Luxury by Design: How to Build a Bathroom Worth Escaping To
Discover how to design and maintain a high-end bathroom with premium materials, designer fittings, and expert maintenance tips. Elevate your daily rituals with style.
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A Relic of the Skies: The Concorde Radome Nose Cone and the Art of Owning History
Concorde remains an indelible symbol of what humanity can achieve when ambition soars beyond the mundane. Sleek, audacious, and unapologetically extravagant, it was more than an aircraft—it was a statement. A statement that speed could marry elegance, that the Atlantic could be tamed in three hours, and that Breakfast would indeed be had in London and Lunch certainly in New York. David Frost, the silver-tongued titan of a broadcaster who once raced the sun aboard its cabin, famously declared: “You can be in London at 10 o’clock and in New York at 10 o’clock.
Architectural Odes to Water: Humanity’s Timeless Fascination with Liquid Design
Water has long held a sacred place in architectural storytelling—its fluidity symbolizing life, renewal, and harmony. From the reflective pools of ancient Persian gardens to the grand fountains of Renaissance Europe, humanity’s affinity for integrating water into the built environment transcends eras and cultures.
A gardener’s diary, the summer edit
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” Now, whilst I might swap out ‘library’ for thoughtfully curated wine rack’, I do agree with the former. But, I am suddenly acutely aware as the summer has finally entered centre stage with a fanfare that my garden, once a luscious frequented space adorned with touches of soft furnishings and wildlife-enticing plants, is a far cry from being sundowner ready. My desk-based afternoon daydreams involve planning abundant herb-filled planters for the perfect capsule kitchen garden, filling every gap with the intricate blooms of David Austin roses and lining every wall for heady scent with ‘Gold Flame’ Honeysuckle…