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Dutch maestro Marcel Wanders is a brilliant designer but a chance meeting with him reveals that, despite his humility, it’s his unique outlook that has helped him become one of the most prolific product and interior design studios in the world today. When I meet Marcel Wanders on …
A passionate audiophile who grew tired of today’s tinny sound, Princeton professor Edgar Choueiri is determined to bring high-fidelity sound to brand new depths. Naturally, my conversation with Edgar Choueiri begins with space. I’m sitting in the Lotos Club in New York’s Upper East Side…
A new breed of voice command devices already surpasses the fickleness of Siri or S Voice, responding to multiple voices, accents and dialects. We examine whether this finally puts users in the power position.
The region is seeing exponential growth in record-breaking, with applications up 300 to 400 per cent across the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Egypt over five years, says Talal Omar, who manages the MENA region.
When is an architect not an architect? It is a question put to Joe Serrins, a Manhattan architect whose compact practice off the High Line has worked largely on modifying the city's existing buildings rather than new ones.
Far from a failing, our writer argues, the breathless way we declare life's luxuries is precisely our aspirational charm. A villa becomes a VILLA, a dinner jacket a SMOking, each phrase carrying an invisible exclamation mark.
With oil, royal wealth and entrepreneurs, our region has no shortage of moguls. Our writer considers their philanthropic legacy, from Saudi Arabia's Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber to Lebanon's Hariri family and their socially conscious foundations.
At fifty-six, Stanislas de Quercize is the new Frenchman steering Cartier, the world's largest luxury jeweller. We caught him at Art Dubai, the fair his maison sponsors, to discuss the house Edward VII once adored.
Fighting back is not always the wisest course, but should you choose to, three concepts are essential: Catch, Control, Neutralise. The first turns your natural flinch into a technique to seize the weapon arm.
"Did you tweet that, Nadya?" Our heroine glides her fingers across the iPhone, snapping her beaming boss at the wheel of a Sheikh's canary-yellow Lambo. A witty fiction of corniche cruising and conspicuous wealth.
Thirty-eight-year-old Egyptian heart surgeon and avowed Jon Stewart fan Bassem Youssef explains how the 2011 Cairo uprising galvanised him to speak out and poke fun at his country's politics, becoming an unlikely television superstar.
When Sandra Ghattas decided to tap into what she calls the Lebanese designers' boom, she never expected that within a month Beirut Designers' Week, the country's first such event, would sell out entirely.