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Interiors
Japanese bathroom and kitchen brand LIXIL introduced their A New Desire concept in Milan last week. Designed by Kenya Hara, the 'foam bathing' experience aims to blur the distinction between your home's dry and wet areas - challenge your perceptions...
Journal
Dutch designer Tessa Koot showed off this fabulously whimsical family of furniture at Via Tortona's Tuttobene last week - as part of Salone del Mobile 2012. This is not design made for comfort or practicality - this is design teetering on the very...
Journal
Situated in a decrepit old shopping arcade, Granada's Afterbang - designed by Serrano + Baquero, the architectural duo of Paloma Baquero Masats and Juan Antonio Serrano García - may not enjoy the most exceptional of surroundings. Shutters, taped up...
Journal
When I started writing this column over six months ago, I promised to bring you design that make you feel like you’d momentarily lost the need to breathe. That’s exactly how I felt when I spotted the Wharton High Desk by Geoffrey Keating at the...
New York
Reach for your canes and iron your morning coats, thanks to The NoMad Hotel - Manhattan just got a whole load of European neoclassical glamour. Forget what we said yesterday about less is more - it's all a load of rubbish, we've always said that. Is...
Dublin
Less is more; the notion that simplicity and clarity lead to good design - it's a concept that us with a keen interest in design will probably never hear the end of, no matter how sick we get of hearing it. It's true, that's for sure - but more can...
Interiors
The old adage that “less is more” will never go away; and why should it, when designers keep proving it true? Primary Clock – a wooden, screen printed number by David Weatherhead & GOODD for Thorsten van Elten – has simplicity and...
Stockholm
Given a brief to design something "that people either love or hate, and that nobody is indifferent to" - as Stockholm's Note Design Studio were by Café Foam owner Michael Toutoungi - I may personally have delivered something a bit more obstinately...
Journal
Awkwardly jarring with the dingy looking side street it inhabits, Hong Kong concept store Konzepp is an inexorably showy little affair. Its asymmetrical façade is like the result of a pixel explosion, garishly yellow, unwieldy but elegant - it's...
Interiors
Mesmerisingly beautiful and convention-defyingly uncompromising in equal measures, Lindsey Adelman's brain-warping chandeliers may look more like Photoshopped artworks than intrinsically crafted explosions of hand-blown glass, but that's just what...
London
Mele e Pere is Italian for the Cockney rhyming slang of stairs. Which explains this new Soho trattoria's rather delightful window display; hundreds of individually designed Murano glass apples and pears. It looks more like an interiors boutique than...
Journal
Ready the white coat. Don the goggles. Drink heaps. Baccarat’s UK launch – last month, at the Connaught Bar - of its new glassware collection, Chateau Baccarat, required of its guests a special sort of predisposition: one that appreciates the...
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
Most families don’t begin with a grand financial plan. It’s usually smaller than that. A random conversation on the couch. Someone asking, “Hey, are we actually saving enough?” And then… silence for a second. Because no one really knows...
Dispatches
Scheduling problems rarely show up all at once. It starts with one double-booking. One technician running late. One patient showing up for the wrong time slot. Somebody shrugs, fixes it, moves on. No big scene. At least not yet. Then it keeps...
Dispatches
Ten kilometres west of Dubrovnik’s Old Town, on the south-facing flank of Koločep Island, there is a sea cave that briefly — and only briefly — turns the colour of liquid sapphire. The effect is physics, not folklore. For about three hours...
Dispatches
Hospitals and medical staff are held accountable for anesthesia errors through medical malpractice laws, internal reviews, and professional standards. When a mistake happens, the key question is whether the provider failed to meet the accepted...