City Notes
Melding businesses together under one stylish roof is a great opportunity for really creative design - not to mention a great way to prise more money out of the customers. At PACT, Singapore, a trio of very different firms have joined hands in an...
The Edit
As is the case with many of those making the transition from street to gallery, there's a powerful dose of politics to be had in the work of Vinz - a street art maestro who made his name wheat-pasting the walls of his native Valencia, along with...
Stuff Crush
Well, it's taken a little longer than we initially anticipated, but our Create GB publication is finally set for release - and just in time for Christmas. Documenting 39 of the eclectic array of creatives featured during this summer, Create GB...
Journal
Much unlike their sophisticated sibling, the gig poster, festival posters are - by and large - some of the most painfully designed pieces of marketing on the circuit. Cramming countless band names, logos, amenities and contractual obligations onto...
City Notes
No longer the preserve of the elicit industries servicing leave-taking sailors, dockland areas in major cities are increasingly the place to be for smart new business investment, and here we have a hotel looking to take advantage of this changing...
Journal
Childhood games hold mixed emotions for me – on the one hand, they filled countless hours of school holidays, and in the days when a Sega Megadrive was the height of electronic sophistication, there wasn't a lot else to do when it rained. On the...
The Edit
That the female of the species is more deadly than the male is definitely a philosophy that Dutch designer/sculptor Ted Noten subscribes to; in his collection 7 Necessities - which debuts this week, as part of DesignMiami/ at Ornamentum Gallery -...
City Notes
Rather like the rich gentleman in the Foster's advert who has apparently spent all the sandwich money on beer, it appears the owners of Sal Curioso have spent all their PR money on extra refinements to the interior of their new Hong Kong restaurant....
City Notes
Hold the front page! Of the culinary pull-out anyway. The headline news for foodies is that Claus Meyer, the lesser-known partner of René Redzepi in 'world's-best-restaurant™' Noma, is back with a new project called Radio in Copenhagen....
Journal
In the heart of Mayfair, opposite The Connaught no less, sits a beautiful town house - No5. Carlos Place - which is hosting a rather fantastic showcase of all things handmade, courtesy of newly founded champion of British craft: The New...
City Notes
The façade of this Victorian townhouse on an anonymous yet attractively-cobbled street in London's East End is fairly nondescript, resembling countless other workshops that can be found in the industrious neighbourhood off Bethnal Green Road,...
The Edit
With an atmosphere halfway between an art exhibition and a war zone, British artist Jonathan Darby's CONGO is a visually powerful and disturbing look at one of the world's worst, yet mostly overlooked, tragedies. Generations have lived in an...
Stuff Crush
Weirdness is a notion long entwined with the concept of creativity. Mocked by the strait-laced confined to their boxes of conformism, celebrated by the bold and the brave who pursue the outré as a means of pushing beyond the banal. In Weird...
City Notes
In Montreal’s Little Italy, a new arrival is making waves with a fresh take on Italian dining. Pasta Pooks, which opened in March 2025, is a compact five-seat takeout counter serving pasta and natural wine in a space that marries Old World charm...
City Notes
A once-forgotten 19th-century residence in Savannah’s historic district has been brought spectacularly back to life, reincarnated as The Douglas; a refined 16-room boutique hotel at 14 East Oglethorpe Avenue, where design meets old-world...
Dispatches
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,...
Dispatches
Moving, renovating, or downsizing in a fast-growing city like Dallas can quickly become overwhelming. Between tight housing transitions, unpredictable weather, and the sheer logistics of packing up a home or office, it’s easy to feel buried under...
Dispatches
Drivers race the yellow light constantly. It's become normal behavior. Someone sees the light turn yellow and accelerates to beat it rather than slowing down. Another driver is already committed to going through. They collide in the middle of the...
Dispatches
Once upon a time, hotels were where we went to escape real life, and homes were where we returned to it. Today, that separation is disappearing. The warmth, comfort, and design sophistication that once defined boutique hotels are now finding their...
Dispatches
Moving is one of those life events that sits somewhere between chaos and reinvention. It’s stressful, yes — but it’s also a rare opportunity to start over. To touch every object you own, question its purpose, and decide what kind of person...