10 of the best design hotels in the world
Charles Eames said the role of the designer is to be a good, thoughtful host and for a design hotel to work, it should do just that. These 10 – from Bali to Budapest – are hard to beat
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Mutts-have: architects create luxury kennels for pet charity auction
Celebrities and designers also turn their hand to producing pooch palaces for event
‘Azzedine Alaïa couldn’t give a damn what other people said was the new mood’
Ahead of the first UK solo exhibition of the couturier’s work, former colleague Sophie Hicks remembers his exacting pursuit of fashion perfection
Beyond the dazzle: behind the scenes at Cartier
More than 300 stunning jewels from the French house are on show at the NGA. But it’s the journey they took from fanciful notion to sparkling creation that’s just as interesting
Hubert de Givenchy: an elegant master of devastating chic
He dressed Audrey Hepburn and Jackie Kennedy and forged a timeless style for a golden age
Balkrishna Doshi, 90, wins Pritzker prize for architecture
The Le Corbusier disciple, who harnessed modernism to Indian culture, has been praised for an architecture “that is serious, never flashy or a follower of trends”