Max Miechowski

ROADBOOK • 8th August 2024

Focal Point: The Barbican Conservatory horticulturalists

Capturing a day in the life of the Barbican Conservatory gardeners, where brutalism and tropical plants meet, with British photographer Max Miechowski.

Rich Stapleton

CEREAL • 17th July 2024

Constant Flux

An interview with designer Giancarlo Valle and Jane Keltner de Valle about their Connecticut home, and their gallery space in Tribeca, NYC.

ROADBOOK • 16th August 2023

Dunes, lagoons, and seafood: a soulful stay at Caravan Dakhla, Western Sahara

Unless you’re a kitesurfer, chances are you haven’t heard of Dakhla. The small peninsula sits on the edge of the Sahara, jutting out into the Atlantic Ocean, and sheltering a vast sandy lagoon against the West African coast. The particular geography makes it a kitesurfing paradise: shallow waters, consistent northerly winds, warm weather, and sun year round, surrounded by otherworldly desert landscapes.

ROADBOOK • 16th March 2023

Chef Michael Adé Elégbèdé brings a fine dining sensibility to Nigerian cuisine

Chef Michael Adé Elégbèdé grew up in his family’s kitchens in Lagos, but it wasn’t until he was living in Chicago and studying science at college that he discovered his true love of cooking. A move to Napa Valley to study at the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone led him to realise how under-appreciated Nigerian cuisine is on the world stage. He moved back home in 2016 and travelled across the country to learn how local people cook and preserve their regional traditions.

ROADBOOK • 23rd November 2022

Henry Holland on his unexpected pivot from fashion to ceramics

The former fashion designer on parlaying his talents into homeware with his joyful ceramics range, Henry Holland Studio, and how making to order with natural materials can offer a more rewarding, sustainable business model

CEREAL • 22nd June 2021

Dá Licença

An interview with Franck Laigneau, gallerist and expert in anthroposophical design, and joint founder of Alentejo-based design retreat Dá Licença, where much of his collection in anthroposophical furniture can be experienced. For Cereal Volume 21.

CEREAL • 22nd June 2021

The Goetheanum

The Goetheanum, a flowing concrete structure built by Austrian philosopher and spiritualist Rudolf Steiner in 1928, to serve as a home for his spiritist, occult movement the Anthroposophical Society. For Cereal Volume 21.

CEREAL • 2nd December 2020

Objects of the Void

An interview with Anish Kapoor in his London studio, where I explore his varied practice, including his works in Vantablack - the darkest known material in the universe. For Volume 20.

CEREAL • 1st December 2020

Water and Air

Hiroshi Sugimoto's Enoura Observatory - an arts complex overlooking Sagami Bay in Japan. For Volume 20.

CEREAL • 20th November 2020

Native Wood

In the heart of the Tyrolean Alps, Studio van der Zee create hand-made, solid wood furniture from native wood.

CEREAL • 28th August 2020

A Local Legacy

Bristol, Bath and their ties to the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

CEREAL • 18th March 2020

Blue Pine

Visiting designer Teo Yang's contemporary hanok in Seoul, for Volume 19.

CEREAL • 18th March 2020

Capturing Silence

A visit to photographer Koo Bohnchang's studio in Seoul, for Volume 19.

CEREAL • 17th March 2020

How We Used to Live

A visit to the Korea Furniture Museum in Seoul, as featured in Volume 19.

CEREAL • 27th February 2020

Constellation

“My work has no object, no image and no focus. With no object, no image and no focus, what are you looking at? You are looking at you looking.” Exploring three works by James Turrell in Pace Gallery, London.

CEREAL • 26th September 2019

Architectural Vision

A drive from East to West Los Angeles with Oliver Peoples, passing some of the city’s most architecturally significant buildings, and in appreciation of the surrounding natural landscapes.

CEREAL • 19th September 2019

Arcosanti

The experimental eco-city in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona, designed by the late Italian architect Paolo Soleri.

CEREAL • 17th September 2019

Fan Ho

For Cereal Volume 18, we delve into the archives of photographer Fan Ho, whose unique street photography offers a glimpse of life in Hong Kong during the 1950s.

CEREAL • 17th September 2019

Architectural Hardware

Exploring the van Cronenburg foundry in Ghent, Belgium, with Peter van Cronenburg - maker and collector of meticulously hand-crafted door handles, hinges, bolts and other pieces of architectural hardware.

CEREAL • 19th June 2019

Modern Archive

Francis Gallery’s inaugural show at its new permanent location in the city of Bath, UK, in the ground floor of a restored Grade II listed Georgian townhouse. Featuring works by multidisciplinary artist Romy Northover, studio potter Yoon-Young Hur, and photographer Matthew Johnson.