A bright idea: the Plumen 001 Lightbulb wins the Design Award
The stylish Plumen 001 low energy lightbulb wins the best design of the year at the Brit Insurance Design Awards for its ability to bring the extraordinary to the ordinary
Sarah McCrory reviews the Armory Show and Independent Art Fair in New York
The artists and artworks to be found in and around The Armory Show and Independent Art Fair
Theatre and fetish at Paris Fashion Week, 2011
Great style will always prevail and seduce, Harriet Quick, Fashion Features Director at Vogue, reports.
Damien Hirst and Gabriel Orozco, two conceptual artists, create two very different skulls
One is a 'chessboard' of black and white squares, the other covered in 8,000 diamonds, Alastair Smart reports.
Opulence is back on the menu at Milan Fashion Week
Harriet Quick, Fashion Features Director at British Vogue, reports on the return of silk, chiffon and fur
Knowing Kitaj: Marco Livingstone on his friendship with the artist
Livingstone's research for his thesis led to a lasting friendship with Kitaj until the artist's suicide
India Cookbook: voted best Indian cuisine cookbook in the world
India Cookbook takes first place at the Gourmand Cookbook Awards 2011 in Paris
Colour on the catwalk at London Fashion Week 2011
Harriet Quick, Fashion Features Director at British Vogue, reports from the front row
State of play: an interview with David Rockwell
The architect and designer talks to Andrea Klettner about designing hotels, hospitals and playgrounds
The breakdown of New York Fashion Week
'Strong and interesting all round', says Harriet Quick, Fashion Features Director at Vogue UK
Fresh off the boat: the local produce regenerating a San Francisco landmark
Bonnie Tsui on the foodie developments taking place at the city's old Ferry Building
'Art is not about making a cheap joke at the expense of your subject' - Kutluğ Ataman
The Turkish artist talks exclusively to Phaidon.com about turning the camera on himself, his new project in Cambodia and why he wants to make films for the cinema
Christopher Kane wins the 2011 BFC Vogue Fashion Fund Award
Harriet Quick reports on the award to support British fashion talent
To all film directors starting out: 'Surprise me!' says Christoph Terhechte
As the Berlin Film Festival opens this week, the head of programming for the Forum of New Cinema selects the films and directors to watch
Shifting focus - the Decade interview: Josh Olins
Where were you ten years ago? What are you doing today? Where will you be in ten years' time?
'Risk, freedom and creativity' - Ferran Adrià unveils further details of the elBulli Foundation
After the announcement last Autumn that elBulli would re-open as a food 'laboratory', Phaidon.com has more details of the new venture and a new book by the chef
Shifting focus - the Decade interview: The Bouroullec Brothers
Where were you ten years ago, what are you doing today, where will you be in ten years' time?
An interview with Bob Nickas, author and curator, on 'Looking Back'
The critic's final show at New York's White Column is based on his personal experience of art in the city
Germán del Sol - the Chilean architect in profile
Colin Barraclough on the man who brought design-minded architecture to some of Chile’s most remote terrain
'The food's the thing' - Eataly, New York
Bonnie Tsui reviews the latest enterprise to come out of the Slow Food emporium
Coco chef close-up: Motokazu Nakamura
The quiet revolution of the Kyoto-based chef making centuries-old recipes 'taste superbly new'
Child's play: David Rockwell's Imagination Playground
How the viewing platform at Ground Zero inspired a new kind of playground, 'where kids do what they do best: build, create, imagine'
More things Japanese please
Harriet Quick on the eastern sensation sweeping the fashion world off its feet once again
All in good taste: Albert Roux and his son Michel Jr at The Landau
The restaurateur and two-star Michelin chef talk family, food and what it's like working together
Selling out La Serenissima: has Venice been lost to the ad men?
Forget rising sea levels, say the critics, Venice is drowning in a wave of insensitive advertising. Alastair Smart investigates.
