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Among the best-known names in bathroom fixtures and furniture, Duravit and sister company Hansgrohe are masters at persuading us to linger longer. Bespoke visits their Design Days in the sleepy southern German towns they call home.
London-based sculptor Arran Gregory applies faceted, mirrored surfaces to the forms of wild animals, yielding dramatic works that reflect both light and image. Alongside sits the Airocide, a purifier first designed for the Space Station.
From a petite Chelsea flagship, De Gournay is two decades into reviving the chinoiserie and hand-painted panoramic wallpapers that adorned Europe's grandest salons in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when trade routes to Asia first opened.
Japanese architect Tadao Ando makes masterpieces in concrete. Here, Official Bespoke takes a look at his recently completed Pringiers House in Sri Lanka. I remember the first time I saw a piece of Tadao Ando. I was visiting a friend in one of the lower-rise, village-like neighbourhoods …
Bespoke speaks to vanguard designer Karen Chekerdjian about her lovingly crafted handmade objects and her influence in the design world. There is something raw about Karen Chekerdjian’s store. There’s her logo etched into the floor that you stumble upon as you enter and the dictum facin…
A clock that costs as much as a house and a bed clad in twenty-four carats: we gather the heaviest, boldest and most extravagantly gilded objects, where Stuart Hughes and Hebanon push opulence to its glittering limit.
Karim Munib meets Dutch architect Janjaap Ruijssenaars, whose magnetic, levitating bed can carry nine hundred kilograms. Six years in the making, it asks whether a piece of furniture might be ruled by something other than gravity.
Luxury tableware is perhaps the ultimate statement a host can make. Delicate, handcrafted pieces suggest an attention to detail and an appreciation of the finer things in life. Here, Bespoke takes a look at some of the most inspired knives and forks out there.
It’s a Baby Girl, King of Pop, Pretty Woman: their names sound more like tabloid headlines than pieces of furniture – but perhaps that’s because furniture label ByKal is also always trying to grab your attention. Khalid Sharan, the Amman-based brand’s designer is renowned for creating piec
More subtle and diffusive than perfume, scented candles can entirely transform the atmosphere of a space, and the mood of the people within it. Yet all scented candles are not created equal.
What Armani Casa Since 2000 Where Rubaiyat (Jeddah and Riyadh), Dubai, Manama, Living In (Cairo and Doha) Why In bringing to Armani Casa his signature sophistication and timeless elegance, Armani has transcended fashion to become an all-inclusive luxury lifestyle brand. www.armanicasa.com
For decades we have dressed ourselves in the latest designer prints. The new trend however, is dressing your home in them. For the upcoming season, see what the biggest fashion houses have to offer.