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 • 24th 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 • 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

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.

CEREAL • 18th June 2019

Tree Clad Hills

Exploring Rwanda's Nyungwe National Park, encompassing one of East Africa's oldest rainforests. "Low hoots murmur from the foliage, rising to an outburst of screeches, conjuring an image of lips curled back over enormous jaws, fangs bared."

CEREAL • 18th June 2019

On Improvising

An essay on the subject of improvising, in response to Volume 17's theme of process.

CEREAL • 6th June 2019

Segal House

Exploring the mid-century London residence of Faye Toogood and Matt Gibberd, as the pair begin their process of moving home, and leaving the property behind. Faye Toogood is a furniture, fashion and interiors designer, and Matt Gibberd is co-founder of the aesthetically-minded estate agency The Modern House, specialising in the UK's most architecturally significant homes.

CEREAL • 30th May 2019

Among Emerald Leaves

Exploring Rwanda's One&Only Nyungwe House for Cereal Volume 17, set on a tea farm at the edge of Nyungwe National Park, one of the oldest rainforests in East Africa. "Knotted Ebonies and stately mahoganies strain in a centuries-long race for the light. Moss encrusted vines dangle to earth, thich as gymnasts' ropes."

CEREAL • 29th May 2019

Noble Brew

A visit to Dojima, the United Kingdom’s first sake brewery, founded by Yoshihide Hashimoto, and situated around the Fordham Abbey estate in Cambridgeshire.

CEREAL • 20th May 2019

Travel in Sound

A train journey with Master & Dynamic through New York’s Lower Hudson Valley, from Rhinecliff to Grand Central Terminal. "Instantly the carriage cacophony shrinks to a distance, as if separated by a body of water...the low groans and murmurs disappear. I sit in this way, in silence; my eyes shut, my mind quiet."

CEREAL • 1st May 2019

Erudite Revival

A stay at Cambridge's University Arms Hotel, a former Regency-era coaching inn. "I sit at the desk and imagine writing here, in some quiet hour of the night; the page illuminated only by the amber glow of the desk lamp, the dark mass of Parker’s Piece an unintelligible void beyond the windows."