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Food Fad: An Evening of Conversation Where Every Story Was a Meal

Food Fad: An Evening of Conversation Where Every Story Was a Meal

Like guests trading horror tales in an old black-and-white film, our companions spoke only of food. Across an unexpected dinner, a student and two IT experts reveal how cuisine has become this generation's abiding obsession.

18 Mar 2013 By Official Bespoke 2 min

A Beautifully Produced Look at the Dedicated Indoor Ski Community of Dubai
culture · Videos

A Beautifully Produced Look at the Dedicated Indoor Ski Community of Dubai

In this excellent documentary Chad Sayers and Chad Manley go looking for the one of the world’s strangest and most illogical of ski environments: Ski Dubai. In the midst of a desert city of dizzying ambition, this ‘local hill’ climbs 60 vertical metres out of a luxury …

16 Mar 2013 By Official Bespoke 1 min

people · culture

Don't Judge a Book: The Pretensions and Pleasures of Fine Wine

We invoke Bordeaux and Bourgogne as though born to them, scouring shelves for something suitably foreign before dinner. A wry meditation on wine snobbery, anxious hospitality and the theatre that surrounds the simple act of drinking well.

8 Mar 2013 By Official Bespoke 2 min

Fade Away: Why Curators Now Wield the Art World's Greatest Power
people · culture

Fade Away: Why Curators Now Wield the Art World's Greatest Power

For five years curators have crowned ArtReview's Power 100, eclipsing the likes of Hirst and Saatchi. From Hans Ulrich Obrist to Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, we examine the quiet figures now steering contemporary art's direction.

4 Mar 2013 By Official Bespoke 3 min

All That Jazz: A Blistering Night With Saxophonist Jed Levy
culture · places

All That Jazz: A Blistering Night With Saxophonist Jed Levy

Leaning into the microphone, Jed Levy puffed out his cheeks, blew hard on his sax and launched into a blistering solo that fixed every ear in the house front-of-stage, before rocking back and taking a quick bow.

28 Feb 2013 By Official Bespoke 4 min

Shaking Things Up: Broadcaster Ahmed Shihab-Eldin on a Chaotic Media Industry

Shaking Things Up: Broadcaster Ahmed Shihab-Eldin on a Chaotic Media Industry

Ahmed Shihab-Eldin arrived at our Manhattan coffee shop with a frenzied confidence, fiddling with phone, hat and jacket. His physical hyperactivity mirrors the racing pace of a mind navigating the chaotic industry he has chosen for himself.

26 Feb 2013 By Official Bespoke 5 min

Unlike Many Promising Saudis, Ahd Kamel Gets No State Support, Yet She’s Definitely One of the Kingdom’s Most Talented Artists

Unlike Many Promising Saudis, Ahd Kamel Gets No State Support, Yet She’s Definitely One of the Kingdom’s Most Talented Artists

In another life, Ahd Kamel might have been a lawyer. She might have been an animation artist. Or she might have stayed right home in Jeddah. But in this life, Ahd is a filmmaker and actor, readying herself for the world stage. The filmmaker/actress known simply as Ahd is at the helm of …

19 Feb 2013 By Official Bespoke 4 min

Palate Pleaser: Chef Ollie Dabbous and the London Restaurant Everyone Wants to Book

Palate Pleaser: Chef Ollie Dabbous and the London Restaurant Everyone Wants to Book

Barely thirty-two and only a year into his first restaurant, Ollie Dabbous is already turning heads. He serves simple, refined meals at remarkably low prices; the only difficulty at Dabbous is getting through the front door.

15 Jan 2013 By Official Bespoke 4 min

Olympic Firsts: A Historic London Games For The Arab World
people · culture

Olympic Firsts: A Historic London Games For The Arab World

It began with garbled Arabic signs at Westfield welcoming visitors to the Games in gibberish. Yet the hundreds of arriving Arab athletes paid the omen no heed, proceeding instead to compete in a year of historic firsts.

11 Jan 2013 By Official Bespoke 3 min

The Write Stuff: Why Handwriting Remains So Beautifully And Defiantly Personal
products · culture

The Write Stuff: Why Handwriting Remains So Beautifully And Defiantly Personal

Handwriting is deeply personal, so bound to individuality that graphologists claim to read character from mere scraps. Believe them or not, it remains beautifully idiosyncratic, breathing life into static notes through every correction, crossing-out and hesitant doodle.

7 Jan 2013 By Official Bespoke 2 min

Big Shot: Photographer Michel Haddi on Fashion, Celebrity and His Own Publishing House

Big Shot: Photographer Michel Haddi on Fashion, Celebrity and His Own Publishing House

French-Algerian photographer Michel Haddi made his name shooting fashion and celebrities before founding his own publishing house. Based between London and New York, he has become a considerable celebrity in his own right, his subjects forever beguiling.

4 Jan 2013 By Official Bespoke 5 min

Forging Ahead: Jeweller Husam El-Odeh, the Poster Child for Cosmopolitanism
culture · people

Forging Ahead: Jeweller Husam El-Odeh, the Poster Child for Cosmopolitanism

Palestinian-Lebanese, raised in Germany and now based in London, Husam El-Odeh could almost be the poster child for cosmopolitanism. From everywhere and nowhere, his present incarnation as jeweller suits a talent as versatile as his.

31 Dec 2012 By Official Bespoke 6 min