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Just when you thought the Maldives could not get any better, along comes Velaa Private Island. Named after the sea turtles that have lived here for generations, there is nothing remotely slow about this hedonistic, over-water retreat.
Velvet curtains part on a stage where schoolchildren, ballet dancers, a funeral march and a runaway bride drift past in exaggerated slow motion, set to melancholic classical music amid baroque, hypnotic splendour.
A striking new landmark has appeared in the Bois de Boulogne. Completed in October to showcase the cultural ambitions of France's biggest maison, the Fondation Louis Vuitton cost almost 170 million dollars before land and art.
We’ve loved La Petite Maison ever sinced it opened in Nice in the late 1980s. But now that it’s becoming a global force to be recokoned with, we thought it time to salute the magic of LPM and also investigate the truth behind its rapid expansion. These days, you’ll be hard-pressed to fi…
Now in its fourth generation, German manufacturer Döttling has spent more than ninety-five years building and restoring antique safes. From restored heirloom holdalls to entire Collector Room vaults, the family firm safeguards its clients' most treasured possessions.
As one of the last independent Swiss watchmakers, Breitling does things its own way. Its anniversary Chronomat Airborne honours three decades as an official supplier to world aviation, built for the exacting demands of extreme flight.
George Gershwin may have written ‘An American in Paris’ while staying at the original incarnation of this hotel in 1928 but fast-forward to today and you’ll find the new Peninsula Paris sings a very different tune – one that will resonate greatly with the world’s most discerning travell…
Commissioned by the Mayor of Riyadh and funded by the city's businesses and citizens, the King Abdullah International Gardens will become a high-tech, sustainable botanical sanctuary, spanning almost 250 hectares of water, desert and butterfly gardens.
Even if it’s just an hour and a half’s drive from Zürich, or two from Milan, Andermatt used to somewhere where you’d think time had stopped. Not anymore. Egyptian developer Samih Sawiris is turning it into a high-end global village, set to rival Europe’s best ski resorts. And it all beg…
As a Philadelphia exhibition of unconventional materials draws to a close, Ukrainian-American tape artist Mark Khaisman explains his curious compulsion: I like to peel things, he says, peeling to the point of no origin.
At first glance Fadi Sarieddine's furniture looks brutal, all hard angles and sawn-off diamond planes forming crystalline shells. Yet the longer you look at these origami-like surfaces, the more magnetic they become.
Best known for bringing remote corners of the globe to life, National Geographic owes its photographic legacy to chance. In 1904, editor Gilbert Grosvenor filled eleven blank pages with images from Imperial Russia.