A former City solicitor turned mosaicist, Francesca Busca builds every piece from waste, hairdresser’s foils, bottle caps, fruit nets, and discarded fishing gear.
Some canvases come with a history already built in. Diego Tirigall found his in the underside of a skateboard, and turned it into a fresh kind of painting.
Meet Loto del Sur, the Colombian brand bottling the botanical richness of Latin America. Drawing from rainforests, cloud forests, and coastal lowlands teeming with plant life, it’s a story about a country that has always known exactly what it was sitting on.
BAM Labs is Madrid’s most talked-about boutique fitness studio: a beautifully designed space in Alonso Martínez combining cycling, strength, and yoga classes under one roof, seven days a week.
The Mido Multifort TV Big Date revives a softly rectangular TV case from the 1973 archive, a form that still reads differently on the wrist today. It arrives in rose gold PVD with a midnight blue gradient dial, applied indices, and a big date complication at twelve.
The world’s smartest fibre, according to the brand that’s built an entire ethos around it. PAKA Apparel is turning ancient Andean alpaca-weaving traditions into cult-favourite outdoor wear, one handcrafted piece at a time.
Across the city’s most characterful neighbourhoods, from the sun-drenched streets of Chueca to the literary lanes of Barrio de las Letras, a new generation of makers, curators, and collectors is breathing fresh life into one of Spain’s oldest crafts.
Based right on Avenida Nossa Senhora de Copacabana, Welcome Sunny Garments arrived with a quiet, but ambitious mission: to give Rio de Janeiro back its place in fashion.
Audemars Piguet and Swatch did something nobody expected. They made a pocket watch.
Bloome by Sasha is quietly rewriting what gluten-free brunch looks like in Barcelona: with specialty coffee, a serious bakery counter, and an atmosphere that makes everyone feel at home.
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