City Notes
You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs, so they say. Following the success of the first Hatched restaurant in Singapore, designers outofstock were called in again to weave some more of their magic at a new sister venue on Holland...
City Notes
A taxidermy polar bear in Biggles-esque flying goggles anybody? Those watching Grayson Perry's recent Channel 4 three-parter, All in the Best Possible Taste, with a keen eye will recognise this home of former rave promoter James Perkins. From...
City Notes
With its colonial history, Singapore has always been a melting pot of styles and influences, so it's no surprise then to find a new Spanish tapas bar opening – in Chinatown. Speaking of empires, the driving force behind Equinas is hotelier and...
City Notes
There's something stressful inherent in the phrase 24/7, a feeling of rushing, of sleep-deprivation, a sense of the last resort. None of which you'll be experiencing at Duck and Waffle as you watch the sun rise or set over the city of London and...
City Notes
This isn't a hotel in a trenchcoat that leans nonchalantly against a lamppost smoking a Gauloises, indifferently attractive through understated magnetism, but rather one that kicks its legs up in the air to bawdy music, brazenly baring its frilly...
Stuff Crush
Bunny Yeager, despite the somewhat passive name, was a formidable force of the 20th Century, redefining the relationships between art and pornography, photographer and model, and women and pin-ups. Starting her love affair with the camera as a...
City Notes
As every student of Croatian history worth their salt will know, the old town of Split sits within the walls of 4th Century Roman emperor Diocletian's reign. But don't worry if you were smoking behind the bike sheds when that lesson was going on,...
City Notes
If it's true good things come in threes, then here at Caffe Streets in Chicago those things are the wooden ceiling, the overhead counter lighting and the backlit barista bar metal perforated panelling. Norsman architects went to town with marbled...
City Notes
As Swire Hotels prepare to open their latest design-led, art-filled spectacle - EAST, Beijing - we've partnered with them, and the chain's very own culture and design blog You'd Be Much Better Here, to celebrate their portfolio of jaw-dropping Far...
City Notes
According to the owners of Broadcast HQ, there are only three things you need in life: meat, mead and music. Well, we can think of a couple of others but since Singapore has extremely harsh criminal penalties and this is a firmly law-abiding (ahem)...
City Notes
Eeeeh, hostels weren't like this in my day. Pestilent flea pits, most of them. Mind you, I was at the £3-a-night end of the market, and beggars can't be choosers. Still, times are changing, and thankfully for those travellers with light wallets...
Journal
The developers of The Movement Café, Greenwich, were so keen to have it finished before the Olympics began that they managed to get the whole building up in 16 days. The Cathedral Group's self-imposed deadline was an effort to spare visiting fans...
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...