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Everyone knows Jonathan Ive, the Briton behind the iMac, iPod, iPhone and iPad, feted as design's answer to Steve Jobs. It is a good story, except no single stylist is that good; his collaborators remain barely known.
Since Volkswagen took ownership in 1998, Bentley's renaissance has been remarkable, owed largely to the Continental GT. The latest figures show record sales, up nearly ten per cent, with two-door GTs accounting for more than half production.
A one-off high-jewellery watch that channels the swirl of a couture ball gown, the Envol pairs scarab-wing marquetry and tsavorite garnets with the inverted Dior Inversé movement.
Founded in 1925 by engineers Peter Bang and Svend Olufsen in small-town Denmark, Bang & Olufsen built a reputation for media devices marrying striking design with engineering, fuelling enduring demand the world over.
Hermès ventures well beyond leather and shawls, partnering with French framebuilder Time on the elegant, understated Le Flâneur. Far more than a fashion statement, this carbon-fibre machine is engineered to be ridden.
For Dior's autumn/winter 2015-16 haute couture show, Raf Simons conjured a garden of innocence and decadence, filtering simplicity and luxury through the eyes of Flemish and French masters of art and craft.
At first glance, Laudi Abilama's vivid canvases could be mistaken for Warhol, until you notice the subjects: Faten Hamama, Omar Sharif, Umm Kulthoum and Fairouz, golden-age Arab stars rendered in bold pop-art colour.
It could be argued that Rubaiyat brought high-end fashion to Saudi Arabia. With their new department store in Jeddah's Stars Avenue Mall, they now offer over 300 brands and a personal shopping service, reinventing the retail experience.
Almost everyone knows AMG means a higher-tuned Mercedes-Benz, the seamless meeting of high-tech engineering and handcrafted excellence. Yet few, our writer included, know what the acronym actually stands for, so he asks the people who built it.
Technogym doesn’t just make the best gym equipment in terms of design, comfort and ergonomics, it also promotes a lifestyle. Visit its new mega-office in Italy and you’ll find the company’s research and innovation centre, the production factory and an in-house university that offers tra…
Giorgio Armani is Italy’s most successful fashion designer and a self-described perfectionist so it’s little wonder then that he couldn’t put up with chartering others’ substandard yachts and created his own. Twice in fact, because Maìn is his second custom build, and it perfectly encap…
Though it’s just as beautiful, Lake Garda never became the playground for the wealthy that its smaller neighbour, Lake Como, did. Yet, now that a handful of starchitects have teamed up to create a unique ensemble of stunningly beautiful and expensive homes, it looks as if the nature of …