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Since the revolution, Egyptian artists have claimed the streets as well as the studios. Nowhere is this clearer than Mohammed Mahmoud street near Tahrir Square, where once-bare walls are now scarcely left unpainted.
Decamping to the mountains, our writer relished finding the International Herald Tribune at the Librairie Michel in Bikfaya, its yellow weekend strip promising hours of mind-twisting joy. Then, one week later, a grey cloud descended.
It’s hard to imagine that Bottega Veneta was on the brink of bankruptcy when Tomas Maier took over as creative director but during his thirteen years in charge, he hasn’t just created riches, he’s brought much needed respect back to the luxury goods label. Bottega Veneta might mean ‘sma…
Banksy's Flower Girl, in which a child eyes an emerging security camera, heads to auction. We trace urban art's rise to the saleroom, a trend Bonhams helped ignite with its dedicated sale in 2008.
With the Sartorial Touch, Tod's introduces a customisable handmade shoe in exclusive leathers that lets you leave your mark, or at least your initials, on your own pair. A devotee since 1998 investigates the venerable house's latest venture.
Confronted by a milk-fed baby goat of barely a few months, our cook marvels at its beautiful pink flesh, and questions the old butcher's prejudice that female animals yield meat too smelly to eat.
Architect Raafat Majzoub relishes asking new clients how they like to shower, provoking everything from awkward excuse-mes to terrified expressions. The reaction, he argues, reveals just how much intimacy we have lost from bathing.
He rejects the label combat photographer, for he has no interest in fighting or killing. Instead he documents the effects of war on ordinary people, hoping his images add to a wider conversation.
Weighing four tonnes with looks to send children crying home, this monster truck began life as a Mercedes-Benz military vehicle for the Australian Army. Then the lunatics at AMG were let loose to tinker.
A whirlwind weekend in Macau takes in Lord Stow's celebrated egg tarts, with their crème brûlée finish, and the dazzling House of Dancing Water, the latest spectacle from Cirque du Soleil's Franco Dragone.
Bernard Khoury may hold a bleak view of our region, but he has not given up on this part of the world. Instead he fights on against the corporate machine he blames for our architectural inadequacies.
Maximilian Busser's instinct for collaboration runs deep. Having shaped Harry Winston's Opus Series, with each model conceived by a different designer, he carried that openness to outside watchmakers into the founding of MB&F.