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The Disappearing Act 

Living in London, you start to meet many characters. Some more fleshed out than others. My first year, fresh off the boat from California, I met this artist we will call Lana. Like many others, Lana had a hard time finding a flat. She could not find a place whose interior

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Coqueteo n°1: Louis Benjamin Barrett

In our first Coqueteo, which means something along the lines of banter, flirtatious and glamorous conversation, we sat down with British product designer and artist, Louis Benjamin Barrett. Irregular shapes punctuate his work, akin to a Casuarina Cunninghamiana tree you might come across in Mexico or rocks from the Sahara

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My Egyptian Queen and Korean King

There is only so much you can do in London in a day. Transport could be on strike, your bus might terminate 8 stops before your planned stop, or you simply don’t bike on the left side of the road – all of these conditions make moving around a bit

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The Plumber & The Piano

Today’s secret is heart-warming, in the spirit of our recent festivities. This holiday, in not-so-coqueta fashion, our house started to smell a bit funky. A rotten egg smell permeated through the halls. My grandmother, Mamina, was the first to notice the odor in her bedroom. My mother, of course, accused

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Your Parents always have the best drama, Hometown curse

There’s truly nothing like hometown gossip. It’s one of many reasons to be excited to go home for the holidays. My favourite story to pull out of my back pocket in moments of conversational need, is a kind of James Bond villain story about my neighbor. I must also preface

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Nadia Lee Cohen told me a secret

. Nadia Lee Cohen just launched her fabulous new book Holly Ohio at Dover Street Market in London. For those who live under rocks, Nadia Lee Cohen is an extremely successful British artist known for her fashion photography and filmmaking. She often appears in her own pictures, dressed up as

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