Conde Nast Traveller India

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Whether you’re hosting a tropical summer wedding, or a laid-back spring sundowner, planning an event is not a walk in the park. The last thing you want to worry about, is the most important of all – the invites. The invitations are just as important

New Zealand Listener

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Fiona Farrell’s NOUNS, VERBS, ETC (Otago University Press, $35), presented in handsome hardback form with a bookmark ribbon, is an excellent retrospective of a writer known as much for her prose works as for her poetry. It draws on her four earlier c

Florida Design

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“I’M INSPIRED BY MY CLIENTS,” says designer Perla Lichi. “Each one brings their vision, their dream. Together, we embark on a journey of discovery. Exploring possibilities. Narrowing them down to choices. We amalgamate colors, textures, shapes and si

The Christian Science Monitor

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What makes a story, a story? For Harry Bruinius, the Monitor’s New York bureau chief, it’s the moment a person’s life changes. He has long brought this approach to his reporting, covering issues of religion, race, and even gun violence.

HomeStyle

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Finding great books devoted to New Zealand architecture is as easy as pie, but when it comes to those on contemporary New Zealand interiors, it can be a different story. As editor of online journal The New and owner of Waihi Beach homeware store Sund

Country Style

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OKAY, I’LL ADMIT to having always had a fascination with town slogans. And one that really strikes a chord belongs to the American town of Marfa out on the parched plains of West Texas. It is “Tough to Get Here. Tougher to Explain.” I feel an affinit

The Guardian

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We shouldn’t worry when a word falls into obscurity. There’s usually a good reason, and a new one will always fill its place

New American Paintings

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Yucca Valley, CA 323.641.7177 (Ochi Projects) @bfgf Lilian Martinez’s work reconciles past with present and future, combining elements from art history and classical architecture with contemporary pop-cultural references. Martinez is interested in ex

NPR

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There are no exceptions. If a piece being prepared for broadcast has an offensive word or phrase, or involves excretory or sexual issues, care and consultation are required.

India Today

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Saura, Munda, Kui, Juanga-all tribal languages from Odisha-are just some of 124 languages that can be found on StoryWeaver, a treasure trove of engaging illustrated books for children. The storybooks are categorised according to reading levels, with

Visi

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“The soul requires beauty,” says Cape Town-based interior designer Mullerie Rabe-Taljaard, who has clients from the Atlantic Seaboard to Switzerland. She is the picture of grace and serenity, qualities she introduces in every interior project she han

You South Africa

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One of my fondest childhood memories is of sitting on my dad’s lap, a Richard Scarry word book open on his knee. He’d point at the cute pictures that crowded the page and my job was to identify each object. How clever I felt! And it was such fun. Per

Our State: Celebrating North Carolina

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I hadn’t taken a single art class in school, owing to the fact that my artistic ability is limited to doodles and stick figures. I’d never helped paint a poster for a class president or papier-mâché’d a float for homecoming, and I most certainly was

Home Journal

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Our homes are our havens – the safe sanctuary where we retreat to enjoy the ultimate pleasures in life. In these troubling times, more than ever, the home is essential to our well-being. Personalising one’s space is always a priority, but we have obs

Urbis

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Bill McKay, Andrea Stevens, Simon Devitt, Penguin NZ, 2014 There have been some excellent books on local building types – Villa (2012) and Bungalow (2014) come to mind – and all are must-have books but Beyond the State propelled one of New Zealand’s

Saturday Star

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EVERY year, the home of world-renowned language data, Oxford Languages, releases its word of the year. However, due to this unprecedented time, the institution has decided to select several official words of the year. The English language has undergo

Visi

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I was commissioned by the University of California, in Berkeley, to collaborate with the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive on this Afrofuturist mural, which is 21m by 7m. It’s a portrait series of South Africans who embody a contemporary S

Living Etc

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This month is all about confident design and decoration. Big, bright, bold looks that are original, and that stand out. This theme runs through every page in the issue. Start with the gorgeous house features. The house in our cover story, owned by th

Pretoria News Weekend

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EVERY year, the home of world-renowned language data, Oxford Languages, releases its word of the year. However, due to this unprecedented time, the institution has decided to select several official words of the year. The English language has undergo

Conde Nast Traveller India

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“HOW HAS TRAVEL CHANGED YOU?” Who: Photographer A: “It’s made me more open-minded about the world. The world is definitely smaller when you travel a lot. I have always been happily surprised to get to connect with the local culture.” @andersovergaard

Woman

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Parading my new hairdo in front of my daughter, Hannah, 29, I was beaming. But it wasn’t because I liked the cut, rather that I’d managed to go to the salon in Mexico and tell them exactly what I wanted, all by myself, and in Spanish. Just two years

The Cottage Journal

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Inspiring beauty in your home is our goal for each issue, so when planning our featured stories, we love to include seasonal touches that make home a special place to return to at the end of the day. In the pages that follow, you’re sure to discover

Visi

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IF design is a language, John Vogel is fluent in the carpentry dialect. Alternately spoken through the sometimes minimalist, sometimes organic lines of his furniture, and the polished dimensions of his sculptural wall mounts, it’s a dialect that can

New American Paintings

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Athens, GA lambdacelsius@gmail.com / www.accarter.net / @lambda_celsius I recombine and recontextualize consumer products, fabricated garments, and kitsch-based craft materials through stacking, dressing, styling, and painting. I draw influences from

Hong Kong Tatler

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“‘5354’—Cantonese slang for ‘neither here nor there’—is like a mishmash and that is what Hong Kong style and fashion is about. We should see ‘5354’ as a positive and we should celebrate it” -DOUGLAS YOUNG “This urban jungle’s nature, rhythms and s

Singapore Tatler

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“Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind,” virtuoso musician and composer Johannes Brahms once said. Without craftsmanship, I say it would be impossible to talk about the luxury industry at all, so it is no surprise that

Philippine Tatler Homes

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Tales of road grief have kept me city bound. I am one with many in trying to create a bubble—for my work, school, and family life—within a radius that doesn’t require traversing major highways. So, when an invitation to visit an artist workshop in Bu

Literary Hub

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Readers often refrain from marking up their books, to maintain a certain reverence for their contents and authorship. The artist France Bizot takes a disruptive approach to the book’s implicit sanctity—her work reconfirms its objecthood. It’s. . .pap

Country Life

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THE notes I jotted down when viewing this exhibition—enigmatic, joyless, stillness, soulless—seem a very negative response to a fascinating and absorbing show and, from what one learns about Tristram Hillier, stem from the circumstances of his boyhoo

Literary Hub

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Me and my sister had our own language as children. I was an inventor of language—of elaborate code in my childhood diaries, rune-like and incomprehensible, and of big words, as many as you could fit into a sentence. But this language, it was between