Innholdsfortegnelse for Issue 3 i White Paper by - English

Sebastian Kaufmann Sebastián Kaufmann is a consultant to Argentine fashion and luxury brands, especially in contemporary jewelry from London, where he currently lives. As a creative and artistic director, he is always on the lookout for emerging designers. During the time he lived in Spain, he was editor of ELLE Spain and a regular contributor to the Spanish newspaper El País, as well as editor of Vogue Turkey. He designed the marketing strategy for Prada’s first fragrance and later worked on the communication of perfumes for Paco Rabanne, Carolina Herrera, and Comme des Garçons. Rubén Vega Rubén Vega has worked as a photographer for many years and is a reference both in the fashion world and in his personal works of natural landscapes, with a sense of aesthetics, of the…

Today, her hairdo, accidental yet so put together, the palazzo khakis in cotton canvas, the navy t-shirt under a zippered cardigan and the platform creepers-a Chambers trademark- paint a picture that she’s been drawing for four decades: carefully accidental, intuitively planned; freely referential and, at the same time, entirely sui generis. As Cassandra Maxwell, founder of @ agentofsubstance, says: “Lucinda’s talent is undoubted and her eye is impeccable, but she delivers all with immense wit and a lightness of touch.” Chambers’ beautiful home in the West London neighborhood of Shepherds Bush is a hocus pocus of references, colors, and textures-albeit one permeating a vision as strong as it is cohesive. The gloriously luminous kitchen, a perfect setting for us to talk about Collagerie and Colville, the two projects that have…

Since 2016, this eco-friendly sustainable brand controls its production at its factory in Elsenham and 100% of the electricity they use is renewable. Its products are 100% cruelty-free, vegan and paraben-free, as well as its ingredients, which are natural and sustainable. Moreover, by this year, 40% of the packaging will be made from recycled PET. The perfume bottles are refillable and from 2023 on all the firm’s products plant to have a zero carbon footprint by 2025. It is undeniable that this brand takes everything related to sustainable production very seriously, not only through the product but also through the whole process and the packaging itself. The brand offers a feast for the senses: perfumes, bath, body and hair care products, hand creams, candles, home fragrances... As they like to…

Maquillaje y grooming: Jose Carlos González para Dior Make Up. Peluquería: Jose Carlos González para Salon44. Asistente fotografía: Orlando Gutierrez, Asistente Estilismo: Ana Vera, Modelos: Mario Lopez y Ireen Tabolova @ Uno Models. Producción: WPC.…

Makeup and grooming: Jose Carlos González for Dior Makeup. Hair salon: Jose Carlos González for Salon44. Assistant Photographer: Orlando Gutierrez, Assistant Stylist: Ana Vera, Models: Mario Lopez and Ireen Tabolova @ Uno Models. Produced by WPC.…

For many people, the Cotswolds is the epitome of rural England. This region is covered with honey-colored houses, rural mansions, and fantastic churches. Rolling hills traverse frothy streams filled with trout, and here you can find some of the most picturesque and cinematic English towns. Leaving London, you must take the M40, head west towards Oxford, and continue the A40. Or simply get on a train at the famous London station of Paddington, where it will take you directly to Moreton-In-Marsh just in the north of The Cotswolds, ready to begin your journey. The Cotswolds are declared as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), along with five different counties: Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire, Wiltshire, and Worcestershire. There are many places to explore in the region, from rural farms, classic gardens,…

The best-placed Spanish restaurant in London has a floor plan of over 1195 yd2 and can be found underneath the historic Lloyds Bank building on Lombard Street. As you read the menu, it is clear that the cuisine is purely Spanish from its starters (hand-cut Iberian ham, cecina from Leon and cheeses from Asturias, La Mancha, and Mahón, etc.) to entrées where you cannot miss gazpacho (soup usually made from chopped raw vegetables), a very tasty crayfish cream sauce, a fabada asturiana (Asturian bean stew), named after the wonderful Asturian restaurant- Casa Gerardo-; lentils with chorizo from Leon, of course, patatas revolconas (a potato dish with bacon, paprika, peppers, and onions), or ham croquettes. These are just some of the dishes that Hispania offers. For desserts, there is everything from…

If reincarnation is real and we really do live other lives, I am sure I must have been British in one of them. I have no words to describe the fascination I feel when reading about England, no matter the century. Actually, I do have a predilection for the Regency, the Victorian era, and the Jacobite Wars. I have no idea why. Living in a country where light is so important, especially for me, we have little rain and the weather is not spoken about much. More so lately though, since now we do talk about the weather, the vaccine, and the masks, but it makes me nervous to start worrying about the weather so much. I think I am a lot like Timothy Spall’s character from It Snows in…

