Journal
Had one too many corporate messages rammed down your gullet? Driven to distraction by unimaginative mashups of stock images, marketing-man-propaganda and clichéd calls to action? Waging a kind of Fight Club-lite war against corporate marketeers,...
Journal
Throughout December, chef Nobu Matsuhisa has taken residency - for the remainder of this year - at Le Royal Monceau, Raffles Paris' La Cuisine restaurant to show the locals and visitors alike how the master of fusion works his oh-so-popular magic....
Journal
Update: The Sharing House is now closed. Assemble hundreds of wooden blocks and thousands of Lego bricks, screw on one cavernous metallic roof – the result is the marvellously put together restaurant The Sharing House in Melbourne. The South...
Journal
Lugging around a piece of equipment on his shoulder that looks like it could bring down a Soviet fighter plane, Larbi Laaraichi is a Moroccan wedding videographer who isn't shy of getting in the frame himself – at every assignment he always makes...
City Notes
The motto of hotel chain 25Hours is “You know one, you know none”, which we reckon would have Professor Saul Kripke scratching his beard in befuddlement, but thankfully the design philosophy of their latest branch in Zurich West is a lot easier...
Journal
Those who revel in the visually chaotic aftermath of months, sometimes years, of successive flyposting - and the subsequent successive peeling away of said flyposting - are in for a treat at New York-based German artist Nikolas Gambaroff's latest...
City Notes
Seems a tad odd featuring the world's number one restaurant, three years on the trot, and not including images of its food. Surely most will be familiar with René Redzepi's earthily exquisite, food as art creations - carefully foraged produce from...
Journal
The cornershop has made some new music. But if that has got you in a nostalgic rush, digging out your Now! 39 CD for a listen of Brimful of Asha, stop right where you are. We're careful with our capital letters, and this cornershop is with a lower...
City Notes
If you're in the market for a new shopping experience, one that fuses retail with art, and which redefines the way you view product displays, look no further than Damage Playground in Rotterdam. The founders of this extraordinary creation,...
Journal
Have you been walking down the street when something has caught your eye that's made you have a good giggle to yourself – the guilty pleasure of a particularly puntastic shop name perhaps, or a funny bit of graffiti scrawled on to a sign. It's...
City Notes
Design and wine. Can you go wrong? The answer, of course, is no - especially when the design is as nice as it is at the Design and Wine Hotel in Caminha, Portugal. It's an 18th Century manor house, and although you wouldn't say the renovation is...
City Notes
I hate websites with sound. Actually, scratch that, I don't just hate them; I loathe them, despise them, they make my blood run cold, coerce me to throw my weighty iMac through the office window... then follow it out and stamp all over its shiny...
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...