Reportage
Watches and Formula 1: the language of timing
Motorsport partnerships place mechanical imagery beside the sport's measured time.
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Culture / Reportage
Art Basel Hong Kong: recent work, different ways of looking
The 2026 fair connected concentrated presentations, moving images and digital commissions. Its most useful distinctions concerned how art was encountered, not simply how much was on display.
Culture / Reportage
In Minor Keys: Koyo Kouoh’s Venice, carried forward
Architecture, artist-led institutions and collective memory give the 2026 Biennale its structure. Kouoh’s originating vision remains distinct from the team’s posthumous realisation.
Travel / Reportage
Belmond Marguerite: Burgundy, close to the water
Four suites, stained glass from Chartres and joinery from Saint Rémy give the reimagined barge a domestic scale. The region supplies more than the view.
Style / Reportage
Rio Fashion Week: the waterfront as a setting
The inaugural programme’s preview connected clothing with the city’s reused cultural spaces.
Culture / Reportage
TEMPO by Porsche: a brand beyond the launch event
A proposed São Paulo space connected art, food and music through an ongoing programme.
Dining / Reportage
MATER1A: ingredients set the scale in Notting Hill
Victor Garvey’s sixteen-seat London restaurant brings Japanese references, a crafted interior and a changing tasting menu into a compact room on Westbourne Grove.
Style / Reportage
PatBO’s Latin Soul: craft in motion
Patricia Bonaldi's Spring 2026 collection connects handwork with a Brazilian campaign setting.
Culture / Reportage
CarnaRARA: electronic music takes Carnival into the city
Two dance floors connected an international line-up with a central Rio square.
Design / Reportage
AP House London: the watch inside a Mayfair townhouse
On Clifford Street, Audemars Piguet gives collecting a domestic sequence of archive, display, conversation and hospitality.
Dining / Reportage
Barrel Story of Hibiki: whisky, wood and a Singapore vault
At 19 Cecil Street, a former bank vault, a wood-fire dining room and an open-air terrace give the same address three different scales. Upstairs, Pop City adds a separate cocktail setting.
Style / Reportage
Valentino’s Interferenze: Rome in several layers
Alessandro Michele's Autumn Winter 2026–27 collection puts contrasting references in the same room.