A bohemian apogee
Charlie Boyer and the Voyeurs emphatically wear their fuzz and glam influences upon their ruffled sleeves. Though to critique their stompy sonic platter this way would be pretty obtuse. Yes, début album, Cl...
ClerkenWell designed
Now in its fourth year, Clerkenwell Design Week is bigger and better than ever and is stamping itself into the annual calendar as a major international festival of design. Clerkenwell is purported to have E...
Rethinking China
“Study the past if you would define the future”
– Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
Modern China adores education. Learning for Chinese students constitutes an immemorial praxis of the highest cultural value. ...
Precious perfumery
About 100 years ago, it was perceived to be a scandal to wear perfume directly on the skin rather than on one’s clothes. In the same way that latex was until very recently seen as a fetish fabric, so perfume ...
Can architecture heal? Glass visits the newly opened Centre for Cancer and Recovery in Copenhagen
We generally accept that our physical surroundings impact our moods and feelings, but the question as to what effect they have on our physical health is less well-explored. It is commonly accepted that body and...
Portrait of a woman
Charlotte Rampling is one of fashion and cinema’s most enduring icons, immortalised by Helmut Newton, muse to Yohji Yamamoto, revered by legions of creative greats. Glass spends a day in Paris with a living l...
Design emerged
“We do not to have a signature but rather a handwriting. We like to tell stories in different ways.” This is how Meadham Kirchhoff have described their style. That the French-English designer duo do things th...
(Extra)ordinary Yung Ho Chang
According to Philip Tinari, a leading curator of art and architecture in China, Yung Ho Chang can be referred to as “a pioneer of contemporary Chinese architecture“. This epithet refers to the historical sign...
The actress
Olga Kurylenko has achieved the impossible. She has successfully established a serious acting career after achieving the mixed blessing of starring as a Bond girl in 2008’s Quantum of Solace. The question o...
Role model
Let’s be honest, model interviews are not usually terribly interesting. Cheekbones, acting ambitions and frivolities aside, there is often little else to talk about. Coco Rocha, however, is exceptional in m...
Yundi and the chemistry of performance
Yundi is not your typical child prodigy turned classical music star. He is cool and centred, without any hint of being overwhelmed by where his talent has taken him: he is in complete control of all his exc...
Old fashion
Call me old-fashioned, but Midcentury Modern is my favourite date in the London Design calendar. Held at Dulwich College in South London, the fair celebrates classic and future classics in furniture and items...
In fine feather
For birds, feathers serve three main functions, to fly, keep warm and to attract their partners. But for Kate MccGwire they serve a very different function – art. Since her graduation from the Royal College o...
Greats of grace
Clement Crisp, ballet critic for the Financial Times for over 40 years, talks to Glass about man’s most graceful form of expression and names the world’s greatest living ballerinas. From his London home, wher...
Great blazes
Coates and Scarry, as a gallery and as a team, is a labour of love. “Did you know that Chippy is my life-partner?” Richard Scarry asks. He is sitting in the sunny Bristol apartment he shares with his partner...
Colorado: big sky country
To be honest, what draw could Colorado, this square state carved out of middle America, offer that would warrant a trip all the way there? You’d be surprised. It will be a trip that will turn your prejudices ...
Artists design
When The Sculpture House first approached me to write about their work, I didn't hesitate in my decision to meet them. Their beautiful website, launched just three weeks ago, shows an immaculately curated ...
Girl on film
Eminent Chinese director Zhang Yimou’s latest muse Ni Ni has taken China by storm with her breathtaking performances. Glass photographed her in November for Glass issue 12, Joy, in Beijing.
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Testino me out!
Mario Testino, the prolific chronicler of the famous and fashionable, is content to be a mere fashion photographer without needing to be revered as an artist as well. Yet he’s now being exalted as one, by cur...