Has Hospitality Become Too Predictable?
As boutique hotels blur into a single tasteful blur of linen and travertine, a more subtle movement is turning away from scale. Anna Prudhomme speaks with the owner-led houses and restored estates rewriting hospitality around authorship, intimacy, and the feeling of being somewhere with a life of its own.
How Women Are Rewriting the Rules of the French Culinary Scene
In French kitchens, a new generation of women chefs is rethinking how restaurants are run. Anna Prudhomme speaks to those building their own spaces—driven by shared leadership, fair working conditions, and a rejection of the industry's entrenched hierarchies.
At Frieze LA, the Most Interesting Art Is Free
At Frieze LA, culture isn't high or low. Bonnie Langedijk examines how Los Angeles built a creative ecosystem from the ground up, and what the art world can learn from a city that never enforced a hierarchy.
The Return of the Hand
Valerie van Maarschalkerwaart explores how our obsession with craftsmanship challenges the value of time and the human condition.
Can Art Be the Key to Integration for Refugee Women?
Anna Prudhomme explores how École Monique Apple transforms language learning through art, helping refugee women rebuild their professional lives in France.
Jorja Smith on making a dance record, running FAMM on her own terms, and why being interpreted beats being understood.