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"Vera looks at the last delicate fluff of floss, disconnected by her sudden movement, clinging to the edge of its stick. She jams it into her mouth and the sugar grains stick between her teeth and she looks left and right and she crosses the...
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That old-fashioned but quintessential summer cocktail, the gin and tonic, is one half of a very quirky concept from Edward Godden and Joseph Lewis, who - thanks to an old bike and a bit of Instagram magic - could have stepped out of the 1940s...
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Namesakes: funny things, they can blight you through life, or simply pass you by - I wonder how many people called Robert Nastanovich know they share the same name as one of my idols growing up... similarly I imagine those unfortunate enough to be...
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Covent Garden’s celebrated village of Seven Dials has seen a mini-transformation this September, however blink and you may miss the seven installations suspended high above ground. Gracing each road off the Seven Dials pillar, the installations...
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London Design Festival is, predictably, awash with product launches - and standing out is, predictably, the name of the game. On Friday we showcased watch brand Uniform Wares' gallery-esque take on the product launch, and up today is Studio...
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Part of the beauty of the internet is that if you couldn't be in Germany for last week's Berlin Art Week, you can come to We Heart and see what you missed, and miss it you did, especially the abc Art Berlin Contemporary fair. Nearly 130...
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You know Europeans use a full stop instead of a comma to separate their hundreds from their thousands? Well they do, so when I saw the price of renting the Chalet Brickell in Megève was listed as €100.000 per week I naturally thought the...
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We love good bit of meanderingly rhapsodic prose as much as the next person, especially if we're getting paid by the word (fat chance), but since they say clarity is brevity, and in the transient spirit of the subject matter, here's the short...
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If you've always wanted a technicolour close-up of Kate Moss's fizzog, a black and white portrait of Keira Knightley's incredibly large feet or a pic of a children's-nightmare-inducing masked Lily Cole horror doll on your wall, well are you in for...
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When your sole product at a major international design festival is a bulb (albeit a very lovely bulb), you'd better have some imagination and flair to make your venue, your launch, stand out. Luckily, imagination and flair is something a certain Lee...
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A collaboration between Amsterdam's Fotografiemuseum (my Dutch isn't great, but I'll have a stab at that being the photography museum) and a couple of other agencies, Unseen is hosting work from across the globe and aims to provide a platform for...
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The pen is may be mightier than the sword, but it proved mightier than the internal combustion engine too when a stunning art installation literally stopped traffic. Spanish lighting wizards Luz Interruptus - whose Plastic Garbage Guarding the...
City Notes
Reopened in the centre of Megève, Hotel Saint-Georges returns as a thoughtfully reimagined alpine retreat with a new visual language and razor-sharp focus. Set within a traditional chalet, the five-star hotel has been reimagined by Paris-based...
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The Zetter Group is set to deepen its connection to the UK capital with the opening of The Zetter Bloomsbury in March 2026, a 68 bedroom hotel housed across six interconnecting Georgian townhouses moments from Russell Square. Sitting directly...
City Notes
TOKKIA is a new addition to Covent Garden, and Europe’s first luxury Korean matcha house. Founded by Sooji Im — who previously introduced London to Korean tea culture with be-oom in Exmouth Market — the project brings a focused look at Korean...
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Bunkhouse Hotels expands its Houston presence with the opening of Hotel Daphne, a 49 room refuge in the historic Houston Heights. Following the success of the exquisite Hotel Saint Augustine in Montrose, the Austin-based brand continues its mission...
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You're looking at kratom gummies online or in a store, and they all claim to be high quality. Premium ingredients, potent extract, laboratory tested, maximum strength. Everyone says their gummies are the best. How do you actually separate quality...
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Human hair extensions have quietly become one of the defining materials of contemporary self-presentation. Once confined to salon makeovers and celebrity transformations, they now sit at the intersection of personal branding, performance, and...
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In most modern history, all these years, “doing more” usually meant “hiring more”. Growth was believed to be directly proportional to headcount because the work was manual. More customers created more tickets (issues), more orders created...
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The story of how a billion-dollar casino hotel that reinvents itself while guests sleep, and why precision documentation is the invisible foundation of every great renovation. At 3am on a Tuesday, while high rollers chase fortunes on the casino...