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This past summer, Los Angeles based architecture and design practice Arshia Architects received two awards for its interior design work for Gallery 19C, a project for…

Space is the operative word in more ways than one in the design of NICE Hair Salon in Jieyang by local design firm Double Good…

We have so far covered five massive Zhongshuge bookstores in China, all designed by Shanghai-based X+Living: Beijing, Chongqing, Guiyang, Chengdu and Shanghai. The most recent…

Who knew we would be thinking of the ordinary pleasure of going to a movie in our own city with almost the same desperate longing…

Toronto-based restaurateur Matty Matheson is known for many things but subtlety is not one of them. He swears, huffs and waves his hands, and his…

Owning any kind of car today is questionable. Owning a whole collection of luxury cars even more so. But there is no denying that the…

Although BIBU is promoted as a “pet store” it is really much more. It is an entire pet-care and pet-pampering environment, strategically answering the call…

We support the liberation of bread and all baked goods from all unsightly plastic bags and from humiliatingly poor ingredients. Bread is important, essential and…

When Vic and Anthony Puharich opened their first retail butcher shop, Victor Churchill, on Queen Street in Sydney’s Woollahra neighbourhood 10 years ago, we knew…

Blue Bottle Coffee the American chain established by musician James Freeman in California in 2002, has opened its first permanent store in Osaka, Japan. Now…

Here at the industry arm of TCH, our agency Access collaborates with some of the world’s best companies to help them stand out from their…

Cool hunting, we’ve discovered, has an interesting side effect. Each week we receive excited emails from the creatives, designers, architects and entrepreneurs we have featured…

Hector Serrano Studio has curated and designed the exhibition Spain Emotion as well as the communication campaign of the Spanish participation at this years Tokyo…

Great surroundings will not camouflage poor programming in movie theatres. No matter how swanky the theatre, if it shows poor movies, we just won’t go….

Great, aesthetically pleasing design needn’t be limited to traditional architectural forms such as houses and public buildings. Utilitarian spaces, such as car parks, present architects…

Consider it an antidote to the mass-produced ‘designer’ fashions of Target and Wal-Mart. CoLab, an eyewear accessory collaboration, hand selects talented ‘street artists’ from all…

Should anyone need an excuse to travel to Naples, we can offer the perfect one: Go there to explore Metro Napoli’s Art Stations. (That’s subway…

JMD Design of Redfern, Sydney has created a cool kids’ outdoor space that makes us all want to run free and wild, with our hair…

Never thought we’d say we love an abandoned quarry. But through a massive six-year restoration, replanting and re-imagining process, the Quarry Garden in Shanghai Botanical…

The Italian wallpaper company Wall & Decò is known for creating exquisite, large-scale mural-like wallpapers that define a room. They are widely used in hotels…

Our latest summer must-have: A Louisa Parris scarf. The London-born and -educated fashion designer’s second scarf collection is airy, large-scale, intensely colourful and deliciously Art…