In celebration of its official sponsorship of the 65th Cannes Film Festival, Stella Artois has created the Cannes Cinema Club, designed to bring the spirit of Cannes to the UK. The club will see a partnership between Stella Artois and Picturehouse Cinemas, to provide the perfect environment to welcome one of the most iconic films...
Last night I popped down to Jo Malone’s flagship store on Sloane St, as a part of a Chelsea area shopping event.I have always been a big fan of Jo Malone, so was looking forward to speaking to one of their fragrance stylists to help come up with my own signature scent. Fragrance is such...
Fire Season, follows the life of Philip Connors, who swaps his job as an editor at the Wall Street Journal to become a fire lookout in the wilds of New Mexico. For nearly a decade, he has spent half of each year in a small room at the top of a tower, on top...
The Vauxhall Art Car Boot Fair is back for another year! This year the popular one-day art event will be taking place on May 27th, and will see legendary and up-and-coming artists gather to sell one off works, just-for-the-day pieces and more, in a fun bargain-hunter friendly event at the Old Truman Brewery...
With summer just around the corner, the supermarkets are already full of tasty vegetables from Europe perfect for creating delicious summery salads. It is also perfect for making one of my all time favourite summer recipes – Lettuce Wraps with Hoisin-Mustard Tofu. Adapted from the amazing cook book Appetite for Reduction, They have tons of...
Maurice Sendak, the creative genius behind books such as ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ and ‘In the Night Kitchen’, has passed away at the age of 83. Sendak is considered by many to be one of the most important children’s book artist of the 20th century. He changed they way we think about children’s books,...
The Serpentine Gallery has released plans for the 2012 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion designed by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei. It will be the twelfth commission in the Gallery’s annual series. The design team responsible for the celebrated Beijing National Stadium, which was built for the 2008 Olympic Games, comes together again in London...
A few years ago a group in New York, called Macro-Sea, helped reinvent the term dumpster diving, by using old construction dumpsters to create instant pools; throwing pool parties in undisclosed locations around Brooklyn. The groups mission simply put, is “to do projects we find interesting.” They created the dumpster pools, as a way of...
A little behind the pack, I finally made my way over to the recently opened Western concourse of King’s Cross station this past weekend. For those of you who have also yet to make it there, the Western concourse is the first major component of the much larger King’s Cross regeneration project (£2 billion across...
Thursday April 26th, Peroni will bring together two of Italy’s most influential product designers, Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin of FormaFantasma, to discuss the future of Italian design at . The evening will offer a unique insight into the personal reflections and anecdotes from the collaborative design duo, and will focus on their combined...
“He’s a genius. Is it really necessary to know what it’s about?” (A. Vallard) The relationship between an artist and a merchant is not a strictly commercial one – it involves a wide range of feelings and expectations, reciprocal esteem, trust and possibly a creative exchange that can last a lifetime. This new exhibition at...
Utopia London is a must watch documentary for anyone interested in Modernist architecture, or who lives in London for that matter. Directed by Tom Cordell, the film observes the method and practice of the Modernist architects who rebuilt London after World War Two. It shows how they revolutionised life in the city in the wake...
