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Art of Glass | Heidi Fuller-Love

Roman historian, Pliny, tells us that glass was discovered by the Phoenicians, those intrepid voyageurs who first spotted Gibraltar 3000 years ago

City Chic, Buenos Aires | Belinda Jackson | Argentina, Buenos Aires and the Pampas, Buenos Aires

Slicker than baby oil on a lover’s skin, Argentina’s capital is the grooviest place on the planet

Europe's Top 10 Christmas Markets | Francisca Kellett

A perfect antidote to the annual retail frenzy in the run-up to Christmas is a visit to one of Europe’s Christmas markets. Take a look at our handpicked list of festive grand dames in each city.

European Fleamarkets | Simon Busch

Porte de Clignancourt has become dominated by pricey retro furniture and antiques, with the apparently inevitable French corollary of bouffant bourgeois women with yappy dogs at their ankles, and gay Americans

Market Day with the Huilloc | Martin O'Brien | Peru, Sacred Valley and Machu Picchu, Urubamba

The Huilloc are mountain people, tough, rugged and resilient, their plump red cheeks patched with black from exposure to sun and wind. Their existence is hard and isolated

Retail Therapy | Sally Howard | Italy, Lombardy, Milan

Being addicted to retail therapy in a city at the helm of world haute couture is truly an affliction. But Simona Iulini Levy found the perfect antidote: becoming Milan’s premier personal shopper…

Shopping and Faking | Justine Hardy | India, Delhi, Delhi

Five thousand miles may be a long way to go shopping but, let's face it, there are those among us who have travelled further

Shopping for jewels, Cambodian style | Susan Miles

one can't help but notice the warnings posted in guidebooks and brochures, advising them to be weary of the “gemstone scam.”

Shopping in Rajasthan | Sue Carpenter | India, Rajasthan, Jaipur

It’s not until you arrive in Rajasthan that you realise you have been asleep, existing rather than living. India awakens the senses with a jolt

The Tailors of Hong Kong | Steve Knipp | China, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

From the 1940s to the 1970s Hong Kong was home to over 1,000 tailors - and also tens of thousands of dandified file clerks

 

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