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Decades ago, 1999 looked impossibly futuristic on screen. Yet here we remain, in jeans, eating ordinary food, still earthbound. A wry reflection on technology, prophecy and how stubbornly familiar tomorrow always turns out to be.
Why do men of a certain age and standing suddenly deem it acceptable to fling a tie over the shoulder before dining? Not at informal desk lunches, but at fine restaurants, no less.
Borrowing Henri Nouwen's words on those who share our pain rather than offer cures, this tender reflection honours the friend who can sit with us in despair, tolerate not knowing, and simply stay through our grief.
Just as the Impressionists overturned painting and paved the way for the Cubists, trailblazers like Alain Senderens reinvented the kitchen. We trace how Nouvelle Cuisine's daring pioneers transformed fine dining into a creative movement.
The Shell House is luminous, a sculptural sweep of white concrete set against rich green. Frozen mid-unfurl, the elliptical tube tapers, separates and spirals lazily around an elderly fir tree to form an ethereal inner courtyard.
Whilst the region's geopolitical upheavals dominate the headlines, Nadine Khalil turns to the ecological disasters too often neglected, from Cairo's perilous air pollution to Lebanon's mounting waste, toxic waters and unregulated quarrying.
Step from the escalator at the Porsche Museum and a wheelless silver shell awaits, gleaming like a jelly mould of pure intent. Even unfinished, it conveys the spine-tingling promise that made the marque legendary.
Amid searing heat and suffocating humidity, a city unlike any other emerges from the scrubland, reliant on no neighbour to survive. We explore an audacious experiment in sustainable living at the very edge of possibility.
Riva claims its breathtaking new Virtus defines a fresh category of motorboat. What it really does is remind us what we have been missing: ever since the early 1990s, whatever happened to the glorious open motorboat?
The Lanvin man, created by Alber Elbaz and matured by Lucas Ossendrijver, swings between opposites: boxy then slim, structured then deconstructed. It is about the productive tension, they say, between the traditional and the futuristic.
Peace negotiator, biomass mapper, transformational economist and TED superstar, Juan Enriquez has worn many disparate hats. Asked how the strands connect, he answers with a riddle about American presidents and the flags that outlived them.
Art, one might argue, is ultimately the capturing of light on paper or canvas. In a much overlooked field, artists such as JanLeonardo Wollert go further, painting with light itself, an art born of happy accident.