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Honours to order
There’s a process and then there’s the process; getting a gong has a well-rehearsed trajectory and critics are thick on the ground, write Andrew Cornell and Mathew Dunckley.
The business of poetry
Nobel laureate T.S. Eliot worked for Lloyds Bank; our own Geoffrey Lehmann was a corporate tax lawyer. Poetic fancy does note reside solely in bohemia, writes Fiona Carruthers.
Flat, white and famous
The world is waking up to the flat white as the ultimate morning coffee, establishing it as our greatest gastronomic invention, argues Australian food historian Michael Symons.
Banking on the Busnellis
Italian furniture maker B&B Italia is a leading industry innovator with a premium design profile, but its experience of a private equity partnership was not a happy one, writes Joe Aston.
Electric shock treatment
In amongst talk of hybrids, the Tokyo Motor Show had snippets on cars that can fly, or go underwater. But they have first to interest the young in owning any car at all, writes Mark Skulley.
This surfing life
Nick Carroll takes a journey up the old Pacific Highway in a nostalgic look back at a much-altered culture where it will always be the morning of the earth.
Portrait: Shane Kalloglian
Marguerite Winter meets the owner of a 5000-strong premium whisky collection and finds he has no intention to sell.
Front Up
Back at the desk in comfort
Returning to work in style begins with a few foundational items of which comfortable underdaks are an important component.
Objects
The Arena dish rack from Joseph Joseph with its concentric design and sloping base channels away water efficiently.
Nice and easy does it every time
You think you look bad at the end of a long-distance flight? Consider the effect of air travel on priceless painted canvasses.
Fashion: Tutti Frutti
Pretty in pastel: photographs by Ben Sullivan; styling by Virginia van Heythuysen; hair by Kimberley Forbes; makeup by Claire Thomson.
Our regular columns
Watch: Competing for seconds
The Concours International de Chronomètrie put timepieces through their paces to judge accuracy and a six-year-old brand took the prize.
Hume: Trial by Bentley
I have spent so many years covering fashion, I realise I have become largely immune to feelings of covetousness.
Books: DeLillo and others
An angel is the most unlikely thing but in Don DeLillo’s miraculous fiction you come to expect anything.
Capital villages
London is like a collection of totally different towns, each with its own identity, so you can experience entirely different places.
Design: Carte blanche
A mini project by a major development architect is nevertheless not an exercise in minimalism.
Last of the summer wine
The spectrum white to rosé offers the best drinking over the dog days of February.
