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Dua Lipa - London Literature Festival
The Southbank Centre has announced music superstar and founder of the Service95 Book Club - Dua Lipa, curator of its London Literature Festival in the fall of 2026.
Lipa launched the Service95 Book Club in 2023, each month she selects a book she loves and sits down with the author for the club's podcast. As a passionate advocate for reading, she also speaks up for marginalized readers who face barriers to books and those affected by book bans or incarceration. Part of the Southbank Centre’s 75th anniversary year, and the National Year of Reading - marks the 19th edition of the London Literature Festival - the longest running literature and spoken word festival.
New Museum - Manhattan
Manhattan’s NEW MUSEUM has re-opened to the public in March 2026. Designed by OMA in collaboration with Shohei Shigematsu, Rem Koolhaas and Cooper Robertson as Executive Architect. New public-facing facilities include an enlarged seventh-floor Sky Room, a purpose built 74-seat Forum, expanded bookstore and a full-service restaurant. The reopening will be anchored by New Humans: Memories of the Future - an ambitious museum wide exhibition bringing together more than 200 artists, writers, scientists, architects and filmmakers. Exploring how technological and societal change has reshaped ideas of what it means to be human.
Rendering courtesy OMA/bloomimages.de
Monsieur Dior Dominique Crenn - Beverly Hills
Chef Dominique Crenn's Los Angeles restaurant Monsieur Dior on the topmost floor of the French brand’s Rodeo Drive flagship is the ideal of a Beverly Hills lunch spot. Indoor - outdoor space, luxe neutrals and reflective surfaces as backdrop to eclectic prints and shades of green inspired by Christian Dior’s love for gardens. A sit-down meal with three courses comes with complimentary amuse-bouche, bread service and mignardises. Each dish drawing inspiration from iconic Dior fashion moments through history - ask your server for the fine details. For more casual drop-ins, Chef Crenn has also curated a menu of casual bar snacks - available only in the lounge.
photo courtesy Monsieur Dior
Colour is the center of Martin Brudnizki’s vision and in his recent book - My Life in Color (Rizzoli), he organizes 40 projects across his design studio’s 25-year history by hue rather than chronology. Transportive interiors from martini-soaked bacchanalia of Annabel’s in London to the world's buzziest hotels of late; Fouquets New York, La Fantaisie Paris, Broadwick Soho and even a nightclub Chiki at Costas Palmas, inspired by Frida Kahlo’s former house.
