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Artistic Hub Magazine Issue #3 is a curated journey through visual culture, creativity and meaning. This international edition invites readers to explore the world not as it appears, but as it is felt – through art, travel, design, gastronomy and movement. From evocative photo essays and exclusive artist profiles to travelogues in Melbourne, Barcelona and Istanbul, this issue is about perception, presence and the power of seeing differently. Highlights include "Identity Fusion", a striking portrait series, the future of fashion with Maria Chany, and the visual storytelling of Edinburgh International Festival. Bold, elegant and emotionally intelligent, Artistic Hub Magazine is for those who live through beauty, ideas and refined experiences.

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Editor’s Note

LONDON BEYOND THE MAIN STREETS • Smithfield is preparing to welcome a museum, Leake Street is repainted day by day, and Eel Pie Island spends most of the year behind its gates.

LONDON IN THE FOOTNOTES

THE MAN WHO DANCED OUT OF LONDON

CAN ALL OF LONDON STILL FIT IN A HUMAN MIND? • London’s streets, entrances, names and rules keep changing. The Knowledge means the map a future black cab driver carries in their head has to change with the city.

WHAT LONDON LEAVES BEHIND

THE SECOND LIFE OF A LONDON ICON

The Archive of Future Flavours • Seed banks preserve the possibility that familiar foods may one day withstand drought, disease and increasingly saline soils. But between a wild plant and the food on our plates lie years of research, breeding and selection, and no vault can preserve flavour on its own.

The Taste of British Autumn • At Apricity in Mayfair, Chantelle Nicholson builds her cooking around British produce from small-scale growers and flavours that vary from one harvest to the next. After an exceptionally hot, dry summer, we spoke to her about how weather conditions are reshaping the season, what a chef can learn from the people who grow the food and how the produce itself shapes what ultimately reaches the plate.

When Stone Takes on New Meaning • How architecture becomes a language of power, faith, memory and belonging

The Candle Through the Centuries • From Rush Pith to a Scented Vessel

OBJECTS WITH A Biography • Why Some Things Matter Beyond Their Price

The Art of Gifting • The object may be simple. The choice behind it gives it meaning.

Patchouli Spirit

WHO ARE WE PERFORMING FOR? • If all the world's a stage, who are we performing for now?

Barbara Cole Secrets

Shelby Shadwell SHIFTING MATTER

NIKO KAPA FORM UNDER PRESSURE • From clay cracking against the skin to objects drawn from the topography of AlUla, Niko Kapa’s work takes shape where initial geometry meets material, the body, space and other people’s experience.

THE BODY REMEMBERS TOUCH David Moješčik

The Body After Movement • In Signature gestuelle, photographer Dominique Jaussein brings the camera close to the body of George Oliveira, a dancer whose years of training are visible in the way he meets the floor, maintains his balance and brings movement to a halt.

ZEM ALTEA and the Medicine of Everyday Life

INSIDE THE KITCHEN AT ZEM ALTEA Taste, Presentation, Technique, Body • After years in Michelin-starred kitchens, Javier Díaz Esterri began asking one more question when creating each dish: what role it should play in everything a guest eats over the course of the day.

FREQUENCY, MADE TO MEASURE

BRIAN RASIC HE WAITED FOR THE MOMENT. HE CAPTURED AN ERA. • His career grew out of a love of music and photography, beginning with his father’s Kiev camera, black-and-white film and a desire to see as many concerts as possible. More than four decades later, his photographs have become part of...