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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.
"Did you tweet that, Nadya?" Our heroine glides her fingers across the iPhone, snapping her beaming boss at the wheel of a Sheikh's canary-yellow Lambo. A witty fiction of corniche cruising and conspicuous wealth.
A trawl through Moukarzel's cleverly named studio, Minime, reveals a wealth of images: gritty reportage, social commentary, fashion, advertising, jewellery, portraits, landscapes, architecture, even hairstyles. You would be forgiven for thinking him a camera-toting jack-of-all-trades.
No longer an awkward Continental with extra doors and a boot, Bentley has dropped the Conti prefix and made the sleeker, faster, more cosseting Flying Spur a model in its own right. We drive it in Beijing.
Only the Italians would think to colour-coordinate your car's interior with your tailored suit and shoes. With the new Quattroporte and a three-year Ermenegildo Zegna partnership, Maserati turns a gimmick into genuine sartorial luxury.
Thirty-eight-year-old Egyptian heart surgeon and avowed Jon Stewart fan Bassem Youssef explains how the 2011 Cairo uprising galvanised him to speak out and poke fun at his country's politics, becoming an unlikely television superstar.
The flat farmland around Bremen in Northern Germany seems an unlikely magnet for the world's wealthiest, yet Russian oligarchs, software billionaires and Gulf royals are quietly drawn to this corner of the North Sea coast.