City Notes
Prolific restaurateur/hotelier Loh Lik Peng must have run out of room on Singapore, having set up projects including Esquina and Keong Saik Snacks, and has made the move to mainland China for his latest restaurant The Commune Social. As before he's...
City Notes
Architects and interior designers have to think about light a lot, but this hotel in Iceland takes things to another level. You may already know that the days get pretty long as you go north, and in fact there are such marked differences in light...
Journal
Seychelles. From the moment that euphonic name laps gently against the ear, we are transported, carried away on an evocative tide of images. The translucent turquoise ocean. The white sandy beaches. The barefoot shoreline strolls of newlyweds,...
The Edit
Giving us the first “is that a badger or a dog?” double-take of the day (it's a wolf), Revital Cohen and Tuur Van Balen's And Nowhere a Shadow is just one of the interesting elements to Future Perfect, part of the Close, Closer series of...
City Notes
La Condesa in Austin, Texas has made it into the city's top 38 eateries according to foodie website Austin Eater, and if anyone knows about eating in Austin, it's Austin Eater. The food is more Mex than Tex and under exec chef Rick Lopez the menu...
The Edit
The work of Tom Wesselmann, one of the leading lights of the American Pop Art movement, is receiving a major late-work retrospective in London this month. Wesselmann actually disliked the term Pop when applied to his works – he claimed that Pop...
City Notes
On the face of it, “naked cooking” sounds like a recipe for disaster – shallow frying bacon is one activity we're particularly keen to avoid sans vêtements – but don't worry, this is naked cooking as imagined by restaurateur David Moore....
The Edit
It's a big year for one of the world's most famous buildings. The Sydney Opera House, designed by famed Danish architect Jørn Utzon, celebrated its 40th birthday this month, and to mark the milestone and honour the great man, an exhibition of...
City Notes
There was a time when dropping ones aitches was considered a sign of low class, but times have clearly changed – art'otel amsterdam near the city's Central Station has got buckets of the stuff with a youthful, contemporary edge thanks to the work...
City Notes
We're away to Mexico now, which you may have figured out yourselves from the unsettling outburst of cactii in the picture below. Puerto Escondido in Oaxaca, more specifically, on the Pacific coast to the south of the country. Design Hotels,...
The Edit
Jocko Weyland is a fucking dude. Beginning publishing skate-punk zines as a 15 year-old in the 1980s, the Colorado-born writer/artist/skater still has a lingering preoccupation with the handmade. Photocopy paper, fresh Biro ink, magazine clippings....
The Edit
“And now for your viewing an listening pleasure, a recital on the Theremin...” What the deuce is a Theremin? I hear at least a few of you ask, and the answer not a cholesterol medication, but a very strange musical instrument named after its...
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...