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London
Alt-souvenir pioneers We Built This City have been going from strength to strength since the runaway success of their first pop-up store on tourist-heavy Carnaby Street in 2014. In a bid to 'revolutionise London souvenirs', by replacing...
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JUSTKIDS (the street art platform behind, among plenty of other projects, Las Vegas's Life is Beautiful) and does-what-it-says-on-the-tin website StreetArtNews have joined forces for an ongoing painting week and exhibition in Berlin. Askew...
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There's something about the freedom of youth that inspires great creativity. Bands rarely recreate the exuberance of their first record, artists are seldom as visceral as the moment they break through. Sure, designers frequently go on to greater...
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Saudade: a Portuguese word drenched in melancholy. The 17th century writer Francisco Manuel de Mello coins it as 'a pleasure you suffer, an ailment you enjoy', it describes the empty feeling of something or someone lost, but also the contentedness...
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Mo'Wax and UNKLE man James Lavelle debuted his Daydreaming with… concept in London six years ago, realising it on a gargantuan scale Hong Kong two years later; a 20,000 sq ft museum-like experience featuring artists like Li Wei, Futura, Kai and...
Journal
‘Walter sat with my camera, in the backseat of a beautiful sea foam-green Oldsmobile he had procured for us, while I was in the front kissing a stranger. We cruised through Havana in search of the ominously shady and remote locations.’ Sounds...
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Everyone imagined the alien invasion would look like Independence Day, or Close Encounters of the Third Kind, but when it really came, it was much more subtle. You didn't realise they'd taken over until it was too late. The emojis are among us, and...
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What if the Druids has been boshing mind-bending chemicals instead of practicing witchcraft and dabbling in ancient soothsaying? What if fat Elvis was doing a residency at Stonehenge — or if summer solstice came with a side order of...
Rio de Janeiro
Sometimes the stars just align, when all falls into place; right place, right time. Then there's times when it looks like the stars have merely aligned in a stroke of magnificent fortune but, truth is, someone somewhere has put in an awful lot of...
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It's a decade between Sabine Weiss buying her first camera and moving to Paris to become assistant to reputed German fashion photographer Willy Maywald yet, unbelievably, the Swiss was still just 22. It is 1952 when photojournalism pioneer Robert...
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'Some of the dancers make up to $5,000 a night,' begins Ivar Wigan, 'they have the clothes, the cars, and date the hot names in rap. These girls are respected and envied in their communities. For me, making the series was about being part of it, and...
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Turin is famous for many things, two which stick in the mind, though? Juventus, and being shrouded by the Alps. Neither exude colour and joy; history and beauty, sure, but in Juve's famed black and white, and the Alps's moody weather patterns,...
City Notes
'The concept is simple,' say the team behind Japanese multi-venue arts-hospitality venture BnA Project, 'we create art hotel rooms with artists, the artists receive a percentage of the booking fee every time their room is booked. Room design, from...
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Emily Forgot is the appropriately mysterious alias of Emily Alston, a London-based artist who has worked in the creative industry over the last decade; amassing a diverse range of international clients, and gaining plaudits from big-hitters like...
City Notes
Taking its name from Nelson Algren’s 1956 novel A Walk on the Wild Side, and inspiration from iconic mid-century diners and bars, Dove’s Luncheonette provides diners with a dollop of nostalgia in Chicago’s enduringly cool Wicker Park 'hood;...
City Notes
An 1880s-era hotel has been transformed into a contemporary boutique destination in the remote but mythical West Texas town of Marfa, which is riding high on its curious but significant art scene; from Donald Judd moving here from New York in 1973...
Dispatches
What with Weedles and Squirtles and Pinsirs and co., strange creatures have become a regular part of many people's day to day lives in recent months — for one Instagrammer, though, imaginary beasts have been coming into view a little longer; Ben...
Dispatches
The London EDITION is well known for lasting comfort and extraordinary style — two elements that, thanks to a collaboration with nearby independent bicycle company tokyobike, will be taken outside the walls of Ian Schrager's decadent bolthole and...
Dispatches
The outstanding architectural legacy left by Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, better known as Le Corbusier, is undoubtedly one of the 20th century's most significant. Pioneering Urbanism, inadvertently triggering the Brutalist movement, conceiving...
Dispatches
This is an advertorial for Safestore Clean and crisp, clutter kept to the bare minimum, Scandi-cool. You know the script: minimalism rules. Right? Wrong. Maximalism has been making a quiet comeback of late — extravagant Parisian hotels that...
