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Checkmate Has Never Cost This Much
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…
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A Dashboard Clock Grew Up and Became Two Porsches
Decoding Louis Vuitton and Singer’s first-ever co-branded creation — and what it says about where luxury collaborations are headed. Most great collaborations start with a grand plan. This one started with someone wanting a nicer clock. At Monterey Car Week 2026, Louis Vuitton and Singer Vehicle Design unveiled two extraordinary reimagined Porsche 911s — a…
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Monterey Car Week Turned 75 and Brought Receipts
Decoding this year’s Pebble Beach spectacle — three very different bets on what “the future of luxury cars” actually means. Once a year, a small stretch of California coastline becomes the single most concentrated display of automotive wealth, nostalgia and ambition on the planet. The 75th Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance and Monterey Car Week (August…
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Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Abu Dhabi finally has an opening date — here’s why it took two decades
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…
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Why a Paris courtroom just told the upcycling industry to put down the scissors
Your Grandmother’s Chanel Buttons Just Got a Restraining Order There’s a particular kind of person who spends a Sunday afternoon prying vintage CC buttons off a thrifted tweed jacket, gluing them onto a chain, and calling it “reworked couture.” As of this season, that person has a legal problem. On May 21, 2026, the Paris…
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Chaumet’s New Bees Come With Receipts
Inside the first High Jewelry set made entirely of gold you can actually trace Every so often, the jewelry industry unveils a piece designed to be admired. Occasionally, it unveils a piece designed to be interrogated — in the best sense. Chaumet‘s new Bee de Chaumet High Jewelry set, revealed on July 22, is very…