Aldis Hodge
(Opening photo taken by @Briana Hodge Photography) As a parent, you often hear stories of those overachieving kids who play several instruments, do well in school and are captain of their sports team, putting your progeny and your skills as a parent to shame. Well, Aldis Hodge is one of those. The son of US […]
Lessons From a Small Country
This book is being published as finally, the world feels ready to come out of the lockdown imposed to control the spread of Covid-19, a pandemic that has unfortunately taken many lives, but has also given us the opportunity, as the author Jane Davidson puts it, “To capitalize on our rediscovered kindness and sense of […]
Sam’s Riverside Hosts Two Celebrity Online Quiz Nights
Good news at last! One of our favourite riverside restaurateurs has come up with an ingenious plan to keep us sane and entertained. While we wait with anticipation for Sam and his incredible team to reopen their doors, we have Quiz night. Personally I can’t wait. Drawing on his impressive address book and a few […]
London Art Week Summer 2020 Goes Digital
(Opening photo: An extract from “Two Amazonian Horned Frogs”, 1884, watercolour, Stephen Ongpin Fine Art) Between the 3rd and 10th of July, the public will be able to attend London Art Week using an innovative online platform. This (Two Amazonian Horned Frogs) image, taken from a series of environmentally inspired works called Drawn to Nature: […]
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert’s masterpiece Madame Bovary is The Folio Society’s stunning new limited edition of 750 books, each signed by the introducer, the translator and the artist. Illustrated with sensual oil paintings by Nushka and beautifully bound in Douppion silk, this exquisite edition mirrors the perfection of the Flaubert’s writing. The story follows Emma, a rural […]
Must-See Street Art Around the Globe
Street art is great at breaking up the monotonous cement and brick landscape a lot of towns and cities have and has been recognised by the British public as art opposed to graffiti, piquing our interest and putting a smile on our faces as we pass through. Art can take many forms and is delivered […]
Musée Atelier Audemars Piguet
Founded in 1875 by Jules-Louis Audemars and Edward-Auguste Piguet, the company remains a family business today that has not been sold at any point in history, a very rare case in today’s watch world. In 2014, the Swiss manufacturer asked the architectural firms Bjarke Ingels Group and CCHE to design an expansion to their historical […]
Humankind by Rutger Bregman
(Opening photo by Maartje ter Horst) In general, I think it is safe to say that the most general view of the nature of mankind is not a very positive one. Most people think humans are bad. This is not just in the times we live. From Machiavelli to Hobbes, Freud to Pinker, the assumption […]
The Duellists
As someone who considers himself an avid student of film, frequently I come into agreement with fellow movie enthusiasts that older, classic films are always better than more recent ones. Many concur that the new school over saturate their work with special effects, therefore neglecting stronger written screenplays. In these days of lockdown, I have […]
The Iconic Trench Coat
How far is it from battlefield to catwalk? Not very far when you look at the trench coat, a classic that in the century since it trod through the mud of Flanders remains, in essence, unchanged on the catwalks of Burberry, Hermès and Bottega Veneta today, but for a few tweaks here and there. Originally […]
