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    • Wednesday, 25 January, 2023
      HTSI
      Journey to Georgia

      The former Soviet republic may be on the cusp of a conflict zone, but its cultural life beats with an independent spirit

    • Thursday, 12 January, 2023
      HTSI
      Four art exhibitions to fire up winter

      Power shows from Peter Doig, Anthony Daley, Bob Colacello and Julia Chiang

    • Tuesday, 20 December, 2022
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      10 coffee-table books to give a culture lover

      Arty ideas for the aesthete who has everything

    • Friday, 25 November, 2022
      HTSIHow to host it: a feasting special
      The Delevingnes: ‘It’s big plates with wooden spoons and everyone can dig in’

      Model Poppy Delevingne and her sister Chloe prep for an intimate evening of ‘mayhem’

    • Monday, 21 November, 2022
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      Cult Shop: the New York stationer for socialites

      The city’s most illustrious paper goods store also offers advice on etiquette and decorum

    • Saturday, 19 November, 2022
      FT SeriesFestive food and drink special 2022
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      Should your outfit match your hors d’oeuvres? Where best to seat a woman whose preferred topic of conversation is goats?

    • Sunday, 13 November, 2022
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      All the world’s a (miniature) stage

      Collectors have set the scene for a toy theatre revival

    • Friday, 4 November, 2022
      HTSI
      Five exhibitions to frame your autumn

      ’90s fashion from Steven Meisel, Emma Hardy’s ode to family life and Jack Davison’s monochrome vegetables

    • Friday, 14 October, 2022
      ReviewBiography and memoir
      Getting Lost — Annie Ernaux’s earlier work arrives in translation

      A belated English-language version of 2001’s ‘Se perdre’ comes as the French author wins the Nobel Prize

    • Saturday, 8 October, 2022
      HTSIThe HTSI autumn design special 2022
      Queen of the light – Nanda Vigo’s radical vision

      An epic retrospective of the avant-garde visionary is long overdue

    • Saturday, 24 September, 2022
      HTSI
      Autumn art, photography – and memes – to inspire

      Four new book recommendations

    • Thursday, 22 September, 2022
      HTSIThe HTSI arts special, autumn 2022
      Arch Hades, the $525,000 poem and the new meta verse

      A wave of poets are turning to innovative – and lucrative – platforms

    • Wednesday, 21 September, 2022
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      Paper – the last luxury

      Once touted as redundant, the most quotidian of materials is now a hot commodity again

    • Friday, 16 September, 2022
      HTSI
      Cult Shop: the Soho bookshop that helps creatives keep their cool

      Idea’s vintage books have inspired Kanye, Elton and Calvin Klein 

    • Monday, 12 September, 2022
      HTSI
      Classical music to calm the mind

      Pianist and composer Chad Lawson wants to change the way we listen

    • Sunday, 11 September, 2022
      HTSI
      The beautiful and the glammed

      Gavin Bond’s 1990s backstage fashion photographs finally steal the limelight

    • Friday, 2 September, 2022
      FT SeriesLondon Design 2022
      Why Surrealist design is back

      From furniture to fashion, a new generation of designers is inspired by the movement

    • Thursday, 1 September, 2022
      Style
      Fashion goes back to the drawing board

      This season’s prints are pretty as a picture

    • Thursday, 25 August, 2022
      How To Spend It In...
      Fashion designer Marios Schwab’s guide to Astypalaia

      The creative director at Greek fashion label Zeus+Dione shares his favourite spots on the remote Greek island

    • Friday, 19 August, 2022
      HTSI
      The brands behind the great glasses revolution

      They began as startups and have since upended the eyewear industry. We go inside the brands that changed the way we see

    • Friday, 22 July, 2022
      HTSI
      Home and away: four new art books explore the meaning of home

      From a photographic study of British country life to abandoned homes in New Zealand’s Christchurch

    • Friday, 15 July, 2022
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      Sun-soaked culture: seven new art books to celebrate summer

      Mediterranean escapes and Campari spritzes to put you in a holiday mood

    • Wednesday, 22 June, 2022
      HTSI
      The world’s most wonderful libraries: the readers’ picks

      Earlier this year, we published our selection of member’s libraries around the globe. It promoted a flurry of responses regarding remarkable reading rooms. Here are some of your favourites…

    • Friday, 10 June, 2022
      HTSI
      A summer in Newport, the last bastion of America’s gilded age

      What is life really like in the ‘vast and florid’ mansions of Bellevue Avenue?

    • Saturday, 4 June, 2022
      The Aesthete
      Gallerist Timothy Taylor: ‘Style is the ambition and freedom to follow your own path’

      Plus the joys of Maharishi trousers, service-station chilli sauce and competing on the rowing machine

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