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27 87, perfume against nostalgia: seven fragrances out of the archive
Ten years after it was founded in Barcelona, Romy Kowalewski’s independent house releases seven unseen fragrances composed between 2017 and 2025: white bottles, short supply chains, no nostalgia
SWAB Barcelona 2026 builds a fair from scaffolding, bread and thermal paper
Reusable timber and edible works: SWAB Barcelona 2026 as a fair assembled, eaten and taken apart
Learning from time: the logic of multi-vintage blending
With 36% reserve wines and a base harvest from 2018, Krug Grande Cuvée 174ème Édition shows how time, ageing and assemblage are used to construct continuity
Can a 310-room resort still behave like a rural estate?
Across sixty hectares in Kakheti, Lopota Lake Resort holds together hospitality, organic winemaking and contemporary Georgian architecture. This autumn, groundworks began on the largest building the estate has ever commissioned
A Modigliani at $100 million and a box of flashlights on Bantayan
From the Grand Palais, where 211 galleries showed Warhol, Duchamp and Holzer, to the island where the fellowship funded by one of the fair’s partners buys diving lamps
Lorenza Longhi at Centro Pecci: Villa Delizia, fabric, display and error
Lorenza Longhi’s first institutional solo show in Italy: ten canvases in Prato district fabric, screenprinting and flocking, the museum’s sofas dressed and the solar tubes reopened
Rose Snow de HJ by Henry Jacques: the rose wax that crystallizes in the bottle
Perfumers filter wax out of rose extracts to keep a perfume clear. In Rose Snow de HJ, a fraction of it stays and forms crystals that melt at skin temperature
Black truffle in Umbria: one soil in Trevi yields two harvests a year
From Calabrian bergamot groves to sawmill offcuts in the United States: the fields, stills and laboratory methods behind a fragrance in Les Classiques
Cascador by Henry Jacques: the raw materials behind a citrus fragrance
From Calabrian bergamot groves to sawmill offcuts in the United States: the fields, stills and laboratory methods behind a fragrance in Les Classiques
Mag to Mag: indipendenza e roughness nel lavoro di chi pubblica riviste
Dal controllo dei contenuti ai costi di stampa, cinque riviste presenti a Mag to Mag discutono il lavoro necessario per pubblicare e il rapporto fra cura editoriale e libertà degli...
Art Basel Paris 2026: a fifth edition read through its materials
From tar to recycled X-ray silver: how 211 Art Basel Paris exhibitors work their materials, October 23 to 25
Art Basel Paris 2026: Alice Diop’s Geste de Consolation brings the Public Program to Palais d’Iéna
At Miu Miu’s Geste de Consolation, Alice Diop turns spectatorship into part of Palais d’Iéna’s architecture, making visitors conscious of how they look, where they sit, and how they are...
A UFO Lands in Brooklyn – only the dent survives
Tom Friedman turns disposable cookware into permanent steel figures, while a companion show on the Lower East Side treats thirty-six years of studio debris as the work
Paint it Black Torino: Publishing beyond print
From the artist's book to museum bookshops and phonetics: Paint It Black reflects on the time of reading and on the role of publishing in contemporary culture
A 400-year-old cedar at the entrance to COMO Castello del Nero
In Chianti, between Florence and Siena, a medieval residence turned hotel: Paola Navone's interiors, a Michelin kitchen fed by its own garden, and 300 hectares that still make wine and...
Teatro dei Sogni traces a line from Venice to Lake Como
A Venetian pattern dated 1780 becomes Teatro dei Sogni, the fine bone china service developed by Geminiano Cozzi for Passalacqua on Lake Como
Satinine Galleria: Bulgarian rose, Italian sage and Indonesian nutmeg beneath Mengoni’s iron vault
The Milanese house names a composition after the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II and builds it on three raw materials from three countries
Papercut, Stockholm: eighteen years of print retail in Södermalm
Alexander Dahlberg and Andreas Fryklund opened Papercut in 2008. The store trades magazines, books and film from one Södermalm address while Swedish bookshop numbers contract
Torre, Fondazione Prada: Rémy Savage brings distilling back to Largo Isarco
At Torre, Rémy Savage’s Archivio Isarco reconnects Fondazione Prada with the former Largo Isarco distillery through twelve drinks made from house-produced bases
Portrait Milano and the Sunday ritual of 10_11
At 10_11, the courtyard between Corso Venezia and Via Sant’Andrea becomes the setting for a weekly Sunday brunch inside one of Milan’s historic complexes
Keyla Hotel & Beach, Antalya: adaptive reuse on the cliffs of Lara
Dark ceramic, timber-toned aluminium and sharp horizontal lines set Keyla against the limestone cliffs of Lara, where architecture follows the geology of Antalya’s Mediterranean coast
IDEA, London. Finding genius, magic and creative insight in a curated inventory of images
David Owen and Angela Hill refined their ability to perceive an image’s potential through a process of trial and error. Their intuition and broad-mindedness define their approach to selecting titles
Pressato Coffee and Books: Nello Russo brings letterpress to a Turin coffee bar
Pressato combines a coffee counter, a bookshop for analog printing and a program of exhibitions tied to independent publishing
Maison Crivelli builds Tobacco Carnaval on a leaf that is cured
Thibaud Crivelli worked with Quentin Bisch on an extrait built around cured tobacco leaf and infused rum – the formula is withheld
Poliform Milano: cast-iron columns and an oak stair at Piazza della Scala
Stefano Belingardi Clusoni holds the renovation to stone, light oak, glass and mirrored steel, while Poliform Lab furnishes fifteen hundred square meters as a villa inside the city
D-Resort Göcek and the making of Turkey’s quietest yachting town
Low-rise buildings, open wood grids and reflecting pools frame D-Resort Göcek, set between the village, six marinas and the Twelve Islands, along a protected stretch of the Gulf of Fethiye
Perfumer H Clay: Lyn Harris translates the earth into scent
Orange flower, sandalwood, juniper and burnt ash form CLAY, the eau de parfum Lyn Harris built after travelling through the Haouz Valley and the High Atlas: dry wood, mineral heat,...
