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The sun blazed over Tokyo's airport, yet a freak blizzard had hit western Japan. Amid travel disruption almost unheard of in the country, our design writer pressed on towards snowbound Fukuoka and Kyushu.
Riding a hot, slow train towards Weligama along the southwestern coast, our writer trades air-conditioned comfort for the glue-thick heat of summer, rewarded by chilli-sprinkled pineapple and the unhurried life beyond the window.
On Opera Gallery's opening night in Beirut, it was neither the pre-Cubist Picasso nor the early Dali that captivated. The real star was Korean artist Seo Young Deok's terrace sculpture, 'Meditation 16'.
When Verdi's Aida played Qatar's Katara Opera House in 2012, it was a regional first. With new houses rising in Kuwait and Dubai, a fresh fascination with classical opera is sweeping the Gulf.
At Davos, KAEC chief executive Fahd Al Rasheed talks to John Defterios about a 100 billion dollar city the size of Washington DC, Saudi oil reform and the long road from 5,000 residents to two million.
Step through the door of Electra House, Lee Broom's Shoreditch showroom, and you might assume the brand long-established. From its signature grey backdrop to its tactile materials, everything conveys sophisticated, hard-won confidence.
Dubai's forest of residential towers suggests a glut of empty homes, yet the reality is more nuanced. With over twenty per cent of properties held by absentee owners, common assumptions about oversupply deserve scrutiny.
Our pick of the regional fairs that actually merit your time, from Doha's growing jewellery and watch showcase to Dubai's vast boat show and a Mediterranean photography festival in Beirut.
On the opening night of the Beirut Art Fair, a live sheep named Faro, shorn and inscribed with a mysterious pattern of black dots, wandered among the elegant crowd as the show's improbable centrepiece.
Now seventy-six, the American-born sculptor pioneered the use of non-traditional materials, from fibreglass and molten lead to his beloved steel, shaping colossal, site-specific works that express the very tension of their weight.
There’s nothing like Central Italy. With its medieval fortified villages and ochre-coloured villas, set within a landscape of vineyards, cypress trees and hills rolling down to the coast, it’s little wonder the region charms everyone who visits. But this bountiful, picturesque part of t…
A flawless blue sky mirrors in the azure tiles of an enormous, waterless pool, ringed by dust and dry concrete. Behind it, the skeleton of a palatial building rises from the desert like a fossilised civilisation.