I contribute regularly to the Financial Times, HTSI, New York Times, Telegraph and a long list of other international titles focused on design, travel and luxury lifestyle.
Humberto Campana’s circle of life
The Brazilian furniture designer is about to unveil his first sculpture park. It’s an ode to bohemianism and a tribute to his brother
Designer Giles Deacon: ‘I never wanted a billion-dollar business’
A shift to couture a decade ago has proved a masterstroke, attracting a stellar list of clients and off-the-wall collaborations
Pasolini’s last supper
Mark C. O’Flaherty on the murder of Pier Paolo Pasolini, carbonara, and the rarest, realest, bloodiest of steaks in Rome
Fashion Designer Romeo Gigli Has Opened A Fantastical Riad in Marrakech
Having made Morocco his home, the iconic Italian creative has opened a modernist five-bedroom riad that reflects his visionary style
Giancarlo Giammetti: ‘We couldn’t launch Valentino today’
One half of Italian fashion’s celebrated partnership on shaping Valentino Garavani’s vision, partying with Elizabeth Taylor — and why luxury is now in a ‘different universe’
I have reviewed hundreds of hotels – this is what makes a perfect 10
Our columnist awarded his first ever perfect score last year, to Estelle Manor, and it got him thinking about what full marks really translates as
Narrative Thread | Conversations on Fashion Collections
Mark C. O'Flaherty asks 14 individuals who work with or use clothes in a unique way: how has fashion created something significant in your life? Through fascinating conversations, and photoshoots of their private collections, in New York, London and Milan, he constructs a portrait of each person through their intimate relationships with fashion, featuring The Idiosyncratic Fashionistas, Charlie Casely-Hayford, John Matheson (McQueen Vault), Sandy Powell, Stephen Jones, Carla Sozzani, Winn Austin, Carmen Haid, Susanne Bartsch, Karlo Steel, Karim Rashid, Steven Philip, and Desmond is Amazing.
Inside a crumbling home where its flaws are the star attraction
Crooked doors and cracked walls? The ceramicist Sophie Wilson has leant into the imperfections of her Lincolnshire family home — and the result is dramatic
‘My view of home is that it’s like a temple’
When does the artist and fashion designer Samuel Ross ever sleep? There are so many after-midnight marathons in his basement sculpting studio, “sometimes spent in silence or listening to Miles Davis or Ryuichi Sakamoto if it’s one of my 14-hour sessions”, he tells me.
Some people watch 9½ Weeks for the sex. I watch it for the furniture
lick, urbane and über-masculine, ’80s erotic noirs established a interior mood that still seduces
Jupiter 10
Forget Painting. Basso and Brooke's Bold Bespoke Wallpapers Will Liven Up Any Room in the House.
Austin Osman Spare – occultist, avant-gardist and ‘Britain’s first pop artist’
The London painter’s works have become spookily popular of late
Morocco Redefined: Inside the Eye-Opening Casablanca Art School Exhibition
An exhibition at Tate St Ives in the UK spotlights the artistic rebirth of a post-independence Morocco – and how its renowned ‘new wave’ art school paved the way a bold visual language that continues to inspire applied arts, typography, graphics and interior design
When Superheros Need Leather, These ‘Pop Artisans’ Go to Work
LONDON — Not all superheroes wear capes. And none wear satin tights or stretch nylon today. The modern crime fighter favors bespoke leather, often a little kinky, frequently handmade by a pair of ex-club kids. Patrick Whitaker and Keir Malem, both 57, founded Whitaker Malem, their leather specialty label, in 1988.