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Outside In: Dymitr Malcew's Floating House Blends Nature, Architecture and Technology on Water
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Outside In: Dymitr Malcew's Floating House Blends Nature, Architecture and Technology on Water

Having moved from high-end London residences to luxury hospitality in Kuala Lumpur, Dymitr Malcew now unveils the Floating House. Rooted in his childhood on the Polish coast, it blends nature, architecture and technology upon the water.

8 Jul 2014 By Official Bespoke

Free From HIV: The Ambitious Mission To Protect Africa's Newborns
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Free From HIV: The Ambitious Mission To Protect Africa's Newborns

In 2012, some 260,000 children were newly infected across sub-Saharan Africa, where 700 babies are born with HIV daily, mostly at birth. Without treatment, half will not live to see their second birthday.

6 Jul 2014 By Official Bespoke

Daughters Of Arabia: The Seelye Sisters Bridging A Cultural Divide
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Daughters Of Arabia: The Seelye Sisters Bridging A Cultural Divide

Anti-American sentiment can seem as intrinsic to the Middle East as anti-Middle Eastern feeling is to America. Against that backdrop, the work of Kate Seelye and her sister, Ammanda Salzman-Seelye, takes on real significance.

3 Jul 2014 By Official Bespoke

All In One: HRH Princess Reema Bint Bandar Al Saud On Women's Lives
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All In One: HRH Princess Reema Bint Bandar Al Saud On Women's Lives

Meeting Princess Reema Bint Bandar Al Saud recalls a Tod's exhibition of life-sized photographs revealing what six female entrepreneurs carry in their bags, a quiet testament to how much the modern woman truly carries.

29 Jun 2014 By Official Bespoke

Chip Off The Old Block: The Superyacht Tender Grows Up In Style
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Chip Off The Old Block: The Superyacht Tender Grows Up In Style

Once a cramped, utilitarian workboat offering little comfort or protection, the superyacht tender was an afterthought. Today these vessels are reimagined with the style and luxury their elegant motherships have long deserved.

26 Jun 2014 By Official Bespoke

Over The Rainbow: Why Private Jets Are The First Luxury To Go
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Over The Rainbow: Why Private Jets Are The First Luxury To Go

First class or private? An enjoyable debate, until recession bites and the jet is the first thing to go. With small-aircraft orders dwindling to a third of their 2008 peak, manufacturers are struggling.

23 Jun 2014 By Official Bespoke

Talk Of The Town: Inside Chanel's Cruise Runway Show On A Private Dubai Island
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Talk Of The Town: Inside Chanel's Cruise Runway Show On A Private Dubai Island

Karl Lagerfeld brought Chanel's 2014/15 Cruise collection to a man-made island owned by Dubai's Crown Prince, staging eighty-four looks for a thousand guests ferried in by abra boats.

21 Jun 2014 By Official Bespoke

Keeping It In The Family: What Tolstoy Teaches Us About Dynastic Business
people · business

Keeping It In The Family: What Tolstoy Teaches Us About Dynastic Business

Anna Karenina's famous opening, that every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, frames our writer's argument. Family businesses, like Tolstoy's families, tend to command attention precisely when their fortunes falter.

19 Jun 2014 By Official Bespoke

Slow Road From Singapore: A Rail Journey That Draws Every Stare
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Slow Road From Singapore: A Rail Journey That Draws Every Stare

Drawing into Johore Bahru, our writer realises everyone is staring. Passengers, guards, cleaners and vendors reach for their phones; parents point him out to their children. Only the elderly seem entirely unmoved by the spectacle.

16 Jun 2014 By Official Bespoke

Technical Knockout: Ducati's 899 Panigale Brings The Superbike Down To Earth
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Technical Knockout: Ducati's 899 Panigale Brings The Superbike Down To Earth

Now under Audi's ownership via Lamborghini, Ducati appears unchanged, following its mind-blowing 1199 Panigale with a scaled-down, more affordable sibling. Yet that is where the resemblance ends, for the 899 is something altogether different.

13 Jun 2014 By Official Bespoke

Lords Of The Dance: Inside Lebanon's Grand Caracalla Dance Theatre
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Lords Of The Dance: Inside Lebanon's Grand Caracalla Dance Theatre

Step inside Caracalla and you enter a world of grand columns, ornate frescoes and velveteen diwans, at once ancient and Oriental. Everyone here moves with a dancer's gait, in hushed, international seriousness.

9 Jun 2014 By Official Bespoke

Three's Company: Azza Fahmy and Her Daughters on Running a Family Jewellery House
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Three's Company: Azza Fahmy and Her Daughters on Running a Family Jewellery House

The company bears one name, but the business is very much three. For Azza Fahmy, working alongside her two daughters proves the whole is greater than its parts, marrying traditional handcrafted jewellery with a thoroughly contemporary outlook.

8 Jun 2014 By Official Bespoke