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The Kwik-E-Mart, Monk’s Café, Satriale’s Pork Store… they’re places many of us have invested time in, but have never visited – and never will for that matter. Fictional TV locations are curious places; you know your way around The Queen Vic, but – unless you’re a BRIT School graduate or a former familiar-face with a flagging career – you’re never likely to actually sink a pint there. Texan artist Tim Doyle plays upon this familiarity – transforming the well-loved settings of some of America’s... Read Full Story

The Royal Festival Hall has always been one of my favourite spaces in London. When I first moved to London and hardly knew a soul, I would often wander along the Southbank and find myself there. But it was only much later, when I learnt more about the building’s history, that I really understood its appeal. It was designed by London County Council’s architecture team led by Leslie Martin, Robert Matthew and Peter Moro, and was the first major public building to be completed since... Read Full Story

Part sculptural artworks, part site-specific installations, London-based Parisian Noemie Goudal ‘s photography is often unsettling – always captivating, and utterly beautiful. The Central Saint Martins graduate produces alluring works that transform settings, situations and objects with a subtlety that forces you to question their own reality; draped netting transforms a woodland into a gushing waterfall, a dilapidated basement becomes the underneath of a pier. Cardboard, print-outs and... Read Full Story

It’s that time of year again; card shops are stocked with glossy, over-priced ways to show your loved one you care, petrol stations are awash with sales reps using a £4.99 bunch of roses to disguise their infidelities, and lazy PRs are pumping out tenuously linked, cupid-related press releases as if they were going out of fashion. Who said romance was dead? Luckily the Weekend Edit is on hand to guide you through the next 7 days with hardly a mention of cheesy Valentine’s Day proceedings... Read Full Story

Maarten van der Horst Last week we featured StudioXAG’s turquoise explosion for Future Map’s window at Selfridges’ annual Bright Young Things showcase. Well, we’ve had pictures through for all of the windows that were dressed by the cream of the country’s young creatives – and, quite frankly, we could do a detailed feature on pretty much every one. They’re mind-bogglingly good. From Tinker and Tailor ‘s full on recreated studio to Oliver Ruuger ‘s elegantly surreal scene; the acute detail... Read Full Story

We’ve been obsessing over Swedish design studio Form Us With Love ‘s sweetly stripped-back approach since We Heart began, and their latest works do not disappoint. Working with “friends” Cosentino Silestone, Abstracta, Ateljé Lyktan, Design House Stockholm and newcomers One Nordic Furniture Company; Form Us With Friends – their annual exhibition of collaborations – is showing on scenic Skeppsholmen Island at this week’s Stockholm Design Week. From lighting to furniture, the exhibition... Read Full Story

Pay attention! This is a chap’s face you’ll be seeing a lot more of. But not nearly as much as his voice. Looking like a young Mos Def, but sounding like anything from a battle-worn Delta blues veteran, to a soul-heavy gospel preacher, Willis Earl Beal is a prodigious talent with a desire to be different; “I want to be like the black Tom Waits” he recently told Pitchfork. Until recently – he’s now signed to XL in the UK and Hot Charity in the US – Beal would sing a song, or draw pictures... Read Full Story

Just as a dog craves his bone, a Daily Mail reader yearns for casual racism or a Jeremy Kyle guest hungers for unprotected sex; we simply cannot get enough of exposed concrete. The folk behind Porto-based guesthouse Casa do Conto (House of Tales) clearly concur with our fetish; in fact – in this unique renovation of a 19th-century bourgeois home – they may have actually designed our dream home. As much out of necessity as design – the renovation was dealt a terrible blow in 2009, when a... Read Full Story

Parisian artist Suzy Lelièvre creates fascinating works that surprise and enthrall. Are they functional objects? Are they sculptures, intended for gallery display? Contorting tables – tied into knots, chairs that explode with a fanfare and “gravity dice”; Lelièvre, who studied Fine Arts in Nîmes and then Lyon, concocts fabulously illogical objects from seemingly logical concepts. Unexpected, perceptive and witty – they’re works you could admire all day… © Véronique Huyghe... Read Full Story

Ever a brand to have their fingers in many a creative pie, Red Bull opened up the alternative Parisian art space, 12Mail , at the end of 2009. The gallery – curated by DJ/label-boss/blogger/insomniac Guillaume Sorge – have had many a hit since then; the latest being this curious examination of illustrated mugs. Some 18 leading illustrators and cartoonists are included in the exhibition curated by journalist and comic-art expert, Joseph Ghosn – and with the focus on subject, as opposed to... Read Full Story