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Objects that took a long time to make and reward a long time looking at.
At the American University of Beirut, five hundred chic spectators perched on steps and ledges, leather bags and singular accessories in hand. Aficionados and designers alike gathered for one purpose: to debate innovation in fashion.
Japanese architect Tadao Ando makes masterpieces in concrete. Here, Official Bespoke takes a look at his recently completed Pringiers House in Sri Lanka. I remember the first time I saw a piece of Tadao Ando. I was visiting a friend in one of the lower-rise, village-like neighbourhoods …
After an overnight flight to Bologna, our writer arrives in Maranello full of anticipation. Anyone may drive through the Prancing Horse's hometown, but few earn the privilege of stepping inside its world-famous factory gates.
From 4711, the world's oldest perfume formula traced to a seventeenth-century monk, to Thomas Burberry's enduring 1901 trench coat, we gather the icons of design and craft that have endured, generation after generation.
Channelling the Ottoman spirit with a twist of happiness, the jeweller takes a playful approach to prayer beads, threading ancient dinars, tassels and newly discovered amber through his thirty-three and sixty-six bead strings.
Bespoke speaks to vanguard designer Karen Chekerdjian about her lovingly crafted handmade objects and her influence in the design world. There is something raw about Karen Chekerdjian’s store. There’s her logo etched into the floor that you stumble upon as you enter and the dictum facin…
Choosing a single Ultimate Vehicle from cars, boats, planes and bikes is never easy, and the verdict is always the most fiercely contested. This year Ferrari made the decision simple with its extraordinary 458 Spider.
Founded in Milan in 1967 by Pino Rabolini, Pomellato pulled jewellery out of haute couture and into pret-a-porter, to be worn as changeably as clothes. The Capri Collection carries that credo forward beautifully.
A more selective experience than its elder sister, Mr Porter's unfussy black-and-white branding is designed with fashion-wary men in mind. Visually rich and easy to navigate, its stylists have done three-quarters of the work for you.
Mini persuaded Rolls-Royce to modify a Cooper S. Rolls's craftsmen finish it in Diamond Black metallic paint, retrim the cabin in sumptuous beige leather and fit a handcrafted walnut burr dashboard, with Reef Blue optional.
It may seem odd to feature a yacht commissioned back in 2005, but Eclipse was only delivered to Roman Abramovich in December 2010. Originally due a year earlier, its completion was delayed by mishaps and spiralling costs.
Beginning with Paul Poiret, often called fashion's answer to Picasso, we honour the designers whose talent and daring transformed the way the world dressed across the course of the twentieth century.