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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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DRIVEN — DS 7 CROSSBACK E-TENSE
I’ll be honest, I’m not overly excited about the electric car revolution. It’s not that I don’t care about what happens to the world — of course I do, it’s my home — but I guess it’s more the cynic in me that wonders exactly how we’re planning on generating that much electricity with causing…
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World Fashion Week — Autumn Winter 2020
Of note this year was not the elongated silhouettes, unwearable pants or unnecessary motifs — it was the maturity of which some of the youthful brands that took to the stage. A Cold Wall (showing in Milan) for example exemplified growth in every look, which was true to its modern visuals that were shown with…
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One Million Stitches — The Rose Phantom
One questions I often get asked is “If you could have any car, which one would you choose…?” A hard question to answer, the irony being that the more cars I drive, the less certain I become. There are cars I definitely wouldn’t want to own, but that is perhaps a tale for another time.…
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OCTOMORE by Bruichladdich
It’s safe to say they do things a little differently up at Bruichladdich (brook-laddy). One of the smaller of the nine distilleries on the Scottish isle of Islay, they happen to employ the most people. This is because cost efficiency is not in-keeping with the Bruichladdich mantra. In fact, their dogged resistance to the risk-free,…
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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao + Architecture MasterPrize Awards
This year, Frank Gehry’s acclaimed Guggenheim Museum building in Bilbao hosted the honourable Architecture MasterPrize Awards (AMP). One of the most synonymous contemporary buildings of the 20th Century, the location was superbly fitting with the genre of awards itself. Famed for his other buildings including the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris and the Walt Disney…
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LIMITED EDITION — Elton John x Bamford London
After a brief respite, the Bamford London juggernaut has spurred back into action with their latest timepiece — a collaborative release with Sir Elton John. This isn’t the first time the legendary musician has combined with the Bamford brand, the first iteration being a successful release back in 2018 with the Bamford Watch Department. Using…
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Life without mirrors — Leica SL2
Given the brand’s history and prestige in the photography sector, any camera that Leica release sets wallets twitching worldwide — their most recent launch is no exception. Building on the success of the Leica SL in 2015, the brand has now introduced the Leica SL2; the only mirrorless camera to be designed and crafted in…
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First Look — Black Badge Cullinan by Rolls-Royce Motors
The thing about super luxury automotive is that there is so much to enjoy aside from their core function of being able to take you from “A-to-B”, at times it’s hard to know what aspect to focus on. When it comes to Rolls-Royce, this problem is amplified exponentially. That said, with the Rolls-Royce Black Badge…
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Water — Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2019
The Leica Oskar Barnack Award celebrates photography that captures the relationship between man and his environment. Afterall, it was for this very reason that the Leica camera came about in the first place; the ambition to make a camera that was compact enough to enable you to capture images on your travels. “In my view,…
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Select Aperitivo | A Venetian Story
I’d never been to Venice before which is strange, firstly given my ardent love for Italy and secondly given that Venice is regarded in many minds as one of Italy’s crown jewels; it’s Waterworld-esque existence being a truly unique proposition. My task was to broaden my Aperitivo knowledge beyond the realms of drinking Aperol Spritz in…
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A. Sauvage
ASauvage.com presents a new visual identity under the umbrella of the costumer. Featuring updated imagery from his studio in L.A the new marquee sees a shift towards a far more personal tale from the designer. Emphasising his journey from classic tailoring through to sport and more recently womenswear each image places as much focus in…
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Ode to the Rainbow
Like great artists of old, talented car designers manage to make vehicles that are often more lauded in reflection then they were at the time of their conception. One such motor is the Ferrari 308 GT Bertone Rainbow. Originally unveiled at the 1976 Turin Motor Show as a concept, the car unfortunately never actually made…
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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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SOUND OF RUM
There’s an ineffable electricity in the tang of a rum cocktail. A kind of hot, cloying constitution that limbers the soul and, more than any other spirit, tastes like a good time. You’ll be hard pushed to find a drink that is so redolent of colour and sound as rum. It’s the carnival drink; the…
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DRIVEN | Ferrari Portofino x Portmeirion
I’ve always had a distractingly vivid imagination, so as I was headed to test Ferrari’s latest convertible — the Ferrari Portofino — my mind needed no invitation to wander. I was instantly drawn to images of its namesake in Italy, as I slalomed with the roof-down through sepia hued mountains, drawing ever nearer to the…
