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An insider's selection of Capri's most seductive addresses, from the chic boutique rooms of the Villa Marina Capri Hotel and Spa to JKitchen, the perpetual jet-set hotspot serving simple yet ultra-stylish island fare.
A passionate audiophile who grew tired of today’s tinny sound, Princeton professor Edgar Choueiri is determined to bring high-fidelity sound to brand new depths. Naturally, my conversation with Edgar Choueiri begins with space. I’m sitting in the Lotos Club in New York’s Upper East Side…
Tiffany & Co may lead contemporary jewellery, but its roots run deep. Founded in 1837 by twenty-five-year-old Charles Lewis Tiffany and John B. Young as a stationery store, its first day's takings totalled just under five dollars.
During a visit to Tod's Brancadoro factory in the Italian village of Casette d'Ete, we discover how the shoemaker persuaded the world that leather shoes with gommino soles were chic, in a building more gallery than factory.
A new breed of voice command devices already surpasses the fickleness of Siri or S Voice, responding to multiple voices, accents and dialects. We examine whether this finally puts users in the power position.
The region is seeing exponential growth in record-breaking, with applications up 300 to 400 per cent across the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Egypt over five years, says Talal Omar, who manages the MENA region.
When is an architect not an architect? It is a question put to Joe Serrins, a Manhattan architect whose compact practice off the High Line has worked largely on modifying the city's existing buildings rather than new ones.
Far from a failing, our writer argues, the breathless way we declare life's luxuries is precisely our aspirational charm. A villa becomes a VILLA, a dinner jacket a SMOking, each phrase carrying an invisible exclamation mark.
With oil, royal wealth and entrepreneurs, our region has no shortage of moguls. Our writer considers their philanthropic legacy, from Saudi Arabia's Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber to Lebanon's Hariri family and their socially conscious foundations.
At fifty-six, Stanislas de Quercize is the new Frenchman steering Cartier, the world's largest luxury jeweller. We caught him at Art Dubai, the fair his maison sponsors, to discuss the house Edward VII once adored.
Fighting back is not always the wisest course, but should you choose to, three concepts are essential: Catch, Control, Neutralise. The first turns your natural flinch into a technique to seize the weapon arm.
When space, range and parts availability top your wish list, only one ultra-long-range private jet will do. We weigh the Airbus Corporate Jet against the swifter Gulfstream G650, and the numbers surprise.