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Our Favourite Fashion Books for Enduring Glamour and Design

Beyond the high streets, the vaults and the runway, the art of fashion is immortalized in the glossy pages of fashion books, beautifully bound documents of luxury detailing visionary artistry and design. We’ve selected our six favourite fashion books to add to your coffee table for an endless fountain of inspiration.

Home Decor ideas to Brighten up Your Home

With the right purchase and placement, small home decorations and accessories can make you smile and bring joy to a room once again.

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Design Icons: The Sofa Edit

A selection that tracks how the sofa became a marker of design, comfort and identity. From Italian greats refreshed with sustainable materials to recent projects with couture-level detailing, each piece offers a different take on contemporary living. These are icons and authorial designs that bridge past and present, art and function — where ergonomics, innovation and lasting beauty meet.

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Designing the Home Office, Sorted

Clean lines, fine finishes and intelligent proportions create rooms that inspire focus as much as calm. From modern design icons to new pieces by emerging names, these are the workspaces that prove one thing: working well is as much about comfort and aesthetics as it is about productivity.

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Iconic Lamps from the Past 60 Years

Some lamps don’t just light a room. They shift the way we see space. These thirteen aren’t just lighting fixtures. They represent moments in design that shaped how we think about light, how we use it, and how it lives with us.

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Crystal Clear: The Allure of Transparent Furniture

There’s something quietly magical about transparent furniture. Glass and polycarbonate, with their shifting surfaces and delicate light play, bring a kind of poetry into a room. Check our list of selected transparent items!

Luxury Scented Candles and Home Fragrances – Designed to Inspire your Home

Perfume tells a story. But just as important for the fragrances we use for the body are the ones our our homes. That’s why we selected brands and their home scents we think you should know. Perfect for the cold winter nights.

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Kitchen & Table: Design for Everyday Living

Design doesn’t need to shout to matter. In the kitchen, it should work, fit in, and bring something extra to the experience of making, sharing, and enjoying food. That’s what good design really does—it makes the everyday just a little more considered.

Boards, dice and style: why backgammon refuses to fade away

I came to backgammon recently, though the game itself has been around for millennia, dating back to ancient Mesopotamia. A friend invited me to play a few times, and I found myself drawn in, not just to the rattle of the dice or the race of the checkers across the board, but to the atmosphere it creates.

When Sound Becomes Art: Loewe and Jacob & Co. Unveil Diamond-Studded Headphones in Monaco

On a yacht, moored in the marina in Monaco, the German technology house Loewe and New York jeweller Jacob & Co. unveiled a pair of headphones that resist easy categorisation. They are not quite consumer electronics; they are not quite jewellery; and they are not quite sculpture. Somehow, they are all three.