LA wellness, Gary Hume’s art as furniture, mushroom jewellery

It’s 9am on a Sunday morning on Sunset Boulevard and Next Health clinic is busy. A man sits in a hyperbaric chamber, still on his laptop, while pressurised oxygen is pumped into his body. He’s doing a 90-day challenge – one hyperbaric chamber a day for 90 days to track his mental and physical health. Nearby, two young men in track suits, jaded from the night before, fast-track detox shots into their veins in the IV Lounge. They are among the many ‘health tourists’ who come to LA for treatments and innovations they can’t find at home.

One such, in its own private room, is LA’s hottest treatment yet, the Ammortal Chamber. This space-age boudoir offers red-light therapy and guided meditation alongside four other ‘modalities’, with the aim of improving heart rate variability and mental clarity. ‘It’s great for time-pressured individuals who want relief from an adrenaline-fuelled day,’ explains Next Health co-founder Dr Darshan Shah. Emma O’Kelly explores wellness in the city, and seeks serenity at a series of desert escapes.

Light filters softly into the stone entrance of an old Kyoto townhouse where Michael Anastassiades stands in front of his new creation: five thin glass tubes rise from a narrow wood base, their illuminated filaments forming a circle – just like the sun above the horizon. ‘Light is the base of everything,’ says Anastassiades, the Cypriot-born, London-based designer. ‘Everything starts from a glow. It’s the first thing I think about before I make or design. It’s always the starting point.’

This philosophy shapes ‘From Warm Yellow to Saturated Red’, the designer’s first solo exhibition in Kyoto, at Taka Ishii Gallery, where his new works – lighting, sculptural objects, seating – are harmonised with the stillness of a 150-year-old machiya, or townhouse.

Sunset – the fleeting intensity of its scattered light, the precision of its deepening shades – is the creative inspiration behind the show. ‘I think we’re all drawn to light in some way or another, it’s part of human instinct,’ he tells Danielle Demetriou, as the pair discuss his works, best sunsets, and the pesky problem of getting hold of the right lightbulb.

When Giorgio Bagnara, a keen art collector and the founder of leather-focused design company Giobagnara, was thinking about a project to present at Milan Design Week 2026 with the brand’s curator Nick Vinson, they decided to embed art at its heart, and began brainstorming around intarsio (a form of inlaying similar to marquetry).

Among the results are 13 limited-edition pieces by artist Gary Hume that combine aluminium, suede and nappa leather, and range from boxes and trays to vases, room dividers and a bar cabinet. The objects are defined by solid aluminium carved with shapes that recreate Hume’s artworks (many originally painted on aluminium), infilled with leather in hues picked from the brand's 400-strong catalogue.

Interpreted works include Hume’s American Tan series (2006-2008), featuring stylised cheerleaders in action, and Archipelago, a 2020 body of work inspired by the silhouette of the lifejacket as an emblem of a migrant's journey. ‘I had great fun watching as Nick flipped through my archive of the soul, going “no, no, yes”,’ Hume tells Rosa Bertoli. ‘After a little mutual “What?!”, we began to find the images and forms we thought might work.’

For Sarabande Foundation alumna Martina Kocianova, jewellery design is an extension of her passions, and luckily, mushroom foraging lends itself well to offbeat and eclectic pieces. Her series of charms, each corresponding to a star sign, is crafted in gold and set with materials including emerald, jade, red jasper and rainbow moonstone. ‘Mushrooms are the perfect talismans,’ she says.