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Konfekt
Change of art
Art & Culture / Interior Design / TravelCurator and editor Carla Sozzani has long helped to shape the direction of Italian fashion, art and design. But now Milan’s cultural doyenne is embarking on a new chapter. We join her for a stroll …
Konfekt
Treasure hunters
Fashion / Food / Interior Design / TravelA meal at Sissi Pohle and Pat Scherzer’s home is always a sumptuous affair. The founders of vintage and antique shop Outofuseberlin and set-design label Tables and Food certainly know how to put on a good show …
Konfekt
Glowing terms
Food / TravelThe kitchen is very much the focal point of cookbook author Mimi Thorisson’s family home in northern Italy. Gathering together the best ingredients that Piedmont has to offer, she enjoys preparing warming, market-fresh meals – with an expertly mixed apéritif or two, of course …
Konfekt
Spatial verve
Art & Culture / Interior Design / TravelIn their Florentine home, gallerist couple Alessandra Tabacchi and Franco Mariotti prize patina over perfection, filling their interiors with expressive texture and detail …
Nomas
Hussein Chalayan - The scents and flavours of Cyprus are deeply engraved in me
Art & Culture / Fashion / TravelHussein Chalayan is considered an avant-gardist. Since graduating from the renowned Central Saint Martins College over thirty years ago, the fashion designer has repeatedly attracted the attention of the fashion world – from London to Paris – with his experimental approach and the performance character of his presentations …
Konfekt
Family values
Food / TravelRun by the Rhomberg family for almost 100 years, Hotel Madrisa is so beloved that some guests have been returning for decades. What keeps them coming back to this corner of Austria? Welcoming rooms, ethical fine dining and a deep love of‘ skiing are among its irresistible draws …
Konfekt
Head for the hills
Interior Design / TravelThere’s no better way to understand a place than to learn from those who know it well. In South Tyrol, that person is luxury chalet owner Tom Erlacher, who invites us to his cosy guesthouse to let us in on some of the region’s best-kept secrets …
Konfekt
Baroque beauty
Art & Culture / Fashion / Food / Interior Design / Retail / TravelMagnificent baroque architecture and unrivalled art treasures Dresden is not known as the Florence on the Elbe for nothing. A lot has happened in the city in recent years, especially in Neustadt, Germany’s largest art deco neighbourhood, where artsy bars are popping up next to fashion-forward boutiques. Further afield, in the surrounding area, there are also the vast Elbe meadows, the Oberlössnitz vineyards and dozens of palaces and castles scattered throughout Saxony that bear witness to the past of old Prussia …
Lufthansa
Living is easy
Art & Culture / TravelWhen gallery owner Mariane Ibrahim was looking for a new center of life, Chicago was the obvious choice. For her, the city stands for America like no other …
Konfekt
Home free
Interior Design / TravelMaddalena Scarzella and her partner found refuge from city life in the woods of Liguria, where Scarzella’s grandmother, architect Luisa Castiglioni, built a series of homes in the 1960s. Now open to guests, Boccamonte offers a vision of true escape …
Konfekt
Village champion
Fashion / Food / TravelHaving decamped from Paris to a restored house in the country, art director Charlotte Huguet rustles up inventive recipes to entertain her many guests. In the process she has become an advocate of rural living – so much so, she wrote a book on it …
Konfekt
Shore footed
Fashion / TravelWhen designer Christina Martini moved from Paris to an idyllic part of Corfu, everything changed for her. But she hasn’t settled into a secluded island life. She founded a shoe brand and now lives on an olive farm, enjoying the best of both worlds …
H+ Magazine
The white way
TravelThe longdistance hiking trail Via Engiadina is a winter dream. Our author surrendered herself to the whiteness of the Rhaetian Alps and lost sight of everyday life …
Konfekt
Metropolis of feasibility
Art & Culture / Food / Interior Design / TravelIn recent years, Leipzig’s magnificent old buildings and abandoned factories have attracted artists and creatives, and the German city has blossomed as a result. Though its cultural scene is now fizzing, a refreshingly laid-back spirit lingers in the air. We take a stroll through its picturesque streets to find a city that’s full of surprises …
Konfekt
Longtime companions
Interior Design / TravelTwo Hamburg design lovers open up a home in which every piece has something to say. They regale Konfekt with tales of the antiques and mid-century masters whose work they collect, restore and sell …
Konfekt
Head first
Fashion / TravelThere’s no limit to artist Maryam Keyhani’s imagination as she sits at the drawing board, using her keen sense of fun and a feel for the absurd to sculpt traditional materials into surreal headwear …
Konfekt
Peak chic
TravelTicino is Switzerland’s most southerly canton, a verdant region heavily influenced by its neighbour, Italy, and gifted with valleys, lakes and the ever-present Alps. From modernist architecture to entrepreneurs whipping up specialist gins, it offers a sophisticated and surprising short break. Let us show you around …
Konfekt
Blue dye thinking
Art & Culture / Fashion / TravelThe ancient Japanese technique of ‘shibori’ is the inspiration behind Hiroyuki Murase’s line of exquisitely complex hand-dyed clothes. He takes us to Arimatsu in Japan, where the whole town is pulling together to keep this delicate industry alive …
The Weekender
In wonderland
Art & Culture / TravelIn the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, spectacular contemporary art and a huge tropical garden paradise merge to create a wholly exceptional place. Photographer Jewgeni Roppel captured Instituto Inhotim during a kaleidoscopic tour …
Konfekt
Culinary portrait
Art & Culture / Food / TravelVictoire de Taillac-Touhami’s Parisian apartment is the setting for her recreation of a childhood dish. And not even a visit from the Louvre can interrupt dinner …
Konfekt
Waking a sleeping beauty
