THE AESTHETE ISSUE
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How to chill in style on the slopes
by dariussanai
Ski season is in full swing, and there’s nothing like nestling around a dining table in your own apartment on the slopes, sipping at your own magnum of Brunello di Montlcino in privacy with your nearest and dearest, exchanging tales of the day’s adventures. However, until recently, the casual Alpine skier without the good fortune to own a home in St Moritz or Zermatt, would risk suffering for their hobby. In contrast to North America, ski apartments in Europe were patchy at best, cramped and devoid of service – and still expensive – at worst.
Categories: Travel • Tags: avoriaz, french alps, Luxury Leaders, lxuury travel, martine balouka valette, pierre and vacances, Ski, ski season
6 foodie delights in Amsterdam
by dariussanai
From a five course interactive dining experience to hip burger joints and Dutch pancakes, Francesca Peaks discovers Amsterdam’s best gastronomic secrets
Categories: Food • Tags: Amsterdam, cocotte, de culinaire werkplaats, gastronomy, moeders, pancakes, robert kranenborg, sanders bar and kitchen, thril gril
Collector and patron Anita Zabludowicz on the true value of art
by dariussanai
Super-collector Anita Zabludowicz founded the Zabludowicz Collection in the early 1990s with her husband, Poju, to support the works of emerging contemporary artists across the globe.
With over 5,000 works by 500 artists, the Zabludowicz Collection moved to a permanent home in a former Methodist church in Camden, London, when husband and wife ran out of space on their walls at home; it holds regular exhibitions and live shows. She also creates initiatives for artists without commercial gallery representation, and funds art education programs. In the latest of our Luxury Leaders series Zabludowicz, a regular star in the Art Review Power 100 list of the most powerful people in the art world, speaks to Kitty Harris about nurturing artists, whether art has to be beautiful, and what her desert island artwork would be.
Categories: Art & Photography • Tags: Luxury Leaders
Nobu’s ex-head chef, Scott Hallsworth opens christmas pop-up: Mr. Pig
by dariussanai
Ex-Nobu head chef, Scott Hallsworth, provides Londoners with a rare insight into some of his favourite foods at a wonderfully wintery pop-up that will have your taste-buds tingling and your eyes all aglow this festive season.
Categories: Food • Tags: december, festive, Food, London, Nobu, pop-up, restaurant, Scott Hallsworth, winter
From the Karoo to the Cape on Rovos Rail
by dariussanai
Journeying through desert, diamond fields and wine lands, South Africa’s luxurious vintage train line takes Digital Editor, Millie Walton from the country’s capital of Pretoria to Cape Town
Categories: Travel • Tags: cape town, Luxury travel, pretoria, rovos rail, south africa, vintage train
Fawaz Gruosi: The man behind the world’s most trailblazing jewellers
by dariussanai
Florence-born Fawaz Gruosi spent years working with diamond expert Harry Winston in Saudi Arabia, learning the intricacies of the industry from within. In 1993 he launched his own brand, de Grisgono in fine jewellery’s capital, Geneva. Despite his lack of formal training, Gruosi is now widely considered one of the most creatively daring, sales savvy and charming jewellery designers on the modern market. He speaks to LUX about black diamonds, celebrity endorsements and the need for experimentation.
Cointreau partners with Liberty London for a good cause
by dariussanai
Supermodel Erin O’Connor, actress Clara Paget and Alfred Cointreau crammed into a leafy green photo booth for creative picture and video calls during a slightly surreal launch party earlier this week in central London.
Categories: Design • Tags: Cointreau, Instagram, Laetitia Casta, Liberty London, Naziha Mestaoui, Reforestation, Senegal
Europe’s biggest car auction: RM Sotheby’s two thousand wheels
by dariussanai
It’s the biggest classic car auction in European history – and there’s no reserve, meaning cars have to sell for whatever is bid. There may be no better place to buy an investment you can fly around in, says Darius Sanai
Categories: Cars • Tags: bmw, classic cars, collecting, duemila route, ferrari, investment, Porsche, sothebys
Hosting the launch of the Sensual Purity book by Condé Nast for Mercedes-Benz, at Vogue House
by dariussanai
I was delighted to host a Condé Nast party at Vogue House yesterday with Gorden Wagener, Chief Design Officer of Daimler, parent company of Mercedes-Benz, as guest of honour.
Categories: Design
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