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Following the recent success of their first pop-up project in Mexico, Design Hotels have now launched their second venture, San Giorgio, on the Greek island of Mykonos

Design Hotels launches its second pop-up hotel in Mykonos, Greece

Design 23 May 2012

Yabu Pushelberg's new show apartment at the Opus introduces a touch of high glamour in a city where most luxury homes are conformist or bling. Each floor rotates around a central core unhindered by structural columns, so there is an organic flow around the 625sq m space. The custom brass console in the family room is by Beverly Hills-based Scala Luxury

Yabu Pushelberg's show apartment at the Opus Hong Kong

Architecture 23 May 2012

Clerkenwell Design Week 2012

Design 23 May 2012

Heathrow Airport have commissioned Richard Wilson to create a sculpture for their soon-to-be renovated Terminal 2

Richard Wilson's new sculpture for Heathrow's Terminal 2

Art 22 May 2012

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Brooklyn-based architecture practice SO-IL recently completed its third space for Seoul gallery Kukje, a pre-eminent contemporary dealership with its own 'art campus'

Kukje gallery by SO-IL, Korea

A flat in a 1920s building in Tel Aviv-Jaffa, featuring hand-painted tiles from the period. The tenants (both designers) renovated it with sensitivity to the original plan.
Photography: Omri Amsalem

Houses from Within: Tel Aviv's open house weekend

The new parts of the gallery are dark-rendered and jut slightly forward towards the street; inside, floor to ceiling windows offer carefully framed views over London's urban landscape

The Photographers' Gallery reopens in London

Browse design galleries

Page 1: Great Expectations, published by GraphicDesign&, brings together 70 leading designers and typographers to celebrate the bicentenary of Charles Dickens’s birth

Book: 'Page 1: Great Expectations', published by GraphicDesign&

'Platform' is Habitat's new exhibition space above the store on London's King's Road

Habitat launches 'Platform', a new gallery in Chelsea, London

Virgin Atlantic's new Upper Class Suite is a design collaboration between the airline’s in-house design team, London-based studio Pengelly Design for the seating and with VW+BS for the bar and interior elements

Virgin Atlantic launches their new Upper Class Suite

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Dior Joaillerie, the new book by Rizzoli, pays homage to the fashion house’s head jewellery and watch designer Victoire de Castellane

Book: Dior Joaillerie

The Mars Yard Shoes, part of the Tom Sachs: NikeCraft collection, $385

Artist Tom Sachs collaborates with Nike

The equestrian-themed room of the Hermès 'Leather Forever' exhibition

'Hermès Leather Forever' exhibition, London

Browse art galleries

'Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky, poets, New York, December 30, 1963,' by Richard Avedon, © The Richard Avedon Foundation

Richard Avedon: Murals and Portraits exhibition at Gagosian, New York

‘A Low Level’ (2012) by KAWS, on show at Galerie Perrotin, Hong Kong. Photograph: Guillaume Ziccarelli

Galerie Perrotin
Thanks to an unprecedented boom in China’s art market and a growing demand for Western art, several influential international galleries have opened permanent exhibition spaces in Hong Kong this week, timed to coincide with this year’s ART HK 12 fair. Parisian dealer Emmanuel Perrotin has opened his vast seventeenth floor Galerie Perrotin with an exhibition of work by American neo-pop artist KAWS, titled 'The Nature of the Need'.

Galerie Perrotin, 17th Floor, 50 Connaught Road Central, Hong Kong; www.perrotin.com

A new wave of galleries arrives in Hong Kong

Exhibition view of 'Maybe you can live on the moon in the next century' by Fiona Rae

Fiona Rae exhibition at Leeds Art Gallery

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The Port Adriano marina is a pared down and elegant structure by Philippe Starck

Port Adriano marina by Philippe Starck, Mallorca

Discover & Deliver is a new online concept that enables you to purchase furniture you've seen in design hotels around the world, including Belgraves in London (pictured)

Discover & Deliver: a new website that brings the hotel to your home

Café Royal, London, UK

Alfred and Georgi Akirov, the duo behind the Mamilla hotel in Jerusalem (W*127) and the Conservatorium in Amsterdam (W*157), are soon to complete a three year-long project with David Chipperfield Architects transforming the legendary Café Royal into a contemporary hotel, in readiness for hosting guests during the Olympics this summer. Opened in 1865, the Café Royal was the favourite haunt of bohemians and intellectuals such as George Bernard Shaw, Paul Verlaine and Oscar Wilde (who once had too much absinthe in the Grill Room and mistook a waiter stacking chairs for a man watering tulips), and later saw the likes of Virginia Woolf, Winston Churchill and, more recently, David Bowie walk through its doors.

Chipperfield’s team restored the original 1860s and 1930s features of the listed Domino and Grill Rooms, which will reopen as a private members’ club and restaurant respectively, and took inspiration from the apartment of Regent Street architect John Nash to create the interiors of the hotel’s spacious 155 rooms with marble, oak and bronze details, high windows and large lobbies. The five suites, meanwhile, have been sympathetically restored by Donald Insall Associates. Our favourites are the Empire Suite, which boasts a massage room, and the Dome Suite located under the building’s copper dome, which has two terraces overlooking Piccadilly Circus and Big Ben. Café Royal opens in September 2012

68 Regent Street, London; www.thesethotels.com

Writer: Sara Henrichs
Photography: Michael Bodiam

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The Veloster is the Korean answer to the European fashion for sporting compact coupes

Hyundai Veloster

Beijing Auto Show 2012

The Renault Twizy, with its pared-down, low-tech aesthetic, makes it an ideal vehicle for young first-time buyers

Browse lifestyle galleries

Pierre Hardy for Frederic Malle

Collaboration comes naturally to Frederic Malle and this month sees him teaming up with accessory maestro Pierre Hardy on a bespoke project. Inspired by Hardy's trademark ability to combine luxury and geometric rigor, Malle asked him to redesign the Editions de Malle portable fragrance atomiser. The result is a limited edition run of 1500 metal cylinders, hand-sprayed in high-gloss black, white, and bright-coloured paints, ready for the taking.

Pierre Hardy for Frederic Malle, €220, www.fredericmalle.com

Writer: Rosa Bertoli

May beauty news: editor's picks

Sevva, with its 360-degree views of Hong Kong and the historic harbour, will be the venue for Liberatum Hong Kong's inaugural dinner

Liberatum Hong Kong International Festival of Culture

W*158's High Ball feature. Photograph: Pierpaolo Ferrari

Behind the scenes: W*158's High Ball shoot at HighCliff, Hong Kong

Browse technology galleries

1920s

A 1920s, electromechanically-controlled briefcase, containing six stopwatches that were used in the early Games

Omega's Olympic record of timing inventions

Teenage Engineering's OP-1 synthesiser costs €799 and comes with eight sound engines, four-track tape, drum sampler, midi-controller, FM-radio and battery

The OP-1 synthesiser by Teenage Engineering

The new Jil Sander mobile phone

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The new Porsche 911 Carrera S is a dead ringer for its predecessors, but there is a slight shift in the proportions, with a longer wheelbase and a rather more pronounced, almost cartoonish, relationship between wheels and headlights

Porsche 911 Carrera S

Cars 22 May 2012

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