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A city of effortless cool & pioneering Scandi design Copenhagen has long been at the heart of the world’s ceramics stage, from practical to the performative.
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Keep a fashion-weathered eye on Cecilie Bahnsen, Copenhagen's up-and-coming designer who you can spy from Vogue + Dover Street Market, to Copenhagen's very own streets.
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A true Danish design icon, Copenhagen's Vibskov reaches to the outer edges of fashion with his rebellious style, bright designs & famed 'Piggy' series.
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Samsøe & Samsøe are a Copenhagen-based Scandi fashion brand designing effortless style pieces with cool Latin roots.
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Trading in Kyiv, Ukraine since 2014, by husband-and-wife team Dan Vakhrameyev and Kateryna Vakhrameyeva, the co-founders of +kouple bring sleek lighting, innovative solutions and a Scandi-inspired design element to interiors.
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With an extraordinarily creative mind, Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro (1846 – 1923), was known for taking his own approach which can be seen in this revealing museum which showcases his graphic arts, caricatures, ceramics, object design and decoration.
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Fabio Firli, owner of the fabulous Follonico, reveals his favourite four wine producers in Tuscany close to his sweet little guesthouse - Uccelliera, Podere Le Ripi, Capitoni Marco and Talosa from Montepulciano.
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Foodie Cycling - Imagine a holiday where you traverse the mountain trails and rocky pathways of Mallorca by bike, discovering hidden coves, incredible coastal panoramas, little-known foodie pitstops and insider wine producers, before bedding down at a stylish hotel.
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Biquadra Architects are the design studio behind some of the hottest hotel concepts and interiors in South Tyrol: Parkhotel Mondschein, Villa Arnica - by Christina Biasi-von Berg.
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Meet Maria Svensson and Esmeralda Vidfar, two wool-loving ladies from Gothenburg on the Swedish west coast. Based in an art-collective studio space with ten other designers and artists, they create the knitwear that they had always dreamed of wearing as spotted by the owners of the creative fashionista den of Gothenburg, Hotel Flora.
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Fans of Jeanne Damas can now buy into her brand – literally and figuratively. Baptized ROUJE in 2016, Damas’ line of separates is available online only, but ships worldwide.
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If elegance is refusal – to borrow from the oft-quoted Coco Chanel – then Polish label thisisnon explores the very far end of the refusal spectrum by eliminating all decoration and frills from its designs, even categorizing them, not by garment type, but by the garment’s very basic component: its fabric.
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