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The Garage Gets a Membership Card: Porsche Design Builds Clubhouses for Car Collectors
When a parking space becomes a studio, a club and a social calendar, you are no longer storing a car. You are joining a lifestyle. There was a time when the height of car-collecting luxury was a heated garage and a good cover. That time has been politely escorted out by a concept with a…
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A $3,100 Case for Colored Pencils: Why Rimowa Is Packing Hobbies, Not Just Holidays
The luggage maker that defined the airport has found a new destination: the studio desk. There are luxury items that carry your passport, and now there is one that carries your pencils. It is pencil-shaped nostalgia with a very adult price tag, and it is more strategic than it looks. Rimowa, the German luggage maker…
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Brooklyn Gets a Ritz, and Manhattan’s Hotel Brands Are Watching From Across the River
The borough’s first branded residences are arriving in a 1909 landmark. The real question is who follows. New York’s hotel-branded condo scene has long had a postcode problem: it lives in Manhattan. On September 15, that changed on paper, with plans for a Ritz-Carlton address on Montague Street. The News, Decoded The Ritz-Carlton, the luxury…
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Chanel Hires a Painter-Turned-Makeup Artist, and Your Lipstick Should Be Nervous
The house of the little black jacket just handed its color palette to someone who trained with a paintbrush first. In fashion, a new creative director gets a front-page announcement and a thousand think pieces. In beauty, the person deciding what shade of red your lips will wear for the next decade often arrives with…
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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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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…