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Amsterdam
Welcome to Amsterdam's one-stop-shop for all your interior decorating needs, and not a Swedish meatball to be seen. Mariska Meijers' flagship store in the 9 Streets district is a far more boutique affair than the usual out-of-town warehouse style...
Journal
With one eye firmly on heritage and a tradition of quality and timeless style, and another on the exacting needs of the modern man, café owners turned design entrepreneurs Peter Teo and Richard Chamberlain have carved a very classic looking niche...
The Edit
Viviane Sassen is a photographer with two faces; both fashion and portraiture come under her gaze, but throughout both her commissioned and autonomous work one can see a wilful desire to subvert traditional style and deliver images that shatter...
Amsterdam
Here's a place to warm the cockles of your heart on a cold November morning – Restaurant De Kas, Amsterdam, a re-purposed greenhouse that takes the concept of locally-sourced ingredients to another level. Originally part of the city's municipal...
Amsterdam
There's nothing hipper right now than chucking some vintage chairs and tables, a kitchen and some staff into an untouched former warehouse - and it would seem that nobody, nobody, is doing it better than those terribly hip Dutch folk. Amsterdam's...
Amsterdam
They say men and women are two different species, and at this second shop from denim vendor Tenue de Nîmes, the designers have approached the task at hand with that very tenet in mind. The team - architect Pim van Lingen, interiors man Jacob...
Amsterdam
Run for the hills, they've landed! Oh no wait, it's not the mothership from a B-movie incoming extra-terrestrial invasion, but the new extension to the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. It is certainly alien, however. Berthed incongruously next to its...
Amsterdam
Remember in the past, when the world was in black and white, and a bit grey? So do i29, the design team behind this installation at a pop-up shop in Amsterdam taking retro to new lengths. As Good As New furniture shop is the result of a...
Amsterdam
Spanish eatery Mercat is the ninth restaurant in IQ Creative's expanding and internationally-flavoured Amsterdam portfolio, and is the sister venue of equally lovely Mazzo (Italian) and Witteveen (French)… adding Iberian flavours to the European...
Amsterdam
It may call itself a guesthouse, but Maison Rika is unlikely to be making it onto the pages of Lonely Planet; in fact unless your backpack is made by Luis Vuitton I would look elsewhere, as rooms go for just shy of €200 a night without...
Amsterdam
There's some pretty nice restaurants about these days, super-modern and stylishly fitted out, but let's be honest, most of us couldn't live with that style 24/7 - it's quite nice to get home to something more... well, homely. Diners in Amsterdam...
Amsterdam
For me going to the barber is on a par with going to the dentist. Strange people messing with your head. That's why I cut my own hair, and not because I'm a scrooge like some people would have you believe. This next place is an old-fashioned take on...
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...