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A prosperous trading port by the tenth century, Murano had its own coins, police and aristocracy. In 1291 Venice ordered its glassmakers to relocate there, and they soon became the island's leading citizens.
Kingdom Holding, led by Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, has signed a 1.23 billion dollar deal with the Saudi Binladin Group to raise a tower beyond 1,000 metres, the centrepiece of the vast Kingdom City development.
A college dropout at twenty-one, Steve Jobs co-founded Apple in 1976 with friend Steve Wozniak, selling his Volkswagen to fund it. We trace the visionary without whom the company simply would not exist.
The chairman behind Isabella's Islay, the world's most expensive whisky, explains how Ruwa was conceived as a non-alcoholic drink without equal or parallel, a luxury Halal beverage in a class entirely its own.
“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” -The Queen, ‘Alice in Wonderland’ Alice laughed: “There’s no use trying,” she said; “one can’t believe impossible things.” The dissonance of a Queen is a comparatively small ordeal to ov…
Earlier this year the markets were a happy place: earnings strong, equities rising, the economy seemingly recovering. Then came August. We examine the debt-ceiling drama, the S&P downgrade and the global re-pricing of risk that followed.
Nestled in the heart of Jackson, Providence Hill Farm is a multi-acre retreat that redefines equine chic, a lavish country home where both muddy riding boots and old-school luxury find their place.
In her native Holland, lingerie designer Marlies Dekkers has built a profile worthy of a rock star across an eighteen-year career. Elsewhere, customers and buyers are often surprised to learn she is entirely real.
Rising twenty-seven storeys over crowded Mumbai, the billion-dollar Antilia is impossible to miss. It is home to Mukesh Ambani, head of Reliance Industries and, by Forbes's reckoning, among the richest men alive.
Following a private completion contract for the brand-new Boeing 747-8, Nicolas Shammas probes the chief interior architect at Lufthansa Technik on the rare gift of decoding precisely what demanding clients truly desire.
Nadine Khalil meets Younes Duret, the French-Moroccan designer whose work merges continents: a Casablanca childhood, design studies in Paris and a Marrakech agency founded amid what he calls the city's artistic effervescence.
A trading power since the ninth century, Venice founded its first Biennale in 1895 and turned itself into a vast public museum. What began as nightly gatherings at Caffe Florian became a world-class exhibition.