Mark C. O'Flaherty

The artist-designer swapped city bustle for a hilltop home in Higashiyama — it mirrors his Zen approach to life

Independent fragrance houses are developing intense, earthy concoctions that add witchy magic to dark nights

How a cartoon heart conquered the world

‘It can be quite a Rear Window experience here’. The artist and filmmaker has swapped walls for glass in his bijou London flat

When the Park Hyatt opened on the 14 highest floors of the Kenzo Tange-designed Shinjuku Park Tower in 1994, it established a template that dozens of luxury Tokyo hotels would follow.

From a forbidden symbol of Highlands insurrection to a couture code in works by McQueen, Westwood, Chanel et al, the mighty tartan has bridged centuries of fashion history

Nigel Cabourn, Margaret Howell and Paul Smith have been Japanese favourites for the past four decades. What’s their secret?

I’ve been writing about hotels for nearly 30 years now and the rest of my work generally involves a stay somewhere other than home too. This got me thinking, just how many hotels have I stayed in?

Ahead of his Palais Galliera exhibition, Owens discusses his musical influences—from English rock to Cher and Charli xcx.

At Home with the FT: Iconoclasm and humour mark the ethos of the magpie interior designer at his eccentric 18th-century house in Somerset, a joyous, foraged corn

The Fife Arms paved the way for a new breed of stay and now the likes of Ardbeg are following in its footsteps

Her colourful career has spanned more than five decades. Now the designer is looking to her legacy

The 1950s floor lamp design created by Richard Kelly and Philip Johnson for the architect’s Glass House turned the way a room is lit on its head — and it’s making a comeback c/o BassamFellows

Paris is a place for revolutions: the sci-fi fantasies of Cardin and Courrèges, Jean Paul Gaultier’s skirts pour homme and the inflated gothic rituals of Rick Owens. All wild, memorable and museum-worthy. But it may be Agnès Troublé who has changed what we wear today, more so than any fierce iconoclast.

Morgane Sézalory, founder of the cool-girl French fashion brand, applied her effortlessly elegant style — complete with a chic hidden kitchen