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Fair Game: The Region's Jewellery, Marine and Photography Events Worth Attending

Our pick of the regional fairs that actually merit your time, from Doha's growing jewellery and watch showcase to Dubai's vast boat show and a Mediterranean photography festival in Beirut.

1 Feb 2016 By Official Bespoke

Plane Sailing: Andrew Winch Takes His Design Genius To The Skies
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Plane Sailing: Andrew Winch Takes His Design Genius To The Skies

Behind superyachts such as Cakewalk and Madame Gu, Andrew Winch is among the industry's best-known designers. Now, in collaboration with China Business Aviation Group, he turns his celebrated eye to private aviation.

29 Jan 2016 By Official Bespoke

Tracing The Long White Cloud: Silence And Splendour At Otahuna Lodge
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Tracing The Long White Cloud: Silence And Splendour At Otahuna Lodge

At Otahuna Lodge, a beautifully preserved historic mansion near Christchurch, it is the silence you notice first, broken only by distant birdsong and a breeze through the willows. Utter bliss awaits.

26 Jan 2016 By Official Bespoke

Sea The Synergy: Stefano Pastrovich And The Art Of Unconventional Yachts
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Sea The Synergy: Stefano Pastrovich And The Art Of Unconventional Yachts

Genoa-born Stefano Pastrovich designs yachts he calls functional, unique and beautiful. Their unconventional character, he suggests, owes much to a childhood spent designing and building model gliders by the historic maritime port.

23 Jan 2016 By Official Bespoke

A Real Virtue: How Vertu Reimagined the Mobile Phone as a Luxury Object

A Real Virtue: How Vertu Reimagined the Mobile Phone as a Luxury Object

How does one turn the mundane into the exceptional? Ken Kessler considers Vertu's answer, transforming the most ubiquitous of modern devices into a covetable luxury object for those who would always choose excellence over disposability.

21 Jan 2016 By Official Bespoke

Fit For A King: The Lagonda Taraf, Aston Martin's Middle Eastern Jewel
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Fit For A King: The Lagonda Taraf, Aston Martin's Middle Eastern Jewel

Achingly beautiful, fast and rare, Aston Martin's Lagonda Taraf is a super saloon with genuine space for four. Best of all, it was conceived specifically with the Middle East in mind.

19 Jan 2016 By Official Bespoke

Make Sail: Aboard Melek, A Magnificent And Technically Advanced Perini Navi
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Make Sail: Aboard Melek, A Magnificent And Technically Advanced Perini Navi

Instantly recognisable for their elegant lines and game-changing automation, Perini Navi yachts set the standard for sail. Our Ultimate Yacht, the boldly styled Melek, draws an unexpected line between angels and luxury sailing.

16 Jan 2016 By Official Bespoke

Push Forward: How CR&S and the Duu Reinvent the Motorcycle
products · Bikes

Push Forward: How CR&S and the Duu Reinvent the Motorcycle

Founded in 2004 by four Italian enthusiasts, Milanese boutique manufacturer CR&S set out to surprise and transform motorcycling. Their latest model, the Duu, looks set to make the marque genuinely unforgettable.

12 Jan 2016 By Official Bespoke

An Inside Look at the Totally Nuts World of Illegal Street Stunts in Saudi Arabia
cars · Videos

An Inside Look at the Totally Nuts World of Illegal Street Stunts in Saudi Arabia

We’ve all seen videos of crazy drifting on public streets in Saudi Arabia but we aren’t so aware of the number of people dying every year while taking part in such activities. The problem is so big now that the government is clamping down hard with severe punishments for any…

10 Jan 2016 By Official Bespoke

Holy Smokes: Inside Imperiali's Emperador, the World's Most Extravagant Cigar Chest
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Holy Smokes: Inside Imperiali's Emperador, the World's Most Extravagant Cigar Chest

Geneva entrepreneurs Stephane Nazzal and David Pasciuto set out to build the ultimate cigar, then went further, engineering a million-dollar automated humidor that lights, cuts and stores its own bespoke smokes.

10 Jan 2016 By Official Bespoke

Taking a Stand: A Live Sheep Steals the Beirut Art Fair
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Taking a Stand: A Live Sheep Steals the Beirut Art Fair

On the opening night of the Beirut Art Fair, a live sheep named Faro, shorn and inscribed with a mysterious pattern of black dots, wandered among the elegant crowd as the show's improbable centrepiece.

9 Jan 2016 By Official Bespoke

Man of Steel: Inside the Monumental, Gravity-Defying Sculptures of Richard Serra
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Man of Steel: Inside the Monumental, Gravity-Defying Sculptures of Richard Serra

Now seventy-six, the American-born sculptor pioneered the use of non-traditional materials, from fibreglass and molten lead to his beloved steel, shaping colossal, site-specific works that express the very tension of their weight.

6 Jan 2016 By Official Bespoke