City Notes
By the time you've ridden to Shanghai, your bike will probably need a few new parts, so swing by Changhua Road, where custom cycle firm Factory Five has all the kit to get you back in the saddle in a beautiful store put together by Linehouse...
City Notes
There are parallels between the lives of hotelier Dustin Lancaster and George Covell, the fictional character around whom the Hotel Covell is based. Elements of interior designer Sally Breer's story has been woven into this narrative too, and Breer...
City Notes
There's a growing army of internationally-respected scientists who will tell you that sugar is now the number one danger to our health, and just look how their message is hitting home with the public. They are queueing around the block at San...
Journal
Simone McEwan is a designer with an impressive CV. A trained architect, McEwan's career has seen her leave in-house practices and venture into the world of consultancy. Launching her own design studio in 2012, previous accolades include Concept...
Stuff Crush
Brisbane-based illustrator Mel Stringer has created an adorable collection of female personalities in her new book Cute Yum, published by Belly Kids. Taking her little pink sketchbook, Mel situated herself within the heart of society and let her...
The Edit
If you haven't heard of Chu Enoki, don't beat yourself up about it as the artist isn't very well known outside his native Japan — despite having practised since the 1960s and influencing more well-known figures such as Takashi Murakami and Keiji...
City Notes
From oil soaked garage to stylish Euro bistro, this building in the centre of Valencia has come a long way since it was constructed in the 1930s. Sandra Tarruella Interioristas is the firm that takes the credit for the creation of Al Tun Tún, which...
City Notes
It may take a bit of finding, but once you track down the Criteria gallery-showroom in the little Melbourne suburb of Cremorne you're in for a New York-sized treat. Owner and curator Rachael Fry has made the move from America to Oz, bringing with...
City Notes
Chances are your local branch of Natwest looks nowhere near as good as this former bank alongside Old Spitalfields Market in East London. The Brushwick Street building is now home to Blixen, a European-style brasserie that evokes a time before...
The Edit
Nadia Hernandez has Venezuela in her bones, and though the artist now lives in Sydney, her homeland is still an intrinsic part of her creative practice. Her recent solo exhibition 100% Certain at Sydney's Mild Manners gallery was a celebration of...
The Edit
“May you live in interesting times,” goes the apocryphal backhanded curse, and 1980s New York was all sorts of interesting. It was the decade of the crack epidemic, soaring crime rates and the social spending cuts of Reaganomics, but the '80s...
City Notes
Check out the 12 sqm living wall that graces the dining area at London sushi restaurant Murakami! It could be broccoli but almost certainly isn't, I'm not a gardener, but someone who knew their rhododendrons from their radishes did a cracking job...
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
Walk into a well-designed hotel bathroom, and something stops you. It is small, sometimes very small, but it feels considered. The tile choice is unexpected. The vanity has a presence. The mirror sits perfectly. You stand there thinking this feels...
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...