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If you are serious about food then Chefs Club New York is going to be hard to beat. Each year four cooks from Food & Wine magazine's Best New Chefs list will be chosen to take up residence in the Nolita venue's kitchen; the focus will be on chefs...
The Edit
Go back a few hundred years to Renaissance Europe and you'd be falling over yourself for sculptors hammering away at a block of marble with chisel and mallet – the combined noise must have been like the early equivalent of a pneumatic drill. These...
New York
If you engage the services of New York studio Apparatus to spiff up your lighting design, then chances are you'll be invited to get together with the firm's creatives at their stylish Manhattan studio. Apparatus uses hand-worn materials with a...
New York
New name, whole new look – it's exciting times for SIXTY SoHo, formerly 60 Thompson, which has recently re-opened after a multi-million dollar renovation. It wasn't a giant leap to rebrand the venue though, as the creative set of downtown...
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If you've ever wondered what it looks like when the shit really does hit the fan, then a dual show by Mark Dorf and Julian Lorber provides the answer – and it's not pretty. The dirt encrusted office fan is on display at Outlet Fine Art, Brooklyn,...
New York
The window display suggests a risqué costume rental store, while the interior is somewhere between an antique boutique and a junk shop. In fact there's so much cool stuff to see at The Keep in New York that at first glance you might miss the bar,...
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In the deceptively simple Tom Petty song Yer So Bad, the singer tells the story of his sister's tangled love life with a central theme of betrayal, and it's the jumping off point for Dutch artist Parra and his series of canvas and paper artworks of...
New York
Sean McPherson, one of the developers behind New York hotel The Ludlow, first visited the Lower East Side in 1984, and was immediately struck by the area's energy; he recalls a city that always felt on the brink of an outburst, whether it was a...
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Judy Chicago's Women and Smoke photographic series, shot in the California desert in 1970, could be a documentary project capturing the last freak-out of a hippie generation that took too much. In fact, Chicago's figures - rendered alien against...
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Dutch designers Studio Job are the first to take up curating duties at Chamber, an exquisite New York boutique dedicated to unearthing the best in limited edition design, objects and art. The concept comes from Argentinian founder Juan Garcia...
New York
* Iconic Café is permanently closed. When architect Selim Vural visited the building site in New York that he had been commissioned to transform, an object found lying in the rubble was to shape the entire project. What caught his eye was, he...
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The link between mathematics and the natural world has been investigated since the time of the Ancient Greeks – relationships such as the Golden Ratio and the Fibonacci Sequence are everywhere if you've got the right kind of brain to be able to...
City Notes
“A masterclass in conceptuality,” a hotel that “takes you on a fuzzy trip of vague recollection,” and “a paradise of inimitable escapism.” That’s what we said about Port de Sóller’s impressive Bikini Island & Mountain Hotel three...
City Notes
Hidden in the quiet heart of rural Spain, La Torre del Visco Hotel offers unrivalled luxury and adventures walking in a shepherd’s footsteps across the ancient Aragonese landscape that once inspired Picasso… In the early 20th century,...
City Notes
The world’s first StandardX hotel has opened in Fitzroy, Melbourne, the offshoot of the renowned global The Standard hotels, officially touted as the brand’s “rebellious younger sibling” with an offering of “intuitive hospitality without...
Stuff Crush
See captivating, never-before-published photographs of 1970s and '80s USA cultural hotspots including New York City, San Francisco, Las Vegas, New Orleans, Miami Beach and more in Street Walker, a new publication from revered street photographer and...
Dispatches
Stand-up comedy has given several up-and-coming performers their way from the legends. Examples of famous stand-up comedians who honed in their craft for success at top comedy clubs are Richard Pryor, Steve Martin, Bill Burr, Chris Rock, Taylor...
Dispatches
The purpose of nursing homes is to provide older people at risk with the care and attention they require in a secure setting. For some residents, however, the truth is unsettling: abuse by doctors and other medical professionals. Nursing home...
Dispatches
China, the United States of America, and Japan do it again, the three powerhouses ranking 1st, 2nd and 3rd for the fourth consecutive year in the A’ Design Awards' World Design Rankings. Using a slick methodology for ranking countries, the...
Dispatches
It's important to pick the right company to clean your air ducts so that your home stays healthy and safe. When your air ducts are clean, the air quality inside your home is better, which is good for everyone's health. But how do you choose which...