Mulberry blames high street crisis and House of Fraser woes for loss

Sales fall 8% while debts from department store collapse and fewer tourists add to losses

Thomas Heatherwick’s Coal Drops Yard – shopping in the Instagram age

Thomas Heatherwick’s ‘kissing’ roofs top a new high-end shopping mall in the old coal sheds. But why does the whole King’s Cross scheme not quite feel real?

Lorenz Bäumer: The Jewellery Prince of the Place Vendôme – or ‘the enfant terrible?’,

  Article & video interview by Philippe Mihailovich. Paris’ Place Vendôme with its 28 private ‘hotel particuliers’ – little palace/manor houses- is not only perhaps the most prestigious place to live in the city but has certainly been the best Parisian address for any high jewellery house to be since the opening of the Ritz … Read more

More than Porcelain: Equilibrium by POMD’OR x Rosenthal x Edward van Vliet

Transform your bathroom into a designer oasis of well-being for the entire day: bright mornings, relaxed evenings and mysterious nights. The bathroom accessories designed by Dutch designer Edward van Vliet are an excellent option for your super yachts to have an exclusive life on board. You are entering the bathroom in the glistening light of … Read more

Senior executives no longer have the option to treat design as a luxury. Study

  Companies from a wide variety of industries consistently showed financial benefits from good design: from retail banking to medical devices to consumer goods. This suggests that companies that improve their design capability can improve their financial performance whether they are making physical products, digital apps, services, experiences or a combination of these things. McKinsey … Read more