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Modest and long overlooked, Lebanon's Youssef Tohme is about to be discovered. At Villa Tohme, a residential project in the hills north of Beirut, a narrow hallway opens astonishingly onto an ocean of space and light.
Mao Zedong launched a fashion revolution that designers can only dream of, persuading hundreds of millions of Chinese to abandon their old clothes and the world they represented for a single uniform vision.
Beirut-born, Canada-raised and McGill-trained, master car designer Karim Habib not only dominates his domain but, through his team, is busy shaping the future kings of the road, one sketch at a time.
Joining forces with Italian mosaic maker Sicis, Christian Lacroix unveiled a furniture line at Milan's Salone del Mobile. Famous for flamboyant clothes, the pieces reflect his trademark style and fondness for the empress Theodora.
She sports no tamed bob or fingerless gloves. Wonder how to follow one of fashion's giants in a time of turmoil? Frida Giannini, winner of the Ultimate Fashionism Award, does it in her Gucci pumps.
A collective of 105 architects, designers, engineers and artisans, .PSLAB goes from strength to strength. Warren Singh-Bartlett visits its beautiful Mar Mikhayel headquarters in Beirut to meet founder Dimitri Saddi behind the lighting house's global rise.
As a touring exhibition of his work crosses America and Europe, Becky Lucas charts the unstoppable rise of Jean-Paul Gaultier, the Frenchman who upended fashion's boundaries with a single iconic cone bra and corset.
Heir to a locksmith's practice founded in 1919, Markus Dottling restores vintage vaults and crafts modern, high-security ones. Customisation reigns, whether you wish to store cigars, watches, jewellery or even Hello Kitty.
Following a private completion contract for the brand-new Boeing 747-8, Nicolas Shammas probes the chief interior architect at Lufthansa Technik on the rare gift of decoding precisely what demanding clients truly desire.
Nadine Khalil meets Younes Duret, the French-Moroccan designer whose work merges continents: a Casablanca childhood, design studies in Paris and a Marrakech agency founded amid what he calls the city's artistic effervescence.
The head of Envy Interiors explains his founding ambition: to create something genuinely enviable by fulfilling each client's desires. Two years on, every handpicked piece passes one test, would he have it at home.
While New York and Hong Kong are celebrated for their verticality, it is fitting that the Middle East should again host some of the tallest structures on earth. Setting aside the Burj Khalifa, we spotlight the standouts.