'The real will come to resemble the virtual': Philip Rosedale talks to Phaidon.com
The creator of Second Life on virtual architecture, a giant beanstalk and why office blocks will soon be a thing of the past
Calling the shots: the man every aspiring photographer wants to impress
Phaidon.com talks to Terence Pepper, Curator of the Taylor Wessing Prize at London's National Portrait Gallery
Fashion doyenne Donatella Versace leads the way in fashion funding and awards
Harriet Quick reports on the rise of fashion awards and mentoring schemes for promising young designers
Coco chef close-up: Chris Salans
Our man in Bali on his inspirations and methods, what makes a good night out, and why his wife is the only person he'll let cook for him
On the menu: Chris Salans' Valrhona Jivara milk chocolate mousse
A light chocolate mousse with cinnamon gelée, candied kumquats and caramelised almonds in a Spanish saffron syrup
The Emerging Architecture Awards 2010
Andrea Klettner reports from the 'Architectural Review's' annual awards ceremony to celebrate the stars of tomorrow
'Masstige' - the 'high end designer on the high street' effect
H&M leads the way in bringing designer prestige to the fashion conscious masses
The 10 x 10/3 interview: Didier Fiuza Faustino
The Parisian artist/architect on the philosophy behind his work, building in South Korea, and why he'd choose Le marquis de Sade to design his house
Fashion in Paris - there's nowhere like it, says Harriet Quick
A round up from Paris Fashion Week by the Fashion Features Director of British Vogue
Parisian food writer Clotilde Dusoulier on recipe adaptation
The French home cooking expert converts traditional French dishes for modern cooks
And the prize for the Architect of the Year goes to...
Andrea Klettner profiles the winning practices of 'Building Design's' prestigious awards
On the menu: Anna Hansen's Sugar-cured shrimp omelet
Sugar-cured shrimp, scallions, cilantro and smoked chilli sambal
Coco chef close-up: Anna Hansen
From washing dishes for Fergus Henderson to founding The Modern Pantry
Martin Parr on curating the Brighton Photo Biennial
The distinguished Magnum photographer says you should visit the creative city by the sea
Banksy: from guerilla street art to The Simpsons
Has the elusive artist garnered the ultimate accolade with the American prime-time show or, as Alastair Smart sees it, sold-out?
Framing a modern masterpiece
Eero Saarinen's Gateway Arch in St. Louis is at the centre of a landscape competition
Motokazu Nakamura's Mackerel sushi
Simply mackerel, salt, vinegar, rice, rice vinegar and sake to taste
Pascal Barbot's Golden brown cod and new cabbage with papaya and green mango relish
Recipe taken from Coco
Hideki Shimoguchi's White asparagus and clams with green-tea vinegar dressing
Recipe taken from Coco
The 10 x 10/3 interview: Hiroshi Nakamura
One of Tokyo's rising stars explains why nature, rather than the metropolis, is the strongest influence on his architecture
Day 4 - René Redzepi forages in the Outback with an aboriginal community
Kangeroo tail and bush bananas, Laura Gladwin continues on the trail of the chef in South Australia
Day 3 - the fish market, foraging in a car park, and at the Sydney Opera House
Fish for breakfast and foraging in unexpected places, Laura Gladwin reports from her adventure with the chef
Day 2 - René Redzepi forages in Middle Head, Sydney Australia
Laura Gladwin is on the trail of the intrepid chef Down Under for the Crave Sydney International Food Festival
A sticky situation - the artist's response to one of 2010's defining disasters
Following the publication of BP's report on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Alastair Smart looks at the relationship between oil and art
The Stirling Prize shortlist 2010
The low-down on this year's line-up for 'the feather in the cap' of the RIBA's s awards
A round up from London Fashion Week
Harriet Quick reports on the capital currently in love with design
Ross Lovegrove's Eye Digital Camera
A camera more like a prosthetic than a product, says the designer
Albert Watson awarded Centenary Medal
The British photographer is honoured with The Royal Photographic Society's prestigious award
The inside track on the São Paulo Biennial
Chus Martinez, the associate curator for the contemporary art festival, on the São Paulo scene
Chus Martinez selects 10 rising stars of the contemporary art scene
The leading international contemporary art curator picks the new best things
A landmark commission
John Pawson talks to Phaidon.com about his plans to reconfigure London's old Commonwealth Building
Coco chef close-up: David Chang
As the fashion world descends on New York, the chef behind some of the hottest new restaurants in the city talks to Phaidon.com
Shanghai in 2020
A phenomenal representation of what the ever-expanding city could look like in 10 years
For the love of film
Cameron Bailey and Piers Handling, co-directors of the Toronto International Film Festival, on films and new directors to watch
A note from Kazuyo Sejima on this year's Venice Biennale
The first woman to curate the Venice Biennale says more about this year's theme
Coco chef close-up: Hugh Acheson
One of America's young rising stars explains why it's the old recipes that are his inspiration
The 10 x 10/3 interview: Jarmund/Vigsnæs AS Arkitekter
The young Norwegian architects on building a holiday house for Alain de Botton
The 10 x 10/3 interview: Allmann Sattler Wappner Architekten
An exclusive interview with the innovative German architecture practice selected for the latest book in Phaidon’s 10 x10 series
Caravaggio DNA-testing 400 years after the artist's death
The mystery of how the hellraiser met his end unfolds
Five minutes with the 2010 Pritzker Prize-winning duo
Sejima and Nishizawa on their win, working practice and what's next