Kajal’s Dahab Absolu adds the flowers that Dahab left out
Patrick Müller of LUZI rebuilds the house's floral-free bestseller around tropical fruit, a sulfur-bright green thread and a base where oakmoss and musk share one Italian word
Lake Como Design Festival 2026 works the border between materials
Waste and biomaterials: the eighth edition reads the border as the seam where one material is worked into another
The Telegraph Tbilisi shows that adaptive reuse can resist nostalgia
One year after opening, The Telegraph continues to chart Tbilisi’s evolution: how the 1964 Brutalist Central Post and Telegraph Office was transformed, and the references that help decode its identity
Archambault built Essential Parfums on extraction methods
Essential Parfums pairs high-concentration naturals with direct distribution and puts the perfumer's name on the bottle
How Carthusia turned Capri into a fragrance identity
Inside the world of Fiori di Capri, and how Carthusia transformed Capri into a fragrance identity built on place, continuity and local production.
Mille Edicola Milan: a newsstand in Porta Romana expands beyond newspaper distribution
Mille Edicola in Milan - a historic Porta Romana newsstand featuring newspapers, independent magazines, books, exhibitions and publishing events while preserving its original retail function
Getting high without getting drunk
Mixology, herbs, ritual and Eli Martinez Bello at YAPA’s fourth Liquid Dialogues chapter — Altered states that has nothing to do with the alcohol
Librairie La Comète, Paris. One does not know but to take a leap
«What we carry is based on instinct. There are times when the print job is not up to standard, or the other way around. We trust the quality of the...
Yvon Lambert, Paris. On artistic recurrences
Yvon Lamberts returns to Marais, this time not as an art dealer but as a bookseller and modern publisher. «I want to do something more humanistic»
Reading Room, Milan. A white cube for magazines turns into a cultural hub
A Forty-square-meter gallery in the district of Corvetto. In conversation with founder Francesca Spiller: «Running a bookshop today means creating a relationship with the producers of magazines»
Palazzo Offline in Rome: publishing, work, and the changing Pigneto
As Pigneto changes through urban redevelopment, Palazzo Offline combines publishing, education, and editorial production under one roof
How CHART 2026 is redefining the art fair model: in conversation with Julie Quottrup Silbermann
Lowering the threshold without lowering artistic ambition: CHART Art Fair’s approach to new collectors, public engagement and contemporary art
Primo Piano: a perfume inspired by the unfinished palace of Luisa Casati in Venice
Primo Piano transforms Palazzo Venier dei Leoni into an olfactory project built around tuberose, incense, leather accords, cultural memory, and twentieth-century Venetian lifestyle
Verdura Resort, Sciacca: A Coastline Built from Seventy Deeds and a Duke’s Name
Sir Rocco Forte spent seven years assembling more than seventy plots of land to build Verdura Resort on Sicily’s southwest coast and this year completed a redesign by Paolo Moschino...
Aurora Merano: how a family hotel evolves without starting over
A conversation with Philipp Aukenthaler to trace the evolution of Aurora: “Every generation has changed it in its own way.” Looking forward, never erasing: from materials and architecture to music...
Casa del Limonero, the Sevillian house where eclecticism becomes instinct
The deer teaches you to move forward while looking back: the symbol of Casa del Limonero, a Sevillian casa-palacio where a collector turns what she has gathered into a buen...
Poliform Café extends the flagship store into a glass volume open onto Piazza della Scala
A working sample of the company's interiors, tested by daily use: travertine, steel, and wood, forty covers, and a covered terrace at the quiet edge of the square
Wideyes Sound Garden at La Cutura: a night of electronic music built on pietra leccese
Cristina Lazic, the Curly Brothers, and Gianni Sabato play a glasshouse courtyard in Giuggianello, where a DJ console cut from quarry offcuts stands on the stone that carried Lecce Baroque
1 Hotel Central Park: a green façade for Manhattan hospitality
A few steps from Central Park, 1 Hotel Central Park turns reclaimed wood, living plants, low-impact systems and biophilic design into the grammar of contemporary luxury
