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Books

Culture

The 75th Cannes film festival, a Finnish art fair and the oldest bookseller school in France.

  • Issue #155
  • 8 min read
Woman reaching for books on tall white shelves in École de la Librairie bookshop classroom
Product design

Now hear this

The sounds of summer are upon us, so this issue we focus on the best ways to listen to music anywhere – but especially outdoors.

  • Issue #155
  • 4 min read
Bang & Olufsen Beoplay EX wireless earbuds with blue circular face plates and black stems on white surface
Design

Keep cool

In the island sun sits an innovative new apartment block that could reshape the city’s design ambitions.

  • Issue #155
  • 8 min read
Keep cool
Urbanism

Best in town

From architects to street-lighting experts, these firms are keeping our cities liveable.

  • Issue #155
  • 11 min read
Yellow modernist kiosk with geometric design featuring a vendor inside and customer outside
Architecture

Force of nature

Italy's leading landscape designer Pietro Porcinai brought modernism to traditional gardens, passionate about ensuring greenery was part of any built environment. His legacy is more pertinent than ever.

  • Issue #155
  • 9 min read
Hand-drawn architectural plans and drawings by Pietro Porcinai for a villa garden in Florence showing detailed landscape design
Architecture

Screen time

Far from the bustling multiplexes, these small cinemas offer unique ways of watching movies and being part of a city's culture and community.

  • Issue #155
  • 6 min read
Small cinema auditorium with purple seats and a bright white screen.
Art

Follow your art

Away from the French capital, creatives head to the Med for a slower, more affordable way of life.

  • Issue #155
  • 11 min read
Follow your art
Travel and restaurants

Talking point

Language schools across Europe are ditching sterile classroom methods, weaving art, cuisine and local culture into immersive programmes that foster genuine connections between students and destinations.

  • Issue #155
  • 11 min read
Four women listening to a tour guide holding papers in front of historic stone architecture
Architecture

Design

The Royal College of Art in London has a new wing and Venice’s Procuratie Vecchie reopens.

  • Issue #155
  • 10 min read
Modern auditorium with red velvet seating and exposed ceiling beams in renovated Procuratie Vecchie building

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