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One benefit of middle age, Michael Karam reflects, is finally knowing what we will not put up with, especially in the air. Gone are the days when the very cheapest, most circuitous flight always won.
Dubbed the Picasso of Design and the guru of biomorphism, Marc Newson crafts sensual products that are fluid in line and cosmic in conception. Yet beyond the futurism lies a rather different, defining sensibility.
In some cultures the way food looks matters as much as its taste. Anissa Helou considers how Japanese and Arab chefs alike treat the plate, the bowl and the arrangement as essential to the meal.
CEO Yves Carcelle prizes the emotion a single artwork can bring. At L'Espace Culturel, Olafur Eliasson's lift plunges visitors into forty-five seconds of darkness, cleansing them of the city before art begins.
At secondary school, art college was dismissed as a refuge for dropouts who wished only to drink cheap wine. One writer who took neither path reflects on creativity, his trade and whether journalism counts as art.
Young, handsome and well-travelled, Johan Attvik could pass for an international playboy customer of J Craft. In fact, he was exactly that, until he bought the company. Born in Gothenburg, he has always loved boats.
The London-based founders explain how a playful Swahili greeting in Kenya, meaning traveller, inspired their label's name. They discuss their ethical focus and the original, catchy identity they were determined to create together.
Offered the chance to go backstage at Hackett's first-ever runway show and to interview the man behind the label, we caught the first plane out, expecting drama and chaos and finding something altogether calmer.
Ride the escalator to the atrium of New York's Conrad and you might mistake it for a museum. This unusual five-star has no spa, but art fills every corner and room, complete with guided tours.
One of the world's largest and least-worn diamonds, Tiffany's bulbous 128.54-carat Yellow, has been given a brand-new look. Unearthed in South Africa in 1877, it was cut by gemologist George Kurtz into an eighty-two-facet brilliant.
In art, as in fashion, one must learn the rules before breaking them. That is precisely what master tailor Nazareno Fonticoli did in 1945, founding Brioni and fusing relaxed Mediterranean silhouettes with peerless Savile Row technique.
David Lake and Ted Flato took lessons learnt in Morocco and applied them across the United States. We tour Arizona's Brown Residence, a desert house of panoramic views from which our region might learn.