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How to cook restaurant’s smoking-hot harissa chicken dish at home

No wood-fired kitchen? No worries. Even a conventional oven can recreate Agnes restaurant’s Harissa chicken with labne and lime.

  • Jill Dupleix

Nick Molnar’s runaway success starts with style

Where to start with the story of a man, who, at 31, is worth $2.2 billion, is a CEO with a staff of 1000 over three continents, a husband and a father of two – all that on just one shot of coffee?

  • Lauren Sams

The man behind some of world’s most authentically feminine fashion

Lauded for his authentically womanly designs, Erdem Moralioglu is both a commercial and critical success. Mostly, though, he just feels lucky.

  • Dan F. Stapleton

Emperor of new clothes: How a luxury marketplace won the pandemic

José Neves has built Farfetch into a global online outlet for prestige fashion. But after being late to the style party, he’s really just getting started.

  • Lauren Sams

From fashion to furniture, this CEO designs every part of her life

There’s a connection between strategy in leadership and creativity, says CoreLogic chief executive Lisa Claes.

  • Philippa Coates
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March

How COVID-19 is about to change the suit

If you don’t go back to the full three-piece catastrophe, rest assured that designers will replace formal workwear with something else.

  • Lauren Sams

Family gives ‘daggy’ winemaking region a new image

In Victoria’s Rutherglen, an area steeped in vineyard history, the Scion label is gaining a reputation for challenging convention.

  • Max Allen

This woman is changing an industry from the inside

Aurora James is reluctant to call herself a designer. But she has a vision – and it’s being noticed. From our upcoming Fashion issue, out on March 26.

  • Lauren Sams

Twist of fate starts one of the world’s most exciting design studios

Chance and a shared eye for style lead to a partnership making waves globally. Stephen Todd speaks to the creatives behind Studiopepe for the April issue.

  • Stephen Todd

Famous watch faces ready for a fair to remember

The world of watches awaits a fresh event and new decorative takes on reading the hour, writes Bani McSpedden for our April issue.

  • Bani McSpedden
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Melbourne duo leave behind old work lives to follow health club dream

A gym for the mind and the body has opened in a Melbourne laneway just in time for those whose new year’s fitness resolutions are running out of puff.

  • Matthew Drummond

February

Melbourne chef reveals restaurant recipe for must-have cheese dish

Adam D’Sylva may be known for his laneway restaurants, but this big-dreaming chef doesn’t plan to stay in his lane.

  • Jill Dupleix

‘Like their firstborn’: Car makers obsess over detail for the top 1pc

The attention to detail at the top of the car market can be astounding, as technicians chase that last edge in refinement, style or personalisation.

  • Tony Davis

Tesla’s electric evolution

Machine editor Tony Davis traces the history of the Tesla from 2008 to today – and beyond.

  • Tony Davis

What it’s really like to ride shotgun with Elon

Robyn Denholm grew up working at her family’s Sydney petrol station. Now she’s back home steering Tesla from Australia, which she says could be a green energy superpower.

  • Tony Davis

Cancer-free after 12 years: Why you’re hearing the C-word more often

Cure. It’s a term not often used when it comes to cancer. But that was before an emerging immunotherapy treatment known as CAR-T.

  • Yolanda Redrup

What life is like in cryptocurrency land

As the price of bitcoin hits record highs, these early adopters are building and working in an alternative financial universe.

  • Jessica Sier

Flying at 2000km/h in a $125m jet all in a day’s work for RAAF duo

Machines don’t come much more complex than the Royal Australian Air Force’s EA-18G Growler. The operators must be fit, smart and work well under pressure.

  • Tony Davis

The Young Rich Lister who’s also won Magician of the Year

In developer circles he’s known as Magic Keith. To the rest of Australia, he’s the extremely successful creator of software company Buildkite.

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  • Philippa Coates

A battery-led revolution is changing the way you’ll move

All manner of transportation is getting on board with the big improvements in energy cells.

  • Toby Hagon
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Three designers and the everyday objects that bring them joy

An international trio of creatives reveal the everyday items that bring them pleasure from a design point of view. As told to Tony Davis.

  • Tony Davis

How to satisfy wanderlust when you’re in a holding pattern

Travel triggers all sorts of happy hormones. That’s why most of us crave it. So how can you fake it until the world is once again your oyster?

  • Fiona Carruthers

How design found a way to influence modern manufacturing in Australia

The most successful designs have always been those in which utility and beauty co-exist in ways that are not just novel but enduring.

  • Stephen Todd

Nostalgic for an era you’ve never known? You’re not alone

If you’ve ever felt a little too late for the world you’d like to live in, there’s a reason. And fashion knows all about it.

  • Lauren Sams

How does a watch become a wearable race car? It’s complicated ...

Expensive, exclusive, exquisitely engineered and out there – Richard Mille’s RM 65-01 shows what advanced tech looks like for the wrist in the 21st century.

  • Bani McSpedden