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Listening to Yasmine Hamdan’s music, her soaring and unique voice and vocal style, reminds me of listening to John Coltrane blow his horn. When she sings – as when Coltrane plays sax – Hamdan improvises, she creates, and it comes from within. It’s her soul. It’s the one space, as a Leba…
Build me a beast, the British owner told Royal Huisman, not a sheep in wolf's clothing. The result, Ngoni, is an edgy, innovative weapon of a sailing superyacht: fast, furious and uncompromising.
Picture a successful fashion designer 50, 20 or even ten years ago, and you’d likely be thinking of a white man tailoring evening gowns in London or Paris. But today, one of the world’s most watched, most discussed designers is a black man from Chicago; the 37-year-old son of Ghanaian i…
Alongside the customary exhibits, Art Dubai introduced a Residents section, inviting eleven artists from around the world to spend weeks in the city creating work inspired by the local environment.
H.Moser & Cie’s provocative and tongue-in-cheek humour was in full force this year as they trolled the industry with a one-off Frankenstein-like ‘Swiss Icons’ watch that mixed an Hublot case, a bezel combining the shape of an AP and the look of a Rolex, the numerals and crown protec…
Unlike other e-bike manufacturers, LA-based Hi-Power Cycles don’t throw together pre-fab parts. Instead, they almost entirely craft their bicycles in-house, and in the case of their latest product, no cost was spared in its production process. Named the Revolution X, it took a team of a…
Remember Jochen Zeitz? He’s the former CEO of Puma who now uses his millions to change opinions on climate change. He’s also a guy who fell in love with Africa and bought Segera, a Kenyan wildlife park that’s three times larger than Manhattan. Well, now he’s gone and collaborated with t…
Arch Motorcycle Company is an LA-based boutique manufacturer that was co-founded by hard-core rider and actor Keanu Reeves along with chopper whiz Gard Hollinger. “Our partnership was forged around the first bike that Gard made with me,” says Reeves, referring to a custom build that Hol…
After triumphing with the BMW-beating Giulia Quadrifoglio, Alfa Romeo took an even bigger gamble: the fiercely competitive crossover-SUV segment, today the fastest-growing sector on earth, outselling traditional cars in many markets worldwide.
Designers usually get all the glory, but it’s the craftsmen behind them who truly turn creative dreams into reality. Every once in a while, when they really break boundaries, these dedicated craftsmen appear in the limelight. It happened a few years ago, when Zaha Hadid wowed the design…
For World Health Day, Canadian photojournalist Lindsay Mackenzie shares images made for the World Health Organisation inside a camp near Raqqa, home to some 18,000 of Syria's displaced.
This spectacular console is the creation of Neal Aronowitz, a native of Brooklyn, who studied art and architecture in New York before settling in Oregon. It’s made from Concrete Canvas, a material that was pioneered and patented in the UK and consists of fabric impregnated with cement. …