Charles McFarlane
Taste for adventure
From Rome in 1968 to a Chilean beach with the country's only commercial fisherwoman, explorer Richard Wiese on how travel, tactile eating and bold curiosity shaped his lifelong relationship with food.
Bureaux de change
Improve your productivity by sprucing up your place of work – well, that’s the theory anyway. Whatever happens, it will look sharper.
Shop, read, listen
Cutting-edge cutlery, playful glassware (and a bottle of bourbon to fill it with), classic scents, the latest music and tasteful souvenirs to remind you of sunnier climes.
Architecture Briefing
The US firm moving beyond desert modernism, plus an artistic spot in the English countryside and a starkly dramatic Algarve capital.
Shop, read, listen
Folksy plates, charming ceramics and the sharpest of knives, plus a rooftop escape, the best in books and the tastiest tipples for your drinks cabinet.
Travel
From a Virginia manor to an off-grid Swedish pad, here’s our round-up of new openings that have made their way onto our discerning hospitality radar.
Food & drink
Food finds from Atlanta and Amsterdam, plus how to make a crab and quail egg salad.
In full flow
Shiny new infrastructure projects are often for publicity. But as these five schemes show, the smartest planners present viable solutions to real problems – often without grabbing headlines.
Breaking new ground
From Europe to Asia and the US, large-scale urban-regeneration projects promise to transform entire city neighbourhoods. We plot the progress of five favourites.
