4 Essential Marketing Tips for New Luxury Brands

Launching a luxury brand seems like it can be a prohibitively expensive and challenging thing to do. However, there have been many companies that started as small artisan operations and grew into large international luxury brands. Having a humble starting point doesn’t mean you can’t launch your own luxury brand out of nowhere. In fact, … Read more

Rowan Moore’s best architecture of 2019

From hemp and cork buildings to energy-efficient council housing, the climate crisis got us thinking laterally

Read the Observer critics’ review of 2019 in full here

Château Lafaurie-Peyraguey: A Lalique country chic style hotel & restaurant inspired by wine

  French luxury glassmaker Lalique is marrying oenotourism, crystal, and wine at Château Lafaurie-Peyraguey, in the Bordeaux region of France. Through Hôtel & Restaurant LALIQUE / Château Lafaurie-Peyraguey, Lalique CEO Silvio Denz wishes to contribute to the creation of high-end wine tourism in the Sauternes region. This new project will bring fresh momentum to the … Read more

GV80, Genesis’ first SUV, underscores the beauty of minimalism

  Genesis, the luxury vehicle division of the South Korean car manufacturer Hyundai Motor Group, wants to elevate expectations for excellence within the luxury SUV market with the launch GV80, the first sport-utility vehicle for the high-end automotive brand. Based on a new rear-wheel-drive platform, GV80 luxury SUV will bring added versatility to the Genesis … Read more

The 70th Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair celebrates pole position as the leading exhibition for Scandinavian design

   See some of Scandinavia’s most beloved design classics, when Stockholm Furniture Fair celebrates 70 years in February. Do you like design, furniture and lighting? Are you especially fond of Scandinavian design? Not anywhere in the world you will find so many scandinavian design gathered under one and the same roof as at Stockholm Furniture … Read more

Gold from Highlands mine to be made into Scottish jewellery

Cononish goldmine expected to produce enough ingots to kickstart cottage industry