City Notes
With three distinct areas, split over three floors of a corner building near Amsterdam's Vondelpark, Bonnie (formerly Café Bos) is a traditional bistro in the city's densely populated Zuid borough; and a fine looking one at...
Dispatches
Established to promote and recognise the best design work around the world and across a variety of creative disciplines, the A’ Design Award & Competition focuses on innovation, celebrating the designers, companies and brands who create superior...
City Notes
Beginning life as a drive-through cafe, Coffee Machine—a young brand of coffee houses that now boast two physical outlets—is quenching the thirst of Vladivostok's caffeine fanatics at the memorable Coffee Machine Bakery; the brand's flagship...
City Notes
So the saying goes: one man's rubbish is another's devastating design detail. Or something like that. In Antwerp—our favourite European city of style—Dutch designers, Marten van Middelkoop and Joost Dingemans, have applied their inspired...
City Notes
Designed for cities, VanMoof bikes are made with lengthy commutes in mind. And boasting some suitably advanced integrated theft defence systems, Vanmoofs are an urbanite's very best two-wheeled friends. Traditionally sold online, the...
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Located among the dunes of North Holland's Castricum beach, Beach Hotel Zoomers is a stunning creative collaboration between Dutch interior brand HKliving and the property; the design-led concept born this year to offer guests a slow pace of life...
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71 days. 71 days of looking out of the balcony at empty streets below. 71 days of snatched, rushed trips to the supermarket, avoiding people as much as possible. 71 days of 8pm applauses and home workouts. 71 days of endless Mondays, the same four...
The Edit
The Hoxton heads into the wilderness, pitching 12 tents in the grounds of a luxurious 18th-century country house in leafy Oxfordshire; the immersive pop-up experience from everyone's favourite hip hotel brand set to remain in place for the month of...
The Edit
New York-based artist, Tina Yu, enters a fantasy world inspired by her childhood in her latest series; her enigmatic clay sculptures formed into ornate and fanciful creatures that are eerily lifelike. Currently on view at Downtown Los...
City Notes
Located behind the the Apple Store at number 10, Rue des Drapiers, Brussels, BUDDY BUDDY is a passion project from Julien Gaucherot and Matt Samra, and is Belgium’s first nut butter café; the idea born from the partners' personal transition from...
Stuff Crush
Shunning the 'tourist board' view of Palm Springs—of pastel hues, beautiful people sipping cocktails on floaties in the pool, desert art installations and midcentury modern—photographer John Brian King has centred his focus upon “the...
City Notes
As Bali’s first 'creative village', Desa Potato Head merges music, art, design, food, wellness and sustainability; founder Ronald Akili commenting "we’re not trying to change the industry, we want to create an entirely new model for it. If we...
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Bringing understated Scandinavian elegance to the edge of Warsaw’s historic Old Town, PURO Warszawa Stare Miasto is the latest addition to the design-led hotel group’s growing Polish portfolio, and possibly their most considered space...
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In Milan’s ever-evolving Isola district, MOGO has arrived on the scene, offering a destination where music, mixology, and modern Japanese cuisine come together in a high-design setting that will have aesthetics addicts frothing at the mouth. A...
City Notes
Opening its doors in February 2025, Ned’s Club Washington, DC marks the second collaboration between Soho House’s luxury brand and the design and architecture experts at Stonehill Taylor. Set across the 9th to 12th floors of two historic...
City Notes
After a century spent as apartment residences, and following a meticulous two-year transformation, Hotel Granada reopened its Spanish Colonial archways to guests in August 2024. Located at 1302 West Peachtree Street NW, this 120-room property now...
Dispatches
The first impression of your home isn't simply a matter of architectural design or interior decor. Curb appeal, the undeniable charm and allure of a property as viewed from the street, has an inexplicably powerful influence on property value....
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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,...
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Hard water. It's one of those household nuisances everyone talks about, but what exactly is it, and why is it such a big deal? Essentially, hard water is water that contains high levels of dissolved minerals, primarily calcium and magnesium. These...
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For those designing the future, few accolades carry the weight of the A’ Design Award & Competition. With the submission period for the 2025—2026 edition well under way, this international juried competition calls on designers, innovators and...