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Dispatches
With its minimal aesthetics and unique charm, Casa Plenaire looks like the type of escapist architecture you'd find on Greek Islands such as postcard-perfect Santorini and Mykonos. However, conceived by Child Studio as part of a collaboration...
Lifestyle
As somebody known as 'that girl who never went anywhere without her lipbalm'—friends having bought me everything from good ol' Lypsyl and Vaseline as a teenager to more luxurious designer brands over the years—I was intrigued to sample the...
United States
Located in the heart of Williamsburg, Bathhouse—situated in a renovated 1930s soda factory—offers an array of treatments programmed by top industry professionals in a space that pays homage to bathhouses around the world; whilst blending the...
Montreal
Gather your friends for a makeover and chit-chat at colourful new Montreal beauty refuge, Le Hideout. Located in Griffintown, an area renowned for its creativity and old warehouses, the salon—a modest 650 sq ft and geometric in shape—offers an...
Los Angeles
Los Angeles nail bar Color Camp is a crisply-styled salon where the design aesthetics make as much a statement of candy-coloured as the bold designs applied to your nails. Located in the city's Fairfax District, architect J. Byron-H...
Lifestyle
Simplicity, in itself, is a complex concept. More so, realising simplicity is often a much more difficult task than achieve than something more elaborate, involved. Just ask Apple, whose 'simple' products involve millions of dollars of research and...
Mexico City
When I was a kid, the only royal in a barbershop was the proverbial 'right royal fu ... '. Barbers were butchers with scissors instead of knifes. Then all these hipster barbershops started cropping up, harking back to the golden era with their...
Los Angeles
The impact that Instagram has made on the fashion industry, and the rise of the 'influencer' is no surprise — as mannequins pile up on landfills, those who're flogging the goods continue to seek real-life alternatives, in real-life (well, almost)...
The Edit
Not content with stopping at the vaudeville staging of previous works Popcorn Venus and Guy Bourdin-esque glamour of Reconstituted Meat Slices, Juno Calypso has taken her penchant for creating elaborate sets to the next level with new series The...
London
The Clerkenwell area of London has a proud tradition of creativity since the industrial revolution, when the former residential neighbourhood was transformed as the centre of the capital's printing, jewellery and watchmaking trades. Today, stalwarts...
Publications
Love your football? Tired of reading stories about backseat blow-jobs and hotel romps in red-top newspapers? Want to know more about what a footballer's life is really like, and grab a bit of that lifestyle for yourself? Yeah sure, there are games...
Journal
I don't need to tell the internet that in terms of endearing images, you can't go wrong with a cat. The one at the start of fashion brand D.Efect is a particularly beautiful one, and it takes a moment to realise that what makes it so special is...
Journal
We’ve all been weighed down by promotional materials at some point. Personal or professional, there’s times when leaflets, brochures, USB sticks and cringe-inducing gimmicks have come our way like an avalanche. Death by marketing. Look at...
The Edit
Since January, the gallery space at Fort Makers—a New York-based artist collective and design studio—has been transformed into an ethereal puffy 'forest', complete with soft sculptural pillows hanging from the interiors; the floating composition...
Stuff Crush
A story of human inventiveness, triumph and drama, the images in Alastair Philip Wiper's Unintended Beauty draw the reader's attention to the brilliance of machines big and small; their ability to expand, improve, maim and destroy, and how they...
City Notes
"A micro-complex where a collective of guest rooms, restaurants, bars and social spaces are bound together by 'aimai'; a Japanese word roughly translating to vague or obscure, with entirely positive connotations," is the alluring description for new...
Dispatches
Living in the city is an amazing experience. Being at the centre of all the cultural and entertainment venues really lets you experience the soul of a city. Each city has its own personality and one of the best ways to get to know it is to...
Dispatches
Are you thinking about travelling in a post-pandemic world? This guide will explain everything you need to know and the potential issues that you could face travelling in times of Covid-19. Photo, Camila Perez. Are you eager to get back...
Dispatches
Do you ever feel a bit stagnant? You know you need a change in your life to give you back that spark, but you’re not sure where to find it? For many, moving abroad becomes the ultimate answer. After all, imagine the new lease of life that will...
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We all have our own preferences when it comes to finding solutions and products that will make our lives better. This includes solutions to improve health, lifestyle, and quality of life, among other things. Many people these days turn to CBD...