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At Selfridges’s new members-only shopping destination, the Future is Perfect
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At Selfridges’s new members-only shopping destination, the Future is Perfect

Selfridges has created a members-only shopping playground in central London, designed with fun in mind by The Future Perfect
Two Mercedes vans ply locals with spicy snail soup in Tangier
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Two Mercedes vans ply locals with spicy snail soup in Tangier

Crawling with spiral-shelled gastropods, these vans on the Tangier seafront, sell spicy snail soup to hungry locals drawn by twinkling fairy lights
Hamish Bowles hotfoots it around Gran Canaria
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Hamish Bowles hotfoots it around Gran Canaria

Averting his eyes from Gran Canaria’s high rises, Mr Bowles day-trips to pretty 18th-century villages and Columbus’s lodgings
Hot to trot: welcome to the Kano Durbar, the flashiest equestrian procession on earth
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Hot to trot: welcome to the Kano Durbar, the flashiest equestrian procession on earth

Every year at the end of Ramadan, thousands of people in Nigeria’s second city show their support for the emir in the most spectacular way
Let us spray: the best perfume shops in Paris
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Let us spray: the best perfume shops in Paris

Whether you’re in the market for postmodern provocations or heady scents once donned by Tsars, this is WoI’s guide to the best perfumers in Paris
A sprawling Senegalese coastal retreat has become an artists’ mecca
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A sprawling Senegalese coastal retreat has become an artists’ mecca

Fleeing Haiti in 1955, Gérard Chenet resettled along Senegal’s coast, where his eccentric hotel complex Sobo Badè – all thatch, mosaics and windy paths – became an artistic hotspot
Inside the tiny bottle shop where Corsica’s biggest export was born
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Inside the tiny bottle shop where Corsica’s biggest export was born

When life gives you citrons, make citrussy liqueurs… That simple maxim served Louis-Napoléon Mattei well. Full of enterprising spirit, he invented an apéritif that would become one of Corsica’s biggest exports. From the original winepress to the Art Deco façade, the blood-red shop where it all began is steeped in atmosphere
Sterling work: a first – and last – look at Georg Jensen’s incredible archive
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Sterling work: a first – and last – look at Georg Jensen’s incredible archive

Tucked under the eaves of Copenhagen HQ, the astonishing Georg Jensen archive is full of silvery surprises and secrets. As it gets packed up ready to be relocated, we take a peek inside
A Victorian museum in Philadelphia created by a gentleman fossil-hunter stands the test of time
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A Victorian museum in Philadelphia created by a gentleman fossil-hunter stands the test of time

The air in the virtually unchanged Wagner Free Institute of Science in Philadelphia is still thick with the Victorian fervour for natural history
How did a faux-Medieval castle come to wash up by the sea in Sweden?
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How did a faux-Medieval castle come to wash up by the sea in Sweden?

Tjolöholm castle would look right at home in the Highlands. But along the coast near Gothenburg? It’s all thanks to Blanche Dickson, a single-minded heiress who had a serious Liberty habit and defied tragedy – as well as naysayers – to build it