Design
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Close to home
A life’s worth of travelling informs this South Tyrolean haunt – but it finds inspiration on its doorstep too.
Christoph Niemann
The illustrator and artist discusses food in his work, his talent for frying and the German capital’s gentrification – and doodles a quick portrait with the help of some salt and pepper, of course.
Play it cool
We visit the cities making space for people (of all ages) to get out and about and have some fun.
Sea change
Israel’s third city is defined by its port but its urbanist mayor is helping to build a smarter future.
Into the woods
One of Tokyo’s leafiest neighbourhoods is the setting for a charming house that’s been carefully renovated and kitted out by the furniture maker and designer who owns it.
Shaping the city
Warsaw’s graphic-design industry has emerged from the 1990s, inspired by a new sense of identity.
Rework it
Renovation can be a delicate balancing act between modern comforts and maintaining historical charm. We visit three European cities where carefully considered restorations are bringing buildings back to their former glory.
Architecture
Raf Simons discusses a new range of furniture fabrics, plus the concrete creation rising from the Jordanian desert.
Acid test
Portugal's university hazing tradition, praxe, blends gothic pageantry with troubling ritual. Behind the capes and choral singing lies a centuries-old initiation culture carrying genuine psychological — and sometimes fatal — consequences.
Going with the flow
Roland's engineers hiked mountain trails recording streams to solve Japan's most intimate public anxiety: the sound of strangers urinating. Meet the Sound Decorator, bathroom privacy's unlikely high-tech saviour.
