Feature - The Glass Magazine

Glass talks with Tom Riley to share his experiences of playing the lead role in Da Vinci Demons

April 7, 2014

Culture, Don't Miss: Television, Don't Miss: Theatre, Feature, Glass Talents

Kent-born, English actor Tom Riley spent his early years writing and directing plays before formally studying English literature and drama at the University of Birmingham. After graduating in 2002, Tom embarked...

Immortal melody

Nicola Kavanagh

April 4, 2014

Archive, Feature

They are some of the greatest masterpieces ever written by humankind but what does the future hold for such specialist art forms as classical music and opera? What relevance do they hold in modern society and w...

Glass talks to British actor Laura Haddock about playing Da Vinci’s lover in the day, and finding solace in cooking at night

Stephanie Clair

April 3, 2014

Culture, Don't Miss: Television, Don't Miss: Theatre, Feature, Glass Talents

Playing the mistress – Glass talks to British actor Laura Haddock about playing Da Vinci's lover in the day, and finding solace in cooking at night Watching the actress Hayley Mills star in Pollyanna at an e...

The eyes have it – When it comes to eye-care a pair of cucumber slices just isn’t going to cut it, as Glass discovers …

Viola Levy

April 2, 2014

Beauty, Cosmetics We Love, Culture, Fashion, Feature, News, Shopping Guide

Despite allegedly being “windows to the soul”, our eyes seem to take quite a fair amount of flack on a daily basis. Not getting enough sleep, dehydration and wearing contact lenses for far longer than...

Bamford braves new frontiers

Livia Feltham

April 1, 2014

Beauty, Culture of Commerce, Fashion, Feature, News, Shopping Guide

“New growth – above all optimism”, and if you take Carole Bamford’s word for it, the recent developments that have unfolded at the benefit of her eponymous RTW label throughout March clearly attest to her decl...

Fables of fame – Glass speaks with up-and-coming Scottish actor James McArdle

Stephanie Clair

April 1, 2014

Culture, Don't Miss: Theatre, Feature

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Knowing from a very young age that he wanted to become an actor, Glaswegian James McArdle has been feverishly chasing his dream ever since. From this youthful conviction, he joined and became a commit...

Sensing spaces: architecture reimagined

Harriet Smith

March 31, 2014

Avant Art, Culture, Feature, Glass Design

Sensing Spaces at the Royal Academy of Arts in London is an exhibition showcasing seven different spaces from architects from around the world. The concept behind the exhibition is to see how people respon...

Up in the clouds

Justin van Vliet

March 28, 2014

Art, Avant Art, Culture, Feature, Glass Talents, News, Photography

Amsterdam-based Dutch artist, Berndnaut Smilde has become quickly well-known in the art world for his Nimbus series of multi-disciplinary installations where using a smoke machine, and carefully adjus...

Through the eye of the beholder

Bonnie Friend

March 27, 2014

Art, Avant Art, Culture, Feature, News

“The world breaks everyone, and afterwards many are strong in the broken places.” Perhaps Hemingway had a little insight into our ongoing romance with semi-destruction in his rather poignant line ...

Against the trend

Bonnie Friend

March 26, 2014

Avant Art, Feature

Fashion in any field is a peculiar thing because to really be at the forefront of it you almost have to be the one who’s totally ignoring it. Such is the enduring case of two of the most influential artists...

Plisskën festival 2014 line up announced

Xenia Founta

March 25, 2014

Culture, Feature, Food & Drink, Music, News, Travel

The line-up for Plissken music festival 2014 has just been announced. The annual festival, held in Athens, features a wide array of various music genres and aims to bring eclectic artists to Greece. The music e...

Magical Madrid

Nicola Kavanagh

March 25, 2014

Europe, Feature, Spain, Travel

Madrid is one of the few European cities that has succeeded in retaining the overwhelming charm and authenticity of its mother culture – as the Spanish are wont to do so valiantly. Indeed, they ar...

Alice made this, fancy that

Livia Feltham

March 20, 2014

Feature

This year is already shaping up very well for Alice Walsh, mainly on account of her crafty cufflinks, and if you didn’t know, now you do, Alice made them. And indeed, Alice Made This cuff-links ar...

Simply does it

Bonnie Friend

March 19, 2014

Art, Avant Art, Culture, Feature, Glass Talents, News

In a world of perpetual information, constant conversation, and complex debate, it is an unbridled breath of fresh air and a proverbial sigh of relief to come across someone whose view liberates you from th...

Spring make-up report ‘14

Viola Levy

March 18, 2014

Beauty, Cosmetics We Love, Fashion, Feature, News, Shopping Guide, Shopping Guide

Make-up trends tend to come and go – smoky eyes one minute, a red lip the next with the occasional bold statement sneaking in which rarely makes it beyond the catwalks and coffee houses of Soho (blue lips a...

Laura Mercier teams up with Ovarian Cancer Action

Viola Levy

March 17, 2014

Beauty, Cosmetics We Love, Culture, Fashion, Feature, News, Shopping Guide, Shopping Guide

Those fond of beauty with a good cause behind it will no doubt welcome Laura Mercier’s three new launches, 100 per cent of the profits are being donated to the brand’s Ovarian Cancer Fund (LMOCF). An often over...

Lagerfeld takes London and the world stands by

Livia Feltham

March 17, 2014

Culture, Drinks, Fashion, Fashion Shows, Feature, News, Shopping Guide, Shopping Guide

Lagerfeld has officially touched down in London town, and the sultan of the fashion new order knows every in and every out of the capital city, indicating, soon after his Britannic invasion, that it is one of...

Artistic transgressor

Peter Yeoh

March 14, 2014

Avant Art, Feature

The polymorphous art of Sterling Ruby embraces paradox, confounds expectations, and defies easy categorisation. Yet at the same time his creative output partakes of and helps establish new paradigms for definin...

Self-conscious

Xenia Founta

March 12, 2014

Avant Art, Culture, Feature, Greece

This month the Frances Rich School of Fine Art and Performing Arts of DEREE, in Athens present a unique and very topical exhibition related to the pervasiveness of technological media in our lives. The e...

Gold Vein: Delfina Delettrez AW14

Roberta Lister

March 11, 2014

Avant Art, Design, Don't Miss: Film, Fashion, Feature, Jewellery and Watches, News, Shopping Guide

Fine jeweller Delfina Delettrez presents Gold Vein – a suitably surreal offering for AW14. Moving on from her previous work with diamonds, the collection explores the simple beauty of precious coloured stones w...

Thierry Mugler’s top-off

Renata Certo-Ware

March 10, 2014

Beauty, Cosmetics We Love, Culture, Feature, Fragrance Picks, News, Shopping Guide

Thierry Mugler is bringing back old-world luxury (and a subtle note of eco-friendly) with refillable perfume bottles, referential of a time before Ready To Wear and Over The Counter scents, when ladies woul...