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Beautiful Crime gallery introduces street artist and furniture designer SHYGUY to unveil a collection of street and neon art, furniture, and lighting at her own home during this year's Clerkenwell Design Week. Naomi Chainey, the artist...
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Nick Wiltshire curated a micro-exhibition of handmade craft products for this year's Clerkenwell Design Week and entitled his selection, The Makings of Luxury. “A lot of designers and architects see craft as the preserve of the church hall...
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I've always had a desire to make things and making art objects didn't satisfy me, so I started making more practical objects. Making things other people can use is great. My ideas come from talking to people, realising what they want and...
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Of all the ways to make use of a chair, sticking one's bum on it can't be the most imaginative possibility. Surely we can do better? I've raced them down the corridors of work on a Friday afternoon, and I've hidden behind them during the scariest...
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How does a stethoscope become an '80s ghetto blaster plugged into a lamp shade? Inspired by the Surrealist process of exquisite corpse, or cadavre exquis, that sees art created collectively - each collaborator adding their own strand, all based on a...
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Did you know that Clerkenwell in London has the highest number of architects per square mile in Europe? If you're a London architect, you probably did, otherwise we bet you didn't. By our reckoning thousands of people have just learned something. We...
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I love concrete. I think it’s inbuilt in design geeks to love concrete; something to do with the Barbican and brutalism. But concrete is a lot less brutal than it once was, as this collaboration from Timorous Beasties and Graphic Relief Ltd shows....
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Anthony Dickens’ Tekio wound itself in and out, around and through his stand at The Farmiloe Building as part of Clerkenwell Design Week, like some sort of friendly glow-worm. Inspired by traditional Japanese ‘chochin’ paper lamps, Tekio...
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Walking down St John’s Street in the sunshine, while exploring Clerkenwell Design Week, I found a little wooden hut filled with pink post-it notes. It was Architecture for Humanity’s Love Hut, a very simple concept, which asked people to write...
City Notes
Chefs Karina Mejía and Israel Montero combine the tradition of Provençal cuisine with the soul and passion of Mexico in Saint Jacques Bistrot, their new gastronomic spot in the capital city's affluent Polanco neighbourhood. Allowing diners to...
City Notes
Located next door to Hotel Wilmina, which is housed in a former Berlin-Charlottenburg women's prison, Lotta Tagesbar has opened its doors, the café cum deli and bar designed by the same team behind Wilmina and serving an exquisite menu of healthy...
City Notes
With an enviable seafront location close to Barcelona and its airport, and having undergone a recent refurbishment, AC Hotel Gavà Mar is a 69-room hotel that is ideal for the business traveller, but also a surprising destination for the discerning...
City Notes
With interiors inspired by the Art Deco of Palm Beach County in Miami, and serving delicious ice cream on a newly pedestrianised street just off Barcelona's renowned Passeig de Gràcia, Amiko is not simply a 'heladería', rather it's a sensory...
Dispatches
Minimalism and elegance, too, are gaining fast as popular choices for serene, sophisticated interiors. Simplicity, clean lines, and curative approaches to decor are all that these two styles are made of, bringing home really calm and clarity within...
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Finding the best Botox experts in Toronto can feel overwhelming, given the many options available. To focus your search, consider professionals with extensive experience and positive client reviews. A key step in identifying top specialists is...
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Wellness Trends for 2025: A series of posts designed to uncover the most progressive concepts in wellness for the year ahead. Number Eight: Restorative Home Design. In the pursuit of wellness, many people are turning their attention homeward....
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Austin’s housing market has seen a significant boom in recent years, with many homeowners looking to boost their property’s value through home improvement projects. In a city where home prices continue to rise, updating key areas of a property,...