All content Archive | May 2015

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May 31st
- Prado Restaurant — Lisbon, Portugal
May 29th
- Take a tour of architect Susan Fitzgerald’s new live/work space in Canada
- Fantom — Munich, Germany
- JW Marriott — Venice, Italy
- The golden touch: Mathias Kiss challenges decorative rules with brutalist ornamentation
- Dualchas Architects’ latest house in the Scottish Highlands mimics a telescope
- Loke Thye Kee — Penang, Malaysia
- Olafur Eliasson invites architects to join with the public to build a Lego skyline on New York's Highline
- On the rise: Dallas celebrates contemporary art with inaugural music and arts festival
- Dimore Studio envisages a new retail direction for Danish brand By Malene Birger in Copenhagen and beyond
- Yeeels — Paris, France
- Voodoo Ray’s — London, UK
May 28th
- London welcomes Block Universe, the city’s first-ever performance art festival
- Il San Pietro di Positano — Positano, Italy
- Second life: Etel gives Lina Bo Bardi's furniture a new lease on life
- Architecture afloat: a new design-led barge boat by Bert & May Spaces provides an alternative housing solution
- Tom Dixon's Peninsula Garden nods to its heritage while helping to sustain its future
- Clock watch: Cornelia Parker's hour has come at St Pancras International station
- City whimsy: Ruben Toledo’s limited edition portfolios for Louis Vuitton
May 27th
- Reframed and renamed: Niek Pulles and Sebastian Herkner interpret iconic Danish designs
- Milking it: designers get creative with dairy at Paris’ Milk Factory
- Inspired by Soane: contemporary creatives raffle off mini masterpieces for London museum
- Hollywood glam: Alex Prager takes on Istanbul’s Arts and Culture Festival
- Back to school: We visit Zaha Hadid’s new Middle East Centre at Oxford University
- House master: the new director of the Sir John Soane’s museum has big plans
May 26th
- Balancing act: Karl Zahn’s poetic pieces take centre stage in the windows of New York’s ER Butler & Co
- Mirror, mirror: the V&A hosts Mexican garden installation
May 22nd
- Play with me: Tate Modern hosts weekend of fun with Self Publish, Be Happy
- In tribute: new monograph remembers the late and great James Irvine
- Ergonomic jewels: expect the unexpected when it comes to Ana Khouri’s sculptural designs
- Mint coins: Dubini’s contemporary designs draw on history
- Court jester: Jaime Hayon gets his game on at Galerie Kreo with some big-hitting designs
- Balzac's book 'La Peau de Chagrin' inspires an artisan bag brand
May 21st
- Once upon a time in the West: Venus Over Manhattan tells the tale of the cowboy in art
- Working up a sweat: Nike launches invitation-only fitness studio for women
- Mix and match: Stephen Posen’s latest book of juxtaposing photographs
- Daniel’s — Innsbruck, Austria
- Hem — Berlin, Germany
- For the fans: Herzog & de Meuron unveils Nouveau Stade de Bordeaux
- The Landsby — Solvang, USA
- Juergen Teller and Xiang Jing dish up desire and detachment in joint show at Lehmann Maupin
May 20th
- Singapore's colourful new Indian Heritage Centre mixes history and modernity
- Bar Central — Stockholm, Sweden
- Stanley Diamond — Frankfurt, Germany
- Italy — Copenhagen, Denmark
- Flash from the past: Ford Mondeo and S-Max get the Vignale design treatment
- Space invaders: Rise Projects uses colour and creativity to take over Notting Hill
- An adventure in space and time: Omega celebrates its NASA legacy by redesigning the Speedmaster
- Opera house: Carmody Groarke create an aria in timber for Glyndebourne's summer seasons
- Phoebe English's new exhibition 'Floating, Falling, Drowning, Flying' opens at NOW Gallery
May 19th
- Hotel Sant Francesc — Mallorca, Spain
- Maketto — Washington DC, USA
- Ghanaian artist El Anatsui weaves his magic in upstate New York
