Break 2012 Lacquered wood, cast silicone 30” x 69” x 15” (H x W x D) Edition of 8 Photo courtesy of Volume Gallery Having followed their work, since featuring their pop-up collaboration with fashion ...
Nice. It’s not an overly used word these days, is it? Is it that nice isn’t cool? We’re all for wielding nail studded baseball bats at conformity, and bashing the shit out of conven...
The sun came out for last week’s Clerkenwell Design Week, as the three-day event continued to grow in scale. There was an impressive array of international wares on display – and here we ...
Kon Trubkovich, Out of the black and into the white, 2012, Oil on linen, 72 x 60 inches When is scratchy, jumpy VHS gonna be treated to the same kind of revivalist worship that analogue camera film i...
Beauty salons of any description tend to have a particular look, if it’s not clean and clinical, it’s Zen-like – all bamboo shoots and rainforest soundtracks. Sure, some push their ...
Zaha Hadid’s alien-like beauty laid its hat in Paris, we sampled one of the world’s finest whiskies in Iceland, and introduced you to some typically stylish design. Here’s our highl...
Jaime Hayon, Jet Set, 2008. Photo Ottavio Tomasini Founded in Alte Vicenza, Northern Italy, in 1956, Bisazza are big-hitters. Real big-hitters. Bringing in mega-designers like Jaime Hayon, Patricia U...
Prepare yourself: everything you thought you knew about ice cream means nothing. Even those ridiculously good Italian gelaterie? Forget ‘em – waste of time… for Jordi Roca, the youn...
As you will already know, our love for Bloomsbury’s finest concept store Darkroom is eternal. So when a new product, collaboration or story comes from the dynamic duo Rhonda Drakeford and Lulu ...
Prosecco fountains, retro-gaming classic albums, 20,000 wooden hexagons and the lowdown on what your favourite designers eat for tea. Here’s our sun-soaked farewell to the week – enjoy...
Gentrification hey? It’ll come and get you, wherever you are – waving its big fat chequebook in your faces, pushing ‘subtle’ brand collaborations on your favourite dive bars...
Walking down St John’s Street in the sunshine, while exploring Clerkenwell Design Week, I found a little wooden hut filled with pink post-it notes. It was Architecture for Humanity’s Love Hut, a very...
Anonym, UHT, Pocket Radio, Design, 2001, © Schweizer Milchproduzenten SMP For such a wee place, just eight million inhabitants in a landlocked country that’s dwarfed by many other European nati...
One of the country’s most important graduate shows, half-man/half-woman cabaret acts, maps, foodies and live-scored cinema… It’s another week in our creatively-minded what’s o...
Photo © Stefan Korte Before Hitler and political extremism quashed the party, Weimar culture (a period cited as having had one of the highest levels of intellectualism in history) had brought the goo...
Boris Hoppek + ATOPOS CVC, FULL OF LOVE, 2012 Provocative and confrontational, Barcelona-based German street artist – turned conceptual agitator – Boris Hoppek, refuses to be drawn on his...
Panama City; the capital of Panama – the southernmost country of Central America, and one of the world’s fastest growing Latin American countries – naturally has an ever-changing, a...
You may recall our feature a little back, “Louboutin Fever Hits London” we sensationally declared – our inner regional news anchor trickling out. Well, it did, and it’s still ...
“NO ONE CAN SAVE US” Mojoko + Eric Foenander When I saw a whopping great melting Superman stood outside the Singapore Art Museum a few weeks back, I had to find out more. Although I unfortunately did...
Memories of science class and growing pains, arguments in the kitchen, eye-popping geometric furniture and summer festival vibes. It’s another week in stuff we crush… 01 CUBE 7 BBW, by Sh...
A Day in the Life has always been one of my favourite Beatles songs, as a kid I often wondered what the “4,000 holes in Blackburn, Lancashire” may look like – I knew they were rathe...
Whilst many of the world’s post-war urban utopia experiments have failed miserably – take the 1960s Naples suburb of Scampìa, famed for its gloomy role in Gomorrah, as example – Lon...
We had the immense fortune to be invited to see Anthony Minghella’s award-winning production of Puccini’s Madam Butterfly. Having absolutely no knowledge of opera, with the slight fear of...
We had lots of design hotels this time last year, even a hostel that thought it was a design hotel. We also had Bombay’s Chowpatty beach popping-up in London, and interviews with some of the UK’...
We’re excited to have teamed up with Samsung to introduce you to their new WiFi enabled WB850F 16.2 MP Smart Camera, and to present a series of images that we’ve taken using the camera ov...
In a world full of insipid, paint-by-numbers collaborations, where celebrity flatulence is bottled and branded without even so much as a bum cheek raised; it’s always a welcome relief to see a ...
I love Jesus Small table Marble powder, resin, wood, woodwork Provocative with a wry smile, Milan-based artist/designer Andrea Maestri has created a debut collection with an intention to rock the boa...
Spirit of Ecstasy, anyone? Direct injection V12 engine? 8-speed automatic gearbox plus rear differential? Harmon Kardon sound system? 360° camera aid? Fully standardised LED headlamps? Aluminium spac...
Wouldn’t it be nice, to live in a world where conformity was a prisonable offence? Where convention had been replaced by chaos with a smile, playing by the rules was treated with heavy medicati...
A local’s guide to Amsterdam, Apple fanboys’ ultimate fantasy, raves, architecture, art-cum-architecture gone wrong, and satanic 1890s nightclubs? Here’s what else we loved this wee...
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