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With more participants than ever, Design Days Dubai, the region's first fair devoted to collectible and limited-edition furniture and design objects, draws ever greater interest, this sixth edition gathering fifty leading galleries from thirty-nine countries.
You’d be hard pressed to find a truly unique prêt-à-porter piece of clothing these days. Between mass production and an insatiable thirst for the latest trend that pervades our modern world, retail fashion has become a gargantuan cookie-cutter industry. It’s also one of few sectors that…
It’s been nearly two decades since I first met Karl Lagerfeld, and over the years, I have come to realise that the only certainty in any conversation with him is that he’s likely to avoid the obvious, and there will be many diversions along the way. And so it is that when I met him [&he…
WHEN DID YOU REALISE YOU WANTED TO BE A JOURNALIST? I’ve always been that kid who asked questions, only to get answers that would prompt ten more questions. In the summer of 1990, my family flew from Kuwait to Berkeley, California for a summer vacation. A few weeks later, Saddam Hussein…
Since Christie's opened its regional hub in Dubai over a decade ago, semi-annual auctions of regional art have helped the Middle East account for eight per cent of the firm's global turnover. What lies behind the boom?
Two minutes into Mountain View, our writer spots his first driverless pod gliding through rush hour, ignored by blasé commuters, a fitting welcome to the boomtown heart of Silicon Valley.
Millennials, the argument runs, despise labels and refuse to be pigeonholed. Stephanie meets Kuwaiti artist and designer Nanu Al Hamad, whose deliberately shocking, category-defying body of work seems made precisely for such a generation.
Koa Canvas is not like your other residential projects in Dubai. With 43 different floor plans for the 70 apartments, it heralds a new approach to community building, one in which individuality and identity are front and centre. What the 30-somethings of today are looking for in a place…
Filmmaker Alejandro Landes’ glorious contemporary home in Miami, on the shores of Biscayne Bay, is as captivating as a cinematic masterpiece. Casa Bahia unfolds like a cinematic dream. The luxurious home (which at 50 million USD, is one of the most expensive properties on the Miami mark…
Poise Design Creative Director Emma Boutros gives women more than must-have footwear. Balancing a nod to Arab culture with her unrestrained design philosophy, she’s creating shoes that make an unabashed statement. The kaffiya pattern that’s on heavy rotation and has been the brand’s cla…
Bespoke breaks its own rule against the interview format, gathering a hand-picked cast — a journalist, a designer, a Bugatti man, a singer, a mountaineer and a hotelier — to reveal what each finds truly indispensable.
The Beirut-based Zovighian family's youth-focused venture treats social responsibility as core business, working with millennials who crave meaning at work to cultivate the kind of employee profiles employers increasingly seek.