Barcelona - Plan Cerdà

Barcelona's Eixample grid was drawn in 1859 as an engineering solution, not an aesthetic one. Today the same 550 blocks hold four three-Michelin-star restaurants, two bars in the world's top...

Istanbul - Two Shores

Istanbul occupies both shores of a continental divide, its dining scene newly starred and its neighbourhoods navigable by ferry. A guide to where to stay, eat, and drink across two...

Plovdiv - The Revival Quarter

Plovdiv’s Old Town piles across three steep hills above the Thracian Plain, its Revival-era houses and Roman amphitheatre framing a creative city that operates well below the usual travel radar.

Tallinn - The Tower Table

Inside the medieval walls of Vanalinn and out to Port Noblessner, Tallinn runs one of Europe’s most quietly compelling food scenes. A guide to Estonia’s most distinctive city.

Seoul - High Heat

Seoul’s food culture runs on fire, fermented pantries, and late-night patience. A guide to the city’s best hotels, its only three-Michelin-star restaurant, and the bars that define a new cocktail...

Matera - The Sassi

A curated guide to Matera in Basilicata, where cave hotels in the ancient sassi districts, Michelin-listed restaurants inside vaulted stone caverns, and more than a hundred and fifty Byzantine churches...

Amsterdam - The Flat Light

A curated guide to Amsterdam for the considered traveller, from the proeflokaal of Wynand Fockink and the Lowlands kitchen at Rijks to the light-flooded greenhouse of De Kas and the...

Tokyo - Precision of Patience

A curated guide to Tokyo for the considered traveller, from a 1957 yakitori counter in Ginza to the new three-Michelin-star kaiseki of Nishi-Azabu, a no-menu bar in Shinjuku, and the...

The Hood Test

The hood is the first component of a travel jacket to be tested in actual weather. It concentrates the whole design problem into its smallest form, from seam sealing at...

Minimum State

Every product in a travel kit spends most of its time not being used. We designed the Canard range from that state outward, asking what each object becomes when it...