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Hotels, restaurants and destinations worth a long way for.
On Opera Gallery's opening night in Beirut, it was neither the pre-Cubist Picasso nor the early Dali that captivated. The real star was Korean artist Seo Young Deok's terrace sculpture, 'Meditation 16'.
When Verdi's Aida played Qatar's Katara Opera House in 2012, it was a regional first. With new houses rising in Kuwait and Dubai, a fresh fascination with classical opera is sweeping the Gulf.
At Davos, KAEC chief executive Fahd Al Rasheed talks to John Defterios about a 100 billion dollar city the size of Washington DC, Saudi oil reform and the long road from 5,000 residents to two million.
Step through the door of Electra House, Lee Broom's Shoreditch showroom, and you might assume the brand long-established. From its signature grey backdrop to its tactile materials, everything conveys sophisticated, hard-won confidence.
As the Armani Hotel Dubai turns five, we celebrate its quiet refusal of Arabian cliché, Giorgio Armani's hand-picked materials and the world's tallest tower wrapped around it.
It is a delicious irony that the Dutch controlled the spice trade for centuries while their own food stayed resolutely bland. We explore how a famously functional culinary tradition is finally finding its flavour.
Dubai's forest of residential towers suggests a glut of empty homes, yet the reality is more nuanced. With over twenty per cent of properties held by absentee owners, common assumptions about oversupply deserve scrutiny.
Our pick of the regional fairs that actually merit your time, from Doha's growing jewellery and watch showcase to Dubai's vast boat show and a Mediterranean photography festival in Beirut.
At Otahuna Lodge, a beautifully preserved historic mansion near Christchurch, it is the silence you notice first, broken only by distant birdsong and a breeze through the willows. Utter bliss awaits.
On the opening night of the Beirut Art Fair, a live sheep named Faro, shorn and inscribed with a mysterious pattern of black dots, wandered among the elegant crowd as the show's improbable centrepiece.
Now seventy-six, the American-born sculptor pioneered the use of non-traditional materials, from fibreglass and molten lead to his beloved steel, shaping colossal, site-specific works that express the very tension of their weight.
In 1994, Robert De Niro partnered with Japanese chef Nobuyuki Matsuhisa to open the first Nobu in New York's Tribeca. That flagship became the genesis of an empire, now thirty-two restaurants spanning five continents, from Melbourne to Milan.