Food / TravelA dedicated duo are bringing a slumbering vineyard gently back to life by improving the habitat for birds, butterflies, bees and rare bats, in the certain knowledge that a healthy ecosystem produces better wine. They hope it will become a blueprint for the future …
Konfekt
Small is beautiful
Fashion / Interview / TravelIlse Cornelissens and Tim Van Geloven’s concept store Graanmarkt 13 began with the building: only once the premises were perfect could the business of curating a vision begin. For Cornelissens, who focuses on small brands founded by daring, imaginative creatives, serendipity plays a part too, with one fortuitous encounter leading to another. Here, she explains her philosophy …
Konfekt
Home comforts
Art & Culture / Food / TravelJust hours before hosting a performance at the gallery she runs in Paris, Bianca Lee Vasquez throws a cosy, Latino- themed housewarming banquet at her new home – inviting her creative friends to partake in the art of joyous hospitality …
Walter Knoll
Airy elegance
Art & Culture / Interior Design / TravelTwo blues. The neon signage of the Norton Museum of Art shines in Yves Klein blue against the deep blue sky of West Palm Beach. With a strong sense of aesthetics, the architects at Foster + Partners have carefully redesigned the house and turned it into a magnet for lovers of art and architecture …
KTCHNrebel
The restaurant at the end of the universe
Food / TravelThe World’s Best Restaurant of 2019 is about as far away from glamorous metropolitan life as you can get… but here, in the South African fishing village of Paternoster, De Wolfgat creates dimensions of flavor that big-city foodies can only dream of …
KTCHNrebel
The science of good taste
Food / Interview / TravelWhere do you find business partners in California? Google, sometimes. Brian Chau, a San Francisco-based food scientist, was looking for a place where he could develop new formulas in peace; Dan Mills was dreaming of opening a maker space where all his kitchen equipment would have a purpose …
Lamborghini Magazin
Carlo’s brave new world
Food / TravelThe kitchen of Milanese chef Carlo Cracco is a melting pot of northern Italian traditions and the latest experimental techniques, forging an unmistakable culinary signature. Now, the Italian chef has opened a very personal and luxurious stage for his culinary creations …
KTCHNrebel
Squaring the circle
Food / TravelJust a few months after opening, a San Francisco burger joint has already achieved cult status. Their secret? Gourmet quality plus restaurant robotics …
Lufthansa Online
Travel Guide San Francisco
TravelWhat would San Francisco be without the Bay? Likely only half as amazing. Every visitor to the northern Californian metropolis should cross the Bay at least once by boat. From the water, the view of the high-rise downtown skyline, Signal Hill and the Golden Gate Bridge is simply spectacular …
Lufthansa Magazine
Golden promise
Art & Culture / TravelSpeeding across a bridge over the Enz, one of the three rivers that wend their way through Pforzheim, a Porsche Boxster is struck by a ray of evening light and momentarily gleams almost as brightly as the setting sun …
KTCHNrebel
Countdown to zero
Food / TravelFor a long time, the Silo in Brighton was the lonely pioneer on the zero-waste restaurant scene. Now, a paradigm shift is finally on the horizon …
KTCHNrebel
The high-tech playground
Food / TravelA new workspace has just opened its doors in San Francisco: an experimental playground for fans of high-tech cooking …
J'N'C
Cool cities Dubai
Fashion / Retail / TravelA twelve-lane highway, Sheikh Zayed Road, cuts through the city. This is the main traffic artery where sports cars whizz past the high-rise apartment buildings glittering in the dazzling sunshine …
J’N’C
Cool cities – São Paulo
Fashion / Food / Interior Design / Retail / TravelWhile Rio de Janeiro is immediately associated with beaches and samba, its big sister São Paulo has a Blade Runner-style image with a criminal background: wild and potentially dangerous – and anything but sexy …
J’N’C
Cool cities – San Francisco
Fashion / Food / Interior Design / Interview / Retail / TravelFrom the West Coast to the rest of the world: San Francisco is deemed the birthplace of the five-pocket jeans, the most important fashion statement of the past 140 years …
J’N’C
Cool cities – Los Angeles
Fashion / Food / Interior Design / Interview / Retail / TravelFlashing camera bulbs and famous faces. Endless sunshine and bling-bling fashion. An obsession with physical perfection and Lamborghinis. There is hardly another city that manages to capture our imaginations like Los Angeles does. And the funny thing about it: the clichés are substantiated at every turn! …
J’N’C
Cool cities – New York
Fashion / Food / Interior Design / Retail / TravelIt’s the peculiar geography of New York that makes it what it is: a sardine can filled with eight million people, basically piled up on top of one other, living and working. In contrast to most other metropolises the Big Apple has no way of giving itself over to middle-age spread: two rivers, the Hudson and the East River, hinder a geographic city sprawl. So, at least on Manhattan Island, growth can only go one way: upwards …
J’N’C
Cool cities – Montreal
Fashion / Food / Interior Design / Retail / TravelThe spectacularly located Montreal, which lies on the left bank of the St. Lawrence River, is considered by many as the Canadian ‘Petit Paris’. And it’s not just the picturesque streets in the world’s second largest French city that are indeed reminiscent of the Seine metropolis: when it comes to guts and stylistic individualism, the people of Montreal can certainly hold their own against their erstwhile conquerors …
J’N’C
Cool cities – Bangkok
Fashion / Retail / TravelTaking a look at the local street fashion worn by the young generation in Bangkok, the most influential economic centre in South-East Asia, you can see how westernised they are. Rockstar haircuts, skinny jeans and designer sneakers are a given for any trendy basic wardrobe, just as much as in European climes …
Port Magazine
The Rose Revolution
TravelIn the 1970s, in a climate that was difficult both politically and literally, Iran’s Lalehzar valley became the birthplace of a new crop – and a different way of life …