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  • Everchanging mirage – Louis Vuitton Roppongi Hills

    Louis Vuitton first started as a manufacturer of expensive luggage and bags. Over the years, the company has ventured into the greater world of luxury and came up with a range of products that is a direct equation to status.…

  • Lawn Road Flats

    There is a beautiful film called ‘England: Home and Beauty’ that is a testament to the glamour of the 1920s and 1930s. In it, young elegant women wearing long, sleek evening dresses arrive home late at night, alighting from their…

  • Dior Omotesando

    With the latest trend of fashion houses stamping their presence in Japan by engaging architects to design their flagship building along the trendy Omotesando in Tokyo, Dior is no exception as well. Fifty years after the first Christian Dior fashion…

  • Awesome Archigram

    Design Museum, London Until 4 July 2004

  • Norman Foster: Works 1

    Edited by David Jenkins. London, New York: Prestel Publishing, 2003.

  • Gormley at White Cube

    For the period through to the end of May, White Cube will be showing works by one of the world’s most recognised sculptors, Antony Gormley. His new work, ‘Clearing’ at White Cube, is composed of 7 km of rod that…

  • Bugatti memories

    Brian Sewell was right to question (The Independent, 6 April 2004) the attempt to resuscitate the revered name of Bugatti in the 21st century. Surely the untimely end of Ettore Bugatti in 1947 aged 66, and of his son Jean,…

  • BritArt, how we have loved you

    The nation’s love affair with BritArt was hyped up as recently as last February, when Sotheby’s sold 14.7 million-worth of the genre. Can it really be true that, ‘Britain’s love affair with BritArt meant that a new generation of young…

  • Archives

    The John Murray publishing house would have had little difficulty in finding a home and a purchaser for its archive, which is thought to be worth some 45 million. However, it is intended that it will go to the National…

  • Tax Windfall

    The Russian magnate Vladimir Logvinenko has the ambition to bring into St Petersburg again and to other Russian Museums, outstanding paintings. For a long time, he could not bring this to fruition. But the removal of Russia’s 30% import tax…