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OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture), co-founded by Dutch architectural titan and theorist, Rem Koolhaas, has produced as many world-famous architects as it has world-famous buildings. The latest to join the fray is Syrian-born, Iyad Alsaka, partner in charge of the Middle East. I…
Synonymous with discreet Italian luxury, Bottega Veneta shuns logos for its signature intrecciato weave. Opulent yet rigorous, sumptuous yet sober, the technique runs through its leather goods, ready-to-wear and an ever-expanding home line begun almost by accident in 2006.
Founded in 1875, Audemars Piguet truly took off nearly a century later under Gérald Genta. Born in Geneva in 1931, the half-Italian visionary yearned to be an artist, but his parents had him trained instead as a jeweller.
Provocative film roles notwithstanding, actress Stacy Martin is the pretty face of Miu Miu's eagerly awaited debut perfume. Shot with a black-and-white cat named Truman and the powder-blue quilted bottle, she lends the scene gentle intrigue.
A flawless blue sky mirrors in the azure tiles of an enormous, waterless pool, ringed by dust and dry concrete. Behind it, the skeleton of a palatial building rises from the desert like a fossilised civilisation.
The new RS7 offers the perfect excuse to reacquaint ourselves with Audi's Quattro subsidiary: its racing division, customisation department, lifestyle brand and attractive portfolio of high-performance road cars. There is much to catch up on.
Defiant from the start, artist Monira Al Qadiri persuaded both her parents and Kuwait's education minister to send her, aged sixteen, on a Japanese scholarship reserved for boys, the first of many bold leaps.
Is it a fashion shoot or a car commercial? Both, as it happens. Cadillac Middle East's new campaign reveals a proud, confident personality for a marque now recalibrated, independent of General Motors and relocated to Soho.
Age and inventiveness alone would qualify Jaquet Droz among the most venerable watch houses, but Pierre Jaquet-Droz did more. One of the first Europeans to embrace export, he sent his creations to the courts of India and China.
As he steps down as chief executive of his eponymous label on the diamond jubilee of his birth, we celebrate the self-taught visionary who turned a fashion house into a true lifestyle empire.
The intimate Orcaella by Belmond glides along the Chindwin and Irrawaddy, the rivers at the heart of Myanmar. Nick Walton boards the new cruiser amid rice paddies, limestone cliffs and the laughter of curious children.
Lebanese designers Nicolas Moussallem and David Raffoul, winning ever more international recognition, are lively company whose conversation rarely runs straight. Long friendship lends them an easy banter, full of inside jokes and the odd affectionate bout of bickering.