- Tribute Hotel — Hong Kong, China
- Winner’s circle: 2015 Design Guild Marks celebrate British excellence
- Celebrating in style: Rob Pruitt's 50th birthday bash turned exhibition at The Brant Foundation
- Sophie Bille Brahe’s latest collection showcases the Danish fine jeweller’s softer side
- Paul Smith's London flagship draws together the world's top creatives for exhibition The Secret Life of the Pencil
- Creative city: Clerkenwell Design Week 2015 takes over London
- The London Project: innovative curator Magda Danysz's new gallery space
- Colony on Canal: the Tribeca design gallery putting designers first
May 18th
- Crystal set: Swarovski broadcasts 120 years of brilliance with a Kristallwelten revamp
- Crystal clear: ’Pop-Up: Sklo/Glass’ goes on show at Prague’s new ZIBA museum
- We unveil the 2015 RIBA London Award Winners
- Made in Mexico: Gala Fernández takes over NYCxDesign with sculptural pieces
- The Hepworth Wakefield celebrates modern sculpture with a human soul
- The things that Matter: Jamie Gray debuts Matter Made’s 2015 collection during NYCxDesign
- Always a pacesetter: MoMA pays tribute to the early works of Yoko Ono
- Art15: how and why public museums are no longer defining the art scene
May 15th
- Les Bains — Paris, France
- Mirror Houses — South Tyrol, Italy
- Picture this: Carsten Höller’s slide house project dreams up architecture
- Playing fair: a round up of the best of Frieze New York 2015
- FAT and Grayson Perry’s gingerbread house opens for bookings
- Rock on: Martin Szekely's digitalised pebble tables take New York
- Sandibe Okavango Safari Lodge — Maun, Botswana
- Eating out of the petri dish: Vik Muniz and Tal Danino’s bacterial tableware for Bernardaud
- Layered Terrace House responds to Pangyo-dong's dense urbanity
- Workshop Kitchen + Bar — Palm Springs, USA
May 14th
- The Saxon Hotel Villas & Spa — Johannesburg, South Africa
- Double bill: Abramović returns to Australia with blockbuster tour
- Victoire de Castellane's latest Dior Joaillerie collection Rose Des Vents reaches for the stars
- Wall of fame: Serpentine Galleries and Maharam deliver works of art by the roll
- The Sunflower House in Spain makes the most of sunlight and views
May 13th
- Colour as a narrative: perfume brand Illuminum explores realm of scent through architecture
- Modern hydroponics meet contemporary architecture in this new office in Mexico
- Dior checks into Pierre Cardin's Cannes summer residence for Cruise 2016
- Low-cost luxe: bedding down in affordable designer accommodation
- Game on: BIG completes a new sports and arts complex near Copenhagen
- Simply the breast: flick through the Brazilian sex comics of Carlos Zéfiro
- Meet the Haringey Brick House, a small house with a big personality
- Chipperfield set to redefine London's Royal Academy by 2018
- In memory: Guadeloupe’s new Mémorial ACTe remembers the slave trade
- Great strides: new exhibition retraces the footsteps of Mallorcan shoe brand Camper
May 12th
- The Woodspeen — Newbury, UK
- Soft spot: Muji’s pit stop offers some much-needed R&R during New York Design Week
- A sense of the classic: Acqua di Parma puts on first contemporary art show in Milan
- High flyer: a vision of Jean Nouvel’s addition to New York’s soaring skyline
- Collective identity: Steven Learner returns to the New York design ring for round three
May 11th
- Luna2 Studiotel — Bali, Indonesia
- Pot Luck Club — Cape Town, South Africa
- Renzo Piano’s V-A-C Foundation art gallery in Moscow takes shape
- Spiler — Budapest, Hungary
- Aman Canal Grande — Venice, Italy
- Thoroughly modern man: Demisch Danant reminds us of Pierre Paulin’s lasting legacy
- Macalister Mansion — Penang, Malaysia
- Sense Hotel — Sofia, Bulgaria
- The photographer who captured the defiant beauty of Frida Kahlo’s closet
