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The man who made Beirut love the BRGR returns with an upscale steakhouse, complete with shellfish bar and an Al Capone-esque cigar lounge, at the heart of the city's glittering new seafront development.
Stretching thirty kilometres along the coast, Greater Muscat is a string of seaside hubs, hilltop colonies and business districts linked by mountain expressways. Like Los Angeles, this is a city built for the car.
Pritzker-winning Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron have designed perhaps the most arresting addition to Beirut's skyline in decades. A building is a building, Jacques Herzog tells Bespoke; it cannot be read like a book.
Few revolutions taste as good as Laurence Brahm's. At his Red Capital Club, the entrepreneur drags Chairman Mao's era into the present, the walls lined with posters, porcelain figurines and Communist memorabilia galore.
For twenty years its slopes were a battlefield between India and Pakistan; its storms and avalanches have claimed many lives. Bespoke takes on the audacious challenge of skiing the savage mountain itself.
As this goes to press, the fashion establishment is making its way from London Fashion Week to Milan. The biannual extravaganza of all that makes the industry celebrated, and yes, fickle, converges on these cosmopolitan cities.
When the Soma architects were commissioned to design a Muslim community centre in Lower Manhattan, they could not have foreseen the storm. Branded the ground zero mosque by a blogger, the project drew fierce dispute.
Heir to a locksmith's practice founded in 1919, Markus Dottling restores vintage vaults and crafts modern, high-security ones. Customisation reigns, whether you wish to store cigars, watches, jewellery or even Hello Kitty.
On a 2009 visit to the Van Abbe Museum in Eindhoven, Ramallah-based artist and curator Khaled Hourani had a wild idea. Hearing of the museum's global loans, he resolved that Palestine, too, should benefit.
A trip to America's most populous city may thrill, but finding the perfect hotel in vibrant New York is no easy task. Fortunately, Bespoke discovers a serene new sanctuary, the Langham Place, that proves worth every cent.
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.
Kingdom Holding, led by Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, has signed a 1.23 billion dollar deal with the Saudi Binladin Group to raise a tower beyond 1,000 metres, the centrepiece of the vast Kingdom City development.