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Akio Morita's first product, a rice cooker, burnt the rice and sold barely a hundred units. Undeterred, he and his partners learned, persevered and built one of the great electronics empires.
It may seem odd to feature a yacht commissioned back in 2005, but Eclipse was only delivered to Roman Abramovich in December 2010. Originally due a year earlier, its completion was delayed by mishaps and spiralling costs.
Sada took part in Iraq's pavilion at the 2011 Venice Biennale, only its second appearance after a thirty-five-year absence, with a panel and a film by Oday Rasheed on Baghdad's young artists. A Christie's benefit followed.
With feline features and hypnotic eyes, Elisa Sednaoui was made for modelling, which she began at sixteen. Eight years on, the muse is proving herself on screen, with roles alongside Vincent Gallo beckoning.
The plunder of Iraq's wars stripped its cultural heritage and left artists isolated. One non-profit, known in Arabic as Sada and founded by Iraqi-born Rijin Sahakian, is working to rebuild that critical infrastructure.
Beginning with Paul Poiret, often called fashion's answer to Picasso, we honour the designers whose talent and daring transformed the way the world dressed across the course of the twentieth century.
Nearly ninety years after Hermès first collaborated with interior designer Jean-Michel Frank, the French house is reissuing his finest original furniture. Sara White Wilson visits its Rive Gauche boutique in the former Piscine Lutetia.
From Centurion's billion-dollar stake in Abu Dhabi's NMC Healthcare to Qatar National Bank's vast capital raise, we examine the year's largest transactions and the appetite for healthcare assets driving them.
The man who made Beirut love the BRGR returns with an upscale steakhouse, complete with shellfish bar and an Al Capone-esque cigar lounge, at the heart of the city's glittering new seafront development.
Philatelist and activist Nader Abuljebain fuses both passions in a bilingual study, arguing that a people with more than a hundred years of stamps cannot simply be erased from history through occupation.
A collective of 105 architects, designers, engineers and artisans, .PSLAB goes from strength to strength. Warren Singh-Bartlett visits its beautiful Mar Mikhayel headquarters in Beirut to meet founder Dimitri Saddi behind the lighting house's global rise.
The expansion into menswear was long overdue, says Jimmy Choo's Tamara Mellon. The first thing she notices on a man is his shoes, and a luxury lifestyle brand for both sexes was always part of her vision.