The Global Champions Tour Comes to London Next Month

In case you’d forgotten about East London’s Olympic Park – you know, the one that’s been sitting (not so) pretty since last summer, waiting for something else noteworthy to happen – here’s something exciting to remind you of its existence. Next month, The Global Champions Tour is coming to London for the first time ever.…
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BUM BUUM BUUUUUUUM: The Aerospace-Grade Paradisi chair

Dramatic. Technological. Comfy. Are you obsessed with technology at the expense of sentiment? Do you scoff at poncey interior decor riddled with attempts to imbue it with anything more than hard, pure function? We’ve got the chair for you. Constructed from aerospace-grade materials usually used by the likes of NASA and F1, this seat can…
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Henley Music Festival 2013: Black Tie and Lashings of Champers

The only outdoor festival in Britain where the Wellingtons may well be on the guest-list. When one thinks of a posh festival, does one think of glamping at Glasto? Think again. Our very favourite upper crust festival is none other than Henley. Handily located down the road (for our London-based readers at least) Henley is…
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Wiring Heights: LUSSO Interviews Professor Simon Baron Cohen

‘Suffering is implicit in major decisions that political leaders have to make in times of upheaval. Not everyone making these decisions is psychopathic.’ Any self-respecting geek knows that the Voight-Kampf empathy test is used to find replicants hiding amongst the general population in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner. Testing for blush response and pupil dilation, through…
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Safe As Houses

Introducing the Fortress, the world’s safest luxury safe. That’s no mean feat. Ever felt like your vault lacks a certain.. je ne sais quoi? Safe manufacturers Döttling have addressed this perennial problem by creating the Fortress, a leather-clad lesson in fortification complete with in-built humidor and precision watch winders – leaving villains feeling simultaneously perplexed and a touch inferior,…
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One Last (Glastonbury) Hope

The festival-conscious amongst you will probably be aware that tickets to glorious Glastonbury are now sold out. To be fair, they usually do after about five minutes and considering the line-up – everyone from The Rolling Stones and Elvis Costello to Cat Power and Mumford and Sons – it comes as no surprise at all.…
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My Face or Yours?

Thinking of commissioning a portrait of yourself, your better half, your little darlings, or (hell! Why not?) your handsome hound? Read on… This May will see Britain’s most reputable portraitists exhibit alongside one another at the Mall Galleries near Trafalgar Square for the Royal Society of Portrait Painters’ impressive annual exhibition. With around 100 artists…
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