A rose is a rose
Rosewood Hotels and Resorts’ first property in China will open in Beijing in October 2014. Coinciding with this exciting announcement, the Rosewood Hotel in London has just won the acclaimed Hotel...
Futurecities – urban promise
Glass traces the path of the utopian city, from the sci-fi visions of the ’60s to Norman Foster’s zero carbon project and a tower to rival Everest. But which holds the key to our survival?
Two major fact...
Draw you in – Glass talks to British artist Frances Aviva Blane about her current show Deconstruct
LONDON-based British artist Frances Aviva Blane’s show Deconstruct is currently on display at De Queeste Art Kunstkamers, Belgium alongside work by Francis Bacon and Louise Bourgeois with each artist each havin...
The road to olfactory delight
Penhaligon’s are world-renowned for creating evocative, unusual and otherworldly scents– with a dash of English charm thrown in. This time the focus is on London with their Trade Routes Collection...
NYFW SS15: Libertine
As the Libertine SS15 Ready to Wear show ran, social media pulsed. As it closed, better, threw a cast party, perhaps, is the better phrase - fashion voyeurs “liked” the images frantically. Frantic pulsing might...
The makings of Melia
Life comes and goes quickly, especially as time goes by, though early on in life we are usually ushered into deciding upon a suitable career path with generally no looking back. Actors such as the...
NYFW SS15: Carolina Herrera
We expect nothing less than the utmost classiness from Carolina Herrera, and, naturally, we received nothing but from her SS15 collection. Femininity abound, the collection spanned a variety of looks, such as b...
Enter through the forest and arrive in utopia – Green Man Festival
Buying a festival is scarcely heard of, but nine years ago Fiona Stewart decided to purchase Green Man when it was in desperate need of rejuvenation. Stewart had previously been the manager behind...
Like the wind
Multifaceted and renowned cinematographer Christopher Doyle speaks to Glass about the inception of his remarkable career and a life devoted to his art form
As Christopher Doyle’s Chinese name, Du Ke Feng...
Mersey, Mersey me
Since 2008, when it was named the European Capital of Culture, the transformation of Liverpool has brought a new artistic confidence and vigour to the great port-city. Liverpool now has more galle...
Ethically beautiful
Over the past 10 years, Jasper Garvida has made a name for himself in British fashion for his clean-cut silhouettes and immaculate tailoring. His newest line, Éthologie, launched in Autumn/Winter 2014 to mu...
It’s only natural
When fashion week comes to London, either when it’s just starting to get a little warmer or just starting to get a little colder each year, the possibilities for each and everyone involved are endless. For what...
A melange of metropolitan chefs
Chef Tong Chee Hwee grew up in Malaysia and he remembers the delicious meals his Hakka grandmother used to cook before he went to Singapore in 1982 to take up his first job in a kitchen. His talen...
Tadao Ando reflects on how architecture can bring people closer to their original values
Mirroring the promise
of the individual – Tadao Ando reflects on how architecture can bring
people closer to their original values
The architecture of Tadao Ando bears the conceptual mark of mirrors and re...
New Model Army – Glass meets Iris Somen
A new face on the modelling scene, 18-year-old Solvenian model Iris Somen, hails from the town of Ptuj and is represented in the UK by Profile. Iris was scouted at a concert in her home country.
How did yo...
From Architecture, SCANning Art
To scan is to glance and examine the particulars of an object or a condition. Yet it is also to scrutinise and observe sweepingly, as a large expanse. In summary, these are the actions and ambitions of Pedr...
Into the night
Whether it’s a styled press photo, an informal session with Glass photographer Justin van Vliet or bathed in mood lighting on stage, this six-piece dream-pop ensemble, fronted by Sophie-Rose Harper, are wel...
Summer on the smiling coast of Africa
It’s 6.30 in the evening, an hour before the sun sets over the Gambian coast – locally described as the smiling coast of Africa – and I’m passing time in a car park. Admittedly the car park of the stylish f...
When the world says no
When Yoko Ono was a young girl living in Japan she witnessed the tragedy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The indescribable horror of the atomic bombs hitting the two cities and concluding WWII in 1945 will forev...
The image at breaking point
“My body is the intention, my body is the event, my body is the result,” said Gunter Brus, co-founder with Otto Mühl, Hermann Nitsch and Rudolf Schwarzkogler of a new art movement called Vienna Actionism.
A...
Fishwives and knitted herrings
Swan House is classic Hastings. Go past the Tourist Information centre and Iceland, keep walking to Argos and George Street, then climb up some narrow, cobbled steps to Hill Street. Swan House is ad...