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What Casa Maserati Says About Car Brands and Real Estate
Maserati Hands You a Key Maserati, the Modena carmaker founded in 1914 and now part of the Stellantis group, announced on November 2 that it is moving into branded residences with a project called Casa Maserati. A branded residence is, in plain terms, a home that carries a famous name: the brand licenses its identity,…
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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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Saving for a House Before Learning to Tie Shoes
Coldwell Banker, the century-old American real estate brokerage (founded in 1906 and now part of Compass International Holdings), has published its 2026 American Dream Report, based on a Harris Poll of 2,060 US adults surveyed in early September. The headline reads that 82% of parents of children aged five and under are saving, or have…
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Mountain Air, City Pavement: Brunello Cucinelli’s Winter Edit and the Quiet Business Behind It
Brunello Cucinelli, the Umbrian luxury house founded in 1978 in the hilltop village of Solomeo, built its name on coloured cashmere and a gentle philosophy it calls humanistic capitalism. It sells luxury menswear, womenswear and accessories without loud logos, a stance its founder describes as “absolute luxury without a logo.” This October it released its…
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Mandarin Oriental Is Collecting Houses (Some of Them Monasteries)
Mandarin Oriental, the Hong Kong hotel group with a fan as its emblem, has been quietly building a collection of private homes it vets, services and rents out as if they were rooms in one of its hotels. This autumn it added another dozen, which takes the Exceptional Homes collection to 44 villas, castles, farmhouses…
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Hermès Passes Louis Vuitton by a Whisker, and the Whisker Is the Least Interesting Part
The headline is easy to write: Hermès has overtaken Louis Vuitton as the world’s most valuable luxury brand. It is also, taken literally, a bit of a stretch, so let us look at the numbers before we get excited. Interbrand, the brand consultancy whose Best Global Brands list has been ranking names by how much…