Category: Gifts
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Fast Things in Fancy Dress: Lamborghini and Brabus
Lamborghini, the Italian supercar maker from Sant’Agata Bolognese, has just unveiled a two-tone version of its Temerario called the Tettonero. A few days earlier, Brabus, the German tuner that made its name by transforming Mercedes G-Classes into something considerably louder, showed an electric hydrofoil board at the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show, built with the…
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Cabinets of Curiosity: A Lit-Up Bar and a €30,000 Trumeau
Two luxury Italian houses, two cabinets, one trick. In both, the pleasure comes at the moment of opening the door. Poltrona Frau is the Italian leather-and-furniture house founded in Turin in 1912 by Renzo Frau, famous for its full-grain Pelle Frau leather. Its Fidelio drinks cabinet, designed by the Pisa-born architect and designer Roberto Lazzeroni,…
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Made in Britain, Voted by Peers: Reading the British Luxury Brand of the Year Shortlist
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in Art, Beauty, Best Of Luxury, Business, Cigars & Spirits, Design, Fashion, Gifts, Gourmet, Hi Tech, Holiday, LUST, Pets, SHELTER, Sport & Health, Watches|JewelryOn Monday 9 November, at The Dorchester on Park Lane, a London ballroom will crown the British Luxury Brand of the Year. The organiser is Walpole, the official sector body for UK’s £81 billion luxury industry, with more than 250 member companies across fashion, cars, hospitality, beauty and interiors. The prize is not decided by…
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Checking In at Hotel Moynat: When the Sticker Becomes the Souvenir
A luxury Parisian trunk maker has turned the humble hotel label into leather, and Latin pop culture is the concierge. Anyone who has inherited an old suitcase knows the charm of its stickers: faded crests of grand hotels, a ship’s name, a city half remembered. Moynat has looked at that charm and asked a very…
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Open Doors, Smaller Doors: Reading LVMH’s Weekend of Craft
For three days in October the world’s largest luxury group let strangers into its workshops. Here is what changed, who got in, and why it matters. Every so often luxury does something delightfully counterintuitive: it gives away what it normally guards. From October 16 to 18, LVMH, the group behind Louis Vuitton, Dior, Moët &…
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For the One Who Has Everything: Inside 2026 Fantasy Gifts
Seven invitations to moments money usually can’t schedule, and one very happy list of houses to be part of them. Every autumn, one date in the luxury calendar feels like opening a storybook. This year it is especially bright: Neiman Marcus, the Dallas-born luxury retailer, now part of Exemplar Luxury Group alongside Saks Fifth Avenue…