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Who imagined the comfort of a luxury yacht charter could be paired so smoothly with adventure in the harshest reaches of the Arctic and Antarctic? Bespoke discovers just how robust the explorer Big Fish is.
The head of Envy Interiors explains his founding ambition: to create something genuinely enviable by fulfilling each client's desires. Two years on, every handpicked piece passes one test, would he have it at home.
Named after a Victorien Sardou play and first popularised by and for women, the fedora was soon adopted by middle-class men. Within a few years it had eclipsed the similar-looking Homburg entirely.
A new innovation is erasing the jagged traces of surgical scars, allowing patients to be cut open with scarcely an imprint left behind. It could transform how people feel about even the most invasive operations.
Both the bicycle and the motorcar were invented in 1885, yet only the car has kept evolving. Bespoke casts a scrutinising eye over the current crop of models shaping our roads today and tomorrow.
From the gangster's fedora to the Parisian beret and the aristocratic top hat, a tour through the headwear once central to manhood and now reclaimed as a versatile, unisex accessory.
Wood lasts shaped like a human foot, metal stems set into heels to keep the wearer upright; the Parisian maestro, born in 1964, reveals why the perfect shoe is as much engineering as art.
Despite its fame, the famous handset struggles in tech round-ups and top-ten lists, with critics citing a thin app catalogue. Meanwhile the iPhone 4 grows slicker and faster with every release.
While New York and Hong Kong are celebrated for their verticality, it is fitting that the Middle East should again host some of the tallest structures on earth. Setting aside the Burj Khalifa, we spotlight the standouts.
A clock that costs as much as a house and a bed clad in twenty-four carats: we gather the heaviest, boldest and most extravagantly gilded objects, where Stuart Hughes and Hebanon push opulence to its glittering limit.
Nadine Khalil examines a rare act of philanthropy, as the world's wealthiest man opens the Soumaya to showcase his private collection, admission free, with the Carlos Slim Foundation underwriting every cost of maintenance and display.
Owned by developer Sun Hung Kai Properties, the Ritz-Carlton Hong Kong is the brand's loftiest property yet. From its lounges to its infinity pool, everything here is superlatively elevated, and not for those wary of heights.