There are many ways to describe 40 Winks: Winks: it’s been named ‘the most beautiful small hotel in the world’ by German Vogue, and has a huge list of gushing accolades from just about every glossy fashion, travel and lifestyle magazine you can possibly think of. It’s also been described by those who have been fortunate…
The CEO of Manhattan Loft Corporation, Harry Handelsman is the man who renovated Sir George Gilbert Scott’s St Pancras Chambers into a 244-room luxury hotel and 67 of London’s most unique dwellings. The budget for the iconic London project? A cool £200m. He also teamed up hotel magnate André Balazs to develop Chiltern Firehouse, a favourite of A- listers including…
Eat 17, two family-run convenience stores, is changing the way people are thinking about where they’re getting that extra milk or forgotten butter. With each site boasting not just fashionable but highly-praised restaurants plus a gastro-burger bar in their Hackney store, a household-name relish brand Bacon Jam, and with a cookbook and boutique cinema planned…
The stats on these two read the typical way, they way we’ve come to expect from young prodigies making a name for themselves in any industry: Joe Kennedy and Jonny Burt. Both 24-years-old. Artists trying to get noticed in a noisy, crowded market. But it’s what they’ve done that has set them apart from old-school…
Coffee shops are no longer just coffee shops and art galleries have become more than just places to display new creative work. As we’ve seen in London and around the world, spaces are merging and morphing along with their eclectic customers, and design entrepreneurs are moving right along with them to produce creative hubs that…
People are moving faster than ever in work and their personal lives and these high-impact schedules are taking a toll their quality of life. And to counteract these full-contact lifestyles, people are moving towards slowing down, even within a controlled period of time meaning wellness is totally trending right now. Enter Hotpod Yoga, a company…
East Londoners are known for setting fashion trends. Every style savant from Broadway Market to Shoreditch High Street seems to be more inventive than the next and via vintage pieces, they’ve created the London hipster uniform we admire: a hodge-podge classic lines, throwback silhouettes and colours and textures that compliment and contrast all at the…
Jazz bars seem to be the definition of cool. Often the venues take a no-frills approach: making its interior the definition of dark and moody and allowing music to set the ambiance of the space. One new jazz bar is turning a familiar concept into a new-feeling one. Kansas Smitty’s has done two things that…