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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 …
One ill-judged gesture, chopsticks left standing upright in a bowl of perfectly good noodles, turns a dinner date awkward, as our writer learns just how loaded the rules of the table can be.
Asked once whether he would give up eating if he could, our writer thought the question insane, unwilling to trade his quinoa salads for anything. Yet it lingers during the search for a quick, cheap Beirut lunch.
Raised among hardbound classics, airport paperbacks and Booker shortlists, and schooled at a Steiner school that forbade reading before six, our writer reflects on the eclectic library that shaped a lifelong love of stories.
Few luxury brands ever attain acknowledged supremacy, yet ask anyone versed in superyachts who builds the finest and one name resounds: Feadship. In this rarefied world, where Boat International ranks the largest vessels, size still matters enormously.
Born the eldest of six in a middle-class Peruvian family, Mario Testino's outrageous sense of style courted trouble at home before London and New York beckoned. As he puts it, imagine David Bowie walking through Rome.
Our writer learned to tell time by the grandfather clock that tick-tocked in the family living room, rewarded with a sturdy Timex. Then came the manned space missions, and Omega watches strapped to astronauts bound for the moon.