For this edition of our Eldvarm Encounters series we chatted to Staffan and Monique Tollgard, of Tollgard Design Group in London. Having bot ...

For part four of our Eldvarm Encounters, we are heading to Europe, specifically to the Swiss Alps. Bonjour Verbier is a lifestyle and interi ...

We wanted to celebrate our collaboration with Båge & Söner so we sat down with the brand’s founder and CEO Lisen Båge to find out more a ...

For the next instalment of our Eldvarm Encounters, we chatted with the lovely Hygge Life founders Alexandra Gove and Koen van Renswoude. Bas ...

In our new series, Eldvarm Encounters, we have been talking to some of our favourite designers and collaborators to find out some of their d ...

Europe’s biggest fire festival lights up Shetland in the new year. What is it? Up Helly Aa is one of numerous fire festivals that ...

Fireflies are especially beloved in Japan, where they’ve provided a rich source of art   Drab brown beetles by day and captivating spar ...

The Olympic torch is rich in symbolism – and its design always generates headlines. Some are more successful than others: here are five that ...

As the thirty-second Olympiad kicks off in Tokyo today, after a year’s delay, we look back at the history of the Olympic flame – an ins ...

The lesser-known form of traditional Chinese medicine is often used in breech births. Many of us are now familiar with cupping: placing glas ...

In Slavic folklore and myth, this supernatural spirit can bring doom or blessing to its captor. What is it? The Firebird, which appears in n ...

An emeritus professor at Arizona State University, Stephen Pyne specialises in environmental history, the history of exploration and – above ...