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On a grey Parisian morning, stepping into Façonnable's airy showroom feels like a dip into Riviera sunshine. Founded by tailor Jean Goldberg in Nice in 1950, the brand still designs from the city today.
The evolution of the customer base at Geneva’s top hotels means that the Arab customer is more important than ever. But before you worry about what the consequences of that might be, let us tell you that at the Mandarin Oriental, their targeting has been via discretion, good taste and a…
Award-winning South African design firm SAOTA has built a formidable reputation for residential projects that flood Instagram feeds, an innovative and contemporary approach rooted in a keen understanding of an ever-evolving, increasingly digital industry.
Strolling through the glass-roofed atrium of Coutts' Strand headquarters, Mohammad Kamal Syed offers an impromptu history of philanthropy, pausing beside a portrait of Angela Burdett-Coutts, the Victorian heiress and friend of Dickens who gave her fortune away.
Over four decades, the World Economic Forum has grown into the annual gathering of the world's leading chief executives and politicians. At over 1,500 metres, the Alpine town of Davos lends them rare perspective.
The most widely read Japanese novelist of his generation in the West, Murakami also introduced Carver and Fitzgerald to Japanese readers. We trace a writer shaped more by the Western canon than home.
Chopard is a family-run business in the midst of a generational handover. Despite this evolutionary yet also potentially disruptive transition, things are much the same with a steadfast commitment to a long-term vision rather than short-term gains. And with sales hitting an all-time hig…
As with most Maldivian resorts, Maalifushi by Como has a mix of overwater and beachfront bungalows. But where it differs is in its fundamental premise. This isn’t just a tropical escape – it’s a place to detox too. If truth be told, my first impressions of Maalifushi were all over the p…
Perfumer Francis Kurkdjian may hail from an Armenian family from Aleppo but everything else about him is resolutely French. Paris is where he started in the business, creating some of the most successful perfumes for major designers, it’s also where he co-founded the esteemed Maison Fra…
From ultra-thin Piaget to Montblanc's mechanical answer to the smartwatch, the 25th invitation-only Geneva salon reveals how Richemont's brands are courting the Middle East and chasing ever more rarefied complications.
Zaha Hadid's Issam Fares Institute transports our writer to another time, recalling a first visit to Tripoli's unfinished Rashid Karami Fair, where Oscar Niemeyer's monumental concrete forms still rise from a landscaped garden, abandoned before civil war.
Just when you thought the Maldives could not get any better, along comes Velaa Private Island. Named after the sea turtles that have lived here for generations, there is nothing remotely slow about this hedonistic, over-water retreat.