- Design Republic Home — Shanghai, China
- Mikkeller & Friends — Copenhagen, Denmark
- Juvia — Miami, USA
- Höst restaurant — Copenhagen, Denmark
- Super group: the team effort that makes Collective Design NYC’s go-to contemporary fair
- Hinoki & the Bird — Los Angeles, USA
- Newman Street Tavern — London, UK
- Fifí Almacén — Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Ellis Gourmet Burger — Antwerp, Belgium
- Rijksmuseum Café — Amsterdam, Netherlands
- 25 Hours Hotel — Zurich, Switzerland
- Restaurant Manger — Paris, France
- Tech Edit
- Hôtel Dieu — Marseille, France
- Les Sources de Caudalie — Bordeaux, France
- New York minute: Tiffany & Co harks back to its horological heyday for a new collection
- Black Hills Wine Experience Centre — British Columbia, Canada
- The Shed — London, UK
- Remembering Chris Burden: his dizzying kinetic sculpture and limited edition Wallpaper* cover
- Baystone Boutique Hotel & Spa — Grand Baie, Mauritius
May 10th
- Twelve at Hengshan — Shanghai, China
May 8th
- Up, up and away: how the Guachimontones travelling balloon is elevating Mexico's design scene
- Food for thought: the best pavilions of Expo Milan 2015
- China Through the Looking Glass: celebrating cultural interplay at the Met
- Simple Shape: new site champions and retails British and Irish design
- All the World's Futures: the blazing Venice Biennale packs some heat
May 7th
- London concept store LN-CC peels off its winter coat to reveal its latest Gary Card-conceived skin
- F-Coffee — Dong Hoi, Vietnam
- De Bakkerswinkel — Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Hotel d’Angleterre — Copenhagen, Denmark
- Rocket man: Jonathan Stephenson puts his London gallery back on the map
- Park Hyatt — Zanzibar, Tanzania
- Reflected glory: bringing the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II’s many facets to light
- Asia de Cuba — New York, USA
- 1 Hotel South Beach — Miami, USA
- Resort state of mind: the sun sets on Nicolas Ghesquière's Palm Springs Cruise show at Bob Hope's iconic home
- Modern music: London’s Barbican sways to the tune of mountains and waves
May 6th
- Prime position: STA’s latest Oslo house makes the most of the spectacular views
- Hedi Slimane adds an African accent to a new private salon at Saint Laurent’s Faubourg Saint-Honoré flagship
- Touching the void: Dan Colen tackles negative space in his latest show
- Ceramics and synthetic stones infiltrate the fine jewellery realm
- All at sea: Aston Martin leaves us guessing after releasing a few tantalising details of its new superboat
- Dom Pérignon showcases its rare Vintage offerings with a series of events in a plush London townhouse
- Artist's Palate: Sarkis' milk tripe soup
- Special delivery: the most ingenious invitations from the A/W 2015 women’s season
- Cool since 1974: Cassina’s functional ’Maralunga’ sofa
May 5th
- Paris Photo Los Angeles takes over the sets at Paramount Pictures Studios
- Net-A-Porter moves into S-Commerce with social media shopping network The Net Set
- The winner takes it all: The Szczecin Philharmonic Hall by Barozzi Veiga scoops 2015 Mies van der Rohe Award
- Reading between the lines: Thomas Struth lets landscape do the talking
- Human traces: Idris Khan explores the horrors of war in haunting new show
May 1st
- Puro Hotel — Gdansk, Poland
- Daniel Arsham brings his vision of the future to life
- Smoke up with Bjarke Ingels and take a dip with Charles Renfro as one-off experiences go under the hammer
- Art expo: Zegna's Milan HQ bursts into bloom with Lucy and Jorge Orta mural
- Meeting the man who draws with his eyes
- London's Stephen Friedman Gallery channels Parisian chic as Galerie de l'Epoque during May
- Ahead of the curve: Samsung shows off innovative new design