Interviews

I started designing jewellery out of loneliness, to start a dialogue and to help other people feel less alone – says Alighieri founder Rosh Mahtani, who talks with us about her wax sculptures, living in London, and finding light in the dark.

Buying a work of art is such an intimate transaction, it requires one-on-one contact between the piece and the viewer. You can’t convey those emotions through the internet – says Gunia Nowik, the founder of a new contemporary art space in Warsaw, the Gunia Nowik Gallery.

Mistakes are vital to art.

The quiet lets me hear my own thoughts.

Books are a reliable antidote to stress related to the overwhelming situation around us.

I dream that one day we’ll be able to outfit a house solely with Polish brands.

Sometimes I manage to convince a children’s book publisher to make the mayor of a town a woman instead of a man, or to have a boy pretending to cook instead of pretending to race cars.

In New York you always feel like everyone is doing something cooler than you.