Edward Hopper is one of the most celebrated modern American painters to date. His paintings are instantly recognisable for their inimitable sense of style, their ability to transform a transient moment into an eternal one, and of course – for being able to distill the feeling of loneliness into one graceful stretch of canvas. Hopper was a born-and-bred New Yorker. He studied art at the New York School of Art and Design, which would eventually become the famous Parsons New Sch

We've all known a real-life Mary Wilkie – a person who was designed and placed on this planet to make you feel completely inept at holding an adult conversation about anything. Mary – the seemingly effortless pop-connoisseur played expertly by Diane Keaton in Woody Allen's Manhattan – is infuriatingly bright and well-read. She glides through conversations leaving a trace of superiority, condemning her co-conversationalists to a fumbling marathon of one-upmanship. Her patronis

Riccardo Monte is an Italian architect and artist who grew up in the the Italian Alps close to the Swiss boarder. He spent eight years living and working in London with some of the most vibrant architects and designers in Europe. He's now returned to the mountainside, creating misty impressions of the sights that surround him. But despite the dramatic change of scene, Riccardo describes how his process has remained unchanged, and sacrosanct. Cover image: Riccardo Monte, in hi