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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...
Interiors
An ardent enthusiast of all things ‘pattern and print’, graphic designer Marc Hendrick has selected four new creatives for his creative project Slowdown Studio — from designers to illustrators; artists and painters — to collaborate on its...
Venice
Casa Flora is a design-den for discerning travellers to slip away from the hustle and bustle of Venice’s winding streets and live like a local in an Italian-design apartment that offers the comforts of a top-class hotel with the freedom of a...
The Edit
Leonardo DiCaprio is many things to many people. Rising to fame in the early 1990s, revered and reviled for his boyish good looks, the actor who was born in Tinseltown was destined to become a star. He did. A huge one. Quite the Lothario too,...
Journal
25—28 October 2016: the international and local design crowd descend upon Dubai to attend Dubai Design Week 2016; marking just its second outing. Held under the patronage of Her Highness Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum — in...
Interiors
With clients like New York Times and Nike in their little black book, Stockholm-based graphic design and art direction studio Museum Studio recently conceived Solid; a contrary object made in collaboration with furniture designer Kristoffer...
Interiors
Case Studyo and Jean Jullien have launched their latest collaboration; a set of six Face Plates, each evoking the singular style of the regarded French illustrator. Limited to just 250 sets, the plates are hand-crafted and moulded in...
Interiors
Take out the commercialism, and the festive season — that is right upon us — is a time for togetherness and goodwill; it's a time for family and friendship. It's easy to forgot those who have nothing, but what better time to spare a thought for...
Dispatches
Since its 1904 conception by Danish silversmith Georg Jensen, the eponymous Danish design company has grown synonymous with Scandinavian-designed collections, exceptional craftsmanship, and innovative collaborations. 112 years older, and...
Dispatches
At a time where taking photos is almost an obsession — the compulsiveness of snapping selfies and making memories; trawling social media and stealing poses from the next new celeb who's famous for being the next new celeb — we can’t get...
City Notes
Located in a former residential development with ties to designer Philippe Starck, Generator Copenhagen combines style, energy and affordable hospitality in the heart of the city; the famous Nyhavn waterfront is just steps away. The six-storey...
City Notes
Villa Terminus offers 18 design-led guest rooms on Norway’s dramatic western coast. Perhaps Bergen’s most sophisticated boutique hotel, it’s also local hotel group De Bergenske’s smallest. Not that size matters here. Capturing the...
The Edit
Western governments and their complicit mainstream media have successfully desensitised many to the lives of those who inhabit 'that part of the world'. Cities like Baghdad and Tripoli are bywords for darker concepts, and the realities are...
City Notes
In a city best known for futuristic skylines and slightly anonymous luxurious five-star hotels (Lost in Translation anyone?), it would be fair to say that Tokyo's BnA hotel does things a little differently. For starters: it's tiny, with only two...
Dispatches
'I don't know. They grow, they bloom, they fade.' Says Antwerp-based florist Mark Colle of his floral friends. 'You can't hold on to them forever . Fashion is like that too in a way—it comes and it goes. They are symbolic for richness, romance....
Dispatches
Not-for-profit organisation St+art India created their first open air public art district in India during December 2014, uniting local and international artists who together brought the empty walls and winding streets of the city and suburbs alive...
Dispatches
Craig Redman and Karl Maier, the New York- and London-based creative giants who collaborate under their Craig & Karl moniker, know a thing or two about unabashed technicolour splendour; the duo's ocular assaults rioting from the pages of fashion...
Dispatches
‘Epic, but modest at the same time … do you know what I mean?’ Naturally, the answer is no, but he’s your boss and the client is due any minute. Welcome to the world of the Hovering Art Director. In a video that forms part of a new global...