A huge new wave of Chinese investment in overseas housing may be about to flow into the global market. In Hong Kong, Tom Phillips meets the salesmen who market British property to mainland China
Architect and artist defends controversial deal with developers of Vantablack, the blackest material ‘after a black hole’
A new book celebrating French style is coming out, just as France is changing its view on fashion. Blame Nicolas Sarkozy, blame the recent burkini ban, but French fashion is now all about boyishness
Fluffy, HD or microbladed, eyebrow grooming is a boom business thanks to icons such as Cara Delevingne
A bar of To’ak chocolate sells for a tooth-splintering $345 – but a stay in a treehouse in the Ecuador rainforest where it originates costs just $15 a night
How does your childhood home influence the one you make yourself? Seven leading architects look back at the foundations of their career