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 Financial Times
Step into the weird and wonderful world of Tim Walker
A new V&A exhibition shows how the photographer creates his surreal magic – Mark C. O'Flaherty talks to him, and his key collaborators about their unique approach to image making
How to Spend It
The menswear designers redefining limited edition
The designers of these rarefied labels are fashion rebels with wildly individual style. Mark C O’Flaherty reports
How to Spend It
The Aesthete: Matthew Hilton talks personal taste
Matthew Hilton designs furniture for The Conran Shop, SCP, Ercol and Case, and founded his eponymous London studio in association with De La Espada in 2007
The Telegraph
Welcome to the house of fun: Alex Gore Browne’s Cotswolds home is anything but beige
Knitwear designer Alex Gore Browne first fell in love with the circus when she consulted on Alexander McQueen’s fairground-themed 2001 What a Merry-Go-Round collection. She was so inspired, she then took the theme home, to Tidmington House in the Cotswolds.
"There are lots of circus elements in the rooms," she says, sitting in her kitchen, which is festooned with bright bunting.
"I love everything to do with the circus: the vintage look of it – the 1930s period in particular, the bright reds ...
The Telegraph
Vivid, strange and yet to be ruined by tourists - why Bolivia should be on your wish list
I don’t see countries in black and white, I see them as specific colours. Japan is pink, England is green and Australia is a golden orange. Heading to Bolivia, I know I am going to see red. And then, what appears to be an infinite amount of white
The Financial Times
Moore, Moore, Moore
John Moore Re-Imagined — the reboot of a 1980s shoemaker. Why revive a label famed for its witchy, avant-garde shoes? Because it’s brilliant
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