• BLOCK by Apparatus Studio

    BLOCK by Apparatus Studio

    Looking again at the home, we’re back with New York based design Studio Apparatus and their latest item of uncommon beauty entitled BLOCK. The new collection of objects is a series comprised of brass forms that can plummeted into (or rested on) cast Swedish barium crystal. To get this effect, molten crystal is poured into…

  • LAFERRARI | The number 500

    LAFERRARI | The number 500

    It’s been a tumultuous year to say the least, with recent events in Colombia only serving to add to a growing list of seeming ‘anomalies’ that have occurred over the last 12 months or-so. That said, with each challenge grows the resolve and the responsibility of those with power to step in and help, and…

  • REVIEW | Encre Noire à l’Extrême by Lalique

    REVIEW | Encre Noire à l’Extrême by Lalique

    It was 2006 when Lalique reinvented the most masculine olfactory note with their fragrance enigma Encre Noire – regarded by many as the contemporary “vetiver of reference”. Now in excess of its 10th Anniversary, Lalique challenged its nose, Nathalie Lorson to create a new chapter in the saga, aptly entitled Encre Noire à l’Extrême. While…

  • Hekerua Bay Residence by Archimedia

    Hekerua Bay Residence by Archimedia

    Despite the Hekerua Bay residence being located in New Zealand, the ethos behind the design actually comes from Mediterranean culture and to be more precise, Cypriot heritage.   A collaboration between the agency Archimedia and a client, the open property is located above a rocky cove on an elevated promontory at the western entrance to…

  • Thinkpiece : Have we become more Impatient?

    Thinkpiece : Have we become more Impatient?

    Have we lost the art of patience? When Internet speeds were restricted by the limitations of dial-up, the fact that the webpage loaded at all was incredible in itself, but now we get frustrated if we can’t stream flawless video in Ultra HD, or if a heavily image imbued website takes over 0.79 seconds to…

  • HP SPECTRE Review | Did I miss my MacBook?

    HP SPECTRE Review | Did I miss my MacBook?

    That’s the overriding question, and in the truth of the main concern for most. And quite rightly so, many of us that made the transition from the timer-strewn-update-riddled-anti-virus plagued world of the PC to ‘serene’ world of the Apple MacBook have not looked back since. We’re talking about a veritable inertia here; after all, why…

  • Gosha Rubchinskiy Perfume + Book

    Gosha Rubchinskiy Perfume + Book

    Gosha Rubchinskiy’s ascent pays tribute to the organic realism that fashion can represent, with his works a true reflection of the Soviet landscape in which he learned his craft. A photographer by nature, Rubchinskiy has taken his parternhip with Comme des Garcons a step further and released a fragrance to sit with his ever-growing streetwear…

  • Galamb Bespoke Tailoring

    Galamb Bespoke Tailoring

    For many sectors branding is the life essence, but for tailoring brands particular it has become a much debated topic of late, with the changing face of Savile Row and the resurgence of tailoring on the High Street, turning once was an investment into a sartorial version of “having a fling”. Even cornerstone of heritage…

  • Thinkpiece: I forget what’s good

    Thinkpiece: I forget what’s good

    You find something you like, so you screenshot it. Then you forget it, find it amongst your Amazonian screenshot library, so you screenshot the screenshot again to send it back to the top; admit it we’ve all done it. Screenshots have become the modern version of a scrapbook as we try to make sense to…

  • Censer by Apparatus

    Censer by Apparatus

    Look around your room and you’ll see that in its basic element, it’s a construction of detailed shapes; complex geometry all characterised by their positioning – or lack thereof. But home inspiration can come in many different forms as demonstrated by New York based design studio Apparatus, and none more so than their simple yet…

  • Taxonomy of Design | Aesop ION

    Taxonomy of Design | Aesop ION

    The epitome of ‘Glocalisation’, Aesop’s international expansion could almost be considered subterfuge, the way they ‘quietly’ integrate themselves into established retail districts all over the world. It would be wrong to say that these spaces were obscurely submerged within their retail communities, but their method of integration, connecting the store design with local history, always references such…

  • Giorgio Armani | Emotions Of The Athletic Body

    Giorgio Armani | Emotions Of The Athletic Body

    The world of “Sport Luxe” has landed en masse in the luxury fashion sector, and with it has come a newfound appreciation for the world of Sport; and quite rightly so too. Sportsmen – and women – are essentially (super)human representations, stretching our preconceived notions of what is physically possible, and with the increasing awareness…

  • The Milestone Hotel x London Cocktail Week

    The Milestone Hotel x London Cocktail Week

    London Cocktail Week, who would have thought it, a whole week dedicated to cocktails. One could argue that seeing as “London Cocktail Weekend” inadvertently takes place on a ritualistic weekly basis, there is little requirement for a dedicated week. Then again some might argue the opposite is true; so popular and diverse is the art form of…

  • FLAGSHIP | retaW Store Harajuku

    FLAGSHIP | retaW Store Harajuku

    When I first encountered Japanese brand retaW, they were a fledgling brand, with 6 products – all shower gels – but the unique quality of these six products alone were enough to make inroads in an already saturated marketplace. Their select distribution strategy saw them introduced to the world via niche retailers such as Dover…