City Notes
L'Improbable is definitely not the kind of place that springs to mind when one thinks of Paris café culture. The building in the Marais was formerly a garage — and still, to a large extent, is. Re-purposed for hospitality by owners Bien Fait, the...
The Edit
Here's a cheerful thought for you: how will you be remembered when you are dead? Hopefully not an immediate consideration, but a question that bears pause for thought on occasion. The answer, one imagines, will be fondly — especially among those...
City Notes
When chef Damon Menapace tells you his meat is locally-sourced, he means it. Really local. Menapace is executive chef at Kensington Quarters in Philadelphia, and he only has to cross the room to visit his butcher Bryan Mayer who has his own shop...
City Notes
Did you know that there are important distinguishing characteristics that set apart jams from jellies, and preserves from marmalades? Well, there are. To be honest, I wouldn't let them keep you awake at night; let the experts such as Lillie O'Brien...
City Notes
Minä Perhonen Koti is the new directly-managed shop showcasing the wares of fashion brand Minä Perhonen. Actually, it feels like rather more than that: as the use of the term 'Koti' — Finnish for 'house' — suggests, the site feels less like a...
City Notes
The Cofoco group has been operating successful stand-alone restaurants (like Höst) in Copenhagen since 2000, but its new place Italy marks the start of a chain of venues under the same brand. Norm architects has been charged with the design...
The Edit
The historically important port city of Venice is well used to seeing large cargoes arrive, but there hasn't been an arrival to cause this much commotion for many a year. The Clash's Mick Jones has sent over a shipment of material from his enormous...
The Edit
David Hockney has got a problem with perspective. He doesn't like it very much — at least not the linear perspective that is taught as the staple of studio practice — and in a new series of paintings and photographs made over the last couple...
City Notes
Fondazione Prada has unveiled a new permanent venue in Milan, proving that there's much more to the fashion giant than fancy handbags. Rem Koolhaas, from architectural firm OMA, has been in control of the project that has seen seven existing...
The Edit
There is theatrical dining, and then there is Monkey Town. After 10 successful years in New York, and another well-received stint on tour in Denver, Cororado, it's Barcelona's turn to experience the immersive eating experience unlike any other. The...
Journal
Documentary photographer and doctor Oliver Weber has a gift for finding extraordinary stories in the most unlikely people (his assessment of the Canary Islands' tourism had us reaching for the sick bucket a couple of years back), a knack which he...
The Edit
The inexorable passing of time, impermanence and decay weave their melancholy way through the latest series of work by photographer Clint Woodside currently on show at Philadelphia's Space 1026. The artist is now based in Los Angeles, but his...
City Notes
Salon Volta is a new barbershop in Laval, Quebec, that rethinks the familiar codes of grooming through a concept centred on craft and community. Moving away from the traditional model, the project positions itself as a space where barbering unfolds...
City Notes
Interior design studio and creative consultancy Ste Marie has completed Olia Ristorante and Mimi Bar, a pair of hospitality venues conceived as a day-to-night sequence at the base of new residential tower Citizen on Jasper. Commissioned by Corso 32...
City Notes
On a private estate in central Ukraine, YOD Group has reimagined the traditional mazanka — the archetypal rural home — for the contemporary era. These 50 square metre guesthouses reinterpret the vernacular, translating thick whitewashed walls...
City Notes
Situated at the edge of Montmartre, where Pigalle’s energy meets Parisian rooftops, Hôtel Rochechouart is a 1929 Art Deco landmark given a contemporary pulse. Design duo Festen has restored the building’s historic details while threading a...
Dispatches
Some people discover mixology behind a bar on a busy Friday night. Others come to it through years of hosting dinner parties, obsessing over flavor combinations, or spending too much money on bitters collections they absolutely did not need. However...
Dispatches
There was a time when wedding bar service meant a single bartender, a few bottles of wine, and maybe a keg if the couple was feeling casual. Those days are long gone. Today's couples are rethinking the bar as one of the most meaningful parts of the...
Dispatches
Do you want to give your bathroom a fresh, trendy look with new tile? Tiles in the bathroom do more than just keep water from getting on your walls and floors. They can also give your area a joyful, colourful, tranquil, or futuristic vibe. There are...
Dispatches
Traditional birdwatching frequently seems like a commitment. It may involve long-haul flights to remote locations, getting up early in the morning, and spending hours in uncertain weather. Even then, sightings can never be guaranteed. For many, the...