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© ADSB Anderson Bell ADSB Andersson Bell is expanding its retail footprint overseas. Founded only in 2014 by creative director Dohun Kim, the South Korean fashion brand has since gone leaps and bounds, creating not only a large following on home turf, but also increasingly in a string of international markets, including Japan. Consequently, ADSB Andersson Bell will open a flagship store in Tokyo, its very first abroad, in the upscale shopping area of Aoyama.

Publishers Note Just to be clear – superfuture® is a design blog and not a political commentator. No surprise there. The scope of our content has always been global and borderless, however that can often mean covering projects in countries where we will not agree with the politics or actions of those countries.

© YYPLUSPLUS / Photography: Enanei Based in Madrid, the JUNGLE agency was founded in 2019 by Agustín Vivancos and Jacobo Pérez del Pulgar, operating on the intersection of technology, design, and innovation with an elaborate skill set. Very recently, the company inaugurated a brand new office space in the Spanish capital, which, quite interestingly, also features a dedicated retail space. Occupying 4,000 sqm.

Publishers Note Just to be clear – superfuture® is a design blog and not a political commentator. No surprise there. The scope of our content has always been global and borderless, however that can often mean covering projects in countries where we will not agree with the politics or actions of those countries.

© Bus Palladium / Photography: Matthieu Salvaing First opened in 1965, Le Bus Palladium, a club smack in the middle of Pigalle, the formerly louche but now gentrified red light district of Paris, quickly became a vibrant and defining night haunt for an entire generation.

© studio tama / Photography: Donggyu Kim Given the size of Seoul‘s sprawling metropolitan area, and let’s not forget its stature as a global economic powerhouse and the affluence it generates, the city is a hotbed for new concepts on just about any level, including hospitality. There’s practically no food craze or specialty that’s overlooked here, including eggtart.

© Powerhouse Company / Photography: Amy May Roux It’s the first time ever that Nairobi has popped up on our radar, and it’s for a good reason as the newly opened Céline & Lolo ticks all of our boxes, while showing a cool side of the booming Kenyan capital we didn’t even know existed.

© AIM Architecture / Photography: Seth Powers Since its inception in 2013 as an online retailer in cosmetics, HARMAY‘s operations in China have expanded tremendously, and also offline, rolling out a sizeable number of sleek, design-led stores in the country’s top-tier cities.

© Valeriano Boragina / Photography: Eller Studio The historic heart of Rome has its fair share of upscale period lodgings, but few offer a subtle and homey blend of old and new as the newly opened Hotel Trame. Situated in the downtown Sant’ Eustachio neighbourhood, only a few blocks away from iconic Piazza Navona, the four-star boutique property occupies 760 sqm. (8,181 sq.ft.) across four floors of a 16th-century building featuring just thirteen guest rooms and suits in various sizes.

© Soho House It took a little while, but Soho House, the global members-only club for leading creatives, has finally landed in Tokyo. Occupying 6,968 sqm. (75,000 sq.ft.) across two upper floors on the premises of Omotesando Grid Tower, a newly built, 38-storey building in the city’s tony Aoyama area. Soho House Tokyo features club space to eat, drink and work, 42 bedrooms, in addition to a rooftop pool and terrace surrounded by sunloungers, a wellness studio, event spaces.