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Promotion: Danish furniture brands Menu and By Lassen have merged to form a new design brand called Audo Copenhagen, which will offer all of their furniture, lighting and home accessories under one roof.The new brand was launched on 1 June and named after Menu's Copenhagen showroom The Audo, which will be rebranded as Audo House and serve as Audo Copenhagen's headquarters
Here, the brand will present design icons from the back catalogue of both brands, including historical pieces by Danish modernist architects Vilhelm Lauritzen and Mogens Lassen, alongside contemporary collaborations with the likes of Norm Architects, interior designer Colin King and architect Danielle Siggerud.

One of my favorite times of the day is bathtime!As, we've grown older and life has gotten super hectic, bathtime is that precious hour of the day when we can fully indulge in self-care, and pamper ourselves.Whether that's in the form of a bubble bath or a long warm shower!And having a beautifully designed bathroom with thoughtful designs will only amplify this special time of the day.

I love the holidays, especially through the lens of food as a chef.I came to Sweden from Ethiopia when I was very young, so while my own holiday traditions started with my adoptive mom and older sisters, I have always been fascinated by how people celebrate throughout the world.Some of my own earliest memories of growing up in Sweden are of the tastes and smells of Dec. 13, St. Lucia Day.

Mia Taylor | TravelPulse (TNS) Solo travel among women has been growing exponentially over the past decade.During the four years leading up to the COVID-19 pandemic, searches for the term solo female travel had increased six-fold, according to data from the Solo Female Travelers Club.And that search volume recovered in 2022 once the pandemic became less of a concern.

Karin Hindsbo, the director of Norway's recently opened National Museum, was on Friday named the new director of Tate Modern in London, one of the world's most popular museums.Hindsbo, a Danish-born art historian, will take on the role in September, replacing Frances Morris, who has led Tate Modern since 2016.

M ore than 7.2 million people are set to travel through London airports during the busiest Christmas season in three years, as Border Force workers begin their eight-day strike.Stansted, London City and Gatwick airports have confirmed that December 23 is set to be their busiest day of the festive season, with 78,000 passengers flying in and out of Stansted and 11,000 at London City.

In 2022, PodX Group made acquisitions of French podcast studio Nouvelles Écoutes, British audio fiction company Goldhawk Productions and Argentinian podcast production company Posta.PodX Group is now expanding further by acquiring their first podcast studio in the Nordics, Flit.Flit is a market-leading independent podcast company based in Stockholm, Sweden, established in 2002 by Erik Roll, Roger Dackegård, and Anders Elfström.

The skies of Britain and Ireland were painted in green, purple and deep red Sunday night, as the spectacular auroras, typical of remote latitudes, became visible as south as Kent or Cornwall.Some Britons managed to get a glimpse of the colorful glow of the northern lights from their homes, something that usually requires long travels and overnight camping in ice-covered strips of Greenland or Iceland, or the northern parts of Scandinavia.

The innovative tradition of Chinese mock meats, escaped Italian pasta sauces, and deceptive seaweed




What's in a name?Names are signifiers, tools of specificity.They illuminate.We call a rose a rose.But names are also moving targets, that can disclose and disguise in the same breath.A brief list of names: Poor man's lobster, Welsh caviar, falso conejo(false rabbit),mock cooter stew, sugo scappato(escaped sauce).

It's hard to think of two building projects less alike than Portmeirion, the whimsical Italianate holiday village that was the career-long labour of love of the architect Clough Williams-Ellis, and the theatre and student housing tower of Coleg Harlech, a rugged work of concrete brutalism.Yet they were completed within a few years of each other, 1975 and 1973, a few miles apart on the coast of north-west Wales.