Provence wine route: top 10 guide
To taste the best of the Provence region follow this wine route from Toulon to the Massif des Maures, via Saint-Tropez, stopping at stunning vineyards, rural B&Bs and fantastic bistros
Month: April 2014
Mulberry to bring in cheaper handbags for price-conscious British customers
New boss Godfrey Davis said the company had got it wrong by following its luxury goods rivals in continually putting up prices
For art and interior design enthusiasts: Lutetia’s collection at auction
Parisian luxury hotel Lutetia to auction furniture collection this May. The historic luxury hotel Lutetia, the Left Bank’s only large hotel and the regular rallying point of artists, designers and intellectuals, closed earlier this month for a three-year renovation, but not before organizing a luxury furniture auction this May. The historic Parisian hotel is giving … Read more
Luxury real estate sales surged around the world.
Trends shaping the luxury real estate market globally. Christie’s International Real Estate report. With more millionaires and billionaires in the world than ever before, pent-up demand and increasing consumer confidence, luxury real estate sales surged in 2013 around the world, according to a recent report by Christie’s International Real Estate, the real estate arm of … Read more
Venetians fight to save historical, ‘haunted’ island from luxury developers
Poveglia, a deserted 7-hectare rock believed to be the burial place of plague victims, to be leased to help pay Italy’s debts
China’s love of travel celebrated with Pinnacle Travel Phantom
According to the World Tourism Barometer published by the United Nations World Tourism Organisation, China continues to be the largest outbound travel market for the second year in a row, spending an estimated $125 billion on travel in 2013. Answering this growing interest in luxury travel, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars has unveiled the Pinnacle Travel Phantom, … Read more