Vyta Santa Margherita bakery, Florence, Italy
Vyta Santa Margherita bakery at Florence’s historical Santa Maria Novella railway station is a great example of how historical and modern architectural esthetics can not...
Stores
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July 31, 2016
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July 26, 2016
The Beefbar Butcher Shop, Monaco
Absolutely anything, including raw meat, can be displayed, sold and enjoyed elegantly, exquisitely and exclusively. We wrote about Sydney’s Victor Churchill some time ago as an...
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July 12, 2016
REDValentino Store – Rome, Italy
Pink has never been our go-to color to start with and more often than not, its use is just too much to handle for most...
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July 10, 2016
Paintbar Nail Bar – Raleigh, North Carolina
Pink is a polarizing colour. Everyone has a reaction to it. While you haven’t seen much pink on these pages in the past decade, we...
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June 22, 2016
Lingenhel Store – Vienna
The foodies of Vienna are in a veritable cheese heaven now that one of their own, Johannes Lingenhel, has opened his first-ever Käserei – a...
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June 6, 2016
Sulwhasoo Flagship Store – Seoul, Korea
Lyndon Neri and Rosanna Hu, the husband-and-wife team behind the Shanghai-based “design and research office” Neri & Hu have had their bold work recognized in many ways...
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May 19, 2016
Barberia Royal in Mexico City
We admit. We are suffering from a mad case of barbershop envy. And that takes some doing, pampered as we females supposedly are with spas...
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May 15, 2016
Zhonshuge Bookstore – Shanghai
Bookstores and libraries have long been on the endangered species list as many of us prefer to either not read ‘long-form’ text at all or...
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October 12, 2015
House of Smarts, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Dutch designer Maurice Mentjens has created the interior for the House of Smarts in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. It is an exhibition space for showcasing the...
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February 17, 2015
Carusel Bookstore – Bucharest, Romania
Some of us go weak in the knees at the sight of a new bookstore or library. Such was certainly the case when we glanced...
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February 3, 2015
Absolute Florist in Shanghai, China
Light and the absence of distractions drew us to this great little project. Absolute is an elegant 42 square-metre (42 asg.t.) florist shop on a...
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January 26, 2015
Ileana Makri Store – Athens, Greece
Just before the Holiday shopping season last year, Greek Jewelry designer Ileana Makri opened an intriguing retail store on Patriarhou Ioakim Street in Athens’s posh...