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Barcelona
Fashion designer Djaba Diassamidze opens a new lifestyle store in Barcelona's Dreta de l'Eixample neighbourhood, the multidisciplinary space located on the ground floor of the extravagant Casa Tomàs Roger; a drop-dead gorgeous consortium of goods...
Barcelona
Located within Barcelona's exceedingly slick new design hotel, Sir Victor, steps away from the city's classiest street, Passeig de Gràcia, THE ENTOURAGE GROUP's MR PORTER steakhouse brings a level of dining one may find more akin to ritzy Manhattan...
Barcelona
"The name was chosen because of the contradiction behind its meaning," I'm told as I stand in the hotel's library. "Like Victor, Barcelona is a city of contrasts. The sea and the mountains, the Catalan and Spanish language, Gaudí's architecture and...
Barcelona
It might be located only 20 kilometres south of the Catalan capital, but at times Little Beach House Barcelona can feel a million miles from its famous namesake. Or more like several thousand miles and over half a century. A nostalgic haven...
Dispatches
Ever the progressive music and arts festival, Sónar have announced the programme for this year's edition of their immersive Sonar360º by MEDIAPRO experience. Offering an unparalleled A/V extravaganza, the Sonar360º dome spans 19 metres in...
Journal
Its style has been aped to such an extent since, that the skyscraper located at 375 Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan today looks markedly plain. When it was completed in 1958, though, its less-is-more restraint was radical; a standard-setting...
Journal
“I made a series of decisions that led to an isolated existence almost by accident,” says Cate Le Bon of a year spent in self-imposed isolation, “but it was what I needed to readdress my relationship with music and the world.” “I...
Barcelona
You’re in a dark, seductive basement somewhere in Barcelona’s old city. A dwarf urges you to swallow ‘the blue pearl’. You do. And nothing's quite the same for the next few hours. It’s a swirling, contorting, perplexing trip—the sort...
Barcelona
Barcelona-based interior designers, Miriam Barrio Studio, have recently completed work on a rental apartment in the city's Eixample neighbourhood, a stones throw from Gaudí's iconic Casa Batlló and the brilliant Fundació Antoni Tàpies cultural...
Barcelona
“The difference between technology and slavery,” writes Lebanese–American essayist, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, “is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free.” Debt, social expectations, and the façade of democracy may have...
Barcelona
Aureli Mora and Omar Ornaque of architecture practice AMOO have transformed an old bar in Barcelona's slow-paced Gràcia, transforming an elongated tube-shaped space—typical of buildings in neighbourhood—into a bright and contemporary locale...
Journal
Can a festival continue to grow at an exponential rate? Rocketing from under 8,000 visitors to more than 100,000 in the course of a decade, you might think for Barcelona’s Primavera Sound that the answer is firm no. 18 editions in, though, and...
The Edit
A beautiful country house built in 1855 is the site for several modernist annexes that began at the end of the 1950s. Looking over the sea to Sweden on the coast of North Zeeland, Denmark, it sits amid fancy housing estates 30 kilometres north of...
Stuff Crush
It's almost 20 years since I walked toward the huge glowing orb of Olafur Eliasson's The Weather Project at the Tate Modern. That massive sun in a cavernous industrial setting was a remarkable sight for a young art fan, but more so a turning point...
City Notes
In a picturesque and quintessentially British village of South Petherton in Somerset lives a rather special restaurant. On a pretty high street, Holm is housed in a former bank built in honey-coloured hamstone (a coarse-grained limestone) with...
City Notes
Located in a small Hindu village on Bali's west coast, in an area largely untouched by tourism, LOST LINDENBERG is a new guest collective with eight elevated tower rooms in the middle of the jungle. A hidden retreat surrounded by temples, ruled by...
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