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The Poetry Bench Robinson Jeffers: The Poet Who Built With Stone On the California coast, Robinson Jeffers laid every stone of his own house and tower by hand — and wrote a poetry as ... The Secret Screen Catherine Breillat's The Sleeping Beauty: A Fairy Tale Turned Inward Breillat takes Perrault’s fairy tale and ignores the prince entirely, following instead the hundred-year dream of the ... Glare Living Sebastian Errazuriz: The Designer Who Refuses to Decorate A Chilean in New York who builds cabinets that bristle, chairs that protest, and objects that argue with the idea of goo... Empty Canvas Akseli Gallen-Kallela: The Man Who Painted Finland's Soul Every nation that has had to argue for its own existence has needed someone to paint it. For Finland, that someone was A... Empty Canvas Bugo: The Italian Musician Who Painted New Delhi How Cristian Bugatti, one of Italy's most distinctive singer-songwriters, walked away from music and turned the streets ... The Secret Screen Alex Prager and the Art of Mise-en-Scène She builds her photographs the way a director builds a scene: synthetic wigs, retro costume, a heroine frozen mid-story.... Premium Living Concierge Service ROI: A Quantitative Breakdown for 2025 For a professional earning $250/hour, the Amex Platinum's $895 fee requires saving just 3.6 hours annually to break even... Premium Living Chase Sapphire Reserve Priority Pass: Activation & Value Activating your Chase Sapphire Reserve Priority Pass is automatic, but a 2-3 week delay for the physical card is typical... Premium Living How to Earn Elite Airline Status Without Flying in 2025 United Premier Platinum status can be reached with just $15,000 in card spend, while American offers a 115% ROI. A detai... The Secret Screen The Fund That Saves Women's Cinema It is the only program in the world that exists to save films in which women were essential. On the Women's Film Preserv... Empty Canvas Marina Abramović: 512 Hours Three empty rooms. No phones, no cameras, no watches. For 512 hours Marina Abramović offered the public nothing but her... Glare Living The Spacelander Bicycle Curving, amoeba-like, impossibly ahead of its time: Benjamin Bowden's Spacelander failed twice before becoming one of th... Empty Canvas The Color Project: Adrien Broom Builds a Rainbow Eight rooms, each one drowned in a single colour, each taking a month and a small crew to build. Adrien Broom's Color Pr... Empty Canvas CURVY: A Decade of Women Who Draw Since 2003, CURVY has put 100 female illustrators in print every year — from the obvious art capitals to Malta, Moscow... The Secret Screen Becoming Stanley Kubrick He was thirteen when his father handed him a camera, seventeen when Look magazine bought his first photograph. Long befo... Art Is a Relationship Empty Canvas Art Is a Relationship A watercolour pond laid on the floor of a greenhouse; a plaster girl holding a turtle, hidden among the plants. Two arti... Empty Canvas March Studio: Designing With What's Left Over Founded in 2007 on a shoestring, March Studio turned scarcity into a method — recycled materials, leftover packaging, ... Empty Canvas Sandrine Pelletier: Goodbye Horses Wool dipped in molten latex and tar, spread thinly over a horse-shaped mould, the wire skeleton then withdrawn — leavi... Empty Canvas Two Words With Olivier Valsecchi He photographs bodies emerging from ash, as if reinvention were a physical substance. A short, candid conversation with ... Empty Canvas Olivia Fraser: The Modern Miniaturist She left the Western canvas for squirrel-hair brushes, hand-ground malachite and the slow grammar of the Indian miniatur... Empty Canvas David Pidgeon: The Designer Who Aims for the Moon “Aim for the moon.” David Pidgeon can't draw to save himself, by his own admission — and yet his typographic exper... Glare Living Erba Cycles: Bicycles Grown, Not Welded Steel frames since the nineties, then a turn to something stranger: bamboo and hemp, grown rather than mined, shaped by ... Empty Canvas One Billion Rising: The Day the World Danced A global strike disguised as a dance. On Valentine's Day 2013, V-Day called a billion people into the streets to refuse ... Glare Living Kenton Sorenson and the Slow Craft of Leather He was a barber before he was a leatherworker, and it shows: every piece is measured against a single shear case he stit... Glare Living The Parisian Catwalks with Tvscia Of all the emerging names at Paris fashion week, one stood out: Tvscia, born in Tuscany from Elisa Soldini and Lucia Pad... Glare Living The Moynat Bicycle Trunk Waterproof canvas, a triple-curved base that cradles the front wheel, porcelain goblets and a fold-out table for two. Mo... Premium Living Kalon Surf: Your Luxury Surfing Holiday in Costa Rica Kalon means profound beauty — and on the southern coast of Costa Rica, a ten-guest boutique surf resort tries to live ... Empty Canvas Vikram Kushwah: Reliving Childhood Memories From a carefree childhood in the Himalayan foothills to a London studio, Vikram Kushwah builds photographs out of fairy ... Glare Living Blood Ivory More than 200 elephants killed inside a single national park in one month; over 3,000 across Africa in a year. A look at... Glare Living The 1970 Plymouth Barracuda: The Pony Car That Got the Last Laugh First to the party and then forgotten, the Plymouth Barracuda finally got its revenge in 1970 — with the 426 Hemi, the... Empty Canvas Irving Penn and Issey Miyake: A Visual Dialogue A designer in Tokyo, a photographer in New York, garments crossing an ocean between them. For more than a decade Irving ... Earth Day on the High Line Glare Living Earth Day on the High Line A disused rail viaduct turned into a garden in the sky; on Earth Day, a Fluxus artist chopped a giant salad to live musi... The Poetry Bench Suggested by Olivia: Emily Dickinson, 'Fame is a Bee' “Fame is a bee. / It has a song — / It has a sting — / Ah, too, it has a wing.” In four lines Emily Dickinson ca... Empty Canvas Kat Bjelland Would Love It: Meadham Kirchhoff's Kinderwhore Revival Meadham Kirchhoff drew their broken-doll romance from Courtney Love. But the babydoll dress was Kat Bjelland's first —... Glare Living Louis Vuitton's Bicycle Polo Fixie, by Philippe Starck A fixed-gear bicycle built for the odd, elegant sport of bike polo — designed by Philippe Starck for Louis Vuitton, dr... Glare Living Car Lust: The 1971 Triumph Stag Drawn by Michelotti, powered by a bespoke V8, braced by that signature T-bar roll hoop — the 1971 Triumph Stag was mea... Premium Living The Art of the Accessory Two words for a personal style: comfy and vintage. Basics need not mean minimalism — the real self lives in the access... The Secret Screen Jess + Moss Two second cousins, a Kentucky summer, and a film shot like a memory you can't quite hold. Clay Jeter's Jess + Moss is a... Glare Living Creme Cycles: Classic Looks, Quiet Modernity Found in a friend's attic: a pile of beautiful old bicycle parts, and the realisation of how little care goes into today... Glare Living Firenze & Fashion Shops lit until midnight, Palazzo Vecchio thrown open, aerial dancers over Piazza della Repubblica. For one night Floren... The Secret Screen Robert Gumpert: A Storyteller in Black and White Police stations, jails, death row, the field, the coded grammar of a convict's tattoos. Robert Gumpert doesn't take pict... Glare Living Knife & Saw's Bike Shelf: Elegant Storage for the City Cyclist In cramped apartments in San Francisco and New York, bikes lean against bookshelves and clutter hallways. Chris Brigham'...