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The Best of Kotor: A Connoisseur's Guide to Montenegro's Walled Gem
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The Best of Kotor: A Connoisseur's Guide to Montenegro's Walled Gem

From the seventeenth-century Clock Tower guarding the main gate to the bustling Trg Od Oružja square and the seafaring treasures of the Maritime Museum, we chart the essential sights of this storied Adriatic city.

29 Jun 2012 By Official Bespoke

people · culture

Speak No Evil: Michael Karam on the Quiet Demise of the Speak-Your-Weight Machine

Remember the scales that announced your weight for a coin? Michael Karam traces the curious disappearance of the speak-your-weight machine from Britain's high streets and chemists, and the very human reluctance behind its fall.

28 Jun 2012 By Official Bespoke

Adore Kotor: A Gatsby-Style Gathering of the International Elite in Montenegro
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Adore Kotor: A Gatsby-Style Gathering of the International Elite in Montenegro

With a guest list of four hundred guarded like a secret, the party summoned Russian oligarchs, mining magnates, European aristocrats and countless models. Beneath Montenegro's mountains, we witness a glittering who's who of global wealth.

25 Jun 2012 By Official Bespoke

places · Restaurants

Peking Dick: Anissa Helou Ventures to Beijing to Taste an Unusual Aphrodisiac

Having written The Fifth Quarter, a book devoted to the animal's less noble innards and extremities, Anissa Helou had never encountered this particular delicacy, so she travelled to Beijing to sample it for herself, purely for research.

23 Jun 2012 By Official Bespoke

Silver and Gold: Toufic Farah on Protecting Your Wealth With Precious Metals
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Silver and Gold: Toufic Farah on Protecting Your Wealth With Precious Metals

In turbulent markets where cash earns nothing and inflation erodes everything, Toufic Farah argues that physical gold and silver remain the oldest, soundest insurance against a costly restructuring of the global financial system.

21 Jun 2012 By Official Bespoke

From the Sublime to the Ridiculous: The Best and Worst Employers
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From the Sublime to the Ridiculous: The Best and Worst Employers

At Google's famously energetic Googleplex, free all-you-can-eat restaurants somehow leave nobody heavier, and Fortune crowns it the world's finest workplace. We weigh the corporate giants where careers either flourish wonderfully or quietly wither.

20 Jun 2012 By Official Bespoke

Basel Bedazzle: The Most Extraordinary Watches Unveiled at the 2012 Baselworld Fair
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Basel Bedazzle: The Most Extraordinary Watches Unveiled at the 2012 Baselworld Fair

Baselworld is the watch industry's equivalent of the Oscars, mingling legendary names with brash newcomers. Dressed to impress, here are the most extraordinary timepieces on display this year, where continuity proves as compelling as novelty.

18 Jun 2012 By Official Bespoke

people · culture

In Conversation: Marcel Ghanem, Host of LBC's Kalam el Nass

The presenter of Words of the People reflects on leaving law behind for television, the human connection he craves in his work, and why he scarcely watches the medium that made his name.

16 Jun 2012 By Official Bespoke

Candid Camera: Provocative Photographer Tyler Shields on Pushing Buttons and Courting Controversy
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Candid Camera: Provocative Photographer Tyler Shields on Pushing Buttons and Courting Controversy

Vampire motifs, women adorned in raw meat, Louboutins burned to their frames: photographer Tyler Shields loves pushing buttons, especially the ones that are not on his camera, and frankly does not care what you think.

13 Jun 2012 By Official Bespoke

Gran Slam: Driving BMW's Sleek 640i Gran Coupe Across Sicily
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Gran Slam: Driving BMW's Sleek 640i Gran Coupe Across Sicily

Warren Singh-Bartlett takes BMW's elegant 6 Series 640i Gran Coupe along Sicily's winding mountain roads, past sparkling seas, picture-perfect villages and swathes of wildflowers, to discover whether substance matches the car's considerable style.

12 Jun 2012 By Official Bespoke

places · business

Still Standing: Why the Middle East Weathered the Global Financial Crisis Better Than Most

As the 2008 meltdown rocked economies worldwide, Gulf states drew on deep reserves, stimulus packages and stubborn diversification to ride out the storm. Rob Morris asks how the region proved so resilient.

11 Jun 2012 By Official Bespoke

Against the Machine: Designers William Sawaya and Paolo Moroni on Defying the Establishment
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Against the Machine: Designers William Sawaya and Paolo Moroni on Defying the Establishment

The careers of William Sawaya and Paolo Moroni have been all about sticking it to the establishment. Warren Singh-Bartlett traces how an unannounced 1976 encounter became a rebellion that changed an entire industry.

8 Jun 2012 By Official Bespoke