Top Five Lisbon Heritage Hotels promoting the history and culture of Portugal’s capital city

These small hotels offer a romantic and welcoming environment. A special balance has been struck between local traditions and modern-day amenities, thus creating an authentic alternative to formal luxury hotels. The hotels’ location in Lisbon’s historic center facilitates immediate contact with the most genuine aspects of the city, ranging from its monuments to the local … Read more

Surrealism is still alive and well and it never really went away

For the first time, Surrealism’s relationship to the design world is told up to the present day in a stunning exhibition at Design Museum London, UK. Objects of Desire: Surrealism and Design 1924 – Today. For the first time in a major UK exhibition, Surrealism’s relationship to the design world will be told up to … Read more

The Future of Ageing: How design can support an ageing population – and indeed our own future selves –

Curated with Design Age Institute, this free display at Design Museum in London is celebrating how design is transforming the way society can support everyone to age with greater agency and joy. Discover how design can support an ageing population to meet their needs, interests and aspirations with greater agency and joy. One thing we … Read more

Trailblazing Issey Miyake left an indelible mark on the global design landscape

Issey Miyake’s work and ideas transcend genres and continue to attract interest worldwide Famed Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake, the creator or the pleated style of clothing that never wrinkles, dies at 84. Miyake, whose name became a byword for Japan’s economic and fashion prowess in the 1980s, died on Aug. 5 of liver cancer, … Read more

A 19th-century landmark in Vienna has been transformed into a hotel of singular luxury

New hotel pays homage to the Austrian capital’s imperial history while offering a modern approach to ultra-luxury hospitality in Vienna. Rosewood Vienna is making its debut as the fifth European property in the Rosewood Hotels & Resorts portfolio and the brand’s first in the German-speaking market. Located at Petersplatz, one of the city’s most famous … Read more

Dancer and actress FKA twigs is pure Good Fortune for Viktor&Rolf

Dutch avant-garde luxury fashion house Viktor&Rolf announced that acclaimed singer, dancer and actress FKA twigs will be the face of GOOD FORTUNE, the brand’s new fragrance. Viktor&Rolf is the luxury fashion brand founded in 1993 by Dutch fashion artists Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren, recognized and respected for its provocative Haute Couture and conceptual glamour. … Read more