A Starbucks made of sticks, a thatched boutique hotel and villas designed to look like pebbles dotted around the landscape. Superstar Japanese architect Kengo Kuma is a master of blending old with new, cutting edge and tradition, to make beautifully simple buildings that speak to the past and the present – and capture the imagination. … Read more
Three of Faberge’s most exquisite eggs will be displayed in the UK for the first time – alongside a cigarette lighter made by the master jeweller and given to Edward VII by his mistress Exhibition on the Russian goldsmith, who died in 1920, will open in November London was home to the only branch of Carl … Read more
Jennifer Lopez ravishes in long red sleeveless gown in exquisite photo shared on Christmas Eve By Paul Chavez For Dailymail.com Published: 04:01 GMT, 25 December 2020 | Updated: 04:01 GMT, 25 December 2020 Jennifer Lopez ravished in red in a social media post shared on Christmas Eve. The 51-year-old singer took to Instagram to share … Read more
Kacey Musgraves calls estranged husband Ruston Kelly’s new track Pressure ‘such an exquisite song’ By Adam S. Levy For Dailymail.com Published: 05:33 BST, 20 July 2020 | Updated: 05:33 BST, 20 July 2020 Kacey Musgraves and Ruston Kelly’s split appears to be more than amicable. The singer-songwriter, 31, heaped high worlds of praise for her … Read more
Millennials love to think they discovered everything and have even come up with a whizzy term – cottagecore – to describe an appreciation of the aesthetic beauty and romance of rural life. Fuelled by the power of social media, the cottagecore trend is currently sweeping the United States, but this idealisation of style has been … Read more
The bizarre competition in Japan that sees exquisite mini gardens built on the back of TRUCKS The annual Kei Truck Garden Contest sees landscaping taken to the next level Competition entrants only have hours to transform their trucks into gardens Judges mark entrants on planning, design, expression and execution By Paul Hirons For Mailonline Published: 18:58 … Read more
BOOK OF THE WEEK THE MOTHER OF BEAUTY by Nigel Andrew (Thorntree Press £10, 244 pp) We English have a world-class literature, it is often said, with Dickens and Shakespeare, but we’re not so good on art and music. If it’s great symphonies you want, you have to turn to Germany and Austria; for painting and … Read more