Video Interview With Photographer Ali Bin Thalith

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Ali Bin Thalith grew up by the coast in Dubai where both his father and grandfather were pearl divers. He spent much of his childhood either in the water or watching Jacques Cousteau films, since then he’s become a photographer, specialising in underwater photography. His incredible use of textures, colour and composition make his underwater images transcend simple documentation. Ali feels he is part of the sea and he happily swims with his camera next to the fearsome and the micro inhabitants deep below the waves.

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Michaelis Boyd: The Architects Bringing Battersea Power Station Back To Life

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When Alex Michaelis and Tim Boyd, the design duo behind Michaelis Boyd, installed a wind turbine on David Cameron’s roof in 2006, they captured a mid-noughties zeitgeist for modern middle-class living.

But it wasn’t their £600,000 eco makeover of the Cameron family’s North Kensington home – which included the installation of a 660-gallon rainwater tank under the garden to provide water for flushing lavatories and washing – that made Michaelis Boyd a byword for boundary-pushing living spaces. In the previous decade, the pair had created chic interiors for the London members club Soho House, Somerset spa hotel Babington House and the Electric on Portobello Road.

Feature In COMO Stories Magazine

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The Pleasures of Eating Well: Nourishing Favourites from the COMO Shambhala Kitchen, gathers the most popular dishes served at the author’s COMO Hotels and Resorts in a single book, whether it be a salad, fish dish, raw juice or main. It is an approach honed over a 10-year period working with leading-edge chefs, nutritionists and Ayurvedic doctors who make up COMO’s expert staff and is featured here in COMO Stories magazine.

Mikkel Karstad: The Danish Chef On Borgen, Gordon Ramsay, And Cooking With The Seasons

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The morning we speak Mikkel Karstad posted on Instagram a petrol-blue sea below ominous clouds. Water temperature, 1C, wind chill, -20C, according to the caption.

This is the Danish chef’s dawn swim, which he undertakes every other day in the Oresund strait, between Denmark and Sweden, after sharing the view with his 34,500 followers.

The rest of his feed comprises extraordinarily beautiful images of barley soup, ginger tea and blackcurrant-stained lamb (his latest dishes), and the occasional golden-haired child (he has four, aged between four and 16).