Nic Monisse
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- Aug 25, 2026
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Lobby group: how the best hotels can outstay any Airbnb (opens the original)
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Almost a decade ago, industry analysts were predicting the decline of the hotel. Decentralised and cheap peer-to-peer business models such as Airbnb were supposedly sounding a death knell. Initially, I must admit, it was a thrill to stay in somebody else’s home and go through their medicine cabinet (I wore the cologne of a man named Matt for the duration of a week-long stay on New York’s Upper West Side in 2013). It was predicated on the notion that, by staying in someone else’s residence, you w
What ‘Backrooms’ reveals about the emotional power of furniture and interiors (opens the original)
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I’m not normally one for a horror movie – I’ve been known to read a plot synopsis before going to the cinema so that I’m not a shaking wreck throughout. But when Backrooms hit theatres at the start of the summer, I knew that I’d have to watch it. Created by wunderkind director Kane Parsons, the film is a pastiche of 1990s aesthetics and design: it follows the fortunes of a furniture salesman as he makes his way through a landscape of liminal spaces, inspired by the big-box warehouses and the cor
An unlikely mix of surreal and classical architecture makes Gibellina Nuova well worth a visit (opens the original)
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“What are you seeing in this place?” It was a fair question from my Australian family, who I had dragged to Gibellina Nuova, a small town in the centre of Sicily. It was a baking hot summer day and we were staring at the empty sistema delle piazze – built to the design of architects Franco Purini and Laura Thermes in 1990. Constructed from scratch between 1970 and 1990, the conurbation was intended to house some 100,000 people displaced by an earthquake that devastated the Belice Valley area. De
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