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Gulfstream — Design Takes Space
As I walked through Mayfair and turned down the relative tranquillity of Sackville Street, I suddenly felt the inclination to switch-up, mentally. It was as if my mind thought I was heading to a meeting with hedge fund partners to discuss the condition of my portfolio. I guess in some ways that’s precisely why this…
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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…
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Nohrd — Fitness for Interior Minimalists
Strip away the industrial elements of fitness and you can inspire a new generation of wellbeing…
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Manuel Mathieu presents Archipelago
The olfactory is perhaps our most mystical sense. Everyone has been transported or transcended to a profound place or feeling by a nostalgic scent. It’s so affecting because it is typically unannounced, always invisible and yet so psychologically tangible. Scents are also incredibly difficult to attach to other mediums, with scratch ‘n sniff still being…
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The Aberturret Estate House
It recently occurred to me that the darker the alcoholic beverage, the deeper the conversation that takes place while consuming it. Champagne is a drink for celebratory occasions, while vodka & gin are the backdrop to lighthearted gaiety, jokes and storytelling—lager is similarly aligned. But as you approach red wine, more serious conversations start to…
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Montblanc — A pen worth writing for
Do many people own fountain pens anymore? It’s hard to know for sure, the incredible amount of noise delivered daily by a digitally biased ecosystem renders it nearly impossible to glean the true sentiment. I have to say, I take great comfort that I straddle eras; life pre- and post- internet. I remember sitting down…
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Christie’s presents Au Bord Du Lac
Space: a boundless, three-dimensional extent in which objects and events occur and have relative position and direction. With such a definition, it’s hard to see space as anything other than otherworldly, but we inhabit it in every moment of the humdrum of our lives: crossing the hallway to brush your teeth, shuffling through a subway station,…
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The Frozen Vignettes of Alex Prager
For much of her career, photographer Alex Prager has sought minute meaning in large, crowded compositions; often deftly nudging the viewer’s eye to a mischievously planted detail. Signatures on the cast of a high school football player, a bandage on the nose of a woman running in terror, the face in the reflection of a…
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Florentine Kitchen Knives
It’s no coincidence that Florentine Kitchen Knives are able to invoke an almost borderless aesthetic that somehow exemplifies very specific cultures across the globe. Florentine Kitchen Knives is the brainchild Tomer Botner – an industrial designer who spent 10 years in the restaurant industry ruminating on how he could apply his very practical mastery of…
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JOEL MEYEROWITZ | The Everyday Chaos of Ordinary Life
Good photographers have the ability see special moments in the mundane, while great photographers manage to capture them, immortalising them in the 2D format and enabling others to eternally share in a moment that at the time, was fleeting. Such is the skill of Joel Meyerowitz, an icon of contemporary photography often regarded as a…
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Holmen Lofoten | Kitchen on the Edge of the World
An idea remains just that until someone has the heart and drive to turn it into something more—only then does it become a reality. Such is the case with Holmen Lofoton; a concept so remote from feasibility, its very existence alone is award-worthy, and yet it exists. It takes a unique kind of vision to…
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DESIGN | Limited-Edition Wenger Wishbone Chair
“Take a seat” Some of the most reassuring and unnerving words ever spoken, depending both on their context and environment. In this case it is most certainly the former, as the heritage and design language of a Wenger chair belies comfort, and if not at the very least respect. The ever-current Hans J. Wegner would…
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Casa Elíptica by Mário Martins Atelier
When unveiling the designs for the Casa Eliptica, you would envisage that one of the first questions Architects Mario Martins Atelier faced was “But why..?”. Having seen the finished outcome there can of course be no further questioning, as even the most ardent rationalist would have to attest to its beauty. I am of course…
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The 911 Speaker by Porsche Design
On the racetrack, the sound of the of the Porsche 911 GT3 exhaust system is unmistakable, distinctive in its pitch and ferocity, to the delight of many a car-lover across the world. Even the exhaust tailpipe itself is equally distinctive, and has transcended the ranks of functional element to become a design feature. So with…
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