Tracey Emin has always been more than the enfant terrible of the Young British Artists. Emerging in the 1990s as one of the central figures of Cool Britannia, she became a cultural lightning rod: provocative, confessional, uncompromising. Her work — from the notorious My Bed (1998) to her searing neon texts — has often beenContinue reading “Tracey Emin: From Cool Britannia to Enduring Voice”
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Marina Abramović: The Body as Threshold, the Artist as Medium
It is Marina Abramović’s birthday today, so to celebrate we wrote a feature on her. Few contemporary artists have so thoroughly reshaped the very idea of performance as Marina Abramović. For five decades, she has pushed the limits of endurance, intimacy, vulnerability, and the porous border between artist and audience. Her work is at onceContinue reading “Marina Abramović: The Body as Threshold, the Artist as Medium”
Royal Copenhagen at 250: Porcelain, Craft, and the Danish Imagination
In 2025, Royal Copenhagen celebrates 250 years of porcelain making — a quarter of a millennium of craft, culture, and design. Founded in 1775 under the patronage of Queen Juliane Marie, the manufactory has become Denmark’s most enduring emblem of elegance and national identity. From its signature blue-and-white “Blue Fluted” pattern to bold contemporary reinterpretations,Continue reading “Royal Copenhagen at 250: Porcelain, Craft, and the Danish Imagination”
Tom Stoppard — 1937–2025
Tom Stoppard, one of the most influential and inventive playwrights of the modern era, died on 29 November 2025 at his home in Dorset. He was 88. Born Tomáš Sträussler in 1937 in Czechoslovakia, Stoppard fled the Nazi occupation with his family as a child, eventually settling in England — a displacement that would laterContinue reading “Tom Stoppard — 1937–2025”
The Art of Walls: A History of Wallpaper and Its Contemporary Masters
Wallpaper has always been more than decoration. It is history written on walls: a medium that reflects the tastes, technologies, and aspirations of each era. From hand-painted Chinese panoramas to William Morris florals, from mid-century geometrics to today’s avant-garde designs, wallpaper has reinvented itself countless times. To trace its story is to understand how styleContinue reading “The Art of Walls: A History of Wallpaper and Its Contemporary Masters”
Monthly Picks: The Track Star Podcast
Why You Should Be Listening to The Track Star Podcast If you love music, stories behind songs, or simply want a podcast that blends insight with entertainment, The Track Star Podcast deserves a place in your rotation. I listen to it religiously. I learn something new about music every week, and it has opened myContinue reading “Monthly Picks: The Track Star Podcast”
The Brontë Family: A Furnace of Genius on the Yorkshire Moors
Introduction There are literary families, and then there are the Brontës—six children raised in a remote parsonage on the Yorkshire moors, who transformed personal grief, imaginative play, and strict Victorian constraints into novels that altered the course of English literature. Their story is not simply about genius blooming in isolation; it is about a familyContinue reading “The Brontë Family: A Furnace of Genius on the Yorkshire Moors”
Castello di Reschio: An Umbrian Dream Reborn
On a secluded estate along the border of Umbria and Tuscany, Castello di Reschio rises from the landscape like something imagined in a Renaissance fresco. Once a crumbling 10th-century fortress, the castle has been reimagined as one of Italy’s most extraordinary hotels: a place where centuries-old stone meets contemporary design, and where la dolce vitaContinue reading “Castello di Reschio: An Umbrian Dream Reborn”
“A House That Became a Photograph”: The Stahl House, Its History, and Why Its Sale Matters Now
High above the lights of Los Angeles, a thin plane of steel and glass floats over the city grid. For more than six decades, the Stahl House — better known as Case Study House #22 — has been less a private residence than an image in the collective imagination: Julius Shulman’s famous night-time photograph ofContinue reading ““A House That Became a Photograph”: The Stahl House, Its History, and Why Its Sale Matters Now”
Letter From The Editor #4
As the year edges toward its natural conclusion, we look back on 2025 with a mixture of dread and joy. Politically, the 2020s have been marked by despot-spurned wars, upheaval, and a creeping feeling that those in charge may be some of the least competent people for the job. But this blog is not aboutContinue reading “Letter From The Editor #4”
My World of Interiors 