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In the harbour city of Flensburg, Nadine Khalil discovers how the centuries-old silversmiths Robbe & Berking have joined forces with BMW, proving precious metal can still be deployed with restraint and impeccable taste.
Everything you know about ISON is a lie, she insists. Not a comet but a biosphere, she explains, citing a YouTube video and an alien expert in direct contact with the Andromeda Council. It is not hearsay, apparently.
From Saturday Night Fever to Pulp Fiction, John Travolta has graced the screen since the 1970s. His devotion to acting is matched only by his passion for aviation, qualified to pilot eleven types of jet.
Pushing the boundaries of design and technology, the sleek, spacious DART 80 is an innovative collaboration between Andrew Winch and Royal Huisman, ingeniously combining a motor yacht and a sailing yacht within a single, arresting vessel.
The open kitchen is both blessing and bane, our reviewer confides. Watching chefs at work and savouring the aromas is a joy, but if she can see them, then they can see her dining, too.
Forgive me, but the idea of reinventing the concept of a hotel makes me cringe. Literally. Such statements immediately make me think of pernickety PR people so wrapped up in their own hyperbole that it’s patently obvious they have no idea what the customer really wants. So when I first …
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.