charismatic blend of courage, skill and swagger. Sponsors were...
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Toronto artist Jenn Liv makes no bones about her pop culture inheritance. Whereas some artists are keen to establish their credentials through lists of canonical and well-respected influences, Liv goes the other way: when I ask her about the...
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Wooed by Ettore Sottsass's Memphis design movement, burgeoning fashion icon Karl Lagerfeld built a shrine to its style in the early 1980s, young magazine editor Regina Spelman — and her photographer husband Jacques Schumacher — caught its...
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Drug-crazed, crime-ridden and totally out of control. For a radical photographer there was no better place to be than 1980s New York, and that's where Miron Zownir landed after making the decision to emigrate from Germany. Zownir would spend the...
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No city has fallen as far and as hard as Detroit. The Motor City's woes — economic collapse due to industrial migration, subsequent bankruptcy and social problems — have been well documented to the point where Michigan's former manufacturing...
City Notes
Bringing understated Scandinavian elegance to the edge of Warsaw’s historic Old Town, PURO Warszawa Stare Miasto is the latest addition to the design-led hotel group’s growing Polish portfolio, and possibly their most considered space...
City Notes
In Milan’s ever-evolving Isola district, MOGO has arrived on the scene, offering a destination where music, mixology, and modern Japanese cuisine come together in a high-design setting that will have aesthetics addicts frothing at the mouth. A...
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Opening its doors in February 2025, Ned’s Club Washington, DC marks the second collaboration between Soho House’s luxury brand and the design and architecture experts at Stonehill Taylor. Set across the 9th to 12th floors of two historic...
City Notes
After a century spent as apartment residences, and following a meticulous two-year transformation, Hotel Granada reopened its Spanish Colonial archways to guests in August 2024. Located at 1302 West Peachtree Street NW, this 120-room property now...
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Everyone loves the feeling of arriving at a charming vacation retreat. What if you could bring that travel vibe into your own home? With thoughtful design choices, your living room can feel like a curated destination. From tactile fabrics...
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Picture this: you unlock the door to your new home. The sofa’s already waiting in its perfect spot, your favorite artwork hangs where you imagined, and not a single box blocks your view. That’s not magic—it’s the difference the right movers...
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The first impression of your home isn't simply a matter of architectural design or interior decor. Curb appeal, the undeniable charm and allure of a property as viewed from the street, has an inexplicably powerful influence on property value....
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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,...