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Glass talks to Jean-Francois Lanzetta, founder of Inhedited – maker of some of the world’s finest notebooks

March 4, 2016

“AND HOW are you with Suminagashi?” he asked. “Good, I think” she laughed down the line. He smiled to himself, knowing that he might just have found the missing ingredient for what was soon to become his firs...

Glass reviews Carrie Brownstein’s memoir – Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl

Michele Kirsch

December 18, 2015

Books, Feature, Music

Carrie Brownstein, guitarist in American Riot Grrrl bandSleater-Kinney, writer and co-star of the award-winning TV series Portlandia, and in this incarnate, a compelling story teller, has done the improbable. T...

Glass talks to author Joël Dicker about his collaboration with car brand DS automobiles

Livia Feltham

December 8, 2015

Books, Culture, Glass Talents, News

Glass visits Paris to talk to Swiss novelist Joël Dicker to discover the inspiration behind Dicker’s latest cast of fictional characters which stems from the author’s latest collaboration with hallmark French a...

An era without memories – Glass reviews a new book of contemporary photography depicting the rapid urbanisation of China

Louise Lui

October 27, 2015

Art, Books, Feature, Photography

THE urban transformation of China in the past few decades has been given rise to countless books, articles, and arresting testimonies. An Era Without Memories documents this in photographic form, showcasing the...

The Glass library

Nicola Kavanagh

September 9, 2015

Books, Feature

“When we arrived in Paris, Rei Kawakubo and I, we weren’t completely aware of what we were doing” – Yohji Yamamoto. And so it started: yet another remarkable chapter in the life of this humblest of...

The New Concrete: Visual Poetry in the 21st Century

Stephanie Clair

September 1, 2015

Avant Art, Books, Culture, Feature

Born from post-war socio-political shifts, visual poetry has been a movement of dramatic rise and quick decline in popularity. With the relatively new availability of written word through digital mediums, com...

Burning bright

Yasmin Bilbeisi

August 26, 2015

Avant Art, Books, Feature, Photography

A new members’ club in the West End has eclipsed the strobe lights, street lights, and twinkling taxi signs to earn the distinction of its name – Lights of Soho (LoS). LoS runs on a principle of inclusivity ra...

The evolution of belief

Aaron Trinidade

August 14, 2015

Archive, Books, Culture, Feature, News

As we burgeon headlong into the 21st century, there seems to be a growing zeitgeist afoot: the slow but steady death of religious belief. Previously taboo, the once-hushed voice of atheism has recently begu...

A fresh look into modern China

Louise Lui

August 6, 2015

Avant Art, Books, China, Feature, Photography

The Chinese Photobook: From the 1900s to the Present The Chinese photobook emerges from a rich and diverse history that has still been largely unexplored. Ranging from personal artist prints and albums t...

Glass charts the rise of China’s female authors and speaks to two of the brightest contemporary stars Xujun Eberlein and Xu Xi

Samantha Kuok Leese

May 22, 2015

Archive, Books, Culture, Feature

Women hold up half the sky – Glass charts the rise of China’s female authors and speaks to two of the brightest contemporary stars Xujun Eberlein and Xu Xi There is an ancient Chinese proverb that says “women ...

Certified Indigenous

Roberta Lister

May 21, 2015

Avant Art, Books, Culture, Travel

The Luxury Collection: Certified Indigenous This month sees The Luxury Collection and Assouline join forces once more to re-write the travel guide in an impossibly luxe guise. Following the success of Epicur...

Dreams of literature – In a celebration of the enduring pleasure of literature, Glass speaks to four prominent and varied voices on its place in the future

Glass Archive

March 20, 2015

Archive, Avant Art, Books, Culture

Dreams of literature – In a celebration of the enduring pleasure of literature, Glass speaks to four prominent and varied voices on its place in the future Literature has a remarkable gift. It touches each o...

Dream-weaver – the surreal eye. Glass speaks to the extraordinary photographer Bill Silano

Glass Archive

February 27, 2015

Archive, Art, Avant Art, Books, Culture, Feature, Glass Celebrates, Glass Talents, News, Photography

Dream-weaver – the surreal eye. Glass speaks to the extraordinary photographer Bill Silano The extraordinary work of Bill Silano marked a new era in fashion photography, but having shied away from the spotli...

Magnificent obsession – Photographer Lee Miller and a life uncensored

Lauren Weinberg

February 12, 2015

Archive, Art, Avant Art, Beauty, Books, Culture, Feature, Glass Celebrates, Glass Talents, Photography

Magnificent obsession – Photographer Lee Miller and a life uncensored Mention Lee Miller’s name and the image of an icy, ethereal blonde comes to mind, her exquisite profile shimmering in the aura of a Steic...

The art of travel

Nico Kos Earle

June 19, 2014

Asia, Avant Art, Books, Culture, Europe, Feature, France, Italy, Travel, Vietnam

Following from the success of their Carnets de Voyage, in which four contemporary artists were invited to illustrate cities they visited for the first time, Louis Vuitton will be launching two new travel titl...