On 7 September, the alternative dating app Feeld and design publication The World of Interiors hosted an after‑dark gathering to showcase their latest releases: the limited‑edition Top Shelf and the third issue of A Fucking Magazine. The partnership feels like a natural extension of both brands’ boundary‑pushing ethos, pairing Feeld’s fluid connection model with the magazine’s daring visual storytelling.
The event took place at the newly opened Clerkenwell location of Climax Books, a shop known for rare erotica and run by former Dazed editor Isabella Burley. The store even provides latex shopping bags for discreet purchases, a detail that felt oddly fitting for the night’s theme. Climax Books’ reputation for curating rare erotic texts made it a fitting backdrop, and the latex bags showed the night’s blend of secrecy and sensuality.
Top Shelf is a one‑off publication that pairs sex with interior design. It features an essay by Maria Dimitrova, co‑editor of AFM, who looks at the erotics of home renovation as a way to materialise—or fail to materialise, shared fantasies. The issue also includes a curated selection of beds and bedrooms from the magazine’s archives. Dimitrova’s essay also notes that selecting paint colors or fixtures can echo the negotiation of desire between partners during a remodel.
The third issue of A Fucking Magazine pushes back against the traditional tone of interiors journalism, weaving bedroom concerns into its pages. Writer Nell Whittaker describes Top Shelf as “a non‑euphemistic, non‑PG response to the eternal question of the interiors magazine: What’s going on in there?”
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Chef, writer and entertainer Jago Rackham supplied a menu that matched the venue’s mirror‑clad interiors. Dishes included greengages on silver picks with Cornish yarg, silver anchovies, calissons, marzipan sweets wrapped in foil, and chocolate ricotta‑filled minne di Sant’Agata, a breast‑shaped Catanian treat traditionally made by nuns. Rackham’s menu reflected his utopian dinner‑party philosophy, using mirrored surfaces and metallic accents to amplify the venue’s reflective ambience.
These collaborations illustrate how niche cultural brands are increasingly overlapping, seeking audiences that appreciate both aesthetic design and sexual openness. By linking a dating platform with a interiors magazine, they blur the line between private desire and public space, a move that could reshape how such publications engage readers.
Attendees came from design, publishing and nightlife circles, creating a mix of perspectives that reinforced the event’s dual focus on visual style and intimate experience. Images from the gathering show a room lit by soft reflections, guests holding the glossy publications, and the menu’s silver‑accented details.
