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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.
Stretching thirty kilometres along the coast, Greater Muscat is a string of seaside hubs, hilltop colonies and business districts linked by mountain expressways. Like Los Angeles, this is a city built for the car.
Jonathan Weiss makes some of the world's most sought-after audio equipment. From a rare eighteenth-century mill in Pennsylvania, the founder of Oswalds Mill achieves with ten or fifteen watts what most manufacturers need a thousand to manage.
Pritzker-winning Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron have designed perhaps the most arresting addition to Beirut's skyline in decades. A building is a building, Jacques Herzog tells Bespoke; it cannot be read like a book.
More than an ideas man, HRH Prince Alwaleed bin Talal stakes everything on what he calls well-calculated, well-studied high-risks. Nicolas Shammas meets Bespoke's Ultimate Visionary, razor-sharp and remarkably candid away from the multi-million-dollar deals.
Asfari began his career as an engineer in Oman during the 1981 oil boom, intending to fund an MBA. Barely in his twenties, he was earning handsomely, yet he was building no equity value of his own.
The film on everyone’s lips these days is Julian Schnabel’s Miral. I finally watched it during the Doha Tribeca Film Festival where it received a standing ovation from an audience of Qataris, world cinema buffs, filmmakers and the media. The story of this extraordinary film is from a bo…