Wellness

Lifestyle / 10 Aug 2018

Rites: top beauty picks for the design-conscious in 2018

Calling all beauty gurus – here’s your definitive guide to the best luxury beauty products of the year. We’re on the lookout for natural solutions that promote a healthy, comfortable (and stylish) lifestyle. Featuring elite nutrition and skincare supplements, contemporary...

Lifestyle / 30 Jul 2018

Patternity designs ‘mindful postcards’ to reconnect us with our offline selves

Prolific London design duo Patternity has teamed up with print company Moo on a series of ‘postcards with a purpose’. Designed to tempt people offline, and back into the world of paper-and-pen messages, the project aims to ‘form positive patterns...

Lifestyle / 27 Jul 2018

Melbourne’s most laid-back seafront suburb gains a new yoga retreat

Living in Mordi, one of Melbourne’s most laid-back seafront suburbs, has just got even more zen for local yogis. Studio Warrior One has opened its second shala (after Brighton, Melbourne) offering a wide range of yoga classes and training sessions...

Illustration of The Sanctuary Kitchen, by Poliform

Design / 20 Jul 2018

Why thoughtful kitchen design is good for your health

Kitchen design always begins with putting people’s domestic habits under the microscope. What, when, how and where are we eating? How and where do we socialise? Where do we read, watch, work in the home? What rubbish do we jettison...

Interior of RÖ Skin Treatment Rooms, Stamford, UK

Lifestyle / 18 Jul 2018

RÖ Skin introduces contemporary wellness treatment rooms to a rural British town

When thinking of rustic English towns, you’ll be hard-pressed not to conjure up images of charming independent shops, quaint tearooms and attractive old-world architecture. Stamford in Lincolnshire certainly ticks the boxes. However, shaking up its high street is RÖ Skin’s...

Inside the new Clean Market wellness clinic in New York City

Lifestyle / 18 Jul 2018

Clean Market brings smart beauty and on-demand wellness to NYC

There is no shortage of marketplaces in New York City, but of all the wellness-inclined varieties, a new destination has leapt to the top of the list. Just opened in Manhattan’s bustling Midtown area is Clean Market, a holistically-charged nutrition...

Lifestyle / 13 Jul 2018

A former Los Angeles TV studio transforms into Equinox’s new wellness gym and spa

Los Angeles’ fitness fans have yet another beautifully-designed sweat spot to choose from in the form of a new Equinox health club, designed by MBH Architects. Equinox – a 1990s stalwart of American fitness, before social media exploded gym-going into a...

Travel / 13 Jul 2018

Linger for longer in these 10 design-led luxury hotel bathrooms

The pleasure of bathing has never been so passionately pursued, with hotels throwing themselves wholeheartedly into the creation of spaces that are less amenity and more amusement. No longer a side thought, the best of these new personal pleasure palaces...

Design / 12 Jul 2018

Can design really make us feel better? Introducing the Wallpaper* world of Wellness + Wonder

It’s now over nine years since we first introduced an unsuspecting audience to what is now a must-see fixture at Salone del Mobile, known as the annual Wallpaper* Handmade exhibition. Even we were a little shocked and awed by what...

Lifestyle / 11 Jul 2018

Book a bed at The Dreamery, Soho’s new nap bar for sleep-starved New Yorkers

Suffice to say, the value of napping has long been underrated. As a reliable authoirty on facilitating good quality sleep, mattress-maker Casper has picked up the flag for this worthy cause. The American brand opens The Dreamery this week –...

New York City rooftop swimming pool with a view

Travel / 27 Jun 2018

Beat the heat with these ten cool swimming pools in NYC

In a city as crowded as Manhattan, summer is a sweaty affair. Taking a dip in a hotel pool is one inviting solution. So if you can’t escape to Long Beach or Fire Island or your lakeside home in the Catskills choose from these...

Lifestyle / 12 Jun 2018

L’Oréal’s new Paris HQ designs wellness into the workday

From Google’s expansive Silicon Valley campus (where it’s bring-your-dog-to-work-day, everyday), to Lego’s Denmark Office with slides instead of lifts, companies are paying closer attention to how design and space influence their employees’ experience, and therefore, the company’s productivity. The new...