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“Culture lives in the details.”

Living Trends

The See-through Seduction of Contemporary Glass Design

Contemporary glass design has become one of the most persuasive forces in luxury home decor, reshaping the emotional language of interiors through light, color, density, and reflection.

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Luxe Story

Dr. Rebecca Struthers, the Intellectual of High Horlogerie

The first watchmaker in British history to earn a PhD in horology, Dr. Rebecca Struthers, is one of a kind. She has transformed the historical research of horology into fiercely personal objects, where every mechanism feels like a conversation between the past and the future.

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Living Review

Art Galleries To See In New York (Part 2)

Looking for art galleries to see in New York means following the city through different moods of power. In Chelsea, The FLAG Art Foundation turns precision into seduction. On the Upper East Side, Gagosian gives art history the scale of an event. Downtown, Perrotin lets the Lower East Side crackle with memory, experimentation, and that irresistible New York friction between polish and edge.

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Luxe Story

Anabela Chan's Magic of Turning Beetroots to Brilliance

After 7 years inside the world of Alexander McQueen, Anabela Chan returned to it in a different role, no longer as part of the house, but as a collaborator whose jewellery completed one of Lady Gaga’s most regal red-carpet moments. The moment feels poetic, because Chan had already moved far beyond her earlier chapter, emerging as the force behind her own brand and as one of the most original voices in contemporary luxury.

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Luxe Story

Claire Choisne, the Jeweler who Brought NASA to Boucheron

Claire Choisne is deeply down-to-earth in the way she thinks through craft, structure, and the physical truth of every jewel, yet utterly out-of-this-world in the ideas she dares to pursue. Claire Choisne has turned Boucheron into one of the most intellectually thrilling houses on Place Vendôme. Since 2011, the Creative Director has treated high jewelry as a field of experiment, where archives, radical materials, scientific innovation, and poetic instinct meet to produce a new vision of luxury.

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Living Review

Head over Heels in Love with the Red of Hotel Vermelho

Christian Louboutin fell in love with the stork city of Comporta. His first hospitality project carried that Portuguese love affair into nearby Melides, where craft, color, and intimate luxury meet in Hotel Vermelho.

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Luxe Pick

Boucheron's Impermanence through the Lens of Claire Choisne

Boucheron’s Impermanence centers on the beauty of things on the verge of fading. Unveiled as the Maison’s July 2025 Carte Blanche collection, Claire Choisne’s latest high jewelry meditation turns ikebana, wabi-sabi, and vanishing light into one of the most arresting statements the house has made in years.

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Luxe Pick

Grocery Shopping in the Aisle of Anabela Chan's Fruit Gems

Who knew the grocery run could end in haute joaillerie. With Anabela Chan's Fruit Gems, beetroot, spirulina, blueberry, and dragon fruit slip out of the kitchen and into the jewel box, transformed into dazzling gem materials that make luxury feel wittier, fresher, and far more delicious than usual.

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Living Trends

How To Create A Luxury Bedroom: A Guide to Sleep with Style

Learning how to create a luxury bedroom starts with a change in perspective. Start with a clear vision of the bedroom as a complete environment rather than a collection of pretty objects. Then, make sure every item that occupies your space is pretty and curated.

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Living Story

In the Savoir, Suite Dreams are Sweet Dreams

The Savoir Beds began with a hotel problem and grew into one of the most seductive names in luxury sleep. Born from The Savoy’s standards, shaped by handcraft, horse tail, and a devotion to materials that breathe, the British house has turned the bed into an object of heritage, theatre, and deeply personal comfort

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Luxe Trends

Bedtime like a Bourbon Beneath $5,000 Luxury Beddings

The act of sleeping carries a history stitched with vanity, diplomacy, mourning, class theater, and astonishing wealth. In 2026, luxury beddings have turned the bed into one of the last true theaters of private luxury, where comfort, craftsmanship, and heritage meet in silence rather than spectacle.

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Luxe Pick

Luxury Bedding Brands Turn Pillowtalk into Powerplay

Luxury bedding brands have turned the bed into one of the most sophisticated stages of private indulgence, where heritage, rarity, craftsmanship, and sensory pleasure meet in silence. From Italian cotton royalty to collectible French linens and a new generation of wellness-minded indulgence, the modern bed has become a place where status softens into intimacy.

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Living Escape

Alexandria, the Coastal Capital of Memory by the Red Sea

Alexandria carries history the way some women carry perfume, close to the skin, impossible to separate from presence. Founded by Alexander the Great and shaped by centuries of Mediterranean exchange, the city still glows with submerged legend, Belle Époque grace, and a melancholy that feels almost luxurious.

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Living Escape

Hurghada, where the Red Sea Meets Slow Prestige

Hurghada did not inherit grandeur the way Cairo inherited dynasties or Luxor inherited temples. It built allure in real time. What began as a small settlement on the Red Sea coast grew into a resort city so dramatically transformed that NASA tracked its expansion from space.

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Living Escape

Living on the Shortcut of the Suez Canal

Suez Canal is often reduced to a canal city, a headline, a bottleneck, a map label with global consequences. Yet the city itself carries a tougher, stranger beauty. It is a place of ancient routes, wartime scars, working-port pride, protest energy, and songs that learned how to survive destruction.

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Living Story

Why the Old Masters Still Rule

From Giotto’s revolution to Rembrandt’s soul, the Old Masters built the visual world we live in. Explore why their techniques, dramas, and timeless visions continue to command fortunes and define greatness in a hyper-modern age.

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Luxe On This Day

Louis Delage: The Engineer Who Turned Speed into Elegance

On December 14, 1947 the automotive world remembers Louis Delage, the French engineer and entrepreneur whose name became synonymous with refinement, innovation, and racing excellence in the early 20th century.

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Living On This Day

Rachel Whiteread's Double Victory

On November 23, 1993, British sculptor Rachel Whiteread made art history in a way no one could have predicted.

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Andy Warhol’s Flash—November 22, 1963: Pop Art Meets National Tragedy

Living On This Day

Andy Warhol’s Flash: Pop Art Meets National Tragedy

In 1968, Andy Warhol released one of his most haunting and provocative portfolios: Flash—November 22, 1963.

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Living On This Day

Peinture 20 novembre 1956: Pierre Soulages Finds Light in Black

In Peinture 20 novembre 1956, Pierre Soulages shows how a single colour can hold an entire universe.

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Living On This Day

Climate-Savvy Design Takes Over d3 at Dubai Design Week 2025

Dubai Design Week 2025 returns to Dubai Design District (d3) from 4 to 9 November, transforming the neighborhood into a city-wide laboratory for ideas across architecture, interiors, product design, craft and technology.

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Living On This Day

Norman Rockwell, he who painted everyday America

On November 8, 1978, one of America's most recognized artist passed away in the comfort of his home. Norman Rockwell had established himself as a master storyteller whose brush captured the humor, decency, and contradictions of everyday life.

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