Floating Points & Four Tet: Final Plastic People

The beginning of 2015 sadly brought about the end of Plastic People, one of East London’s most notorious basement dance clubs. The talent that walked through its doors during the 20-year run undoubtedly helped shape modern dance music. As regular DJs Kieran Hebden (Four Tet) and Sam Shepherd (Floating Points) explain, “To say this space along with the owner Ade’s singular vision was fundamental in …

IDEA Books, London

The Soho-based used books purveyor uses the power of social media to showcase a tightly edited collection of creative tomes

by Caroline Kinneberg What bookseller has the most popular account on Instagram? Random House, you might guess? It has almost 10k followers, compared to Barnes and Noble’s 18k. Maybe more visual brands, like Taschen (20k) or Assouline (23k)? But the most popular book specialist on Instagram could very well be IDEA Books, with (at the time of publication) 98,400 followers and growing every day. This …

Best of CH 2014: Most Popular

From a Moog Music factory tour to MINI's Superleggera Vision and Van Cleef & Arpels' Midnight Planétarium, the articles you read most this year

Sometimes it’s easy to predict what will be a hit on the internet (kitten GIFs never fail) and, while we like to think all our CH articles are equally enjoyed, some get picked up and spewed all over the web—much to our delight. (This year, some Tweets from the likes of Chris Hadfield and Neil DeGrasse Tyson gave us a healthy boost.) From watches adorned …