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Developer René Benko has redrawn Vienna's map with the Golden Quarter on Tuchlauben. At its centre stands the spectacular Park Hyatt, where our writer settles into one of its sumptuous suites.
Many jewellers swore by Elizabeth Taylor's eye for exquisite diamonds. By her death in 2011 she had amassed the world's most impressive collection, its most prized pieces by Bulgari, the subject of one enduring love affair.
High in Sursock Tower, an eighteen-floor Ashrafieh high-rise designed by the late Pierre Khoury, our writer meets its makers. The firm of Jamil Saab kept several floors of the building to serve as their corporate headquarters.
Designer entrepreneur Jeffrey Rüdes has a stellar track record you may not know, though you will know J Brand. He launched it in 2004, having watched jeans evolve from modest staples into something altogether more elevated.
The Richard Mille watch developed for tennis champion Rafael Nadal is a test bed of high-tech engineering, built to withstand the most extreme conditions, look like a million dollars and weigh as little as a feather.
Replaying her recorded midsummer visit to Ralph & Russo in London, our writer cringes at her own gushing exclamations. Yet the couture house's exquisite silhouettes, she admits, fully warranted every breathless oh là là and oh, wow.
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.