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Art & Culture
Collaborating with over 6,000 artists from around the world, Displate is a community for art lovers to browse and buy unique posters printed on thick high quality metal that can be fixed to your wall in some 20 seconds thanks to clever magnetic...
Dispatches
Flick through the Instagram feeds of fashion editors, travel influencers, us average Joes … and—amid the selfies, wanderlust, and latest food fads—you’ll be sure to find snippets of mid-century modern design. Having been pretty much on-trend...
Journal
As avid fans of collaborative creativity, we’d heard great things about Paris-based brand Petite Friture; as an éditeur de design their simple motto is to ‘make good things happen’—be that in the form of furniture, product and interior...
Art & Culture
What do Scorsese and Schrader's Taxi Driver; Hitchcock's Psycho; Reservoir Dogs; Trainspotting; or the darkly dystopian A Clockwork Orange have in common? Cult classics aside, each join a host of other iconic movies on Inside Information: Director's...
Dispatches
Society’s obsession for photographing every moment, everything, and everybody is showing no signs of slowing down. We continuously create snapshot moments only for them to exist on our smartphones; our own memory slowing sinking into the...
Interiors
Mexican-born designer Moisés Hernández uses the objects and traditions, textures and social contrasts that are found in his homeland as inspiration for his work — although the chaos of hometown Mexico City may be the last thing that'd come to...
Technology
Fed up of unwanted neighbourhood cats tormenting his beloved pet in his own home, Dr Nick Hill made it his mission to find a solution. Three years of R&D passed, and in 2008 SureFlap was born. Revolutionising the pet door industry, the...
Interiors
Since Piero Gatti, Cesare Paolini and Franco Teodoro designed the first in 1969, 'beanbags' have come a long way. Typically made from leather, suede, corduroy and polyester, and coming in a variety of sizes and shapes stuffed with styrofoam beans,...
Interiors
Irina Razumovskaya’s backstory is somewhat impressive. Frequenting the Hermitage Museum from the age of five (to date), the prodigious Russian would begin evening art classes at the Kustodiev Art School aged just seven. Already...
New York
With 762 rental apartments throughout a whopping 69-storey tower, Jersey City Urby offers compact apartments, communal facilities and sub-premium rates; all wrapped up in an impressive feat of design. The second building for the Urby brand —...
Interiors
Founded in 1987 by Nani Marquina, whose singular desire was to 'design rugs that were visually surprising for people to enjoy', nanimarquina is now based in Barcelona and New York, and has collaborated with a wealth of national and international...
Dispatches
The bed. There are few pieces of product design so ubiquitous, no necessary to our very being, yet the space for our slumber remains a stranger to many a designer's portfolio. Perhaps it's the prohibitive necessities — there's precious little...
City Notes
As has been the case with Wynwood and the Miami Design District, many of the long-abandoned spaces dotted throughout Miami's urban core have seen regeneration at the hands of savvy developers who have one eye on the strong cultural reputation the...
City Notes
Chotto Matte is drenched in the drama of Miami Beach from the moment you meet a mammoth pivoting door that punctuates a stark white façade. It only gets more impressive. A retractable ceiling sees Herzog & de Meuron's iconic 1111 Lincoln Rd car...
City Notes
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...
City Notes
Eduard Eremchuk has seen off typical associations with florists and floristry with a minimalist flower shop in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don. Moving away from a familiar abundance of flowers and natural tones, the architect instead concentrates...
Dispatches
Opening this December at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), Escher X nendo - Between Two Worlds is an exhibition that presents Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher's iconic works—visual puzzles akin to optical illusions—seamlessly to life...
Dispatches
Paying homage to the Irani cafés that once upon a time were the fabric of life in Bombay, Dishoom has been serving Bombay comfort food such as House Black Daal, Pau Bhaji, and the Bacon Naan Roll since 2010—when the first restaurant opened in...
Dispatches
We've received the first 'actual' image of Ian Schrager's The Shanghai EDITION, which is set to launch this October. Located in a 1929 art deco building on Nanjing Road—the former headquarters of Shanghai Power Company—the hotel will feature 145...
Dispatches
In a bid to disrupt the professional delivery services industry, French automobile manufacturer Renault have just premiered the Renault EZ-PRO—an autonomous, electric, connected, and shared robo-pod concept—at the Hannover Motor Show. A shared...