Christmas by Courvoisier
This Christmas, Courvoisier are making it personal. Pick up your bottle of Courvoisier XO, Courvoisier 21 Year Old, or L'Essence de Courvoisier at Selfridges this year and have it engraved with a bespoke perso...
Art company Beautiful Crime launches temporary concept store for art lovers
Urban and contemporary London-based art company, Beautiful Crime has opened BCC, the Beautiful Crime Concept shop, in Covent Garden, London.
The BCC store (and the first of its kind, the owners’ claim, in the ...
London’s hidden interiors
London Hidden Interiors is a thrill. The English Heritage book satiates a curiosity, instigates a hunt and strengthens a romance with London, my fair city.
I fancy a great deal of cities: Munich, my anch...
Rolls-Royce Wraith – The rebirth of a classic
“I’d like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around.” ? F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
When I first met Alex Innes, it was inside the front window of Harrods, wher...
Paradise lost
Magnificent, compelling and often disconcerting, Edward Burtynsky’s images of manmade (and man-destroyed) landscapes have taken the art world by storm. Burtynsky speaks to Glass on oil, environment and why ...
Let nature do as she wants
On the craggy ridge of a moor, our ghillie Innes inches along the sodden ground with his elbows, his belly dragging through inhospitable growth. The glen is scattered with dark mounds, temporary shelters of...
Shakespearification
Prepare to be Shakespearified. Now I know that isn’t a word – yet – but changes are afoot at the RSC and perhaps we need a new term to celebrate them. This week, Richard II, starring David Tennant, will be ...
Sketches of Home
The works of Stewart Home are often morally devoid. This isn’t something the author particularly aspires towards, they’re just by-products of the avant filters he applies to his art. He is keen though to dist...
Like a bullet to the hippocampus
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When people first find out that I left a tropical island in the Caribbean to move to the UK, their initial reaction tends to be one of complete disbelief that anyone would leave “paradise” to live in Londo...
Model citizen
She is one of the top models in the world and has done every show from Chanel to Victoria’s Secret but Jacquelyn Jablonski still loves nothing better than her mum’s home cooking and hanging on the beach in...
Glass talks to Annabelle Wallis about her career-defining appearance in Steven Knight’s Peaky Blinders
When Annabelle Wallis walks into the bar in the first episode of Peaky Blinders, she illuminates the dank post-WW I Birmingham set like a white flag flying above the parapet – it is a career-defining momen...
FASHIONISTA(RT)
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Can fashion ever be art? Very few cultural arguments have divided opinion so strongly. Miuccia Prada echoed the sentiments of many that ‘…fashion is not art’ in an imagined conversation with Schiaparelli i...
Fortunately, for us …
Kaspar’s, the Savoy’s stunning Seafood Bar and Grill is, as today’s author Neil Gaiman dryly intones, “very posh”. These ornate surrounds, previously boasting Noel Coward, Oscar Wilde, Henry Fielding and Kath...
Cartier presents Style and History
Cartier presents Style and History
Next month, Cartier will launch Style and History: a gargantuan retrospective, celebrating the history of the legendary fine jewellery house.
Curated by Laurent Salomé, ...
Tel Aviv City Guide
Israel is a land of contradictions and Tel Aviv, its most cosmopolitan city, is no exception. One of the most striking things about Tel Aviv is its newness. A little over a century ago, a group of Jewish famil...
Where art thou? Glass reviews Art Studio America: Contemporary Art Spaces
Where art thou? Glass reviews Art Studio America: Contemporary Art Spaces – a stunning new book offers unique insights into the creative world of America’s most celebrated artists
The artist’s studio is th...
Jeff Koons for Dom Pérignon collaboration
The latest artist x alcoholic beverage collaborations comes in the form of Jeff Koons’s limited edition new bottle for Dom Perignon, revealing the Balloon Venus. This is the latest in a series of collaborations...
Moschino love Disaronno limited edition bottle
Disaronno, one of the most popular Italian liqueur in the world has collaborated with Italian fashion house Moschino and created an iconic bottle to add to our drinks cabinet collection. The special edition bot...
Go Wild in the country
Ever since I’ve been a child wildlife photography has held a special place in my heart. Although my passion lies with portraits, like many I was fascinated by the beautiful images accompanied by David Atten...
Glass films…Olga Kurylenko x Glass Magazine by Rob Walker
The extremely talented Olga Kurylenko (Oblivion, Quantum of Solace) photographed by Anders Brogaard & filmed by Rob Walker at the sumptuous Langham hotel - catch behind the scenes glimpses of the glass crew inc...
Truth in the age of film
The 1980s have been called “the era of Wu Tianming”. in the Chinese film industry and there is a well-known saying which describes with reverence the pivotal role of the director in the Chinese film industry....