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Novocastrian’s Uncompromisingly Northern Furniture
With their debut collection at the London Design Festival’s designjunction and Newcastle’s Northern Design Festival, and an award for Best New Designer under their belts already, Newcastle-based design...
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Brilliant Things To Do in February
The Best of FilmThere are lots of great film offerings with which to fill your February. First up, Youth, the exceptional new drama from The Great Beauty’s Paolo Sorrentino. It follows a mesmerising...
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Maison Margiela Artisanal: A Potted History
Since the late 1980s and the early days of Maison Margiela, the reinvention of found garments, deconstructed then reconstructed, has been at the heart of an aesthetic that is among the most influential...
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Advocating Minimalism: The Style Legacy of Shirin Guild
Shirin Guild established her namesake label in London during a period when cross-cultural style was the dernier cri in international fashion. During the early Nineties, designers as disparate as Dries...
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Ten New Films You Won't Want to Miss at the Berlinale 2016
Can it be a whole year since debates erupted over whether Terrence Malick’s Knight of Cups is high-art epiphany or pompous tosh, and what to make of Sam Taylor-Johnson’s take on Fifty Shades of Grey?...
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Fashion's Most Famous Figures, Captured by Jonathan Becker
Jonathan Becker’s trajectory is incomparable with that of any other fashion photographer of our time. The native New Yorker apprenticed under Brassaï in Paris in the 1970s, snapping party photographs...
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Somewhere I Would Like to Live
The Hunt HouseIn the southern part of Long Island sits this revolutionary beach house, built in 1958 by architect Andrew Geller. The geometric shape of his residences, quite unusual for the period and...
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Saskia de Brauw on her Eclectic Collection of Found Objects
“Look up!” poets, writers, artists and designers have insisted repeatedly over the ages, championing soft-focus skies, architectural flourishes and the stirring of seasons over all that could be found...
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Janina Pedan: Setting the Stage for Fashion's New Guard
When Grace Wales Bonner opened her A/W16 show, it was with a young man perched atop a stool delicately playing a kora. The stool sat upon a miniature wooden stage, to which each of the models bowed...
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Elizabeth Peyton on Flaubert, Parallel Universes and Kale
Elizabeth Peyton rarely depicts the subjects of her portraits in the midst of an activity. Instead, the American artist’s washy, signature application of oil paint, pencil and watercolours tends to...
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Inside an Amazonian Eden
Where on Earth?Yasuní National Park, EcuadorGPS Coordinates: 1°5′S 75°55′WDeep on the far Eastern fringes of Ecuador, where the Andes and the Amazon meet, lies one of the most biodiverse places on...
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The Nightmares and Dreams of Raf Simons
I once heard Jennifer Anniston jokingly described as a "one woman genre." Although he doesn’t quite have her gift for rom-com and lovely hair, a similar argument could be made for Raf Simons as a...
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Five Op Artists Who Became Synonymous with the 1960s
It’s not often that an artistic movement is so visually engaging, exciting and accessible that it permeates popular culture to become synonymous with the time in which it was created. This, however, is...
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The Rustic Magnetism of 1970s Country Cabins
Right now, we’re in that stretch of the year which follows the holidays, but which is not quite spring – it's still kind of winter, but sometimes it’s also kind of not, there are months still to pass...
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The Riot Grrrl Style Revolution
“Revolution Girl Style Now”, proclaimed Bikini Kill – the all-female punk rock band who formed a seminal part of the early 90s Riot Grrrl movement. A group of female musicians fuelled by anger at the...
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A Closer Look at the Confessional Works of Marion Wagschal
Located in London’s historic Trafalgar Square, opposite the National Gallery, is Canada House Gallery, a space dedicated to highlighting the work of Canadian artists such as Jeff Wall and Edward...
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Talking Pottery and Magic with Betty Woodman
To say that Betty Woodman is a prolific artist is an understatement. At 85, only somewhat diminished in physical strength since she first used a kiln as a teenager, she remains completely committed to...
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How Fernell Franco Fused Film Noir with Photography
Who? Fernell Franco is one of Latin American photography's most prolific pioneers. Yet, he remains relatively unknown in Europe, with the first extensive European retrospective of his work opening at...
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Monkeys That Became Pop Culture Icons
Determined by the lunisolar calendar, Chinese New Year always falls on a different date, with each cycle defined by one of the twelve animas of the Chinese zodiac. This year, February 8th marks the...
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Considering the Powerful US Protest Art of the 1970s
Jack Kerouac; William Burroughs; Paul McCartney; Allen Ginsberg; Charles Bukowski. The list of genre-defining figures – whether poets, artists, writers or musicians – that English author Barry Miles...
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