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Long before he understood why, our writer was entranced by his Dutch grandparents' cooking: broth soups, liver sausage and his Opa's hybridised Indonesian dishes, served with hand-ground coffee, sugar syrup and Oma's pies.
A little leather booklet of negatives reveals their grandfather and his wife in 1930s Kashmir, smiling and embracing. Among leather-bound tomes emerge his fountain-pen poetry and curious scribbles in Latin, colouring years of silence.
As a Philadelphia exhibition of unconventional materials draws to a close, Ukrainian-American tape artist Mark Khaisman explains his curious compulsion: I like to peel things, he says, peeling to the point of no origin.
At first glance Fadi Sarieddine's furniture looks brutal, all hard angles and sawn-off diamond planes forming crystalline shells. Yet the longer you look at these origami-like surfaces, the more magnetic they become.
In autumn 1965, just five years after opening his house, Yves Saint Laurent sent shift mini-dresses inspired by Van Gogh, Mondrian and Poliakoff down the runway, causing a sensation in both fashion and art.
This is a wonderful real story about a Korean millionaire who moved to Bahrain eleven years ago and spends each and every morning cleaning rubbish off the streets in his neighbourhood. Mr. Yo we applaud you.
Best known for bringing remote corners of the globe to life, National Geographic owes its photographic legacy to chance. In 1904, editor Gilbert Grosvenor filled eleven blank pages with images from Imperial Russia.
On the outside, it seems you never truly own a Harley-Davidson; rather, it owns you. So immersive is the culture that even the motoring press gets swept up, as our writer discovers astride a Heritage.
With restaurants across four continents, Gordon Ramsay is a busy man, yet at Doha's St. Regis he appears wholly at ease. In chef's whites, he is in Qatar to promote his fine-dining and casual ventures.
Billy Karam's passion began with the Porsche 911 SC RS that carried him to a Lebanese rally title. When real cars grew unattainable, he turned to miniatures, building an extraordinary scale collection.
As I make my way through the busy streets of Ashrafieh, it might be due to my biased perception but my eyes are drawn to Maktabis everywhere. And all of them in the carpet business. There’s Nivine Maktabi’s Oumnia, with its modernist tribal rugs, Hadi Maktabi’s traditional Oriental carp…
Arriving late but radiant, Chaumet chief executive Thierry Fritsch settles into his office overlooking Place Vendôme. Below, in one of the grand salons, a small selection of the storied French house's creations awaits.