Where were we?

Travel often feeds our best ideas, and we have a big appetite

Did you guess the locations of some of the team’s recent adventures? Clockwise from top left: New York, Shanghai, South Tyrol, Harlem, Berlin, Athens.

Berlin

Callum visited the Feuerle Collection, a WW2 telecommunications bunker converted into a museum by John Pawson. The space houses Southeast Asian sculpture and furniture dating from the 7th century, alongside and array of contemporary works.

Harlem

On a recent trip to New York City, Zulum Elumogo stepped into the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a cultural jewel in the heart of Harlem. With the centre celebrating its centennial, Zulum explored the exhibition 100: A Century of Collections, Community, and Creativity, which includes Aspects of Negro Life: Song of the Towers by Aaron Douglas (1934) — one of four murals portraying the African American journey through struggle, resilience and the pursuit of the American dream.

Athens

Fuelled by the natural wines at kissa-style listening bar Birdman, Fred braved the steps to the Acropolis to see the scaffold-free Parthenon. After 20 years of restoration, the scaffold was briefly removed from the facade in late 2025 to show the ancient wonder in its naked beauty, before conservation work continued.