In an exclusive conversation with Shweta for Style Essentials, the chef who has won everything the industry has to give speaks about surrendering control to the moon, what a pandemic garden taught him about creativity, and why the most radical thing a three-Michelin-star restaurant can do is stop deciding what you eat.

In an exclusive conversation with Shweta for Style Essentials, the chef who has won everything the industry has to give speaks about surrendering control to the moon, what a pandemic garden taught him about creativity, and why the most radical thing a three-Michelin-star restaurant can do is stop deciding what you eat.

In an exclusive conversation with Shweta for Style Essentials, Adriana Santanocito, the woman who co-founded Ohoskin in Catania and watched it travel from a local citrus farm to a Ganni runway, a Sonus Faber speaker cabinet, a motorsport track and the Quirinale Palace, talks about what the future of luxury materials actually looks like when someone is brave enough to build it.

From the stirrups of Persian cavalry to the mirrored floors of Versailles, from Roger Vivier's steel rod to the runways of contemporary menswear — the high heel has never really been about the shoe. It has always, without exception, been about power, and who gets to wear it.

The materials shaping architecture today are no longer being chosen only for how they look or how easily they replicate at scale. They are being reconsidered for what they cost the planet, and that reconsideration is producing some of the most serious building being done anywhere in the world right now.

Marca Corona has been making ceramic surfaces in the Sassuolo district longer than any other company in the area, and the Calcecreta collection draws on that depth of material knowledge to do something that requires genuine craft confidence, recreating the imperfect, time-worn surfaces of lime, earth, and clay in porcelain stoneware with enough textural conviction that the result reads as something remembered rather than manufactured. The collection achieves that quality thro

In a quiet square in Venice’s Castello sestiere, far removed from the city’s tourist circuits, Abimis presents a bespoke kitchen project that brings together memory, material, and contemporary design thinking. Set on the top floor of an 18th-century building overlooking Venice’s rooftops and the dome of the Basilica dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo, the project places the Ego kitchen at the centre of a private residence shaped by personal taste and cultural sensibility. Crafted ent

Falmec has expanded its induction hob range with the introduction of a refined matt black finish, aligning with the growing preference for soft, tactile surfaces in contemporary kitchen design. The new finish offers a satin, velvety texture that feels smooth to the touch while delivering a distinctly understated visual appeal. Beyond aesthetics, the matt surface is designed to enhance everyday usability. The finish significantly reduces the visibility of fingerprints, smudges

When Rahul Mishra made his Paris Haute Couture Week debut in 2018, the landscape was still largely defined by Eurocentric heritage houses. His arrival introduced a distinctly different voice to the couture calendar, one rooted in Indian craft traditions, folk philosophies, and a deeply embedded artisan ecosystem. Over the years, collections such as Superheroes and Becoming Love established his reputation for narrative-driven couture that moves beyond surface aesthetics into

403 Forbidden has opened in Bengaluru as a new hospitality concept positioned as India’s first “Theatre of Presence” — a space that places attention, focus, and sensory engagement at the centre of the bar experience. Inspired by the digital error code “403 Access Denied”, the name functions as a conceptual statement rather than a restriction. In a cultural moment defined by constant documentation and digital noise, the space proposes a different rhythm for nightlife, where pr

Maison Rami Kadi presented its Spring Summer 2026 couture collection, Elementa , in Meise, Belgium, unveiling a body of work shaped by the elemental forces of nature. Drawing from fire, water, earth, wind, and life, the collection explores how couture can express movement, transformation, and material intensity through form, surface, and craftsmanship. The collection unfolds through silhouettes that balance structure and fluidity. Sculptural forms are softened by layered cons

Carpet Edition’s Bamboo Design and Bamboo Shaded collections explore how memory, movement, and material come together through surface and texture. Designed by Emanuela Garbin and Michela Boglietti, the rugs draw from landscapes encountered through travel and everyday journeys, translating fleeting impressions into tactile, long-lasting objects. From sunlit wheat fields and scorched earth to dense vegetation and quiet snowy terrains, each rug carries a visual memory shaped thr