Taylor made

Jessica Quillin
Feature
Lancashire-born designer Charlotte Taylor is known for her quirky prints, including penguins, vintage robots, bees, ants, and other surprising things. After finishing school, Charlotte moved to London to pu...

It’s all dandy

Sarah Tweed
Avant Art
Wayne Holloway-Smith is one of London’s most exciting young poets. He has been nominated for awards. His poems have been anthologised and appeared in a wide range of literary journals and magazines. In 2010...

The artist

Nicola Kavanagh
Archive, Culture, Feature
Audrey Tautou is one of those rare birds. She is simultaneously one of the most famous actresses of her generation (Amélie is the highest grossing French movie of all time and even managed to break America ...

Luxury without gloss

Douglas Blyde
Dining, Feature, Glass Design
Although it has a small population – equivalent, at 5.4m, to the city of Philadelphia – Finland’s design culture, integrated into daily life, has touched the lives of a great many people. This year, while c...

Brave new world

Glass Archive
Archive, Feature
The June sunshine dapples on the slate at the Temple of Heaven, the Water Cube and Bird’s Nest sit still as two audacious beacons of a sprawling Beijing beaming across the globe. In a city where the East me...

City Slick

Emilie Lemons
Glass Design
Now … before I start my article on South Place, I have a little confession to make. Firstly, in addition to my tres glamorous role as Design and Architecture Editor for Glass online, I should probably menti...

Not so black and white

Ben Olsen
Feature
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Be it sat on stage in a bathrobe addressing his audience in song, breaking a world record for continuous piano playing (that’s 27-hours straight, since you ask), illustrating the similarities between Phil Colli...

Nails are MAC for good

Viola Levy
Feature
With colours that pop, shimmer, glisten or project moodily from the fingertips and toes, MAC’s new permanent collection of nail lacquers cater for all tones and tastes. Old favourites which have previously ...

The contrarian couturier

Peter Yeoh
News
Yohji Yamamoto’s fashion constructs, renowned for their unconventional forms and innovative use of fabrics, continue to create a sensation thirty years after his first show in Paris. His clothes have upende...

Brainwashing the nation

Sarah Tweed
Avant Art, Feature
Who is to say what is art and what is not? Cubism, Expressionism, Surrealism, sure. But what about Street Art? What started as an underground revolt, has somehow filtered through the cracks right into broad...

A moment with Kirsty Ward

Jessica Quillin
Feature
Designer Kirsty Ward brings a unique aesthetic to fashion with her merging of womenswear and jewellery design. Her bold, structural creations combine unusual but complementary materials like silk, rivets an...