Perlesque: The Elegant Sex Toy Brand Worth Buzzing About
It’s no secret that advances in digital technology have had a profound effect on our sex lives. The use of fast, hard-hitting apps such as Tinder, Bumble and Grindr are commonplace, removing the warmth...
View ArticleFive Magical Music Festivals in Unexpected Places
Nowadays, being asked which summer festival you’ll be attending is as common a question as your choice of holiday destination, so popular have the host of annual musical and cultural celebrations...
View ArticleAn All-Female Curation of Frieze New York by Olympia Scarry
This year marks the fifth anniversary of Frieze New York, the stateside instalment of Frieze's multi-media celebration of art, offering a showcase comprising 200 galleries from 31 countries worldwide....
View ArticleFashion to Furnishings: The Zigzag World of Rosita Missoni
In 1958, husband and wife Ottavio and Rosita Missoni designed a collection of striped knitted dresses for the Milanese boutique La Rinascente, stitching a label of their surname next to their soon to...
View ArticleLessons We Can Learn From 3 Women
When Robert Altman conceived his cinematic masterpiece 3 Women, he was in what he terms "a desperate state": he had fallen out with Warner Brothers over another film that he was working on, and then...
View ArticleCorrado Calza: An Appetite for Fashion
Inside a compact, well-organised professional kitchen in the heart of Milan, Corrado Calza is probing a large silver tray of red pepper-infused jelly with what appears to be a giant pair of tweezers....
View ArticleWhat AnOther Loves This Week: Modernist Lamps & Frozen Fizz
When it comes to furniture design, we're suckers for a mid-century modern statement. And modernist light fittings are just as satisfying, as evidenced by this sleek, pale blue desk lamp by German...
View ArticleSublime Spaces: Follow These Feeds for Interior Inspiration
What do you do when a you’re all out of ideas on how to give your home (however big or small) a spruce, and neither the surreal sets of fashion editorials in your favourite magazines, nor a long walk...
View ArticleSun-Drenched Beaches Viewed From Above
Human beings are curious creatures, and when viewed from above, clustered en masse at the water’s edge to enjoy sun, sand and sea, they quickly become even more so. Photographer Gray Malin is,...
View ArticleThe Publishing House Championing Contemporary Poetry
Looking at the story of how they met, it seems almost obvious that Greta Bellamacina and Robert Montgomery would find themselves living and working together, running a modern publishing house from the...
View ArticleThe Stuff Polly Brown Stole From Frieze New York
Last week, Randalls Island played host to the glitterati of the art world; from the artists themselves to the high-flying billionaires (Jerry Speyer, Dasha Zhukova, Leonardo DiCaprio et al.) who might...
View ArticleHow and Where to Drink Vermouth in Barcelona
The people of Spain approach daytime drinking with zeal and elegance. A way to enliven any afternoon, rather than the preserve of holidays alone. And in Catalonia these occasions tend to entail...
View ArticleThe Books That Made Me: Phoebe English
Phoebe English is one of London's greatest emerging talents; a designer whose eclectic references and intuitively created garments are not only aesthetically delightful but, somehow, wonderfully...
View ArticleInside the Customised Cases of Five NYC Ballet Dancers
Ballet dancers, particularly those belonging to establishments as esteemed as the New York City Ballet, lead extremely busy lives. They travel at lightning speed through cities and countries, touching...
View ArticleTalking Postmodernism and Memphis with Furniture Firm AQQ
Furniture designer Matthew Sullivan founded AQQ – an acronym for the Latin phrase "al que quiere" which roughly translates as “for he who wants it” – with the belief that betterment was very much a...
View ArticleA Brief History of the Mule
The mule was a staple on the Spring/Summer 2016 catwalk; a controversial style loved by some, bemoaned by others. The origins of the word mule lie in Ancient Rome, where it was mulleus calceus (a red...
View ArticleMustang: A Cinematic Story of Sisterhood and Suppression
When Turkish-born, French-raised director Deniz Gamze Ergüven met fellow writer and director Alice Winocour – at the Cinéfondation workshop in 2011, where both had been invited to develop their...
View ArticleWarhol's Superstar: Baby Jane Holzer
Profiling the Warhol Superstar “Baby” Jane Holzer in 1964’s The Girl Of The Year, Tom Wolfe is typically apoplectic. “She is gorgeous in the most outrageous way,” he howls – “her hair rises up from her...
View ArticleExploring African Islands in the Sky
Where on Earth?High above the dense rainforests and vast grasslands of Africa, a chain of remote islands float in the hazy, endless sky. Strung across the continent, these distant outcrops form their...
View ArticleOlafur Eliasson on Cooking, Collaboration & Unspoken Spaces
Interdisciplinary Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson might be best known for filling the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall with sunshine for The Weather Project (2003), but the full scope of his work is...
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