The Magic of Bees
© Stephanie Sian Smith“The bee's life is like a magic well: the more you draw from it, the more it fills with water,” said Karl Von Frisch, a Nobel-prize winning scientist, credited for discovering the...
View ArticleVilla Lena: An Artist’s Utopia in Tuscany
The 19th century villaCourtesy of the Villa LenaWho? Lena Evstafieva, Jérôme Hadey and Lionel Bensemoun are resounding names in the cultured circles of Paris – the first is an art consultant, the...
View ArticleLessons in Style from Jackie O
On Madison Avenue, 1971Photography by Ron Galella/WireImageBorn Jacqueline Lee Bouvier in Southampton, New York, she would grow up to be Jackie Kennedy “O” Onassis, First Lady of the United States,...
View ArticleThe Facts of Brassaï
In the Bistro, c. 1930–32© 2013, Brassaï EstateThe steps of Montmartre in the morning fog, a couple kissing in a café with glasses of Chablis sitting before them, the Eiffel Tower lit up against a...
View ArticleThe A/W14 Fashion Material Dictionary
Fashion Fabrics A/W14Every season fashion throws out a word that has editors reaching for their dictionary. There was devoré (a pattern formed by burning the pile away with acid), Trompe-l'œil (a...
View ArticleChickens, Eggs & Bunnies
EasterAs we approach the Easter weekend it seems only right that this week we should celebrate the chicken, the egg and the bunny. Just don’t expect us to tell you which came first.Photographer Tamara...
View ArticleTop 10 Food on Film Moments
Last week Indian director Ritesh Batra's feature-length debut The Lunchbox finally hit UK cinemas, after months of global acclaim, and it doesn’t disappoint in the slightest. A subtly moving love...
View ArticleChris Marker at the Whitechapel Gallery
Who? Chris Marker, the late filmmaker, artist, author and photographer, whose haunting essay-film La Jetée (The Pier, 1962) radically broke with the conventions of film and science fiction, is being...
View ArticleVictoria Beckham: An Evolution in Style
Victoria Beckham, 1992Photography by Geoff MerchantVictoria Beckham. A two-word powerhouse, she stands as a cultural milestone who has repeatedly redefined modern culture ever since her first...
View ArticleMatisse and his collages
Henri Matisse, The Sheaf, 1953© Succession Henri Matisse/DACS 2014Matisse said that he was never truly expressing himself until he started to work with collages. His cut-outs comprise some of his most...
View ArticleMichael White: The Last Impresario
It’s been said that Michael White is the only person you need to know, to know everyone in London. Today, he has 101 stage productions and 27 films to his name. A trailblazing producer, playboy,...
View ArticleMerve Kahraman's Bunny Chair
Merve Kahraman's HYBRID No2Courtesy of Merve KahramanIf you have even the most passing interest in chairs, then you could do a lot worse than taking a wander through the archives of AnOther Loves. We...
View ArticleTop 10 Umbrella Moments
Catherine Deneuve in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, 1964Umbrellas turn up throughout our social history, from Charles Dickens' depiction of an umbrella-weilding Mrs Gamp in Martin Chuzzlewit to the...
View ArticleAmazing Animal Architecture
Namibian communal nestPhotography by Ingo ArndtNature has always inspired architects but rarely do we stop and appreciate the craftsmanship of animals themselves in the building of their own homes....
View ArticleGlenn O'Brien on Corinne Day
Kate in jumper on chair, 1991Photography by Corinne Day; From May the Circle Remain Unbroken, 2013We owe so much to Corinne Day. In her brief career, cut cruelly short by the brain tumour that killed...
View ArticleDolce Via: Rome in the 80s
Amalfi, 1982Photography by Charles H. Traub from Dolce Via: Italy in the 80sThere is a key moment near the start of A Room with a View, E.M. Forster’s romance set in Florence, where the young heroine...
View ArticleKenneth Anger on the Occult
Lucifer Rising Part I; Poster from 1973“I was raised a Presbyterian, but rejected Christianity at the age of eight, when my parents tried to make me go to Sunday school. It was not an ideological...
View ArticleEntering the World of Guy Bourdin
Charles Jourdan, Spring 1978Photography by Guy BourdinDuring his 40-year career, legendary Parisian photographer Guy Bourdin (b.1928) changed the face of fashion photography with his radically daring,...
View ArticleFaye & Erica Toogood
Faye and Erica ToogoodPhotography by Maria EislLeave it to two sisters growing up in rural England in a sartorially-obsessed family to provide a truly unique slant on the way we wear clothes today....
View ArticleA History of the American Barn
The Children’s Defense Fund library by Maya LinPhotography by Paul RocheleauArchitectural icons of the traditional agricultural landscape and synonymous with Americana, barns have become vulnerable to...
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