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Drawing Interest: Aljoud Lootah on Heritage, Origami and Her Path Into Product Design
people · design

Drawing Interest: Aljoud Lootah on Heritage, Origami and Her Path Into Product Design

The Emirati designer has become a leading voice in the Gulf's design scene, weaving folk stories, geometry and sustainable materials into furniture, objects and installations that reinterpret tradition for a modern audience.

15 Jul 2022 By Official Bespoke

Breitling Has Boldly Reimagined their Super Popular Navitimer
products · Watches

Breitling Has Boldly Reimagined their Super Popular Navitimer

There’s no denying Breitling is in a good place these days. Sales have been growing exponentially since the European private equity firm CVC Capital Partners acquired it from the Schneider family in 2017, placing it in the hands of industry veteran Georges Kern (who was, of course, prev…

15 Jul 2022 By Official Bespoke

Living with the Aston Martin DBX: A Week Behind the Wheel

Living with the Aston Martin DBX: A Week Behind the Wheel

Spending a week with the Aston Martin DBX proved a genuine pleasure. With enough glamour to raise a smile each morning, it rewards every backward glance, while its sumptuous interior more than lives up to expectations.

5 Jul 2022 By Official Bespoke

The Intimate and Tasteful Nautilus Maldives Offers a Compelling New Approach to Personalised Service
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The Intimate and Tasteful Nautilus Maldives Offers a Compelling New Approach to Personalised Service

What’s the point of travelling to some far-flung idyllic tropical getaway if you can’t share it on Instagram, right? I mean, if you don’t feel hashtag blessed in a dopamine-inducing paradise like Maldives, are you even alive? And if someone else doesn’t get jelly about it, can you even …

24 Jun 2022 By Official Bespoke

The Dubai Edition is an Ian Schrager and Marriott Collaboration Designed to Provide a Sensory Experience. Confused? Read On.
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The Dubai Edition is an Ian Schrager and Marriott Collaboration Designed to Provide a Sensory Experience. Confused? Read On.

Sometimes, simply standing apart is enough to make you stand out. It’s certainly the case with The Dubai Edition, which purposefully eschews all of those Arabesque references and ornamentation that we see so often in other Dubai hotels to offer a travertine-and-timber vision of understa…

19 Jun 2022 By Official Bespoke

Star Aligned: These Guys Made an Observation Station for Novices
products · Essentials

Star Aligned: These Guys Made an Observation Station for Novices

The Vespera by Vaonis has been hailed as an ideal blend of telescope and camera. What it is though is the smallest telescope in the world, and one of the smartest you’ll come across too. Then again it better be as there’s no traditional eyepiece. Instead, you have to link it to your sma…

19 May 2022 By Official Bespoke

Arnie is a Made-in-the-UAE Swimwear Brand that Claims to Have a Style and Colour to Suit Every Body Type
people · fashion

Arnie is a Made-in-the-UAE Swimwear Brand that Claims to Have a Style and Colour to Suit Every Body Type

Ruby Rose Korver created Arnie Swim as a passion project but it also serves as an ode to her late father, Arnie Korver. “My father shaped me as a person and taught me so many life lessons. I wanted to create something that makes people feel good, and gives them the freedom to be themsel…

10 May 2022 By Official Bespoke

Commanding Respect: Pierpaolo Piccioli on Glamour, Family and Staying Grounded

Commanding Respect: Pierpaolo Piccioli on Glamour, Family and Staying Grounded

The celebrated creative director speaks candidly about reconciling a glamorous career with a deliberately simple life in Nettuno, the seaside town where he and his wife grew up and chose to raise their own children.

1 May 2022 By Official Bespoke

Airbus Got a French Graffiti Artist to Give its Upcoming TwoTwenty a Makeover
products · Planes

Airbus Got a French Graffiti Artist to Give its Upcoming TwoTwenty a Makeover

Airbus’ ACJ TwoTwenty is a gamechanger in the business jet segment. Based on the successful A220 airliner, which was itself designed by Bombardier to be their C-Series (a division that was acquired by Airbus in 2018), the TwoTwenty has an airliner-sized cross-section but is only the siz…

15 Apr 2022 By Official Bespoke

After Starring in ‘The French Dispatch,’ Algerian Actress Lyna Khoudri is Being Acclaimed as the Next Big Thing
people · culture

After Starring in ‘The French Dispatch,’ Algerian Actress Lyna Khoudri is Being Acclaimed as the Next Big Thing

Lyna Khoudri has her work cut out for her in Wes Anderson’s ‘The French Dispatch’. In the king of kook’s latest film, a love letter to journalism, France and all things quintessentially Anderson, the little-known French-Algerian actress first has to stake a claim for herself in an insan…

13 Apr 2022 By Official Bespoke

Creating a buzz: inside the achingly cool opening of The Edition Dubai
places · hotels

Creating a buzz: inside the achingly cool opening of The Edition Dubai

Marriott's newest luxury brand, conceived with Studio 54's Ian Schrager to make hotels that don't act like hotels, lands in Downtown Dubai with a soaring lobby, four restaurants and 275 rooms.

31 Mar 2022 By Official Bespoke

Tarek Shamma Cut his Teeth Working for Zaha Hadid and David Chipperfield, Now He’s Making His Own Name
people · design

Tarek Shamma Cut his Teeth Working for Zaha Hadid and David Chipperfield, Now He’s Making His Own Name

The now 40-year-old Egyptian-born architect Tarek Shamma launched his career at London’s Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA), graduating with honours in 2009. During the prestigious course, he hit the ground running for Zaha Hadid working on key competitions in Algiers…

12 Mar 2022 By Official Bespoke