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ON REPEAT...
I can’t get enough of This Cultural Life which is on BBC iPlayer. The best and most interesting of folk interviewed by the brilliantly informed John Wilson. His exceptional research leads to the most interesting conversations with guests as varied as Don McCullin, Ricky Gervais, Hanif Kureishi and Annie Leibovitz. You can go back years and listen to 2 other favourites, Tracy Emin and Max Richter.
ON REPEAT...
Did you see that clip of Björk DJing the Venice Biennale in a fiberglass Bottega Veneta dress and an enormous alien-empress hat by CSM graduate and Dior couture junior designer Myah Hasbany? The internet understandably focused on the look, but my ears immediately zoomed in on the soundtrack: she played “On Ur Time” by Natanya and was fully singing along. Casual.
I’ve had the song on an honestly concerning loop ever since. Natanya makes the kind of music engineered specifically for walking around at night pretending you’re in a music video. She’s already been co-signed by SZA, Tyler, The Creator, and Doechii, opened for PinkPantheress, and somehow still feels like a secret you’re meant to gatekeep (whoops). Her newer track “DON’T ASK!” is another immediate brainworm currently eating through my frontal lobe.
THE SCENE...
Dreaming of a trip to remote parts of Scotland, inhaling the clean crisp air, embracing the mountainous and vast landscapes, the silent valleys and dipping into icy lochs. Not to mention the romanticism of the overnight Caledonian Sleeper train to get there. Just south of Inverness is a family run estate called Rothiemurchus which sits on 2 lochs with beautifully decorated bothies that you can rent. And from there the dream would be go even further north to Wildland Scotland in the Highlands for even more remote explorations.
THE SCENE...
Hausu in Peckham is the kind of place where dinner quietly turns into 5 more drinks and suddenly it’s midnight. Right by Peckham Rye station, it’s one of those rare spots that makes you want to cancel whatever plans you had after.
Downstairs, there’s smoky Asian-influenced small plates and the sort of low lighting that makes everyone look hotter. Upstairs is the real trap: a velvet-draped listening bar pouring dangerously good cocktails while jazz and post-punk crackle through the speakers (the music is seriously good). Two salted tomato martinis in, the whole place starts to feel like a lost David Lynch location scout. Lit.
GATEKEEPING...
I’m obsessed with museum shops. Even if I’m not actually seeing an exhibition, I’ll dart into a museum to visit the shop if I’m passing by and never leave emptyhanded. Much of my wall art is from either the Tate Shop or the V&A, as are my stacks of cards and books. The best hauls were a Calder mobile from the Maeght in Vence, and a cordless lamp from the Fondation Louis Vuitton after seeing the Rothko.
GATEKEEPING...
The Wallace Collection might be my favourite place in London. Hidden behind Oxford Circus in a mansion stuffed to the brim with rococo paintings, armour, and impossibly ornate furniture, it feels totally detached from the rest of the city. Vivienne Westwood loved it too—once calling it “the greatest art school in this country,” and you can feel its influence all over her work: corsets, decadence, aristocratic chaos, the general refusal to be understated.
I love museums that still feel intimate and slightly eccentric rather than engineered for TikTok. You can drift through rooms full of Fragonard and gold filigree for hours, then end up in the courtyard café feeling like a disgraced noble avoiding all administrative duties. Love.
DOOMSCROLL GOLD...
The Instagram account @secret.london alerts me to all sorts of things I might have otherwise missed. It’s a feed that taps into all things cultural & new, as well as the hidden gems of London. Just this week I’ve visited the new ‘Go Greek’ frozen yoghurt spot after they showcased its opening, and added a new London lido to my things to do in August list.
Very useful to keep tabs on new things over the summer.
MOOD BOARD MUSE...
A week in Cornwall with clifftop walks and village meanderings
has brought Daphne du Maurier to the forefront of my mind
once again. At every turn we saw houses that felt straight out
of one of her novels, so many of which were set in Cornwall.
Not to mention the lashing of waves into isolated little coves, reminiscent of du Maurier mysticism and drama. A re-read of Rebecca and Jamaica Inn has already commenced. And a plan
to go to the Helford River where its wooded banks inspired du Maurier to write Frenchman’s Creek after she visited it on her honeymoon.
ON REPEAT...
I can’t get enough of This Cultural Life which is on BBC iPlayer.
The best and most interesting of folk interviewed by the brilliantly informed John Wilson. His exceptional research leads to the most interesting conversations with guests as varied as Don McCullin, Ricky Gervais, Hanif Kureishi and Annie Leibovitz. You can go back years and listen to 2 other favourites, Tracy Emin and Max Richter.
New episodes every Tuesday, Apple podcasts and Spotify.
THE SCENE...
Dreaming of a trip to remote parts of Scotland, inhaling the clean crisp air, embracing the mountainous and vast landscapes, the silent valleys and dipping into icy lochs.
Not to mention the romanticism of the overnight Caledonian Sleeper train to get there. Just south of Inverness is a family run estate called Rothiemurchus which sits on 2 lochs with beautifully decorated bothies that you can rent. And from there the dream would be
go even further north to Wildland Scotland in the Highlands for even more remote explorations.
GATEKEEPING...
I’m obsessed with museum shops.
Even if I’m not actually seeing
an exhibition, I’ll dart into a museum to visit the shop if I’m passing by and never leave emptyhanded. Much of my wall art is from either the Tate Shop or the V&A, as are my stacks of cards and books. The best hauls were a Calder mobile from the Maeght in Vence, and a cordless lamp from the Fondation Louis Vuitton after seeing the Rothko.
DOOMSCROLL GOLD...
The Instagram account @secret.london alerts me to all sorts of things I might have otherwise missed. It’s a feed that taps into all things cultural & new, as well as the hidden gems of London.
Just this week I’ve visited the new ‘Go Greek’ frozen yoghurt spot after they showcased its opening, and added a new London lido to my things to do in August list. Very useful to keep tabs on new things over the summer.
MOOD BOARD MUSE...
A week in Cornwall with clifftop walks and village meanderings
has brought Daphne du Maurier to the forefront of my mind
once again. At every turn we saw houses that felt straight out
of one of her novels, so many of which were set in Cornwall.
Not to mention the lashing of waves into isolated little coves, reminiscent of du Maurier mysticism and drama.
A re-read of Rebecca and Jamaica Inn has already commenced. And a plan
to go to the Helford River where its wooded banks inspired du Maurier to write Frenchman’s Creek after she visited it on her honeymoon.
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INSIDE OUR WORLD
Shade Growing
To grow the leaves that will later become Matcha, layer of shape are added to the fields a month before cultivation, eventually blocking 90% of the sunlight.
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Inside our world:
ALEX KESSLER
Discover the people behind our world.
This May, Alex shares the places, objects and obsessions currently shaping his universe.
Refining: Meat of the leaves
After cultivation, the stems, veins, and unwanted particles are removed, leaving only the purest flesh of the leaves. The leaves are now called Tencha.
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IN OUR ORBIT
Shade Growing
To grow the leaves that will later become Matcha, layer of shape are added to the fields a month before cultivation, eventually blocking 90% of the sunlight.
1ALEX KESSLER
Discover the people behind our world.
This May, Alex shares the places, objects and obsessions currently shaping his universe.
Refining: Meat of the leaves
After cultivation, the stems, veins, and unwanted particles are removed, leaving only the purest flesh of the leaves. The leaves are now called Tencha.
3ALEX KESSLER
Discover the people behind our world.
This May, Alex shares the places, objects and obsessions currently shaping his universe.
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