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Objects that took a long time to make and reward a long time looking at.
It took more than 50 years of the wrong idea to get it oh-so right. The new rear-engined, two-wheel drive Porsche 911 GT2 RS applies 700 horsepower to the 325-wide Michelins and laughs at the rules, snickers at suspicion and dismisses doubt around the outside of turn 15 at Algarve Inter…
Heesen’s 50-metre Home takes innovation and fuel economy to a whole new level. She is the first fast all-aluminium displacement build that can also be labelled as a hybrid. In fact, Home is the sixth incarnation of Heesen Yachts Fast Displacement Hull Form, but unlike her predecessors, …
Najeeba Hayat is the Kuwaiti creative behind Liudmila, a Milan-based brand of shoes that’s gaining worldwide traction for beautifully handmade products that are as quirky as they are magical. YOU’VE BEEN MAKING SHOES SINCE 2013, AND IN THAT PERIOD YOU’VE SAID YOUR CREATIVITY COMES…
If you’ve got nothing to hide, then this one’s for you. It’s modern, sensual, uncensored and unpadded. Though it seems harmless enough in theory, the reality is that there’s something quite daring about Yasmine Eslami’s luxe lingerie. Channelling an easy-breezy vibe, the collection is i…
With so many amazing watches around, it’s never an easy thing picking favourites. But if we had to put our money where our mouth is, then these are the watches we’d be buying right now. Rolex Oyster Perpetual Cosmograph Daytona In 2016, Rolex refreshed their massively popular Daytona li…
Motorcycle brand MV Agusta has had a tough time of late. After facing mounting debts it was forced to implement a drastic company restructure and then lost its powerful minority shareholder, Mercedes-AMG, who clearly had enough of passionate Italians who have little regard for corporate…
As if owning a Rolls-Royce wasn’t special enough, one of the brand’s most valued customers – described as a “connoisseur and collector of distinctive, one-off items including superyachts and private aircraft” – managed to persuade the 111-year old automaker to create a car j…
Drawing inspiration from the concept of the coal miner’s canary, the Urban Canary is an electronic pet that reacts to pollution. It was designed to be carried by a child as they go about their day. The idea is that, through various sensors, it continually monitors air pollution and gets…
Dubai has announced plans to become the first city in the world with a fleet of flying taxis, and it has even signed a deal with a German aviation company called Volocopter, for the supply of electrically powered driverless drones that can carry two passengers by way of18 rotors and nin…
The Beirut Design Fair aims to put Lebanese design on the international map and show that creativity is thriving despite the country’s multitude of challenges. Beirut has always been a lively Mediterranean nucleus of innovation but these days it seems there’s a design event almost…
Nimerology is a luxury tableware brand started by Nour Al Nimer, a half-Turkish half-Palestinian artist who grew up between Beirut and London. “When I was at Central Saint Martins, I came across a surface design course and realised that this kind of art surrounds us on a daily basis,” s…
The once perilously fast Mille Miglia road race may have turned into a bit of beauty parade but it’s still a one-of-a-kind occasion that’ll get enthusiasts’ adrenaline pumping. The Mille Miglia (which means 1,000 miles in Italian) was an open-road endurance race that was established by …