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Invoking Ayn Rand's praise for the innovator who stands outside the stagnant status quo, we meet Rad Hourani, whose iconoclastic collections dissolve the boundaries of gender, time and race into honest self-expression.
As spring nears, our writer dreams of the Maldives, of azure ocean and white sand, of being nowhere at all. Yet such a paradise lies far closer, on a natural island just 500 metres off the coast.
Tall, urbane and crowned with a tarboush, the man Michael Karam calls 'The Lawyer' was irresistible. The encounter unfolds in a poorly lit Cairo antique shop, stuffed with deco furniture rescued from grand period houses.
Having her work disqualified from a prestigious prize run by Lausanne's Musee de l'Elysee might have dampened Larissa Sansour's spirits. Instead, the rejected series became the inspiration for the latest stage of her work, Nation Estate.
When a friend rang proposing the trip of a lifetime to Siberia, Anissa Helou could scarcely place Kamchatka on the map. Once a place of exile, its temperatures plunge below minus thirty degrees Celsius.
Furniture is meant to be used; now it can be read too. Kashida Design's recliners, mirrors, stools and even tissue boxes each form a single Arabic letter or word, from a heh-shaped mirror to a meem lounge chair.
We seek out the world's most surprising hideaways, from the steamy butterfly house of Stockholm's Fjarilshuset to the hidden Campbell Apartment tucked inside New York's Grand Central Station. Leave your sweater at the door.
Less boat than floating palace, and a sleekly designed, eco-conscious one at that, the Arcadia 115 M'Ocean may yet persuade Kevin Hackett to abandon dry land along the breathtaking Costiera Amalfitana coastline.
The Beirut tastemaker behind the multi-brand concept boutique Sophie's Choice reflects on a life defined by choices, the philosophy that inspired her name, and founding Aishti with her brother at just twenty-two.
They may look as though they hail from a past era, but the hand-made Morgans are eternal, eccentric and among the most thrilling drives on the road, which is why they retain such a loyal following.
This issue brings a bold new masthead, a revamped contributor page and a host of subtle refinements. As ever, we change gradually, believing that in publishing, as in life, one either progresses or retreats.
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.