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Witness the fitness

Get ready to move with our range of products: professional cycling equipment, eco-friendly backpacks, and running shoes for extra energy.

  • Issue #166
  • 8 min read
Witness the fitness
Fashion

Local heroes

Independent shops from Hong Kong to Madrid prove that knowing customers by name and fostering genuine community connections remains the foundation of thriving neighbourhood businesses.

  • Issue #165
  • 21 min read
People dining at a restaurant table with wine glasses, plates of food, and warm lighting
Art

City in the frame

To maintain its world-leading position, the Swiss city’s art fair must find new ways to evolve. Here the key players talk creation, curation and community building.

  • Issue #164
  • 20 min read
City in the frame
Furniture

Fair assessment

Following the latest successful edition of the planet’s premier furniture fair, we sit around the table to select the 15 designers, firms and pieces that caught our eye at Salone del Mobile.

  • Issue #164
  • 8 min read
Workmates suspension and floor lamps by Flos with thin linear design displayed at Salone del Mobile
Fashion

Hello Sunshine

As the skies brighten, now is the time to stock up on sunglasses, seasonal collaborations and the shoes to be seen in this summer. Plus: the bag to put them all in.

  • Issue #163
  • 7 min read
Interior of Random Walk boutique showing wooden shelving units displaying folded clothing and hanging garments
Product design

Design

Mexico City’s “green lungs” and architectural photographer Hélène Binet heads to Milan.

  • Issue #163
  • 7 min read
Modern two-storey Luiss university building with curved glass facade, dark exterior, elevated on pillars above open ground floor
Society

The Opener

Mexico’s panda conundrum and Jetstar’s mid-air reversal. Plus: Swedish director Ruben Östlund on his Oscar-nominated film, Triangle of Sadness.

  • Issue #161
  • 8 min read
Swedish film director Ruben Östlund peering through red curtains with chandelier visible in background
Culture

Hit squad

From a magical-realist tale of life in a South Korean village to the latest beats to get the dance floor jumping, we survey this month’s cultural highlights.

  • Issue #161
  • 7 min read
Two men emerging from a subway station entrance with Korean signage and digital displays
Design

Out of the past

For more than 150 years, Danish furniture brand Fritz Hansen has fostered the nation’s gifted designers. Now it is finally building an archive to celebrate its history.

  • Issue #161
  • 6 min read
Modern chair designs displayed on wooden platforms in Fritz Hansen's Design Hall exhibition space

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