Category: SHELTER
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What’s in Your Glass? Five Drinks Stories Telling High-End Consumers Where Luxury Is Pouring
A Napa estate, a cognac for Diwali, a lab full of sensors, a smoky “wine” and a butterfly-wing Champagne: five bottles, one message. Read the week’s drinks headlines individually and they look unrelated. Line them up and they say something sharp about what premium drinkers now want: fewer bottles, better stories, smarter quality control and…
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Louis Vuitton Just Proved Your Grandmother’s Design Instincts Were a Century Ahead
An armchair designed in 1923 for a Parisian couturier just became the star of Design Week. History has excellent taste. While most of the fashion industry spends September obsessing over runway looks, Louis Vuitton quietly opened the doors of a private Paris townhouse to show off something with no hemline, no season, and no model…
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Private jet to Courchevel: Why private jets are the best way to travel during the ski season
Try booking a commercial flight to Courchevel in January and you’ll quickly hit a wall: there isn’t one. The resort’s own airstrip is barred to almost all commercially chartered fixed-wing traffic, and the nearest scheduled airports leave you with a long transfer through Alpine passes at the exact time of year when those roads are…
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Vacheron Constantin Just Adopted Three Artisans Who Don’t Make Watches
The oldest watch manufacture in continuous operation just spent 18 months mentoring a furniture maker, a ceramicist, and a jeweler. None of them make watches. That’s the point. Luxury patronage usually looks predictable: a fashion house sponsors an art prize, a watchmaker underwrites a museum wing, everyone gets a plaque. Vacheron Constantin and The Metropolitan…
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This Crystal Decanter Thinks It’s a Laboratory — And Sommeliers Are Obsessed
Turns out the missing ingredient in your $400 Burgundy wasn’t the bottle. It was the thermostat. Every wine lover has been there: you pull the “good bottle” out for a special dinner, forget it’s been sitting in a warm kitchen for two hours, and serve a red that tastes more like jam than terroir. LACARAF…
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Forget the Destination — 2026’s Real Luxury Flex Is the Journey Itself
Forbes Travel Guide just told us where to go. More interestingly, they told us how to get there. For years, the luxury travel flex was simple: name-drop the hotel. The Aman. The Belmond. The Four Seasons. Job done, brunch conversation won. But Forbes Travel Guide’s second annual Edge List just quietly rewired the entire status…