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Objects that took a long time to make and reward a long time looking at.
Amid double-height ceilings, white marble floors and stained glass, Jean-Louis Sabaji cuts an incongruous figure. Skinny jeans, patterned trainers, an eyebrow stud and a diamond-encrusted skull necklace announce, unmistakably, the creative at work.
Gold was plentiful, yet it was the precious stones, diamonds, sapphires, rubies, emeralds and notably opals, that had their moment. More than 600 exhibitors from 30 countries made this dazzling fair the region's finest.
Once conceived purely as fashion accessories, Dior's watches have since become complicated instruments of time and stunning pieces of jewellery, the fruit of an enduring and exacting collaboration with the Swiss manufacture Zenith.
This year's boat show offers a rare chance to view spectacular vessels, both afloat and as maquettes, never before seen together in the Gulf, with nearly twenty yachts above 25 metres on display.
Perhaps the most innovative car BMW has built in fifty years, the i3 was designed from the ground up to advance electric mobility, made sustainably and fully recyclable, without sacrificing the marque's driving credentials.
Before computers numbed every sensation, sports cars spoke through your fingertips on a spirited drive. Even the most thrilling modern machines now mollycoddle us, yet every so often a new car rekindles the old magic.
Thirteen years after its last all-new platform, Harley-Davidson's Street series marks a bold new direction. President Matthew S. Levatich calls it less intimidating and more inviting, a claim tested by one Arab woman biker.
A new superyacht's renown usually tracks its length, yet with vessels over ninety metres now unremarkable, size is not everything. At just sixty-five metres, Heesen's outstandingly innovative Galactica Star stands out as our 2014 winner.
Approach the Wraith and its sheer enormity strikes first; photographs simply cannot convey how magnificently imposing it is. Then come the details, countless design delicacies merging into a whole that scarcely deserves the word automobile.
As luxury labels grow as ubiquitous as the high street, it is easy to forget their beginnings. Vuitton, Gucci, Prada and Cartier alike, our writer reminds us, all started life as small, family-run affairs.
The indomitable Farida Khelfa's insider documentary on Sarkozy's 2012 campaign drew 1.5 million viewers, not least for Carla Bruni serving coffee mid-football. A woman of genuine allure, she counts among Bruni's closest confidantes.
At just 23, and with only three collections to her name, Dubai-based designer Madiyah Al Sharqi is, if the hype holds, among the most exciting fashion talents to emerge from the region in years.