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Imagine how you’d be feeling after flying halfway across the world to Los Angeles via the tedium of modern-day commercial air travel. You’d undoubtedly be fatigued, disorientated and a little irritable. In our case, this certainly held true except, waiting for us outside the arrivals te…
On the crown of the Aventine, Rome's most beautiful hill, lies a near-empty piazza designed by Piranesi, a man who loved a surprise. A single green door leads into the Priory of the Knights of Malta.
The latest project by Vector Architects speaks for a new generation of Chinese architects resisting the trend for mega-scale schemes, producing instead human-centred, low-level, contextually driven work, even when it gently belies its function as a library.
Why do hairstyles so often capture the zeitgeist? Consider the undercut, the avant-garde cut of our writer's childhood, which let the young walk anonymously until they swept their hair-curtains back to reveal the secret.
Looking at Marc Quinn’s most recent work in the Middle East, as part of an inaugural ‘The World Meets Here’ group show in Dubai’s Custot Gallery, it’s difficult not to reflect on what a far cry it is from that which first brought him to fame. If “blood head” doesn’t sound familiar, then…
Far from an ordinary boutique, Milan's Palazzo Ralph Lauren is conceived as an ultra-exclusive luxury club, offering its members the full brand experience within the intimate setting of a private residence.
The bestselling author and social-science observer turned his name into shorthand for big-picture thinking. He cheerfully admits he is no scientist, yet his elegant theories still reshape how we read modern life.
Lamborghini says a rear-wheel-drive Huracan was always part of the plan, and expects it to account for most sales. The purer LP 580-2 was conceived not to break records, but for the sheer fun of the road.
On a cold, rain-slicked London night, our writer arrives at a Mayfair townhouse where Mr Porter is toasting its fifth birthday, ushered inside by handsome men in waistcoats to celebrate the menswear pioneer.
It is no accident that the Library, a Manhattan boutique hotel, sits a block from the New York Public Library, the grand century-old building that inspired it. Sales chief Adele Milne explains the connection.
Estimated to be worth over 400 million dollars, Gisele Bündchen is by far the most successful model ever. As a final adieu to a twenty-year career, she has created this 536-page tome with Taschen.
Set near Notre-Dame in central Paris, the Institut du Monde Arabe ranks among Mitterrand's celebrated Grands Projets. A museum, library and more, this urban scheme remains a work of striking architectural character.