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Checkmate Has Never Cost This Much

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Decoding Chanel’s world-first Haute Horlogerie chessboard — and why the watch industry is suddenly obsessed with games. Somewhere in a Swiss workshop, a team of artisans spent thousands of hours doing something that, on paper, sounds almost absurdly simple: building a chess set. Except this isn’t the chess set gathering dust in your parents’ living … Read more

Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Abu Dhabi finally has an opening date — here’s why it took two decades

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Twenty Years, One Napkin Sketch, and a Museum the Size of a Small Airport Some restaurants make you wait forty-five minutes for a table. The Guggenheim Abu Dhabi made the entire art world wait twenty years for a building. On December 11, 2026, it finally opens — and the wait, by every account, appears to … Read more

LVMH Just Hired Science to Explain Why Designers Are Geniuses

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Decoding the new LVMH’s “Sciences & Creation” Chair — and what it actually means once the press release ends Every luxury conglomerate eventually produces a headline that sounds like it was generated by a very expensive fog machine. “LVMH and Institut Français de la Mode launch the Sciences & Creation Chair, dedicated to new scientific … Read more

The Week in Luxury: Sculpture, Scarcity, and the Slow Reset of an Industry

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August is supposed to be luxury’s quiet month — the pause between resort season and the September show circuit. This week said otherwise. Auction houses posted their best first half in years, private jet operators are consolidating and rationing access in the same breath, a hypercar shed a meter of height for the sake of … Read more

Meet the New Money: Inside the $26 Trillion Question Nobody Asked You

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Somewhere between your morning coffee and your inbox, the world quietly minted more ultra-rich people than at almost any point in the last decade. Altrata’s World Ultra Wealth Report 2026 just dropped, and buried under its very serious spreadsheets is a story that reads less like finance and more like a soap opera: self-made fortunes, … Read more

The New Rules of Wealth: What The 2026 Wealth Report Tells Us About the World’s Money — and Where It’s All Going

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A deep dive into the landmark 20th edition of The Wealth Report, and why its findings matter to anyone who cares about the future of luxury, property, and private capital. Every year, Knight Frank — one of the world’s most respected independent property consultancies — drops its Wealth Report like a stone into still water, … Read more