• Friend & Company / Victoria & Albert Museum shop, London

    The new retail offering has opened, embracing the V&A’s ethos, celebrating art and design and providing a versatile space at its centre.

  • MCM Architecture / Estée Lauder companies HQ, London

    Nine elegant floors accommodate the various beauty and fragrance brands and training facilities

  • Profile - John Makepeace

    Furniture maker John Makepeace combined design, craft and business acumen in student courses offered at Parnham College, which he founded 40 years ago, in addition to running his own successful studio, bringing him an abundance of awards and plaudits

  • Reporter - London Design Festival

    It’s time for the London Design Festival! This year’s event, its 15th, sees eight official Design Districts with commissions and installations, in addition to the V&A acting as a festival hub

  • If Only...

    graphics replaced words to get across life-saving messages, says Corrine Beaumont, designer of the ‘lemons’ graphics for the Worldwide Breast Cancer charity

  • One to Watch

    is Studio Verena Hennig, the design studio set by Verena Hennig while she was still a student, and later branching into product design, all based in Nuremberg.

  • Costa Coffee House, Wandsworth, London by Edge

    High-street refreshment outlets are not being left out in the drive to widen their appeal to the public

  • Focus: Round-up

    Clare Dowdy takes a look at some of the extras being offered in London at a gallery, theatre, and the British Library

  • Q&A - Xanthe Arvanitakis

    Xanthe Arvanitakis talks about the growing importance to cultural institutions of widening their attractions offer.

  • Brief Encounters

    In her own column, Veronica Simpson reports on a success story of the Arts Council England’s Creative People and Places programme