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Design

True colours

When in Paris, the visionary designer heads for the tranquil – but suitably colourful – setting of her local bistro.

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True colours
Design

Smarter homes

Meet the architects and businesses who are creating housing that’s affordable, sustainable and a pleasure to live in.

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Smarter homes
Architecture

Back to the future

There's more to the City of Angels than dive joints and cocktail clubs. The 1933 Group is safeguarding the future of Los Angeles' bar scene by preserving its past.

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Elegant chandelier hanging over seating area at Highland Park Bowl
Architecture

Brave new world

For decades the Belice Valley was a byword for bureaucratic bungling in the face of disaster. Now, 50 years after a devastating earthquake struck the region, the bold aesthetic legacy is finally getting attention.

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Symmetrical sand-colored stone colonnade with arched openings flanking a geometric paved courtyard under pale sky
Fashion

The new rebels

Tunisia’s tumult battered its fashion factories. But the country’s designers have cut (and sewn) a new direction that’s selling from Paris to Japan.

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Woman in blue and white striped top with wide-leg denim pants standing on sunny terrace with green foliage
Design

São Paulo: building better cities

Brazil’s business capital has reinvented its city centre through clever urbanism. We meet the architects, gallery owners and transport visionaries powering this change.

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Rooftop pool in the Centro.
Design

Magic touch

Alexandra Champalimaud’s interior-design firm has left its mark on the world’s finest hotels.

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Alexandra Champalimaud at her New York design studio desk wearing blue-framed glasses and patterned shirt
Business

Business Briefing

A workspace-cum-members’ club in London, Beirut’s best in brand, sustainable footwear in Milan, global export facts and how would you spend €5,000?

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The Ministry workspace dining room with long wooden table, navy velvet chairs, and central bar in London.
Design

Observation: Creative bloc

The artsy types at Eurolab think the EU’s tired branding has too easily ceded the field to nationalists and populists. We hear about their new vision.

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Back of person's head wearing white cyclist helmet with text overlay about European multilingualism and freedom of movement.

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