Home · Latest
Cairo-born designer Karim Rashid is making waves with his industrial and progressive designs. Wanting to change perceptions, his creations are colourful and at times provoking. Carole Corm takes a look at his work and philosophy.
Quad-biking is no longer just a thrill-seeking sport. As Samer Gharios discovers, the GG Quad bike is one of those perfect breeds that essentially mixes speed with looks giving you a sense of freedom that money can only buy.
by Sebastien Khandjian It’s about time to take the environment more seriously. Global warming is a problem that is creeping up on us at an alarming pace if former US Vice President Al Gore’s gripping and award winning documentary, The Inconvenient Truth, is to be believed. There are ways y
Viva La Venezia! By Monita Rajpal I am a jeans and flats kind of girl. I don’t wear a lot of make up. For me, comfort and simplicity is key. So imagine my apprehension when I was told I would be wearing an eighteenth century-inspired dress for a ball that Art of Life was invited to during
By Chef Hussein Hadid It’s the diet that has hit Hollywood by storm, but can the Japanese-based macrobiotic diet also conquer the Arab world? We asked Lebanese fine cuisine chef Hussein Hadid to give us his take on the discipline as well as some recipes that can easily be made at home. I m
Reluctant to court the spotlight, business leader and arts patron Myrna Al Bustani steps into it once a year. Rana Ballout meets the captivating figure behind a campaign to reshape Lebanon's view of classical music.
A new asset management and advisory services firm has been formed comprising of some heavyweight players from the Middle Eastern finance scene. According to exclusive information given to the Insider, this should be of major interest to all sophisticated investors.
Is Luxury but a Slogan? by Rana Ballout Luxury is not what it used to be. Over the last few decades it has morphed from being the privilege of the few into the bounty of the many. What used to be the pearly playground of a handful of trust-fund babies and self-made millionaires, is now ope
F House | private residence Dahr El Sawan, Lebanon Area: 1 200 m² + 1 basement Date: August 2000 - June 2004 [Text by Ayssar Arida] The brief A high profile young couple with 2 children, the clients organised a competition for a new family residence to live and entertain in as their home i
The two most conceptually innovative projects in the world of engineering and real estate are Eighty South Street in New York City and the Carloft in Berlin. They offer a totally novel and unique concept of living space. Bespoke believes that if our region’s developers derive inspiration f
Did you know that the web was created by Englishman Tim Berners-Lee (and not by Al Gore as is ‘famously’ thought) in 1991, at CERN, the particle physics laboratory near Geneva? Did you also know that in 1994 there were 10,000 websites and now there are over 100 million? Berners-Lee’s visio
An eighteenth century arcade in the prestigious Place Vendôme separates the museum from the workshop of one of the most legendary jewellers in the world today. One that is rich in history with roots dating back to the Napoleonic era. Its name is Chaumet and Bespoke visited its Parisian hea