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The Alpina Gstaad luxury hotel

Eric Favre, Managing Director of The Alpina Gstaad on the simplicity of true luxury

September 12, 2016 by dariussanai

In the five years since it opened, The Alpina Gstaad has become an iconic European hotel, featuring award-winning restaurants and spa, spectacular indoor and outdoor pools, a gallery-worthy art collection, and an ambience of relaxed chic that epitomises modern luxury at its best. Here, Eric Favre, its Managing Director, talks about how it’s done as part of our ongoing Luxury Leaders series. LUX: The Alpina Gstaad opened into a market, Gstaad, with plenty of choice at the luxury end. Why […]

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Saut Hermes 2016

Hooves and history: behind Hermes’ ancient ethos

July 26, 2016 by dariussanai

Hermès, maker of handbags and scarves to the world’s celebrities and super-rich, still celebrates its roots as a saddle-maker in a very different world. Millie Walton goes behind the scenes at the annual Saut Hermès in Paris, with the beau-monde, and geese, for company Standing at the ringside of the warm-up arena at Saut Hermès, the brand’s annual showjumping event held under the glass-domed roof of the Grand Palais in Paris, is quite unlike any other experience. While the smell […]

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THE AESTHETE ISSUE

July 20, 2016 by dariussanai

ON SALE NOW

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Luxury Leaders, Boodles fine jewellery

Michael Wainwright, Boodles’ Managing Director and Co-Owner on taking British luxury overseas

May 24, 2016 by dariussanai

Michael Wainwright is Managing Director and co-owner of Boodles, the British society jeweller, which has nine stores in London and its heartland of northwest England. Soon after the opening of the brand’s spectacular new flagship on London’s Old Bond Street, he spoke to LUX Editor-in-Chief Darius Sanai, as part of our on-going Luxury Leaders series, about Britishness, the retail experience, and possibly going to America.

Categories: Design, jewellery, Opinon, Uncategorized • Tags: Boodles, Britain, jewellery, Luxury Leaders, luxury lifestyle, Michael Wainwright, retail

Fair-mined gold jewellery by Chopard

Chopard’s Caroline Scheufele on the Next Generation

April 29, 2016 by dariussanai

As artistic director and co-president of Chopard, CAROLINE SCHEUFELE sees it as her duty not only to keep the famed jewellery house’s A-list clientele happy, but also to have a vision of the consumer of the future. She tells LUX why provenance will be everything

Categories: celebrities, Design, Fashion, jewellery, Uncategorized • Tags: caroline scheufele, chopard, gold, jewellery, livia firth, luxury lifestyle

Jacky Tsai: From China with Love

March 1, 2016 by dariussanai

Jacky Tsai famously designed the iconic Alexander McQueen skull during an internship placement at the couture house, but the artist is now a name in his own right, as Millie Walton discovers Millie Walton: What does it mean to be the first Chinese artist signed by the Fine Art Society? Jacky Tsai: I feel extremely honoured because it’s a gallery with such a rich history. It’s also important for the Chinese art circle in London and Europe. For the past 25 […]

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Rural Focus: Lucknam Park & Lords of the Manor

March 1, 2016 by dariussanai

Two typical English country house hotels at the very top of their game can lead to two superb, yet quite different, experiences, as LUX discovers LUCKNAM PARK The arrival To arrive at Lucknam Park is to enter into a dream of a 19th-century English romantic novel. We arrived just before dusk on a breezy evening when dark clouds were shooting across the remaining patches of blue sky. As we pulled up the drive, the setting sun turned the parkland on either […]

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An unexpected paradise off the coast of Africa

February 27, 2016 by dariussanai

On the south side of an island off the coast of Africa, yet pleasingly accessible, the Ritz-Carlton Abama is one of the most dramatic resorts in the world, as DARIUS SANAI discovers A perfect storm in the luxury travel world has meant the world is unrecognisably smaller than just 30 years ago. We have seen a combination of escalating numbers of high net worth individuals, a global burgeoning of high-quality airlines and operators (and private jet-friendly airports), rapidly developing destination countries […]

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The Electric Recording Company: Nuanced Sounds

February 27, 2016 by dariussanai

For many, the 1950s and early 60s was the golden age for music, an era of artistic experimentation and precise analogue audio reproduction, but mint condition vinyl albums from this time are increasingly rare to find and ludicrously expensive to buy. Fortunately, this is where the Electric Recording Company steps in. Millie Walton sits down with founder, Pete Hutchinson in his premier recording suite to listen to jazz and talk about the re-mastering of the key catalogue titles, bringing back the […]

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