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The heads of the Trickponi showroom discuss their catchy, song-inspired name and their unconventional approach to retail. From road sales to hauling their wares across the globe, they reveal how they defy convention.
Our visit to Bang & Olufsen's stylishly contemporary headquarters in rural Jutland proves to be both an audiophile's dream and a design junkie's paradise. Ninety-seven years on, the Danish purveyor of sound and vision remains gloriously inventive.
It is smiles all round at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, nestled in the beige foothills of San Gabriel. Our writer passes the gate into the high-security campus where NASA pursues both research and government work.
Compiling this forward-looking edition carried us beyond seventy thousand kilometres, beginning in Pasadena with Dr Charles Elachi of NASA's JPL. He left us pondering the life-changing discoveries his Martian rover, Curiosity, might yet reveal.
Perched above Theoule-sur-Mer on the Cote d'Azur, Antti Lovag's Palais Bulles is a stunning reminder of another time. Our visit reveals that the bubble palace remains as much today's tomorrow as it was yesterday's.
Founded in 1856 and famed for trench coats and tartan linings, Burberry has never courted the luxury watch market, until now. Unveiled days ago and seen here first, The Britain is Swiss-made and respectably engineered.
The moment our writer walked into the Bamboo Bar, the memories flooded back: a child sipping juice beside his father, listening to a Bacharach-ish pianist. Until then, nothing about Bangkok's Oriental Hotel had felt familiar.
To some, Beirut is rooftop bars and arak by the bucket; to others, a city rebuilding after decades of destruction. Now, thanks to Al-Hayat's chief diplomatic correspondent Raghida Dergham, it is about to assume a fresh role.
Conceived as a shell-like structure floating above the ground, this house redefines coexistence with the wild. Being in sync with nature, its architect argues, is not about yielding to it but about enduring alongside it.
When Mahmoud Said's 1929 painting The Whirling Dervishes fetched a record 2.5 million dollars at Christie's Dubai, eight times its estimate, it signalled an extraordinary new era for collecting Middle Eastern art.
The past decade has seen a perfect storm of art collectors in the Middle East, says Antonia Carver, director of Art Dubai. As London's salesrooms break records, boundaries are being redrawn in galleries and studios too.
There is, the argument runs, only one Louvre, and with the greatest respect it is not in Abu Dhabi. A provocative take on a global hub's costly bid to borrow cultural prestige.