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Cornered in the supermarket by a friend nursing yet another failed romance, our writer is told men only acquire a brain after forty, a sweeping generalisation he would never dare make about women to a woman.
Facebook may reconnect old friends and Twitter may keep us abreast of current affairs, but our writer suspects social media's true purpose has always been simpler, namely a relentless, instant tool for self-branding.
Artistic and fantastical, Brand van Egmond's lamps and chandeliers challenge the very idea of the light fixture. The Dutch duo's whimsical creations, evoking the baroque and the gothic, have earned them commissions all over the world.
Architecture has always been a weapon, our writer contends, flaunting power through built narrative. Islamic architecture, sometimes called the architecture of the veil, turns inward upon lavish, spacious courts, encapsulating its builders' histories and rituals.
An hour from the historic ski resort of Kitzbühel, a glowing crystal-eyed giant rises from a mountainside. This curious figure marks the little-known epicentre of one of the world's most celebrated crystal houses.
We do like to be beside the seaside, but you need not live by the sea to enjoy it. Enter Crystal Lagoons, the visionary company creating vast manmade lagoons everywhere and anywhere, even in Dubai.
Amid double-height ceilings, white marble floors and stained glass, Jean-Louis Sabaji cuts an incongruous figure. Skinny jeans, patterned trainers, an eyebrow stud and a diamond-encrusted skull necklace announce, unmistakably, the creative at work.
Gold was plentiful, yet it was the precious stones, diamonds, sapphires, rubies, emeralds and notably opals, that had their moment. More than 600 exhibitors from 30 countries made this dazzling fair the region's finest.
Nathalie Khayat’s studio isn’t especially quiet. Just down the road from the post office on Sassine Square in Beirut’s Ashrafieh, it opens onto the city’s soundscape; the dull roar of traffic, squealing tyres, honking horns, the drill of construction, passing conversations, the cries of…
After eleven years in the Middle East, Ruth Bradley talks to Bespoke about launching her own consultancy, why she chose Dubai, and how marrying regional know-how with art, fashion and culture promises a winning formula.
Starting in Riyadh and then heading to Buraidah, Medina, Jeddah and Taif, this interesting four day, 2,000 kilometre journey through the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was completed by a convoy of McLaren 12C and 12C Spider supercars, led by the Saudi racing driver Faisal Binladin.
Once conceived purely as fashion accessories, Dior's watches have since become complicated instruments of time and stunning pieces of jewellery, the fruit of an enduring and exacting collaboration with the Swiss manufacture Zenith.