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Objects that took a long time to make and reward a long time looking at.
Somewhere between Captain Nemo's Nautilus and a Star Wars escapee, the 42.5-metre Adastra looks science-fictional yet is gloriously real. Built for a Hong Kong businessman, it ranks among the largest trimarans ever launched.
Invoking Ayn Rand's praise for the innovator who stands outside the stagnant status quo, we meet Rad Hourani, whose iconoclastic collections dissolve the boundaries of gender, time and race into honest self-expression.
Less boat than floating palace, and a sleekly designed, eco-conscious one at that, the Arcadia 115 M'Ocean may yet persuade Kevin Hackett to abandon dry land along the breathtaking Costiera Amalfitana coastline.
They may look as though they hail from a past era, but the hand-made Morgans are eternal, eccentric and among the most thrilling drives on the road, which is why they retain such a loyal following.
Darmaki is a luxurious footwear line fusing cutting-edge trends and techniques that exude sensuality and femininity. That they are made in Italy is unsurprising; that an Emirati from Al Ain designed them surely is.
Few can explain what a Concours d'Elegance truly is. We trace its lineage from the horse-drawn carriages paraded through 17th-century Parisian parks to today's elegant contest, where motoring beauty, not speed, takes the prize.
Historian Lucy Worsley's trove of curious facts reveals when bedrooms first became private and why medieval people sometimes slept standing up. From the groaning chair to toilet paper, domestic history proves endlessly surprising.
Setting a lighter, more eco-minded example for the marque, the new 2013 Continental GT V8 Coupe and GTC V8 Convertible introduce an all-new 4.0-litre twin-turbocharged engine and a fresh entry point to Bentley's popular Continental range.
We do not mince words: the Aston Martin DB4GT Zagato was among the most beautiful cars ever made. Only nineteen were built between 1960 and 1963, so merely to glimpse one is a blessing.
For something so bound up with joy, the wedding dress is a rather sad thing: the most expensive gown a bride may ever buy, then left hanging dejectedly after just one glorious day.
From the 1940s onward, a handful of designers redefined how we dress. We begin with the American pioneer Bonnie Cashin, who treated clothing as kinetic art and helped make sportswear a wardrobe staple.
Few road revolutions have matched 1966's bumper crop of innovation. Kevin Hackett charts how Tesla, co-founded by Elon Musk in 2003, blazed a fresh trail with the Roadster after decades of cautious progress.