Its an old cliché, but the idea that dog owners unwittingly resemble their pets is largely down to confirmation bias - you only clock the matches made in heaven and discard the rest. Likewise, theres...
As our June issue makes clear (see Band Aid, page 102), the market for digital monitors and motivational aids is booming with the big boys, Nike and Adidas, going head to head with chipped-up clips, ...
As top-end still cameras add more and more multi-media functionality, Leica has launched a camera that does a lot less. The promise of course being that what it does do, it does very well. The Leica ...
Its absolutely not a white cube, says Belgian architect Paul Robbrecht about the new pavilion his Ghent-based practice Robbrecht and Daem (also responsible for the renovation and extension of Londons...
The English seaside town of Margate has had a strong impact on artist Tracey Emins output, inspiring everything from her intense neon pieces to the embroidered statements emblazoned on appliquéd blan...
The winter of 1954 was a particularly harsh one in France. Homeless people were dying in the streets. Abbé Pierre, France’s equivalent of Mother Teresa, made an appeal for donations to build em...
Weve been closely following Brazilian gallerist Eduardo Lemes projects for years, so we have naturally been keen to reveal Lemes freshly-relocated gallery space in Sao Paulo, designed by emerging Bra...
Art HK 12, the fifth edition of the East’s most prominent art event, lured 266 galleries from 38 countries to the Hong Kong Exhibition Centre. Showcasing works from 3,500 artists worldwide, the...
Falling just a month after the Salone del Mobile, New York City’s International Contemporary Furniture Fair is often victim to a few repeat performances from international players on the design...
Following on from the recent success of its first pop-up project in Mexico, Design Hotels has once again come up trumps, this time with a Mediterranean beach sojourn on the Greek island of Mykonos. N...
There is no doubt that London’s Clerkenwell Design Week has begun to establish itself on the design circuit despite its relative infancy. Now in its third year, the three-day festival is offeri...
Yabu Pushelbergs newly unveiled show apartment in Swire Properties Opus Hong Kong - designed by Frank Gehry - introduces a touch of high glamour in a city where most super-luxury homes are conformist...
Just a few months ago, we were singing the praises of Porsches 911 Carrera GTS, one of the finest examples of the 997-series version of this evergreen classic. Late last year the 997 Series gave way ...
Within the realm of contemporary sculpture, Richard Wilson’s technically wondrous creations force us to rethink our ideas of space, perspective, material and structure. Which is why Heathrow Ai...
Earlier this month, Brooklyn-based architecture practice SO-IL was heaped with praise for a temporary tent erected for New Yorks first Frieze Art Fair. The 23,000sq m structure, punctuated with pie-s...
Chances are that most people will have read Charles Dickenss novel Great Expectations as a humble paperback, the typesetting and layout of the pages remaining invisible to almost everyone bar dedicat...
That Dior’s new book pays homage to the wonders of fine jewellery is, in itself, a delight. That it focuses specifically on the work of its head jewellery and watch designer Victoire de Castell...
Travellers heading from London to New York can now experience the transatlantic trip in sublime comfort aboard Miss Sunshine (as Virgin Atlantic’s new A330 aircraft has been dubbed) in the much...
This year is set to be a good one for Tel Aviv. Not only has it seen the renovation and construction of three major cultural institutions in the city (The Tel Aviv Cinematheque, Habima National Theat...
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While the arrival of a retiring space shuttle to New York City was heralded with great fanfare, artist Tom Sachs was busy putting the finishing touches on his own version of a four-week mission to Ma...
British design store Habitat has just opened a new laboratory of ideas above its branch on Londons Kings Road. Titled Platform, the gallery will be a springboard for creative innovation and thinking,...
Richard Avedon’s talent – aside from crisp, high-definition portraits that prefigured the high-res age – was his gift for drawing spectators deep into a personality. It is nearly im...
After almost two years of intense building work, The Photographers Gallery is ready to celebrate its newly renovated and extended HQ at the crossroads of Soho and Oxford Street in London. The existin...
When star chef Ferran Adria announced he was to close the doors of Catalonian restaurant elBulli - famed for its its radically inventive fare and impossible-to-get tables - in 2010, he prompted a wav...
Fiona Rae remembers acquiring a PowerBook in 1999 at about the same time that she met her husband and fellow artist Dan Perfect. Something of a tech boff, Perfect introduced Rae to the joys of Photos...
As Hong Kong presents ART HK 12, its fifth international art fair - now under the Art Basel franchise and expected to draw even more visitors than the 63,500 last year - it is also celebrating its tr...
David Gill is a man who requires little introduction. A firm fixture on the contemporary design scene, the distinguished Spaniard can be credited with spearheading the shifting perception that design...
You know your way around contemporary art. You can walk into a gallery and talk that art theory discourse with the best of them. You attend auctions and know a good price for a small Peter Doig canoe...
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