• George Stubbs — Portrait of a Horse

    George Stubbs — Portrait of a Horse

    “The history of mankind is carried on the back of a horse.” ­– Anonymous. Whether it’s a duty entrusted to us by a higher power or an organic hierarchy hashed out over billions of years, we’ve made something of a habit of shirking our responsibility to the natural world. With each industrial bound we take,…

  • Carpenters Workshop Gallery — Spring ’26 exhibitions

    Carpenters Workshop Gallery — Spring ’26 exhibitions

    In West London’s Ladbroke Hall, the spring light arrives slowly, filtering through tall windows and settling across marble floors and plaster walls. It feels like the perfect setting for reflection; for design that asks us to pause. This season, Carpenters Workshop Gallery opens its spring–summer programme with three exhibitions (Komorebi, Caos Calmo and Persistence of…

  • Exhibition: Headstrong – Basquiat on Paper

    Exhibition: Headstrong – Basquiat on Paper

    Jean Michael Basquiat is one of those artists whose mythology has somehow outgrown its medium. In the same way Bob Marley is bigger than reggae or Elvis is bigger than rock ‘n roll, Basquiat is bigger than art. A common thread between artists of this ilk is that they didn’t set out to achieve this…

  • 1-54 Contemporary African Art — 7th Edition

    1-54 Contemporary African Art — 7th Edition

    Diaspora. There’s that word again. It’s one of those overused terms whose meaning has diluted in impact. Words like ‘genius’ and ‘iconic’ – we all ascribe them to people or things we want to spotlight. A diaspora refers to a population scattered from their ancestral homeland, maintaining cultural ties to their origin while living elsewhere. Zoom…

  • Behind The Butcher

    Behind The Butcher

    First appearances can be deceiving.   Walk through the heart of Holland’s most famous market, the Albert Cuypstraat in Amsterdam, and you’ll find a hub of activity centered around a not unfamiliar establishment called ‘The Butcher’. On stepping inside, what first strikes you is the meaty aroma. Not the aroma you would expect from a…

  • Roman Ondak — The Day After Yesterday

    Roman Ondak — The Day After Yesterday

    It’s been over 20 years since Roman Ondak brought his inter-disciplinary, interactive works to Prague. The Slovak artist has garnered global critical acclaim since his project his LOOP at the Czech and Slovak Pavilion of the 2009 Venice Biennale. Since then, he has developed a distinctive body of work rooted in the legacy of 1960s…

  • The Other House – The Pied-a-Terre with Flair

    The Other House – The Pied-a-Terre with Flair

    London’s hotel scene has a bold new addition rewriting the rules of how we stay, live, and connect in the capital. The Other House South Kensington introduces a trailblazing concept known as the “Residents Club.” Blending the comfort of apartment-style living with the service of a luxury hotel and the exclusivity of a private members…

  • Altos — The Spirit of the Maker

    Altos — The Spirit of the Maker

    Despite being a relatively new country, Mexico feels far more ancient than its 200 or so years. You can feel the rumblings of civilisations centuries past underfoot. Ancestral traditions that are shaped by the land and pre-Hispanic cultures are proudly upheld. The lakebed Mexico City is built upon warps the streets as a seismic reminder…

  • Vista Ostuni – A Brand New Classic

    Vista Ostuni – A Brand New Classic

    There’s a new jewel amongst the sun-bleached stone of southern Italy. Vista Ostuni, the flagship of a bold new hospitality concept, has opened its doors in Puglia’s famed White City. Riling against the rustic charm of a traditional masseria, Vista Ostuni is a next-generation grand hotel set within five-storey 14th-century palazzo. Presiding over Ostuni’s old…

  • For the brave — The North Face Summit Series

    For the brave — The North Face Summit Series

    It can be rough out there. Cold, hail, rain, gale – the weather is as unforgiving as it is unpredictable. The extremes of which are often deadly and debilitating and never to be taken lightly. It’s human nature, however, to play with fire and, with three other elements up for grabs; the outside world makes…

  • 34 Mayfair x Ron Santiago de Cuba

    34 Mayfair x Ron Santiago de Cuba

    Tucked away between Grosvenor Square and Mount Street, 34 Mayfair is something of a modern classic. It was opened by Richard Caring in 2011 and offers that special brand of sophistication that favours graces over airs. The setting is elegant, the food is exceptional, the staff are on point but, crucially, it is a warm…

  • No Velvet Rope Society

    No Velvet Rope Society

    There was a time when a night out at Ministry of Sound in London was like a pilgrimage; a gritty rite of passage. In its heyday, you didn’t go to the South London superclub for table service or sparklers. You went for the music, the community, and the sonic alchemy that went down in The…

  • Perini Navi — Masters of the sea

    Perini Navi — Masters of the sea

    There is something unquestionably elegant to sailing craft, something that stirs your senses and turns your thoughts to the long history of maritime exploration and navigation across the seven seas.  With motors far easier to steer, sighting a vessel travelling at full sail is a wondrous spectacle. So rarely in the word of super yachts…

  • Re-Lived Nostalgia — The Virgin Hotel, Shoreditch

    Re-Lived Nostalgia — The Virgin Hotel, Shoreditch

    I wouldn’t call myself an active participant in the Shoreditch night scene. That’s not a slight on the vibrancy of the area, but more an indication of the stage of life I’ve reached, preferring the comfort of secluded conversation over fanfare, nuanced by a quality-over-quantity bar line-up, while being shrouded in the blanket of aesthetically…