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Saint-Barth’s glamorous sailing regatta returns once again in April and we caught up with its chief sponsor, Peter Harrison – CEO of Richard Mille Europe, Middle East and Africa. WHEN DID RICHARD MILLE FIRST GET INVOLVED IN THE REGATTA? – This year marks the tenth anniversary of t…
Milan is best known as a fashion mecca but only real insiders know where to find the city’s best shopping. Here are our top picks. CORSO COMO 10 Corso Como 10 is a restaurant with pretty unexceptional food but with an exceptional choice of all the best designer clothes of t…
Following three years of work on its new HQ, YSL has finally moved back to the Rive Gauche into majestic new headquarters on Rue de Bellechasse in the French capital’s 7th arrondissement. The building, which dates back to 1671 has served many purposes over the years, including as …
The Jean Nouvel-designed National Museum of Qatar opened on March 27th 2019 and it’s a stunning celebration of a young Gulf nation’s heritage – as well as its future. Following his widely acclaimed work on the Louvre Abu Dhabi, French starchitect Jean Nouvel is putting his final t…
In the fourth room your heart stops: three red sandstone colossi in white kilts, lit so perfectly you scarcely notice two are headless. Unearthed at Dedan, they anchor a compact but powerful exhibition.
When Saudi Arabia's Abdulrahman Al Sudairy Cultural Centre resolved to renovate its ageing library, it launched a global architectural competition drawing 150 applicants. The Dar Al-Uloum Library sits within a compound created in 1983.
Watch what happens when you mention the Trans-Siberian to people – you’ll get one of two reactions. From some you’ll get a moment of reflection, and then of understanding. From others, you’ll get saucer-eyes and a look of longing. Whether or not the Trans-Siberian is on your radar, ever…
It’s said that La Perle won’t turn a profit for the first five years. That provides some inkling into how much money was spent conceptualising this mind-blowing show and turning it into a reality. Indeed, the four credits pages at the back of the show’s official programme read like a Ho…
It’s a similar problem for most cities: what to do with that enormous 1970s eyesore? In the case of the Allen Center at the corner Smith and Dallas streets in Downtown Houston, the solution was not to knock the whole thing down and start afresh, rather its owner, Brookfield Property Par…
Saudi Arabia’s capital city has become a hub for the nation’s most visually pleasing new architectural landmarks. There’s the Kingdom Centre with its majestic skybridge, the King Fahad National Library and its lozenge-shaped textile awnings and stately Al Faisaliah Tower, featurin…
In Lebanon, a country that has collapsed, been built and then rebuilt multiple times, it is no surprise to find remnants of a glorious past. From the ancient Roman ruins of Baalbeck to the dilapidated, war-ravaged carcass of a former Holiday Inn hotel in Ras Beirut, there is no shortage…
In Granada's Gorafe Desert, summer temperatures soar to fifty degrees. Long before air-conditioning, hardy souls carved their homes into subterranean caves, emerging only at dawn and dusk. These cave dwellers endure to this day.