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From Kuwait to the Dolomites, architect Sandy Attia blends cultures, sustainability, and community to create transformative spaces rooted in place, history, and landscape.
With its sun-drenched cliffs, glamorous piazzetta and timeless Mediterranean allure, Capri has long attracted discerning travellers. Now, a fresh chapter is taking shape, promising a refined new reason to return to this storied island.
Milan is best known as a fashion mecca but only real insiders know where to find the city’s best shopping. Here are our top picks. CORSO COMO 10 Corso Como 10 is a restaurant with pretty unexceptional food but with an exceptional choice of all the best designer clothes of t…
Set in a 16th century building, Venice’s Palazzo Volpi has been reimagined by the husband-and-wife team of Anna Covre and Fredrick Tubau. The city’s newest luxe apartment accommodations feature four enormous suites and the kind of interiors you’ll never want to leave. Why Venice, and wh…
At the sixteenth Venice Biennale of Architecture, Lebanon's first pavilion argues that what is not built matters as much as what is, a brain-teasing premise for a thoughtful national debut.
Just a hundred metres from St Mark's Square lies a new Dolce & Gabbana boutique that holds its own as a cultural destination. Bucking convention, the label tailors each store to its setting rather than replicating one identity.
Milan doesn’t have it easy. Competing against the likes of Venice, Florence, Rome, Portofino, Cinque Terre and the Amalfi Coast is not an easy task and for too long, the country’s business hub has simply been dismissed as the ugly duckling of Italy. Yet there’s been something of a renai…
It’s already the capital of fashion, but leave it to Milan to also be thinking outside the box when it comes to brand extensions, the latest of which is one of the most stylish gyms around. The highly sophisticated fitness emporium comes courtesy of the Canadian twins behind Dsquared2, …
Sustainability reigns supreme at Vigilius Mountain Resort, a modern alpine resort near the Italian-Austrian border. It’s also the ideal setting for a well-needed dose of wellness. From Provence to Prague, nearly every little corner of Europe has had its moment in the sun over the past f…
For those who love Rome yet crave an alternative to the Hotel de Russie, Fendi has opened Private Suites in the centro storico. The hideaway sits five minutes from the Spanish Steps, above the brand's new flagship.
High in the Italian Alps, a tiny glass-walled cabin set on faux-skis lets guests sleep beneath an unpolluted night sky, betting that experiential value now matters more than square footage.
Massimo Bottura is no ordinary chef. As anyone who has watched him tell scared-looking contestants on MasterChef that he wants “to eat their emotions on a plate” will know, he approaches things differently. Over the course of an exhausting hour with the fast-talking Italian, our convers…
On the crown of the Aventine, Rome's most beautiful hill, lies a near-empty piazza designed by Piranesi, a man who loved a surprise. A single green door leads into the Priory of the Knights of Malta.
Far from an ordinary boutique, Milan's Palazzo Ralph Lauren is conceived as an ultra-exclusive luxury club, offering its members the full brand experience within the intimate setting of a private residence.
Five days, eleven hundred kilometres and four regions: a luxury road trip from Rome through Tuscany and Liguria to Milan, taking in storied hotels, Michelin-starred tables and the slow Italian good life.
There’s nothing like Central Italy. With its medieval fortified villages and ochre-coloured villas, set within a landscape of vineyards, cypress trees and hills rolling down to the coast, it’s little wonder the region charms everyone who visits. But this bountiful, picturesque part of t…
Though it’s just as beautiful, Lake Garda never became the playground for the wealthy that its smaller neighbour, Lake Como, did. Yet, now that a handful of starchitects have teamed up to create a unique ensemble of stunningly beautiful and expensive homes, it looks as if the nature of …
Some cultures believe photographers steal their subjects' souls, and in a sense that is what Mustafa Sabbagh attempts. The Milan-based Palestinian-Jordanian artist strips away humanity's social veneer to reveal something deeper: man uncorrupted by civilisation.
Borrowing a little wisdom from Paula Abdul, our writer suggests even Miuccia Prada might agree: everyone is your best friend when success arrives, a knowing reflection on fashion, fortune and fair-weather company.
Shopping in Milan usually means the Four Seasons, Bvlgari or Armani. Now there is another option. Just metres from the fashion district, the new Palazzo Parigi brings international flavour, blending the best of France and Italy.
Forgive me, but the idea of reinventing the concept of a hotel makes me cringe. Literally. Such statements immediately make me think of pernickety PR people so wrapped up in their own hyperbole that it’s patently obvious they have no idea what the customer really wants. So when I first …
A two-day itinerary through the floating city, from the unrivalled masters at the Galleria dell'Accademia to a hidden canalside lunch at Locanda Montin and the staterooms and criminal courts of the Doge's Palace.
With more national pavilions than ever and several private initiatives besides, the contemporary Arab world has never been better represented at the Venice Biennale. Nadine Khalil picks the works you should look out for.
An insider's selection of Capri's most seductive addresses, from the chic boutique rooms of the Villa Marina Capri Hotel and Spa to JKitchen, the perpetual jet-set hotspot serving simple yet ultra-stylish island fare.
Sheltered bays, steeply terraced gardens and tiny, stucco houses that seem to ascend straight from the deep blue sea, the Amalfi coast is a startlingly beautiful place. A visit to Franco Zeffirelli’s former private estate-turned boutique hotel, Villa Tre Ville, casts it in the light of …
Over white asparagus at a palazzo in Montegrappa, Giuseppe Aquila calls his firm a small family company that is also international. He neglects to add that it is among the world's foremost luxury penmakers.
A prosperous trading port by the tenth century, Murano had its own coins, police and aristocracy. In 1291 Venice ordered its glassmakers to relocate there, and they soon became the island's leading citizens.
A trading power since the ninth century, Venice founded its first Biennale in 1895 and turned itself into a vast public museum. What began as nightly gatherings at Caffe Florian became a world-class exhibition.
Rome is a city full of doors, leading to things which your average tourist will never hear about, let alone be able to see. That’s where ‘Italy’s Finest Lifestyle Management’, a boutique Rome-based luxury concierge service, comes in.
Italians and design go hand-in-hand and the latest offerings from Poltrona Frau Group’s high-end Italian design companies seem set to maintain the country’s position as a leader in international interior design.
Replete with history, the land that gracefully extends along the warm waters of the Amalfi Coast has seen the birth of empires and cradled the growth of civilisations. Arguably the best way to explore the west coast of Italy is by boat, providing easy access to quiet backwaters and anchora
Bought in 2000 by luxury powerhouse Richemont, Montegrappa was at its most prolific in the 1930s, buoyed by a demand for exquisite fountain pens and a post-Depression boom. Makram Salha uncaps the appeal behind the breathtaking penmanship.
While most people are content with mass-produced blended bean chocolate, for those that enjoy the best in life, there are a handful of companies that produce exceptional single bean products. These makers control every step of their process and are part of the coveted bean-to-bar club. Mak
Milan, once grey and smoggy is now heralded as the city of Italian chic and great northern cuisine. With the new collections come new shopping sprees but away from the parade is a boutique hotel stunningly combining fashion and fastidiousness and without any fanfare. Fashion is an imper…