Mark C. O'Flaherty
Journalist, copywriter and editor
I am a London-based editor and writer, writing for the Financial Times, Esquire, Telegraph and a long list of other international titles about design, travel and luxury lifestyle.
PROJECTS
The Telegraph
Hotel Hit Squad: Inside The Fife Arms, Braemar
The new Hauser & Wirth project is a visual extravaganza of taxidermy, tartan walls and touches of the macabre
How to Spend It
The new leading lights of New York design
New York’s coolest creatives have evolved a signature new style of chandelier that fuses organic simplicity with urban sass. Mark C O’Flaherty turns the spotlight on the “Manhattan chandelier”
How to Spend It
The revival of Pierre Paulin’s futuristic furniture
Pierre Paulin’s sensuous sci-fi designs are being appreciated afresh as the custodians of his archive release covetable limited editions. Mark C O’Flaherty reports
The Telegraph
Why did Andy Warhol fall from grace in the 1980s?
It is a weekday in the mid-1980s at Limelight nightclub on Sixth Avenue in Manhattan, shortly before midnight …
The Times
Interiors: inside the home of fashion designer Norma Kamali
Words and pictures by Mark C. O'Flaherty
The Telegraph
Return of a modernist masterpiece: the welcome revival of Copenhagen's Radisson Royal
The Arne Jacobsen-designed Radisson Royal in Copenhagen, which blazed a design trail when it first opened in 1960 - is back after a much-needed refurb
The Financial Times
Gabriela Hearst - the woman behind fashion's most in-demand handbag
The name may be old money, but Gabriela Hearst is redefining modern fashion. Words and pictures by Mark C. O'Flaherty
The Financial Times
Maria Cornejo on 20 years of keeping it real
Zero + Maria Cornejo is the very definition of a NY cult label. Words and pictures by Mark C. O'Flaherty
The Telegraph
Blakes, the world's first boutique hotel, turns 40. It's not growing old gracefully
When Anouska Hempel’s overblown, opium-den aesthetic at Blakes debuted in 1978, it was like nothing anyone had seen before in hotels
The Telegraph
Delicious food and unforgettable Scottish scenery: Inver isn't just a hotel, it's an experience
The last time I went for dinner at Inver, I drove from an unusually hot Edinburgh during Festival time, straight into the horizontal rain that I suspect surrounds Loch Lomond 363 days of the year. Such is Scotland: I always need a raincoat, but going always make me happier than anywhere else in the world.
The Financial Times
The radical chic of Rick Owens
Meet the visionary designer who has spun the avant-garde into gold, building a €100m-a-year brand
The Financial Times
Katharine Hamnett's fashion comeback
After a long hiatus the 70-year-old designer is back, and she’s as bolshy as ever. She talks Brexit, British design and being an eco activist
How to Spend It
A seriously slick speakeasy in Manhattan’s Little Tokyo
Angel’s Share is a sophisticated spot that just happens to be hidden away behind an unmarked door in the corner of an upstairs Japanese izakaya
The Telegraph
Hotel Hit Squad: a Jazz Age makeover has put the bloom back in The Bloomsbury
I can predict a hotel’s future from its launch party …
The Telegraph
Hotel Hit Squad: Beaverbrook, Surrey - a big-budget vision of a fantasy England
What does “English” look like? In these tricky times for both question and possible answers, the latest chapter in the story of Beaverbrook – built as Cherkley Court in the late 19th century and, famously, the home of press baron and first Minister of Aircraft Production Lord Beaverbrook – offers a few feel-good suggestions.