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Matriarchy, Done Properly
WOMEN ON Bonnie Langedijk WOMEN ON Bonnie Langedijk

Matriarchy, Done Properly

In 1920s Paris, four women stopped waiting for a culture built to include them and built their own instead. Julieta Ruiz recovers the almost-forgotten word for what held them together, matronage, and argues that a century later, as old certainties collapse again, women are once more remaking the world from the ground up rather than asking permission to enter it.

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Has Hospitality Become Too Predictable?
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Has Hospitality Become Too Predictable?

As boutique hotels blur into a single tasteful blur of linen and travertine, a more subtle movement is turning away from scale. Anna Prudhomme speaks with the owner-led houses and restored estates rewriting hospitality around authorship, intimacy, and the feeling of being somewhere with a life of its own.

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Clean, Quiet and in Control
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Clean, Quiet and in Control

Valerie van Maarschalkerwaart, Isabel Ferreira de Sousa, Harriet Francis and Johanna Engvall, all HUR Club members, on the quiet cultural instruction to become smaller, what words like "clean" and "quiet" are really asking of women, and whether an aesthetic that liberates rather than contains us is even possible.

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