Restaurant review: 45 Jermyn Street
The clock at the front of Fortnum & Mason has always chimed every fifteen minutes – but downstairs in the…
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Video interview with artists Broomberg and Chanarin
Josh Spero meets a Contemporary art pairing who have turned DNA into a tapestry Recently I had the pleasure of…
ByAt the Sharp End: Adam Brown
The founder of the Orlebar Brown men’s swimming trunks and resort wear company keeps cool under the burning spotlight of…
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Daniel Humm to Judge the Annual World of Fine Wine World’s Best Wine List Awards
New York based three Michelin Star Chef Daniel Humm and his Wine Director Cedric Nicaise are set to judge at…
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A look into the London opera salon nurturing tomorrow’s stars
There are a few salons of note in London where you can hear the finest instrumentalists of the moment and…
ByA look into the London opera salon nurturing tomorrow's stars
Melinda Hughes enjoys an evening at the National Opera Studio with Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and the James Bond of…
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Regal Rogue Vermouth a worthy New World sovereign
At a Soho restaurant last month I was fortunate enough to bump into ‘Lord’ Mark Ward of vermouth brand Regal…
ByLe Bristol marks 90 years with rose-tinted decadence
Zak Smith visits Le Bristol, the recently renovated jewel in Paris’s hotel crown, for one night of magic from a…
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Restaurant review: STK, Aldwych
So where does Spear’s have dinner in London’s theatreland after our awards at The Savoy? Thanks to a few glasses…
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Circadian adviser: a new dawn in architecture
A new Swedish technology is revolutionising the way we live, and sleep, writes Rasika Sittamparam Mrs Thatcher did it for…
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What the making of Zero Dark Thirty teaches us about goody bag hungry-HNWs
So: something we can all get behind: goody bags. Already I see your eyes lighting up. The topic presented itself…
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Benedetti and Marsalis unite to save creative collaboration
It’s not every day that one of the best classical violinists of a generation premieres a work by one of…
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Review – Celts: Art & Identity at the British Museum
Above: Gundestrup Cauldron (detail). Silver. Gundestrup, northern Denmark, 100 BC-AD 1. © The National Museum of Denmark. The Celts, inhabitants…
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Tracey Emin and tropical fish: behind the scenes of Sexy Fish’s launch
Sexy Fish has arrived on Berkeley Square: a kaleidoscope of dappled green Iranian onyx; raspberry leather upholstery; a shoal of…
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Halloween stirs London’s cauldron of decadent devilry
London is gearing up for its most decadent and devilish Halloween yet. With events galore, it’s difficult to know which…
ByTracey Emin and tropical fish: behind the scenes of Sexy Fish's launch
Paul Murashe, the director of Sexy Fish, London’s hottest new restaurant, writes exclusively for Spear’s on its launch, Damien Hirst,…
ByHalloween stirs London's cauldron of decadent devilry
Boy About Town Zak Smith gives Spear’s a rundown of the capital’s most delightfully debauched places to celebrate Halloween London…
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Highlands Lodge, Ngorongoro Crater
Around two million years ago a cataclysmic explosion tore the heart out of a giant 20,000 foot volcano in what…
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These sapphires and sumptious brooches tell a thousand stories
All through history, jewellery has been much, much more than the sum of its material parts. The ancient Greeks and…
ByCan art criticism ever be defamatory?
Aurea Kevill thinks considering the implications ’is worthy of a law school exam’ Frieze, London’s leading contemporary art fair, created…
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