A Useful Recommendation with Paula Gerbase

December 2025

From a brass tea caddy found in Kyoto to dawn hikes in the Swiss Alps, Paula Gerbase—creative director of Georg Jensen—shares the objects, rituals, and landscapes that shape her days between Copenhagen and the mountains she calls home.

Patter Places — Bautier Apartments

Dec-2025travel

In Brussels, furniture designer Marina Bautier opens two apartments above her store and café — capturing the comforts of home, with the ease of a guesthouse.

Label to Love — Ilana Blumberg

Dec-2025style

Sturdy and cosy knitwear by artist Ilana Blumberg adds a sense of style to everyday winter dressing.

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Nov-2025culture

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A List of Useful Recommendations — November 25

Nov-2025style

This month, we find pleasure in sophisticated coats, books that expand our thinking, vintage denim, and a hardworking kettle with countertop appeal.

Our Legacy Workshop: A Counter-System for Dressing

Nov-2025style

Inside Our Legacy’s first London Work Shop the afterlife of a garment is treated as standard business practice.

Dressing from the Ground Up — 6 Shoes to Unsettle Your Style

Nov-2025style

Our edit of new footwear that transforms the ordinary into something more distinctive.

New Beginnings — Two Museums in New York

Nov-2025culture

It has been a busy year for museum renovations in New York. This autumn, two more enhanced institutions will be unveiled in the city.

Label to Love — Santangelo

Nov-2025style

Lauren Cochrane speaks to Anna Santangelo about her peripatetic lifestyle and eponymous jewellery brand.

Things to Go See — Art Listings for Autumn

Nov-2025culture

The time of the year when museums and galleries pull out all the stops. Here, a long-list of exhibitions that represent the best of the best, featuring David Bowie, Betty Parsons and Lee Lozano, among others.

A List of Useful Recommendations — October 25

Oct-2025style

Velcro cable ties, award winning collagen powder, and the ultimate padded puffa jacket; this month's Patter edit is a thoughtful curation of style, design and cultural nourishment.

5 Chairs from ‘500 Designs That Matter’

Oct-2025culture

A new publication from Phaidon offers an in-depth visual study of the ubiquity and diversity of chairs. The book serves as a rigorous encyclopaedia of important designs and an exploration of how we live with, and through, objects.

Surface Value: Blēo Brings New Possibilities for Colour at Home

Oct-2025living

Blēo – a new paint and tile brand from Copenhagen – makes high-quality pigment in artful palettes created by your favourite architects and designers.

Label to Love — Sono

Oct-2025style

To visit the Sono studio is a heartening lesson in how a small label can quietly flourish. Lauren Cochrane talks to the couple behind it – Stephanie Oberg and Simon Homes.