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Journal
Nice. It's not an overly used word these days, is it? Is it that nice isn't cool? We're all for wielding nail studded baseball bats at conformity, and bashing the shit out of convention - but what if you want to take a break from all that...
Mexico City
Beauty salons of any description tend to have a particular look, if it's not clean and clinical, it's Zen-like - all bamboo shoots and rainforest soundtracks. Sure, some push their boundaries a little; but looking like a visit to show caves like Dan...
Vicenza
Founded in Alte Vicenza, Northern Italy, in 1956, Bisazza are big-hitters. Real big-hitters. Bringing in mega-designers like Jaime Hayon, Patricia Urquiola and Fabio Novembre, for collaborations and commissions, the luxury mosaic brand also keep...
Girona
Prepare yourself: everything you thought you knew about ice cream means nothing. Even those ridiculously good Italian gelaterie? Forget 'em - waste of time... for Jordi Roca, the youngest of the three brothers behind El Celler de Can Roca (the...
Journal
As you will already know, our love for Bloomsbury's finest concept store Darkroom is eternal. So when a new product, collaboration or story comes from the dynamic duo Rhonda Drakeford and Lulu Roper-Caldbeck, we're all eyes & ears. Invited to...
New York
Gentrification hey? It'll come and get you, wherever you are - waving its big fat chequebook in your faces, pushing 'subtle' brand collaborations on your favourite dive bars... but, hey, is it really all that bad, or is it just the way the cookie...
Journal
Walking down St John’s Street in the sunshine, while exploring Clerkenwell Design Week, I found a little wooden hut filled with pink post-it notes. It was Architecture for Humanity’s Love Hut, a very simple concept, which asked people to write...
Berlin
Before Hitler and political extremism quashed the party, Weimar culture (a period cited as having had one of the highest levels of intellectualism in history) had brought the good times to Berlin's 'Golden Twenties'. Forward-thinking in science,...
Journal
Provocative and confrontational, Barcelona-based German street artist - turned conceptual agitator - Boris Hoppek, refuses to be drawn on his questionable content. From allegations of sexism to a strong outcry of racism over his Obama Beach Ball...
Panama City
Panama City; the capital of Panama - the southernmost country of Central America, and one of the world's fastest growing Latin American countries - naturally has an ever-changing, and ever higher reaching, skyline. A dense, high-rise skyline that is...
Journal
You may recall our feature a little back, "Louboutin Fever Hits London" we sensationally declared - our inner regional news anchor trickling out. Well, it did, and it's still hitting - like a vintage heavyweight. The Design Museum's 20 year...
Journal
When I saw a whopping great melting Superman stood outside the Singapore Art Museum a few weeks back, I had to find out more. Although I unfortunately didn't have time to get to the museum itself, a little bashing of the internet's cogs and wheels...
City Notes
Salon Volta is a new barbershop in Laval, Quebec, that rethinks the familiar codes of grooming through a concept centred on craft and community. Moving away from the traditional model, the project positions itself as a space where barbering unfolds...
City Notes
Interior design studio and creative consultancy Ste Marie has completed Olia Ristorante and Mimi Bar, a pair of hospitality venues conceived as a day-to-night sequence at the base of new residential tower Citizen on Jasper. Commissioned by Corso 32...
City Notes
On a private estate in central Ukraine, YOD Group has reimagined the traditional mazanka — the archetypal rural home — for the contemporary era. These 50 square metre guesthouses reinterpret the vernacular, translating thick whitewashed walls...
City Notes
Situated at the edge of Montmartre, where Pigalle’s energy meets Parisian rooftops, Hôtel Rochechouart is a 1929 Art Deco landmark given a contemporary pulse. Design duo Festen has restored the building’s historic details while threading a...
Dispatches
Walk into a well-designed hotel bathroom, and something stops you. It is small, sometimes very small, but it feels considered. The tile choice is unexpected. The vanity has a presence. The mirror sits perfectly. You stand there thinking this feels...
Dispatches
Some people discover mixology behind a bar on a busy Friday night. Others come to it through years of hosting dinner parties, obsessing over flavor combinations, or spending too much money on bitters collections they absolutely did not need. However...
Dispatches
There was a time when wedding bar service meant a single bartender, a few bottles of wine, and maybe a keg if the couple was feeling casual. Those days are long gone. Today's couples are rethinking the bar as one of the most meaningful parts of the...
Dispatches
Do you want to give your bathroom a fresh, trendy look with new tile? Tiles in the bathroom do more than just keep water from getting on your walls and floors. They can also give your area a joyful, colourful, tranquil, or futuristic vibe. There are...