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Poetry Muse: Spoken Word at Jawdance
LUX’s Contributing Poet Rhiannon Williams discovers street poetry and protest is alive and thriving on the fringes of the international urban art scene. As a young poet living in London, I have come to know the many hidden faces of our contemporary poetry landscape...
Exhibition of the Month: ‘The Most Popular Art Exhibition Ever!’, Serpentine Gallery, London
British artist Grayson Perry refers to himself as a “communicator”, one who is aiming to “communicate to as wide an audience as possible”, which means, at this time, bridging the gap in Britain between a divided society. As such, the...
Sake No Hana brings cherry blossom season to Europe
Mayfair’s Sake No Hana restaurant by the Hakkasan Group celebrates the Japanese ‘sakura’ season with an installation of intertwining cherry blossom branches and a limited-edition menu. LUX enjoys Hideki Hiwatashi’s contemporary take on hanami...
Labassa Woolfe: tailoring for the modern gentleman
Fitzrovia’s latest opening, Labassa Woolfe is the brainchild of Johan Labassa, an antiques dealer, and Joe Woolfe, previously Retail Director at Savile Row tailor Spencer Hart, and a celebrity stylist in his own right. The boutique melds their passions to create...
Luxury perched in the Himalayan foothills of North East India
The Himalayas are one of the few corners of the earth that remain unconquerable by humans. Many of the world’s highest peaks are yet to be summitted and much of the range is still a mystery. In the first leg of a journey from North East India to Nepal, Digital...
Hotel of the Month: The Siam, Bangkok
Why should I go now? Thousands of tourists flock to Thailand every year to take part in intensive wellness and meditation retreats in monasteries round the country, but whilst most of these tend to involve at least degree of comfort deprivation, The Siam is offering...
Celebrities gather to celebrate Dom Pérignon P2 Champagne
Superstars from fashion, design and media gathered at an uber-exclusive dinner in Vincent Square, central London, last week to celebrate the launch of Dom Pérignon‘s Plénitude Deuxième 2000 champagne. Sarah Ann Macklin and Rosanna Falconer Whitney Bromberg...
Exhibition of the Month: ‘Oneness’ at Aloft, Hermès, Singapore
Korean artist, Minjung Kim is the first of two artists this year to be invited to the Aloft art space at the Hermès boutique, Singapore. Exploring the gallery’s 2017 theme of reflection, Kim’s contemporary ink paintings depict vast, hazy mountainscapes...
Haute Cuisine at high altitude above Zermatt
Above Zermatt, Switzerland’s most spectacular mountain village and home to the Matterhorn, high-altitude restaurants like Chez Vrony combine tradition with chic, and put the haute into cuisine, as Darius Sanai discovers Mountain hut cuisine will be familiar to...
Kazakh artists, Yelena and Viktor Vorobyev make a world art breakthrough at the Venice Biennale
Once again, Venice becomes a stage for the world’s best art with the 57th edition of the Biennale opening this month. Under the direction of Christine Macel, chief curator at the Centre Pompidou, this is the first year that artists from Central Asia are...