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Founded in 1950, Vitra has made an art form of collaborating with the world’s best designers to create groundbreaking, iconic furniture and now they have a new gabled brick structure to house their 7,000-plus furniture portfolio. Clearly, this creative incubator is in better shape than …
Sanlorenzo’s latest yacht, the 460Exp does not, as you might expect, take her name from her length – the 460 actually refers to her displacement (all 460 gross tonnes of it) and the Exp is an acronym for Explorer (which is the industry term for a go-anywhere self contained vessel). She’…
As its flip-case icon turns eighty-five, Jaeger-LeCoultre distils a sprawling collection into three clear lines, adds a bespoke personalisation atelier and hands Christian Louboutin the keys to the dial.
Richard Mille’s Concours d’Elegance may be a newcomer but it has managed do the unthinkable and attain almost equal status with the legendary events of Villa d’Este and Pebble Beach. There it lay, casually on the table in front of me, a 139,000 USD RM 11-03 between a bottle of Evian and…
Imagine how you’d be feeling after flying halfway across the world to Los Angeles via the tedium of modern-day commercial air travel. You’d undoubtedly be fatigued, disorientated and a little irritable. In our case, this certainly held true except, waiting for us outside the arrivals te…
On the crown of the Aventine, Rome's most beautiful hill, lies a near-empty piazza designed by Piranesi, a man who loved a surprise. A single green door leads into the Priory of the Knights of Malta.
The latest project by Vector Architects speaks for a new generation of Chinese architects resisting the trend for mega-scale schemes, producing instead human-centred, low-level, contextually driven work, even when it gently belies its function as a library.
Why do hairstyles so often capture the zeitgeist? Consider the undercut, the avant-garde cut of our writer's childhood, which let the young walk anonymously until they swept their hair-curtains back to reveal the secret.
Looking at Marc Quinn’s most recent work in the Middle East, as part of an inaugural ‘The World Meets Here’ group show in Dubai’s Custot Gallery, it’s difficult not to reflect on what a far cry it is from that which first brought him to fame. If “blood head” doesn’t sound familiar, then…
Far from an ordinary boutique, Milan's Palazzo Ralph Lauren is conceived as an ultra-exclusive luxury club, offering its members the full brand experience within the intimate setting of a private residence.
The bestselling author and social-science observer turned his name into shorthand for big-picture thinking. He cheerfully admits he is no scientist, yet his elegant theories still reshape how we read modern life.
Lamborghini says a rear-wheel-drive Huracan was always part of the plan, and expects it to account for most sales. The purer LP 580-2 was conceived not to break records, but for the sheer fun of the road.