Asphalt Pâté, Knotweed Cocktails & Floating Futures: When Design Dares to Repair
What does it mean to live well in an age where cities suffocate under asphalt, seas rise, and borders blur? At the Grand-Hornu in…
Heavy Metal, Soft Touch: Paul Cocksedge’s Dance with Steel and Stone
Walk into Paul Cocksedge’s Critical Mass exhibition in Brussels, and you are instantly confronted by paradox. A table made from a CorTen steel plate…
Ink, Memory, and the Shadows We Carry
There’s something magnetic about the outlaw. Perhaps it’s the way he wears the weight of a story on his skin, or the way his…
Sunday Mornings, Gilded: The Astoria Concerts Return
The finest hotels don’t just accommodate — they orchestrate. In Brussels, the Corinthia Grand Hotel Astoria is doing exactly that. Freshly restored to its…
Explorer Extreme: Montblanc’s Call to Live Without Limits
Montblanc Explorer Extreme isn’t a fragrance that waits politely in the background — it steps forward with quiet confidence. Magnetic and unapologetic, it speaks…
Nice Try — Or Why the French Riviera Still Knows How to Seduce
Some cities dazzle. Nice entrances. Life here moves at a different rhythm — sunlit, sensual, and self-assured — a rhythm that makes you slow…
Industrial Romance: Why the Modern Home Deserves a Little Rebellion
Once upon a time, luxury interiors whispered in neutrals, their silence broken only by the perfection of symmetry. Today, luxury has found a new…
Marrakech, Where Autumn Glows Like Gold
Some cities fade when the days grow shorter. Marrakech does the opposite. As Europe turns damp and grey, the Red City glows like a…
Paradis Found: Brussels Reinvents the Cultural Superstore
In Brussels, there’s now a place where shopping is only the beginning — a destination for discovery, inspiration, and a feast of images and…
The New Rituals of Escape: Inside Europe’s Most Seductive Festival
There was a time when festivals meant mud, plastic cups, and a relentless race between stages. Today, the modern man—curious, cosmopolitan, and craving more…
Fragments of Desire: Mosaic as the New Language of Luxury
There are moments when design trends stop feeling like trends and start feeling like movements. Mosaic is having that moment. What once belonged to…
The Future Is Collectible: Why New York’s Design Fair Matters Now
Design doesn’t have to be fleeting. This September, COLLECTIBLE New York proves it. Returning to the newly restored WSA building on Maiden Lane, the…
Through the Red Dot: Leica Turns 100, Lands in Brussels
Amid the endless flood of images, Leica stands apart — the red dot that transforms mere looking into true seeing. Now, Brussels has its…
Paris in Velvet: Inside Maison Souquet’s Secret World
Maison Souquet doesn’t reveal itself at once. Behind two lantern-lit doors in Pigalle lies a world that feels half-remembered, half-imagined — where history lingers…
A table! Eating Is Never Neutral
What’s your most intimate ritual? The morning coffee you can’t live without, the childhood flavor that still lingers on your tongue, or that sudden…
The Future of Clean: When Tech Becomes Lifestyle
There was a time when vacuuming was a chore. Now, it’s an experience. Or better yet — an absence. The Philips HomeRun 5000 isn’t…
Curves of Desire: Ocean House Redefines Caribbean Modernism
Some buildings are seen; others are lived. Ocean House, conceived by Paris design house AW², belongs to the second kind. Overlooking the cliffs of…
Abercrombie & Fitch 100% PASSION: A New Scent of Masculinity
What drives a man today? Not the old clichés of conquest or control, but something more visceral — passion. The kind that fuels late-night…
Milan, With an Edge: Hotel Calimala’s Bold New Chapter in Porta Venezia
In Milan, style isn’t a statement — it’s a state of mind. And at the newly opened Hotel Calimala Milan, that mindset is designed…
Volvo EX30 : The New Swedish Electric Compact SUV Making Its Mark on the Market
Volvo introduces its latest gem in all-electric form, the EX30, a promising compact SUV aimed at conquering a segment previously overlooked by the Swedish…