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Design

Keeping it local

When relocating from the US to Thailand, the couple behind design practice Studiomake decided to take the best ideas from the nation’s provincial architecture to use for their own home-cum-studio.

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  • 4 min read
Keeping it local
Design

Peace and harmony

Feeling at ease in an airport lounge, hotel or cinema is hugely dependent on your surroundings. These examples from around the world illustrate how intuitive interiors are a crucial part of the hospitality experience.

  • Issue #80
  • 14 min read
Peace and harmony
Design

Homes from home

From the world’s most anticipated openings to ingenious start-ups and practical advice on how to set up your own star bar, here are our hand-picked heroes benchmarking top-notch service.

  • Issue #80
  • 13 min read
Homes from home
Design

Group think

As urbanists around the world devise new approaches to better everyday living, we highlight three projects in Japan, Sweden and Singapore taking a fresh perspective.

  • Issue #80
  • 6 min read
Group think
Retail

Inventory no. 80

In this hospitality special we bring you colourful coasters from Brookyln, eye-catching tableware from Tokyo and the perfect saké for raising a toast.

  • Issue #80
  • 4 min read
Inventory no. 80
Culture

Southern comfort

Post-Katrina New Orleans is rebuilding itself as a contemporary art capital, with biennials, artist-run galleries and a new generation of talent reshaping the city's cultural identity.

  • Issue #80
  • 8 min read
Southern comfort
Culture

Culture

An Australian TV legend, a celebration of disco cover art and how to run a successful front of house

  • Issue #80
  • 5 min read
Culture
Business

Cooking the books

How do you train a workforce that values manual work, is self-reliant, accommodating to both men and women and, above all, hospitable? In Finland it starts with a simple premise: biscuits.

  • Issue #80
  • 6 min read
Cooking the books
Arts

Son of a Beach: Miami’s art scene

Miami was all washed-up but then a new breed of art galleries and a boatload of art collections sailed in, aided by the fair winds of Art Basel's Miami fair and the lure of…

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Artworks displayed in a gallery.

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