Brunch Matters: No. 11 Pimlico Road
Pimlico is not the most obvious of gastronomic hotspots; in fact, until last weekend I’d…
Author Estella Shardlow
The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier
Leave any pretensions of good taste at the door. In The Fashion World of Jean-Paul…
Rio: Beyond the Beaches
“Here we are, in the middle of nowhere. It seemed a bit of an exaggeration: while the deserted street in Rio’s Gávea district was admittedly poles apart from the bustling sands of Copacabana and Ipanema, it was hardly a total backwater…”
Twenty-Four Hours in Bruges
“It began with discs of black truffle on potato and celeriac …” Estella spends a day (and a bit) in Bruges, dining on more than – but certainly not omitting – beer and chocolate…
Paradise Found: Iguazu Falls
“I was meant to be writing about all the things there are to see in Iguazu, Brazil, beyond the famous waterfalls. However, when I arrived I immediately realised that this plan was doomed to fail.”
Sensing Spaces: Architecture Reimagined
The Royal Academy makes a successful break from its usual formula as it invites seven contemporary architects to transform its Beaux-Arts galleries…
Zürich: A Tale of Two Cities
“It doesn’t get much more festive than…listening to the choir arrayed on the famous Singing Christmas tree at the Werdmühleplatz Christmas market, a glass of Gluhwein in hand.” Estella gets festive in the Swiss financial capital…
Atomos: McGregor’s Random Dance
“Wayne McGregor is not your average choreographer. A former research fellow at the University of Cambridge’s Experimental Psychology department, he’s as much immersed in science and technology as the world of dance.”
Obika
Estella visits the latest outpost of the Obika mozzarella empire on Charlotte Street, where she samples the finest white stuff known to mankind…
Australia at the Royal Academy of Arts
“Despite being the world’s sixth largest nation, the land Down Under has been curiously absent from art history’s hall of fame.” Estella visits the latest exhibition at the RA…
Heatherwick: Designing Our Times
“Imagine the Green Man, on acid, designing buildings. Not just buildings even, but sculptures and buses and bags and department store windows. Welcome to Thomas Heatherwick’s world…”
Mozzarella & More
There are good things happening on the King’s Road. No, I don’t mean the antics of the Made in Chelsea crew. I’m talking restaurants.