The history of Floris London is so very much tied to the wonderful tradition of classic children’s tales that we might well begin to tell it with the following words: “Once upon a time there was a man called Juan Famenias Floris who, with his wife Elizabeth, moved from his native island Menorca (Spain) to Montpellier (France) to learn everything about perfumes. He later settled in London, where he began his work as a barber and manufacturer of brushes and Spanish combs while formulating fragrances based on the scents of the Mediterranean countryside and sea.” He did all of this in the shop he bought, located at 89 Jermyn Street, in the Saint James’s Quarter. It was 1730 and the adventure had just started. The Floris family worked hard and…

Stewart, who has designed head sculptures for Valentino and Givenchy just as for Disney and Marvel films, is a shining star in the millinery firmament. Of the crop of British milliners crowning heads around the world (think Stephen Jones and Phillip Treacy to begin with), Stewart is the one to have brought pop and rock to the world of hats and vice versa. Just ask Kylie Minogue, Lizzo, and FKA Twigs who they prefer to wear on stage. As I come to meet Stewart in his studio, in a run-down industrial building in East London, facing a street market that has always reminded me of Nairobi, the designer has not changed whatsoever in the decade or so that I´ve known him for. Tall, bearded yet baby-faced, and in his white…

Hair & Makeup by José Carlos González. Models: Mario López and Ireen Taboloba - @ unomodels. Assistant Photographer: Orlando Gutiérrez. Assistant Stylist: Ana Vera Produced by WPC…

Dafydd Jones is a documentary photographer from Oxford, England, who has published a book with images he took around the ‘80s of the young British elite who studied there or went to fun and wild parties. In this book, he recreates these crazy situations with photography in the purest British style. Dafydd worked as a window cleaner at Oxford University, where he began to witness curious and peculiar situations, which led him to realize his interest in photography. Once this interest began taking root, he started attending editorial meetings and taking pictures for student magazines and newspapers, an unpaid but valuable experience, which later led him to set up a photographic studio with his friends from art school. To support himself financially, he cleaned kitchens part-time in students’ houses. In…

London-based aromatherapy with a wide range of face care and body care products and fragrances for the home. Founded in 1985 by Geraldine Howard and Sue Beechey, Aromatherapy Associates is an important and consolidated firm among luxury spas and its products are recommended by professional therapists. Its portfolio includes well-known names such as Mandarin Oriental, Sandy Lane, and Conrad, or Liberty London. The oils take the body and mind on a complete sensory journey. For more than 30 years, Aromatherapy Associates has been a leading specialist in wellness, mindfulness, and advocating a balanced lifestyle and the therapeutic effect they have on the body and mind. This award-winning firm in the world of beauty is empowered by the healing powers contained in the ingredients of the different collections, whether bath oils,…

At times, changing the décor of our usual space allows us to re-furnish our minds a different way, it is a necessary first step towards transforming everything else. Since the pandemic has entered our lives, the energy that our environment radiates has become more and more intense, and that is why Sarah-Jane Axelby depicts those details that we may be overlooking to perfection, those that turn a somewhat compressed room into a colorful and luminous space. With her paintings we can travel through different rooms and imagine that we walk among antiques, mosaics, embroideries, and tapestries as vivid as her colors, which tell a story, keep memories and reflect specific moments. Her watercolor paintings (done with Sennelier) allow Sarah to capture the texture of the furniture so realistically that you…

Proof of this is that today, in the midst of the industrial era, they continue to develop their furniture collections from start to finish in England, in a handcrafted way in favor of the user and the environment. Among their many projects they have been commissioned are those for the Westminster Abbey, Oxbridge universities and numerous museums and public spaces around the world, projects that do nothing but endorse their careful production and attention to detail. Produced in a rural environment a few hours from London, each and every one of its pieces are a living example of the care with which the company works the materials. Creating unique pieces produced only with natural materials from sustainable sources, completely free of harmful elements, their designs are designed to last and…

¿Do you prefer urban or country houses? Both! “Variety is the spice of life” is an old English saying used when referring to house designing. Given the current trend of moving to the countryside, we look forward to being involved in many more projects outside of London. Do you think that now, because of the pandemic, clients tend to decorate more? This pandemic has certainly influenced interiors and, as we have just mentioned, there has been an exodus from the city since March last year as many more people are working from home. This is a condition for studios to adapt to a new way of working. Do you have favorite materials or pieces to work with? We love to incorporate every kind of natural finishings, such as stones (e.g.,…