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London
*Sonos Studio London is permanently closed. It doesn't matter how well-produced an audio recording is, if it's played through crummy speakers in a room with poor acoustics, it's going to sound like shit. That's not a problem at Sonos Studio...
London
It seems that reports of the death of print media have been very much exaggerated. Mainstream glossy magazines may not sell in the numbers that they used to, but there's a thriving market for niche publications of the kind you'll find at Kioskafé...
London
Don't listen to that dickhead Donald Trump, there are some good things happening at the Mexican border. When Thomasina Miers and Mark Selby from Wahaca toured the border states of the US, they found a culinary cross-pollination of ingredients and...
The Edit
The weekend is almost upon us, and London Cocktail Week is in full swing; a double whammy, you might say. With parties, masterclasses and pop-ups gracing the capital until 11 October, the sixth LCW is proving to be the best to date. The...
Publications
Industrial buildings from the Victorian era are some of the hottest properties around nowadays, but back in the 1960s you couldn't give them away. It took courage and imagination to see past the obvious problems at the old Waltham Brothers brewery...
London
Things aren't what they were in King's Cross, and we mean that in the best possible way. The area is a far cry from its 1980s nadir thanks to a major — and still progressing — regeneration project around the King's Cross and St Pancras railway...
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...
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Do vintage and vehicles get you hot under the bonnet? If so, the Classic Car Boot Sale at Lewis Cubitt Square has your name scrawled in hot oil all over it. Over 100 traders will flip open their boots, selling a curated mix of vintage fashion,...
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This weekend Battersea Arts Centre will be swinging open its doors for a art event featuring over 400 works of art from amateur to professional artists the world over. These pieces — celebrating London icon Battersea Power Station and its cultural...
The Edit
We each absorb experiences and sensations from the moment we are born, and our childhood influences naturally play an important — and in some cases defining — role in our adult lives. This would seem to hold especially true for visual artists,...
The Edit
Whether your abilities to ingest Scoville ratings are somewhere around the Bell pepper (0 heat units), the Habanero chilli (100,000–350,000 SHU) or the aptly-named Carolina Reaper (an eye-gushing, mouth-aflaming, stomach-agitating 1,600,000-...
The Edit
“Mine's the white coat with the black seams. No, not that one, to the right...” Luckily for the attendant at this cloakroom at the V&A, the 150 nearly identical coats all belong to Faye Toogood, who lends them out as a sort of access pass to her...
Stuff Crush
Weirdness is a notion long entwined with the concept of creativity. Mocked by the strait-laced confined to their boxes of conformism, celebrated by the bold and the brave who pursue the outré as a means of pushing beyond the banal. In Weird...
City Notes
In Montreal’s Little Italy, a new arrival is making waves with a fresh take on Italian dining. Pasta Pooks, which opened in March 2025, is a compact five-seat takeout counter serving pasta and natural wine in a space that marries Old World charm...
City Notes
A once-forgotten 19th-century residence in Savannah’s historic district has been brought spectacularly back to life, reincarnated as The Douglas; a refined 16-room boutique hotel at 14 East Oglethorpe Avenue, where design meets old-world...
Dispatches
In a country where club floors open with Buddhist chants and Ladyboys offer dawn alms in corsets and stilettos, Elizabeth Waterman has found a world of contradictions too vivid to ignore. Over the past three years, and across four extended trips,...
Dispatches
Moving, renovating, or downsizing in a fast-growing city like Dallas can quickly become overwhelming. Between tight housing transitions, unpredictable weather, and the sheer logistics of packing up a home or office, it’s easy to feel buried under...
Dispatches
Drivers race the yellow light constantly. It's become normal behavior. Someone sees the light turn yellow and accelerates to beat it rather than slowing down. Another driver is already committed to going through. They collide in the middle of the...
Dispatches
Once upon a time, hotels were where we went to escape real life, and homes were where we returned to it. Today, that separation is disappearing. The warmth, comfort, and design sophistication that once defined boutique hotels are now finding their...
Dispatches
Moving is one of those life events that sits somewhere between chaos and reinvention. It’s stressful, yes — but it’s also a rare opportunity to start over. To touch every object you own, question its purpose, and decide what kind of person...