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Galloping Home: Inside the Mississippi Farm Where Horses Live in Luxury
hotels · places

Galloping Home: Inside the Mississippi Farm Where Horses Live in Luxury

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.

5 Oct 2011 By Official Bespoke

Unders Exposed: Marlies Dekkers, Holland's Rock-Star Lingerie Designer
fashion · products

Unders Exposed: Marlies Dekkers, Holland's Rock-Star Lingerie Designer

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.

2 Oct 2011 By Official Bespoke

Bill of Scale: Inside Antilia, Mumbai's Towering Billion-Dollar Vertical Palace
places · Unusuals

Bill of Scale: Inside Antilia, Mumbai's Towering Billion-Dollar Vertical Palace

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.

27 Sep 2011 By Official Bespoke

Smile High Club: Lufthansa Technik's Michael Reichenecker on Fitting Out the Boeing 747-8
people · design

Smile High Club: Lufthansa Technik's Michael Reichenecker on Fitting Out the Boeing 747-8

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.

26 Sep 2011 By Official Bespoke

Freedom of Creation: Younes Duret and a Life of Design Across Continents
design · places

Freedom of Creation: Younes Duret and a Life of Design Across Continents

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.

22 Sep 2011 By Official Bespoke

Art For Thought: How Venice Became The Mother Of All Biennales
places · Unusuals

Art For Thought: How Venice Became The Mother Of All Biennales

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.

20 Sep 2011 By Official Bespoke

Off the Charts: Aboard Big Fish, the Rugged Yacht Built for Polar Waters
products · boats

Off the Charts: Aboard Big Fish, the Rugged Yacht Built for Polar Waters

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.

19 Sep 2011 By Official Bespoke

Object of Envy: Vick Vanlian on Crafting Beirut's Most Coveted Interiors
people · design

Object of Envy: Vick Vanlian on Crafting Beirut's Most Coveted Interiors

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.

17 Sep 2011 By Official Bespoke

fashion · people

Top It Off: The Surprising History of the Fedora, From Stage to Street

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.

15 Sep 2011 By Official Bespoke

people · culture

Without a Trace: The Medical Breakthrough Promising Surgery Without Scars

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.

13 Sep 2011 By Official Bespoke

Game Changers: The Current Crop of Cars Shaping Motoring, From the Lamborghini Aventador
products · cars

Game Changers: The Current Crop of Cars Shaping Motoring, From the Lamborghini Aventador

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.

11 Sep 2011 By Official Bespoke

Top It Off: A Brief History of the Hats That Defined Modern Menswear
fashion · products

Top It Off: A Brief History of the Hats That Defined Modern Menswear

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.

10 Sep 2011 By Official Bespoke