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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.
A sophisticated mix of the best of the industrial and the artisanal, Santoni’s hand-finished shoes strike a stylish revolt against mass produced uniformity. As I clatter along the pebble beach at Portonovo, I notice a path snaking its way through the forest of pine trees and Mediterrane…
Ziad Taha explores the tourbillon, the whirlwind invented by Abraham-Louis Breguet two centuries ago to counter gravity's pull, suspending a watch's most delicate components, the balance and escapement, within an endlessly turning cage.
Yasmine Hamdan is no ordinary rebellious Arab pop star. More an experimental rocker, her progressive, contemporary take on Arabic music weaves creative, lyrical renditions of beloved Arab classics with punk rock references and shimmering electronica.
Breguet and the Louvre may seem an odd pairing to the museum's ten million annual visitors, yet the Swiss watchmaker is plainly committed to championing European culture, from horology to the decorative arts.
It is an unusual setting for an interview, a sunlit apartment with a wall-sized mirror reflecting mother and daughter May and Raya Mamarbachi, redeemed by a terrace of plants and artworks lining every wall.
The hotels Jean-Michel Gathy designs for the likes of Aman, One&Only and Cheval Blanc are off the decadence Richter scale. It’s therefore about time we meet the man who pioneered the private plunge pool, ‘naughty bathrooms’ and basking nets. The name Jean-Michel Gathy may not featur…